Various Thoughts

Short version: An inferior Dragon Age: Inquisition.

Slightly longer version:

This is a large game with quite a lot to do. So it’s unfortunate that navigating the galaxy map is such a chore (especially since they got planetside fast-travel right), the minor glitches it has end up remarkably annoying, the respawning mechanic is pretty bad, and that the dialog/script is atrocious.

Really everything else could be forgiven if it weren’t for the writing. We’re talking internet-published fanfiction level here. It goes well beyond cringe-inducing, which ends up something of a mystery considering it starts off well enough. Did the writing team change partway through development? Did they just give up and/or run out of inspiration a quarter of the way through? Whatever the case the end-result is practically unreadable and late-endgame developments in particular feel like they were pulled out of thin air.

All that said, if you’re just looking for something to waste some time with the game is good enough. If you’re looking for something engaging or, worse, you’re a serious completionist (the glitches and random spawning combined with the slow system map make getting 100% a real pain), it should be avoided.