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They should have made an original IP. What have they done to this series? This isn't Dark Fantasy anymore. DREADWOLF would've been far better than VEILGUARD. That's what should've been made. Play literally any other Dragon Age game and save yourself of this disgrace. The dialogue is awful, voice acting is mid, the gameplay is far too hand-holdy, it treats you like you're stupid(which I suppose you've gotta be to enjoy this). Combat is more akin to a mobile game style. Just no. *Just to add, the millennial style humor is absolutely horrific.

An absolutely amazing game with high replay value, just like all the other Baldur's Gates. I grew up with them as a kid because my mom played them (In addition to things like Icewind Dale & Neverwinter Nights). Best game I've gotten to play in YEARS. GOTY right here. So many different ways to do things, and though I haven't completed the game yet (In ACT III) I still make a few new characters to change gameplay style (Evil vs good vs just straight chaotic whimsy, etc) and every time I do I find new things that I never even explored before. PLAY IT. BUY IT. SUPPORT THIS GOSH DARN STUDIO AND ALL IT STANDS FOR IN THE RPG REALM!

PROS: You get to actually be a witch or wizard, unique to the Harry Potter lore, going to school, and it's absolutely beautiful. I love the spell casting, the classes, side quests, everything! CONS: The loading into doors isn't fun. The metallic voice if you choose upward on the slider is obnoxious. (Thankfully you can change your voice at any time in Settings). Very minimum glitching of robes into the legs. I'd give it a 4.5/5! I LOVE IT! SO MUCH FUN OH MY GOD PEOPLE DONT KNOW WHAT THEYRE MISSING.

I give this 2.5/5 stars. This post will be free of spoilers from the main plot line. A lot of people don't like the 'golf club' moment that happens within the first two hours of the game, I was all right with it. But the pacing of it was way off, happening far too soon. If they wanted to shock us, they certainly did. For the second 'half' of the game you do have to play as the antagonist, and once learning the reason why she did what she did, it made sense to me, somewhat. But the way she brutally handled that golf club didn't seem fitting to the 'crime'. But after that, most of her backstory was very lackluster and boring. The constant flash backs in time were terrible and jumped all over the place, should have been sequential. When side characters got into trouble or were killed, I didn't really care. (Remember when Sam & Henry died in the first game? You won't find anything so gut wrenching with side characters in this game.) The ending? It was just far too sudden, offered no info on the in between on what had to be years since the antagonist and protagonist confronted one another. And it made very little sense. The game is otherwise beautiful, combat is fun but very similar to the first game in that it can be monotonous. Dialogue between characters was rather boring outside of cut scenes as well as in. I had to replay the first game to compare the two, and whoever is writing dialogue for TLOU2 needs to be fired. All in all, I wouldn't recommend this game. Save yourself $60 and watch a cut scene/no commentary play through on YouTube or just consider this game non-canon.