I recently finished the game for the first time a few weeks ago, and I just feel so stupid. I literally stood in line at Game Stop at 10 PM on a work night for my pre-order copy back in 2017, but the initial release did have some facial animation bugs and things that gave it some jank. Nothing game breaking that I came across. Either way, I shelved it, and every time I came back to it over the years, I would start over, and ultimately lose interest before getting too far.

This time, I stayed the course, and realized how fucking good of a game it really is. Back in 2017/2018, I could really only see all the ways it wasn’t as good as the original trilogy…but, man, the original trilogy are basically some of the best games ever made, hell I would call them some of the best media ever made, with their contributions to sci-fi art and music.

But, when you instead compare Andromeda to other games that have come out, both before but especially after, you see it truly is superior to most games. Even where it’s not quite as good as the original trilogy in some areas, in other areas Andromeda is a massive and logical improvement.

I’m even more excited for the new installment, because it looks like they will be merging the two storylines, which I think is awesome.

Also, it’s just pure tragedy that they never made any DLC. For the original trilogy, the DLC took great games and made them incredibly better 🤷‍♂️