Main cast: Nikko Austen Smith (Mari Hanson), Michael Beach (Nik Hanson), Lily Cowles (Kara Voss), Christopher Sean (Rafael Sabatine), Courtenay Taylor (Thadie Voss), and Paul Nakauchi (Luca Sabatine)
Directors: Alex Beaty and Dave Wilson

Ooh, Exodus is an upcoming game said to be a spiritual successor to the Mass Effect games. Considering that BioWare has decided to stop being successful and had the same people that defecated all over the Dragon Age franchise working on the next Mass Effect game, Exodus may be what fans of that series need.

Then again, the publisher of that game is Wizards of the Coast, and we have all seen what the inmates of that asylum have done to Dungeons and Dragons, so I personally would keep my expectations low when it comes to that game.

Exodus: Odyssey introduces Mari Hanson, a young lady on a rather boring town on the planet Lidon. She wants to go on adventures off the planet, but her father forbids her, saying that she is too young. 

So, she runs away with the shady guy she has a crush on, Luca Sabatine, on the ship that he had taken from his family without their permission. The father has to go after her, and what follows are space capers, flight disasters, and years passing because of Interstellar-like time wonkiness from all the space travel magic.

It’s pretty interesting, although I don’t find anything here that sweeps me off my feet and make me want to play the game ASAP. If anything, I do get a little worried about how Mari doing her nonsense and never having to be held accountable for it is just a sign that the upcoming game is going to be another eye-rolling, badly written girlboss slop like so many games from Western studios these days.

Oh well, I can wait for the game to come out, and then watch the cutscenes and playthrough videos first. One really can’t trust the quality of these AAA games to preorder blindly anymore!