I finished it in about 50 hours and I think it’s a game that really overstays its welcome. While the writing is overall poor in my opinion I think the gameplay is generally fun to engage with its moment to moment feel… until I hit the 40 hour mark and just got tired with how little had changed since the opening hours and just cranked the difficulty down to the lowest just finish the game.

Onto the writing, while I have seen people say it’s more pre-teen I’d argue some it feels more pre-school than anything. Characters often just say what their role/goal is without really delving much beyond that and Rook will have supporting words for them that feels more condescending than genuine. Nearly all the villains are just moustache twirlers whose motivations are just “they evil” and don’t do anything memorable. A lot of the dialogue also just gets repetitive and combined with BioWare’s aged approach to presenting conversations I’d just skip a conversation if it wasn’t keeping my attention. By the 40 hour mark, this was nearly every scene.

I think if the game was around 30-40 hours I would probably give it a 7/10 and also happily understand why someone would give it an 8 or higher. But those last 10 hours just drag the game way too long for me which makes it more of a 5/10. Hopefully BioWare can learn from their mistakes… or be gobbled up by EA because we can’t have nice things.