Daniel Correa

DA: Veilguard is a Dragon Age game only by name and familiar characters. I preordered the deluxe edition, as I have been a fan since DA:O . This game is completely disappointing for long time fans. The fantasy aspect is beautiful, the map designs and how they look are gorgeous and really showcase the fantasy of the game by taking you to new areas around Thedas. The character design is amazing with so much added details that creating your own character can easily take an hour before you’re finished. The addition to more range of hair textures, tattoos, etc makes it very enjoyable to create a character that looks like you. And the overall semi linear play style is great and refreshing. There’s a sense of open worldness without the massively redundant missions and maps like DA:I. The cons : 1. Real world ideology is very much in this game with no discretion. There’s no real sense of immersion into the RPG aspect as it quickly takes you out of it through its interactions. 2. The dialogue is horrendous when compared to previous Dragon Age entries. In the first two Dragon Age entries , you’re brought into a world where you can experience multi dimensional characters. In Dragon Age Inquisition, it’s even more refined and allows you to feel and understand these unique characters. DA: Veilguard backtracks. Character dialogue is unnatural and strange. And aside from that it’s very one dimensional conversations. 3. The combat is fine since comparatively there have been worse styles of combat. But it is absolutely not as amazing as this big reviewers have made it out to be. Overtime it becomes dull and repetitive with the only exciting new thing is the party combos . 4. There is absolutely no sense of urgency, or dread throughout the game. You’re facing against some powerful enemies, and there is no sense of the game making the player feel like this is an uphill battle. There are no morally grey or difficult choices to make whereas in DA:O - the undertones were heavy, dark, and bleak. It made you feel as though the world really might end and your job is to make sure it doesn’t. The urgency was implied and kept with throughout the whole game. DA: VG does the opposite. Instead it makes light of the whole situation, it devalues the entirety of the goal. It feels that You the player are not weighted with the choices you make like how you would feel in previous entries. ————— Overall the game is mediocre at best, with some of the best things about the Dragon Age titles missing from this entry. It’s not terrible , but definitely lacks in the areas that the fans are used to. The real problem is you have actual people denying the problems of the game in fear of it being review bombed. But the reality is that this is another underwhelming game from developers who would rather do their own thing and put their own ideology in it instead of focussing on what made other entries great.