User blog comment:The Milkman/Ineptitude=Integrity?/@comment-2172885-20120422190737/@comment-1388547-20120423062219

I've been starting another playthrough, and I'm feeling pretty ambivalent about even playing the game a second time. It's kind of a depressing story to me. The heroes are getting the tar beat out of them, especially at the beginning, and while there are some bright spots -- curing the genophage and ending the quarian-geth war -- without a good, whole-hearted "win" ending, I'm just not really sure it's worth playing. Plus, the game has a noticeable lack of polish compared to the previous ones in the series. The clunky sidequests (and the much less detailed quest journal -- I sometimes have trouble keeping track of what I'm doing on a quest), the narrower dialogue system, the occasional messed-up descriptions ... it makes it feel less like the culmination of a series of great works of gaming art, and more like a way to cash the series out with minimal effort.