Havarl is a confusing mess of a jungle planet where you cannot even use your car, and fighting enemies you can’t even see through overgrown shrubbery is a nightmare. Eos is a radioactive wasteland that throws up invisible walls in the form of a toxic environment when you stray too far. I said this in both my early preview and my review, but Andromeda does a very poor job introducing players to the new open world concept because of how bad the first two planets are. Not to say whoever you make has to be some supermodel, but Sarah is not the ideal face for this game purely from an animation perspective so I would suggest forging your own path in that regard.Ģ. While there are animation issues elsewhere in the game, I found that my custom Ryder never looked as strange as Sarah Ryder has in all these previews. I spent a decent amount of time making my Ryder look acceptable, and lo and behold, that does translate into the game itself.

If you want to play female Ryder (as I did), I would definitely design your own rather than using Sarah.

A lot of the early game footage you’ve seen has her talking and it just looks uncomfortable. It’s based on a real-life model, but something got lost in translation, and it just does not look right in the game. While Scott Ryder is a perfectly normal pre-rendered face, something is just off about Sarah Ryder’s visage. One thing I would recommend, however, is not using the game’s default Sarah Ryder model. While this is something of an issue, and I do wish more improvement had been made in the last five years, it does not define the experience. All anyone can talk about in the run-up to the release of Mass Effect: Andromeda has been the often awkward animations with human characters.

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