There are a few good ideas here, mixed in with the bog-standard gameplay, open-world busywork, and cringy dialog. This is not a return to the energetic worldbuilding of Mass Effect 1, but neither is it an affront to reason like the final act of Mass Effect 3 At least, not the main story. Now I’m finally getting around to playing it, over two years after my original Mass Effect series ended.įrustratingly, this game is neither as good nor as terrible as I’d hoped. It began as a hot mess and ended as a disappointing footnote in the history of BioWare. Since then the game has been released, received mixed reviews, became an industry-wide joke due to bugs and glitches, was patched up by the developers, and then faded from public memory. At the end of the series we were still looking forward to Mass Effect Andromeda and wondering how that would turn out. ![]() I’m sure most of you remember the novel-sized retrospective I did on the original Mass Effect trilogy that ran from July 2015 to June 2016.
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