Jumped into Andromeda right after finishing MEL. There's definitely a drop in quality from MEL to Andromeda, though I'll say if there's one thing I prefer in Andromeda over MEL, it's the combat system.

Story, side missions, MEL definitely takes the cake. Andromeda has too many side missions where it's "Travel here, talk to Person A, travel there, talk to Person B". Combine it with the long mandatory loading screens you have to see every time you get into a new world, it makes things much more tedious.

Overall, I still enjoyed my time in Andromeda, the graphics for the planets are out of this world, and so is Cora's ass.

It's 'meh' enough that after 18 hours of play I just watched a recap video on YouTube to get the gist of the story. There's a bit too many fetch quests and none of the dialogue or characters were enough to hold my attention.

Overall, a 5/10. It's not terrible. If you get it on sale for $5, and love all things Mass Effect, it's worth a try. Otherwise, there's probably better games in the scifi genre you could be playing. I loved the original trilogy (despite 3's ending), and while this certainly tries, it just can't hold a candle to that story and character progression.

It's probably a bad sign that Steam achievements say that less than half of players get to the point in the game where I am now, but I'm still having fun