I've finally found time to play this game a bit further than the normal "well thats a nice 20 minutes"

So far my opinion on the story and gameplay is good however I too would definitely agree with the fact that the element scanner was a terrible idea. At least in ME1 you'd hit a button and the planet got scanned for you and came back with results also, I know a lot of people disliked the mako for "clumsy controls" ect but frankly I actually enjoyed the mako levels because it made it interesting and at least going through a planet surface finding element deposits and doing the little 4 button memory game was more pleasurable than the scanner minigame. God help me but I think they birthed the most boring minigame ever created that was actually necessity to complete the game.