Dragon Age: The Veilguard
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard is an action role-playing video game developed by BioWare and published by Electronic Arts. The fourth major game in the Dragon Age franchise, Veilguard is the sequel to Dragon Age: Inquisition.
Synopsis
Set ten years after Inquisition, the game features new locations in the fictional world of Thedas for the player to explore. The story follows a player character known as Rook who Varric Tethras recruited to help him stop Solas, also known as the elven trickster god Fen'Harel, from bringing down the Veil. While disrupting Solas' ritual, they accidentally unleash two imprisoned elven gods – Elgar'nan and Ghilan'nain – who then wreak havoc across Thedas with the Blight in an attempt to conquer the world. Rook, supported by companions and various factions, sets out to stop these members of the elven pantheon from achieving their goals.
Qualities That Should Be Sealed Away By Solas
- Troubled Production: The game was originally intended to be smaller in scale with a live service element, but staff layoffs and several veterans leaving Bioware left this game with a completely new team with little knowledge of the series and its lore. This led to the problems discussed below.
- While still having its serious moments, Dragon Age: The Veilguard is way too light in tone compared to previous entries in the franchise.
- Terrible and confusing story; While the story may be better than Mass Effect: Andromeda, the story has so many plot holes here and there.
- For example, the Antivan Crows are now a resistance organization fighting for freedom when previously they were established as merciless killers.
- Varric is dead when the other characters rarely react to it.
- The entire events of the series were done by a secret conspiracy and were all done according to plan. There was no buildup or setup that this would happen.
- There's also an infamous scene where Taash explains to their mother that they're non-binary. While some were angry at the inclusion of this scene for different reasons; many players, especially LGBT ones, have pointed out that this scene is not only out of place for a Dragon Age game, but not how non-binary people speak in real life.
- The gameplay is much easier than in previous games, even on the nightmare difficulty.
- Not to mention, the game is more repetitive than previous games.
- The puzzle sections are less exciting and boring. Not to mention, the puzzles are too simple and easy to get through.
- While the combat is great, it overblows on the action rather than the strategy elements in the previous games.
- There's a choice system in this game, like all Dragon Age games, but this game is downgraded, instead of having different scenes or choices, the choice system is barely useful and whenever your choice, is the same.
- The boss designs, while not terrible, are poorly designed and it's easy to defeat them, as these bosses are just standing there, waiting for the bosses to attack your players, while the players are just charging the attack with no/little strategy.
- The open-world area has been omitted in this game, instead, the game is linear, with no/little free-roam area that can't you explore.
- There's a hub area, but there is barely any to explore, as all you will do is talk to NPCs, complete quests; get from point A to point B, and fight the bosses.
- The equipment upgrade is downgraded from previous games, no matter what equipment you use is the same or barely useful. This is due to a lack of difficulty.
- The level designs, while not terrible, are bland. It's overreliant on linear paths with little moments of branching freedom.
Good Qualities
- The gameplay and combat are solid and on par with Dragon Age: Inquisition and is debatably the best Dragon Age in terms of gameplay.
- Amazing graphics with a good atmosphere.
- While the game is linear, there are some explorable worlds at your own pace.
- Some bosses are tough to fight and designed well.
- At least the game is better than Mass Effect: Andromeda, but not saying much.
- The characters are likable but not as memorable as the previous characters.
- Even though it was criticized, having a non-binary character in the form of Taash was a decent idea if the writers knew how to make them likable.
- While the level designs are bland, some level designs are decent.
- Unlike Anthem, the game is offline, meaning you can play this game even without EA Play requirements.
- Say what you would about Bioware, but at least this game is a step in the right direction for the company if you ignore the story.
Reception
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The game received positive reviews by critics, but was review bombed by numerous players, calling this game a "woke". With a Metacritic score at 81%, but the user score are more negative with a score at 3.8.
On Steam and Opencritic, on the other hand, gave the game 70%, which means this game are mostly positive. However, with the new Opencritic's Player Rating, the ratings are the same score to Metacritic's user score.
Some reviewers and most Internet critics such as Angry Joe criticize for story, combat, and too linear even for Dragon Age standards, it claims to be considered a huge downgrade to Dragon Age: Inquisition.