By Emma Boyle
When you look at the story of Mass Effect: Andromeda and its protagonist Ryder there’s something vaguely allegorical about it.
The game follows the Andromeda Initiative, a group of intrepid explorers who leave the familiarity of the Milky Way galaxy and travel for more than 600 years to find a new home and hope for their people in the Heleus Cluster. When the explorers get there, things don’t quite work out as planned: there are unexpected enemies out for their blood, entire arks of explorers are missing, and the golden worlds they’d identified to settle on before leaving the Milky Way aren’t quite as habitable as they thought.
Your character, Ryder, takes up the mammoth task of Pathfinder, a person tasked with finding planets with the potential for habitation and making that a reality. This is a role with a lot of responsibility at the best of times but when everything is going wrong, expectations and demands weigh even heavier.
The best laid plans…
You probably get where we’re going with this. Ambitious plans with lots of variables that carry the expectations of lots of people are very rarely executed perfectly. It’s what happens with the Andromeda Initiative and it’s what’s happened to …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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