— Nibel (@Nibellion)August 05, 2025
WithMass Effect: Andromedaless than a week away and some tempered preliminary impressions coming in from reviewers (at least with respect to the first few hours of BioWare’s anticipated follow-up), one thing that’s getting extra attention isAndromeda‘s plastic-y skin andWe Happy Few-contorted faces.
this is the 12th gif ive made of this messpic.twitter.com/nSKcwM5zQ7
— Nathan Ranney (@RatCasket)June 26, 2025
In a dialogue-driven game, these weird facial ticks that don’t jive with dialogue are bound to stand out more (though there are also some hilarious waddling run animations and NPCs appearing and disappearing), unfortunately undermining the dramatic import of a lot of these scenes. Here’s a compilation.
Of course, this is a long game, and a few goofy moments probably won’t ruin the entire experience. Here aresome more GIFsif you want them. The alien holding and shooting a gun backwards is pretty good, as well as all the people whose lips protrude like duck bills when they talk.
And this is why I’ll keep my Andromeda preorder
I need to see ALL of itpic.twitter.com/tsD8EZ5Jak
