We actually can compare the two because that's where the inspiration for colonization comes from. And Mars still has no isolation from us, MEA has that. By your same logic if you can't compare those two, you can't compare mars to cross galactic colonization.
Inquisition was my 2014 GOTY and ME:A removed all the stuff I enjoyed about it, even in the open world. The story wasn't my favorite of Bioware's, but there was a lot to love with a pretty solid party. Also enjoyed the combat which really came together for dragon fights and closing rifts, which Andromeda doesn't have anything half as fun for.
If you want a galaxy wide open world game, I'm blanking, but there's plenty of open world games out there. Not sure which you have and haven't played though. It's just, I'm a huge Mass Effect fantatic and was salivating at exploring at a new galaxy, so if I say to avoid it even at $20, it's not worth it.
I could see that for a few people, but the investors putting money into this would want something out of it. And when they won't be able to come back in an investor's lifetime it doesn't really add up. The thing about exploring is every explorer in history had the full intention to come back with their findings. There's no fame or glory or motivation really in staying there when you start from scratch. And more of them just had that, there were a few running away from problems, but they were by far in the minority from what I saw.
Personally, I'd say you can do a lot better than this if you want an open world game. I mean, there's tons of 8th gen games that do open world, I'd find whichever interests you most and go with that over MEA.
The Reaper point is null though because only a handful know about them. The vast majority in this have weird, unrelatable reasons for joining the Andromeda Initiative. If everyone joining and the people funding it knew, then the initiative's issues would make sense. As is though, it's a huge plot point that weakens all the characters.
Mostly in terms of level design, think of RC as NSMB while CC is 3 or World. CC pushed the concept to its full potential, always introducing new ideas for levels without resorting to gimmicks, something RC lacked
Rainbow Curse is probably my least favorite Kirby. I was pretty pumped for it thinking we'd get a real sequel to Canvas Curse (my second favorite in the series), but it wasn't half the game that was. Oh well. DQIX is a cool game. If you can get someone to do MP, that's surprisingly fun too. But hard to do anywhere other than Japan.
I know Retro isn't working on MP4. That's my point. Whatever they're actually working on I think will be huge. Disagree on that it's someone's first point too. Pokemon Sun and Moon finally shook up its formula despite that being a defense of them not changing and that game kept what worked and sold like nuts.
Also a 3D Kirby game being an obvious shake up in no way makes it uninteresting. All the possibilities his different powers have in a 3D space could make for one hell of a game. Yoshi has plenty of potential in a 3D game as well with its egg throwing mechanic. Both could be pretty unique 3D action platformers.
My issue with the villain wasn't so much that I saw it coming and more that I didn't get his motivation. He just wanted perfect shots? If you want to make the villain nuts, I'm fine with that, but give them a sense of logic to their insanity. Felt really half baked in that regard.
