This is a good game, but I don't think they ever finished it. After playing the four Mass Effect games (which I got at deep discount — I paid $10 for all four), I found this in my Xbox library. It's a bit dated as far as CRPGs go, but it's about what you'd expect from the Mass Effect team after Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and before Mass Effect. The whole game is pretty good, but I ran into a loop I couldn't get out of at the end. I got to a point where it seems like you're scripted to die. Only, it just sends you back to the beginning of the fight like you're not. But you go through all your healing stuff, all your party members die, you give it everything you got, and you still lose. Over and over again. After three or four times, I called it a loss and figured, I saw all the game has to offer. And I wasn't mad. I don't think I paid for the game. I think I got it with Games With Gold one month. And I got like 20-30 hours out of it that I enjoyed. So maybe on PC, there's a fix (or a cheat) that lets you see the ending cut scene. Me, I don't care about that. I went to Wikipedia and read what happened at the end. I could have watched the scene on YouTube. Sounds like sour grapes, but I'm still recommending the game. It's about the journey, not the destination. And maybe you'll fare better than me.

But this isn't the only time BioWare has pulled this exact bullshit. Mass Effect 1, the original (non Legendary) does the same thing, but it's way more obvious what is happening. If you set it to anything but the hardest difficulty, your experience is managed by set amounts. The experience management gets turned off (i.e. you default to the hardest difficulty) when you take the Mako down to a planet. The same thing happens in Dragon Age: Origin in that final fight. The game stops respecting your difficulty choice, and you're forced to use tactics you were never forced to learn. They decided that was wrong for the Legendary Editions of the original Mass Effect trilogy, but they never fixed it in the first game, nor in Dragon Age: Origins despite knowing about it. They just don't care.

So manage your expectations accordingly.

I also had Dragon Age II, but I couldn't get into that one. It's just not fun. I do not recommend that one, so I don't recommend the third one (Inquisition) either, just because I couldn't get through the second one. Not because it was hard, but because it was boring. Just my opinion. I hope someone with a different one speaks up.