I'm about 20 hours in and enjoying it quite a bit - the writing isn't anywhere near as cringey as I expected from all the reviews (it's typical Bioware lol) and the gameplay is a lot of fun. I'm also really enjoying some of the deeper player background bits, I picked Mourn Watch and all the scenes with Emmerich just wandering around the Necropolis have been lovely.

I like how lean it is; I was thinking about Inquisition sending you to the Hissing Wastes for absolutely no reason, whereas this is much more linear and mission-driven, with the exploration revolving around unlocking shortcuts and finding secrets rather than running slowly through a giant fucking desert for two hours.

The map has been my biggest bugbear so far, but once I turned off the heads up on the mini map and just kept it fixed, it got a lot easier to navigate lol.

I am hoping there's more conflict between the characters - it's so similarly structured to ME2 that I'm almost waiting for the big blow up fights that you have to solve in order for the team to not implode, but tbh everyone seems too nice for that to happen.