To me, the 'interactive' part of the novel is only successful if players end up making the same choices they would have if they played the game.Star Wars ™: The Old Republic™ is a massively-multiplayer online game with a free-to-play option that puts you at the center of your own story-driven Star Wars ™ saga. It bothered me that my decisions would have been totally different if I only had the graphic novel to base them on, compared to playing the game. But the way the comic presents the choice, it seems like a betrayal to pick Liara over Ashley because all you really know is that Ashley has been with the squad longer and has been loyal to Shepard, whereas Liara just seems like a sexy, exotic newcomer enticing Shepard away. For example, I picked Liara as my love interest in ME1 because Ashley was a racist asshole once you got to know her (not to mention Kaiden was as boring as a sack of rocks).

The succinctness of the recap causes a more specific problem too – because only the basic plot is presented, it's impossible to make truly informed decisions. What you don’t get is a feel for the actual universe of Mass Effect, especially in terms of the personality of the characters, getting to know the various alien races and so on.

It does an excellent job of hitting the major plot points concisely – it's as if the Wikipedia plot summary was given a voiceover and set to pretty comic book-style art.

Despite the quality of the presentation, even the best of graphic novels could never do justice to the experience of Mass Effect 1, especially given how short the recap is.

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