Cory Gray – Google

It's alright. I mean, the game itself is decently fun. But, if im being honest, it feels more like a generic fantasy action/adventure game that's been lightly sprinkled with some "dragon age" bits. It looks good if a bit cartoons. Would have preferred the more grimdark tone from the first one or the seriousness of dai. World feels quite a bit smaller. Probably because of the linear nature of the game. I think I would have preferred the DAI open world style if it had been cut down in size more than this. I just feel hampered a lot of the time. Combat is...not great. It's alright if this was anything other than a dragon age game but for what this is, I expected more. The companions don't even have health bars because they can't go down. It feels ridiculous. The lack of 15ish years of gaming decisions not carrying over when that has been Biowares "thing" is absolutely mind-boggling. Even as lore entries, I would have been happy. Wtf... The characters are pretty good. I always loved varric and even scout harding (Lace? Who knew?). Looking forward to cameos from previous games. I dunno, a game ahould evolve and build off of what came before but this feels like they threw out everything meaningful from those games. Even the story is kind of meh. I'm only 8 hours in so far but I can't help but be a little depressed that this is what we got after 10 years.

I'm the type of person that likes to look in every single nook and cranny, do all the quests I can before progressing the main quest and generally just reveling in a new, interesting game world. With that said, I'm about 35 hours in and probably about 2/3s of the way through the game. I'm sure others could do everything I've done much faster but I take my time. I think it said 15-40 hours average with speed runners doing it in 25 minutes. The game play is actually really good. I've not encountered a single true bug. It looks beautiful and diverse. There's a ton of little things that are sprinkled throughout the game to keep up that feeling of immersion. I'm truly impressed, this is extremely well done!