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Dragon Age: The Veilguard

 

Take it for what it is: 4/5

            I apologize, this is a longer review than my others. I will start off saying I love Dragon Age games. This one I was skeptical about. With the new art style, the story, and especially the gameplay, I was not sure. Then I started to see other reviews out there shitting on it or praising it. I decided to give it a shot and play it myself. I first picked up on Xbox and I was shocked at how much I started to like the new art style, story and game engine. I ended up picking it up on Steam too since Digital Foundry praised its optimization.

Everyone is trying to compare this to BG3, which is OK, but it is a completely different type of game. BG3 is turn based D&D choose your own adventure type, this is more like the new Square’s linear Final Fantasy action RPG games. Combat is an action-focused game with spells and abilities you can choose on the fly (I play on the controller and love it). The gameplay is smooth as butter, and I love the abilities and controller hot maps. I was worried the game would have enemies that were bullet sponges like most RPGs this day and age, but no, it turns out it is fast and furious. The enemies are not bullet sponges and combat is quick.

The graphics are phenomenal! I will admit, Digital Foundry was right, this is the most polished and optimized PC game I have played in a while and have not requested a refund from Steam within just an hour of gameplay. I tried so many PC games this year, and the stutter and graphics issues have been so terrible I just wait a month or two for patches. This one I have had no issues with my 4070, and Intel 13700K. It is nice to finally have a game that plays incredible on PC and plays/looks better than my XSX and PS5!

The only downside is the writing. It is not as good as the previous DA games. The writing is not as bad as many other reviewers make it out to be. Most of those reviewers were the ones telling me Cyberpunk 2077 was incredible and amazing when that writing was jarring, terrible pacing, and sometimes downright bad and awful. The writing here is simple yet flows well and I am taking the characters for what they are and learning them as I go. Sometimes there is a little more modern writing that is a little out of place compared to the older DA titles and I wish it had more edgy good/evil choices. If you can get through Cyberpunk and some of the other cringe games that these reviewers have played and recommend, you can get through this.

Overall, I love this game. I do not like the love/hate it review system of YouTubers and thumbs up/down. This is one of those, it is good, but not amazing, but not bad games. It is a good addition to the BioWare lineup and gives me hope the new Mass Effect is going to be good. Hell, I am enjoying Andromeda right now after they fixed most of the bugs (I do understand that one was really rough when it came out). In the end, read this review, or just do what you can do in this modern age, go watch someone play it for a bit online and see if you would like it or not. Just have fun, keep an open mind, and enjoy it if you like it and do not let others make you hate or love it.


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