It's not just mainstream reviews it's common gamers that played the EA early access. People ran on YouTube, Twitch, and Twitter posting all these disappointing impressions.Can any of you actually form your own opinion? Be critical of the game after you have actually played it through to the end. Glitches can be fixed with updates. How can anyone play a bioware or Bethesda game and not expect technical problems?
People take these reviews as gospel. Horizon exceeded expectations. ME expectations were simply set too high to begin with. Anything less than critical acclaim was going to be labeled a failure to people due the franchises name and how ME3 ended.
The game was in development for 5 years and was kept under wraps until 3 months from release. When they first showed the game 3 months ago this stuff was pointed out and employees from Bioware said they'd fix it and here we are launching and not fixed. I doubt the weird dead eye stares can be fixed and some of the weird animations and facial expressions don't seem to be glitches just a product of whatever mocap they did or didn't use on characters.
You wanna see good mocap look at Uncharted 4. Built into the game. They can't patch that in.