As of now, I have finished the prologue of the game. So far, there's been an attack on a human colony world by a hostile machine race, and the introduction of a sly, conniving villain.
Not only does he get a great introduction, but I can just tell that Saren going to be driving force behind this story. He's responsible for the machine invasion and is involved in a mysterious plot involving the technology of a long-dead race and their destroyers. And yet, he covers his tracks entirely. So, your first mission is to find evidence to incriminate him, leading you into the seedy urban underbelly of the galaxy. Which turns out to be the perfect setting for a rag-tag group of various species to assemble from different directions.
On another note, I'm pretty impressed by the setting. Bioware has created a world rich with so much background detail, there's an in-game mini-encyclopedia for it all. Said encyclopedia is pretty dry, but hearing it first-hand from the characters you meet is very interesting indeed.
There's a certain note of optimism to the whole thing. It feels sort of like reconstruction of the old-fashioned starry-eyed space operas that viewed the future as exiting and filled with adventure, spaceships, and laser pistols. It's actually pretty refreshing considering that so many settings out there try for a darker mindset (particularly this web novel I've been reading, but that's another story for another blog entry).
Basically, this game is everything I have been looking for. I wonder if will be able to keep this quality up?
Off we go to save the galaxy!
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