43 hours 30 minutes. Finally finished. Unlike most of you who buzzed through this, I took my time.
Lost Garrus and Thane. Sent Garrus into the vents, took the bullet after shutting the door. Does that happen to anyone regardless? Send Thane on the diversion, guess the disease caught up to him. Gonna go through the first and second games again someday to see if I get the same outcome.
Pros and cons now that I finished:
Pros:
Liked that team got expanded to 10 people. More variety and backgrounds of who you're fighting with. Especially happy Garrus and Tali came back full time.
Voice acting was great. Hope Martin Sheen, Tricia Helfer, and the other big names return for the 3rd.
Creativty was fun.....for a while.
Cons:
Needs more side missions. Either throw in more N7 missions or get tied in with Cerberus/Alliance/random characters in one way or another.
Mako gone = plus. Replaced with mining = sucks. Scanning planets up and down for platinum. Firing probe after probe, you'll blow about $100,000 just buying probes and fuel, upgrading is gonna be a pain, but in the long run it's necessary. And buying fuel, stupid.
Happy to notice some of my choices when playing. But I wish I got more involved. For instance, I saved the Rachni Queen in the first game. Would have liked to land and planet and do a mission. Instead, I meet an asari on Illium and the queen takes over her body and communicates to me through her.
Creatvity. Hey we got a fish tank, but there's only 3 types of fish. After killing my second batch, I gave up. Didn't bother with the hamster. Got sick of my armor and weapons. I really missed my Spectre guns and Colossus armor after a few missions.