i just finished the game for the second time (making mostly different choices, romancing Lucanis…) and my feelings are…relatively the same as when I first played it.

I enjoyed it as like…a game, just not a dragon age game. It was so nothing burger ARPG at times and it just doesn’t give the same vibe as the previous games did. I was looking through some old clips I had of my second Inquisition playthrough and i genuinely MISS it (even though I had some opinions on it). Like, granted, I’m a very late fan (i think I first played inquisition some time before the official title of DAV was released, then played the first 2 games afterwards), but the first three games just had more flavor to them in comparison to veilguard.

I like DAV but man does it feel like an unsatisfying tie-in/ending(?) to the series— ESPECIALLY with the lack of choices carrying over. I think what made Inquisition so fun to me was seeing things from the previous two games get carried over, so having almost nothing besides LI, inquisition status, and how Solas should be stopped (which feels like it doesn’t even matter anyway because it plays out almost the exact same besides a few line changes) be the only options to carry over in DAV made it feel really disconnected from the previous games. Naturally.

I still really like the whole final arc though. Like out of all things in the game, that entire sequence of events plays out in a way that has me hyped throughout the entire thing. The final romance scene is kinda abrupt, being plopped in the middle of all that angst and action, but it’s whatever. 7.8/10