Jasmine Dodd – Google

Don’t listen to the review bombing, but also don’t listen to the 5 Star reviews. This is an honest review by someone who enjoys Dragon Age, and isn’t being motivated by hate or greed. I give the game 7/10. Be aware the following review CONTAINS SPOILERS Good Aspects: • Solas and Lavellan’s romance can have a happy ending. If you’re anything like me then you’ve been waiting a long time to resolve the heartbreak of Solas leaving Lavellan at the end of Trespasser. If you make the right choices you can guarantee that the two will be together • Scenery. The scenery is absolutely stunning. From the forests, to the cities, the animation is insane • Character Arcs. This game has multiple strong character arcs for your companions that make you have to sit back and go “oh…wow”. Specifically Bellara and Harding. Make sure to pick Bellara for the wards in the final fight to get her full arc. • Manfred. Everyone needs a skeleton butler • Romance. The romances are cute, with compelling writing. Harding and Taash get together if you don’t romance either, and Neve and Lucanis become a couple too. Emmrich will start dating an NPC you meet towards the beginning of the game. All non-Rook related romances have cute background conversations. • Character cameos. Specifically Dorian, Isabella and the Inquisitor. Hawke and Cole are mentioned too. • Damning choices. Act 1 has a “lose-lose” choice situation that sets the course for the game. Do you save the small defenceless town of Treviso? Or do you throw yourself into the fray and protect Minrathous? Saving one will destroy the other. Will you let the Venatori take over the biggest city in the game to save a town of civilians, or will you sacrifice it to the blight to stop a cult from manipulating everything? It’s a crushing choice that will leave you with long lasting consequences. Act 3 has you choose who will lead the second charge. It seems like an innocent enough choice but the person you send will ultimately die for you. Bad Aspects: • the Darkspawn are not Hurlocks in this game. They’re zombies. It can be explained away as “new creations” but it’s still a shame that the game changed their design • Dorian’s redesign 😭 • Clunky dialogue. Look, all games have rough dialogue. Sometimes the wording in conversations can be rough. Sometimes it feels disjointed. It’s not awful but it’s noticeable • HoF and Hawke are nowhere to be found. It stands to reason that we should've had at least a missive or something from the previous protagonists. Both characters are alive and well to most players, so it feels strange that two strong fighters do not lend a hand to fighting the blight • The game soft-canonises previous ambiguous choices. Specifically Morrigan drinking from the Well of Sorrows. A lot of people complain the game is “too woke” but let me remind you that every Dragon Age game has been “woke”. Every damn BioWare game has had some aspect of “wokeness” since the 2000’s. If it’s such a hard concept to accept then play something else. If you can play Origins then you can play Veilguard

Inquisition was my introduction to Dragon Age. Since then I’ve played the others, but it will always be my favourite. I prefer the combat mechanics in it to the previous games, I love how Solas and Lavellan’s relationship is depicted, and I would die for Dorian. This game is genuinely one of my favourites, don’t let anyone tell you it’s bad. Yes there are clunky moments, and the Open World aspect can be exhausting, but ultimately it’s got good voice acting, pretty scenery and compelling romances :)

the movie tries so hard to come across as this beautiful artsy surrealist film, but instead it’s just incredibly obvious how hard the director is trying to win awards and be seen as “different”. Also the weird obsession with eggs was off-putting. It’s what I imagine someone who says they have a “high IQ” would tell me I needed to watch because it would “change my life”. It’s gutting because I love a good human x monster romance plot, but it really felt like a bad Wattpad fanfic put on the big screen. If the creature had been an alien, the movie might have made more sense. But the fact that it was just a thing from the jungle felt flat, since the movie took place in what felt more like a historical drama. If you’re going to do a sci-fi film, commit to a sci-fi film. It’s like the director threw all his ideas into a blender.

This movie is garbage. I’m not going to shamelessly become a copypasta like the majority of the reviews, but seriously this movie is rubbish. Another “Middle East Bad, America Good” movie. This movie had some themes that could have become really amazing plot points, then it sort of just had random parts. The most convincing acting was the Spanish lady who had 5 seconds of screen time. Someone needs to tell Hollywood that scary music doesn’t mean scary scenes. Also, the daughter of the home owner has this weird “these people are bad because they’re white” story line. The story is supposed to be a thriller but it’s just boring. Maybe if you watch it high, it might make more sense. I swear this movie was written by AI or something.

Oh my god where do I start? (spoilers ahead) - The IQ if every character is zero. In fact that’s too generous, it’s in the negatives - The protagonist casually starts to fall in love with another woman while being married - Pointless deaths, just for “shock value” - The acting is awful, save for like 4 people out of the 30-40 in the movie - The CGI is pretty bad - The spider webs are clearly cotton wool. The stuff you use on your lawn during Halloween - So. Many. Plot. Holes. What happened to the first group what went into the mist? Did they also get eaten? Did they find help? Also, the explanation for the monsters. Like if they’d said “they’re caused by a failed experiment” then sure, it’s cliche, but it makes more sense than just whipping out “parallel universes”. - There is no happy ending. If they’d just stayed in the shop they would have survived. The protagonist spends the whole movie doing everything to protect his son, only to shoot him in the head to “protect him from the mist”. Spoiler Alert: the army turns up literally seconds later.