Dragon Age: The Veilguard, PlayStation 5

Dragon Age: The Veilguard is an incredible RPG. The gameplay and specifically the combat differs slightly from previous dragon age games. If you enjoyed Mass Effect 2 or 3 then you'll enjoy Veilguard's take on combat. Also the companion system is what you should expect in a BioWare game. Character and models are slightly more stylized in this outing but environments are richly detailed. Highly recommend this game.

Fun game that isn't complicated to due to size skill. A load of different and quirky characters that make the storyline interesting to even the basic fantasy players.

This is a very fun game it's worth the 60 bucks and the storyline is awesome if you like rpg hybrids then this is your game

The graphics are great. Legitatmitly a good rpg. Not the best i have ever played but really hard to put down once you get into it. Really good game for the price. Long.

This game deserves more praise. All these people complaining because of a few lines of dialogue regarding gender (dialogue that can easily be skipped). Im very much enjoying it.

doesn't follow the original format of the game.

Kinda boring. Played all since origins…..this feels like a social experiment more than a true RPG. Your character and companions are thrusted together immediately, expected to all care for each other and be mass effect 2 ending mission out of the gate…..where has the magic gone?

First of all, please note that this is not a full review. I'm about 30 hrs. in and a lot of that time was spent exploring and doing side content instead of hard focusing on the main story. I feel that one of this game's biggest flaws is that it's a Dragon Age game (I'm a big and long time fan of the series). If it were a new IP from another developer, it'd be ok. The combat is fairly fun, the companions and story are just ‘ok' so far, I see potential for their stories to get more interesting, but time will tell. However, as a BioWare game, it leaves a lot to be desired in my personal opinion. A lot of story beats feel rushed and kinda choppy, or half hearted. And, maybe it's just me, but a lot of the dialogue really takes me out of the game. The conversations just feel way too modern day society. I know there was some modern terminology in the previous games, but nothing that took me out of it in the way Veilguard does. And from some of the spoilers l've seen I think it only gets worse. But, like I said, time will tell. I went into this game with low expectations, but it's still a little depressing playing it when compared to its predecessors, all very different games from one another, but all had great stories and interesting characters. On a positive note, I like that they brought back Varric's narrated art slides like in DAII. That's probably the most Dragon Age-feeling part of the game. That's just my initial thoughts anyways. I can't say anything for certain until I finish the game. Sorry, for the long review, I hope it helps some.

This game is jarring because it's so unrecognizable from the Dragon Age franchise as a whole. If it weren't for the returning of Varric and Harding it would be hard to look at these awfully rendered soulless Pixar uncanny valley drool passing themself off as art. While the writing being woke and absent minded was drilled into peoples heads to death I don't need to reinforce that here instead I'll state what most people feel when they are half way through this game. Is it over yet? After 30 hours of this game I just want it to be over. The side quest are dull and uninspired, the characters are so childish that the main character literally talks to them like they're 12 to stop the "internal turmoil" that develops within the team. The best part of this game is the combat system because the skills are interesting and flushed out but all of that is undermined by the fact that nothing does more damage than when you do skill combos. So using different skills is made irrelevant because it doesn't make sense to use anything other than skills that trigger a combo effect. Making the tactical nature of the game obsolete. Enemies are also one note and after 20 hours you'll have seen every enemy in the game. The vast majority of which are just giant pinatas that you'll dance around until they finally fall over. But for 12$ you will get your monies worth and you'll definitely spend time playing this game. Sometimes you can derive joy from something even though it isn't good which is okay but it's one thing to not be good and it's another to be dull and uninspired. There's nothing even remotely memorable about this game other than I remember that I played it.

This was the worst game I've ever played. I Platinumed the game, because i paid for it but if i could go back in time i wouldnt have ever bought it. The older games had a darker, and sinister at times, theme to it. It was a dark story and characters acted accordingly. The world felt unsafe and there was a anxiety to it, that even when the sun was shining a dark cloud persisted. This game feels like a cartoon. Everything feels safe, there doesnt feel like any imminent danger, and the world feels shallow. Every companion is boring and the voice acting feels like theyre talking to small children. Most of the dialogue is written in a way that a fourteen year old would find deep and profound. To continue with the infantilization this game does when you, or another companion, kills an enemy one member of the party will exclaim "good job!" or "nice one!" in the same manner you would congratulate a child for accomplishing a simple task. The combat is boring and tedious with spongy enemies. The story is boring, the majority of quests are boring and tedious with beaucoup backtracking. The character creator leaves a lot to be desired. The nudity in the game is non-existent. Even if you toggle it on, I never saw a single nude person. I saw a lot of reviews saying it was bad but i dismissed them as the "anti-woke grifter" community doing what they do best. Truth be told, the progressive themes of the game arent really a problem, but can come off as preachy and feel less like an organic part of the story or a character and more like a lecture. One of my least favorite things about the game is that they git rid of the Dragon Age Keep and practically did away with just about everything from the past games except Inquisition, but even Inquisition's inclusion is bare bones and shallow. During your character creator you can customize your inquisitor and their choices but almost none, if not none of the choices have any impact on the story which is a shame. From DA:O to Inquisition i had Loghain alive, basically trying to redeem himself. He survived inquisition, joined the wardens and in Veilguard he is nowhere to be found because the couldn't be bothered with continuity. Disgraceful. I cannot even recommend getting this game for free. I fully believe anyone who said this game was good got paid to do so. I do want to leave one positive comment: Visually I think the game looked pretty decent. Thats about it