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It's disappointing that the overwhelming bulk of the planets are barren mountain ranges, with a building or two you can enter and a handful of items to salvage/survey. I think they would have been better served by having fewer planets with more stuff on them. Plus, some of the planets have pretty steep terrain and can be frustrating to navigate. Also, the guns on the Mako can aim where they can't actually shoot.
I only found out after my first play-through that the Mako has a super-zoom. Pull left trigger for the normal zoom, then click the right stick. That really would have helped out on a lot of those missions where the enemy shoots at you from so far away that they're barely on your compass, let alone targetable. On the other hand, the big Geth are pretty easy to deal with. You can knock them over with the Mako quite easily.
On the whole, I like how they've pretty much eliminated "take this item to this guy" and "go kill this other person," and there's no more of the ridiculously evil dialog options that there were in the KOTOR games, where being Dark Side basically meant being a homicidal asshole.
What I don't get is how the inventory system could be so much worse than the KOTOR games. Navigation is clunky and tedious. Try turning some inferior ammo into omni-gel and you'll see what I mean. That action pops you back up to the top of the equipment list. And there's no "back to previous menu" option when adjusting your weapon mods.
The game has a pile of little annoyances that prevent it from being a fully escapist experience. You may notice that when you survey a solar system, you sometimes get rewards, and you sometimes don't. The only way to make sure you get them is to exit the galaxy map altogether. Also, there are no equipment templates. Sometimes you'll be dealing with Geth, humanoids, and poison-spitting creatures all in the same location, and you'll have to go into the menu screens and manually change out mods for each fight.
There are some other things, but I can't mention them without spoiling the story.
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