Key insights

• Review of Dragon Age: The Veil Guard

  • 🎬 Surface-level gameplay and mechanics, disappointing combat system, lack of depth in storytelling and character development. Suggestion to play on normal difficulty for the first 10 hours. Acknowledgment of the fantastic finale.

• Gameplay and Criticisms

  • 🎮 The game lacks wit, imagination, and modernization. Shallow combat, outdated romance system, and disappointing world design. Characters look like Pixar or DreamWorks characters.
  • 👥 Character designs and facial animations are distracting and weak, impacting emotional moments in the game. The visual design of environments is visually stunning. The writing and portrayal of characters in the game fall short of expectations for a BioWare experience.
  • 🌑 The game is criticized for its lack of darkness and real conflict, described as silly and juvenile with an absence of meaningful conflict between companions. The writing lacks subtlety and wisdom, relying heavily on exposition-laden personal introspection monologues.
  • 📜 Outdated game structure with separate companion quests, poor pacing, lack of variety in mission design, and uninteresting side quests. Underwhelming main storyline with uninteresting antagonists.
  • 💬 The lack of tension and inauthentic dialogue, outdated structure, and limited choices. Lack of genuine tension, conflict, and impactful choices.
  • 🗺️ Lack of meaningful choices, disguised romance system, narrow level design, and lack of open spaces for exploration.
  • ⚔️ Limited variety in combat abilities and enemy design, repetitive combat abilities and party member mechanics, lack of meaningful choice or variation in RPG and combat.

Q&A

• What is the suggestion for playing Dragon Age: The Veil Guard and what acknowledgement is made about the game's finale?

  The suggestion is to play on normal difficulty for the first 10 hours and focus on the story. Despite the criticism, the finale is acknowledged as fantastic. The sponsor, Brilliant, a learning platform, is mentioned at the end of the video.

• What are the critical reviews of the game's gameplay mechanics, combat, and open world activities?

  The game receives criticism for its surface-level gameplay mechanics, disappointing combat system, lack of variety in RPG and combat, repetitive combat abilities, and party member mechanics resembling only cooldowns.

• What are the criticisms of the game's romance system and level design?

  The romance system is described as outdated with limited impact, while the level design is criticized for being narrow, labyrinthine, and lacking open spaces for exploration.

• How does Dragon Age: The Veil Guard fail to meet expectations regarding choices and conflicts?

  The game lacks depth in dialogue, character development, and decision-making, resulting in superficial choices, limited companion interactions, lack of tension, and conflict.

• What are the issues with the game's structure and pacing?

  The game's outdated structure and poor pacing result in a disconnect between main and companion storylines, uninteresting side quests, and underwhelming main storyline, with interruptions from lengthy companion quests.

• How is the writing and character portrayal in Dragon Age: The Veil Guard described?

  The writing and character portrayal are criticized for lacking darkness, conflict, subtlety, wisdom, and meaningful companionship interactions, with an excessive reliance on exposition-laden personal introspection monologues.

• What are the positive aspects of the game Dragon Age: The Veil Guard?

  The game is praised for its stunning visual design of environments, smooth performance even on high-end PCs, and being DRM free on Steam.

• What are the main criticisms of Dragon Age: The Veil Guard?

  The game is criticized for lacking innovation, modernization, wit, and imagination. It features a shallow combat system, outdated romance mechanics, disappointing world design, distracting character designs, and weak facial animations.

• 00:00 A colossal disappointment! The game lacks wit, imagination, and modernization. Shallow combat, outdated romance system, and disappointing world design. Characters look like Pixar or DreamWorks characters, a massive downgrade from previous games.
• 05:53 The character designs and facial animations in Dragon Age: The Veil Guard are criticized for being distracting and weak, affecting the game's emotional impact. The visual design of environments is stunning, and the game runs well, but the writing and portrayal of characters fall short of expectations.
• 11:38 The video criticizes the lack of darkness and conflict in Dragon Age: The Valard, highlighting the game's use of light-hearted and juvenile tone, absence of real conflict between companions, and lack of subtlety and wisdom in the writing.
• 17:54 The game's outdated structure and poor pacing lead to a disconnect between main and companion storylines. The writing often feels dictated by the game's structure, resulting in uninteresting side quests and underwhelming main storyline.
• 23:20 The game Dragon Age: The Valard is a disappointment as it lacks depth in dialogue, character development, and decision-making. The choices and companion interactions are superficial, and the game fails to create genuine tension or conflict.
• 29:02 The game lacks meaningful choices and disguises a lack of genuine choice while the romance system feels outdated. The level design is narrow and lacks open spaces for exploration.
• 34:50 A critical review of the game's cityscape areas, combat, puzzles, and open world activities. It highlights the lack of meaningful variety in RPG, combat, and enemy design, as well as the repetitive nature of combat abilities and party member mechanics.
• 40:41 A critical review of the game Dragon Age: The Veil Guard, highlighting surface-level gameplay mechanics, disappointing combat system, and lack of depth in storytelling and character development. The reviewer suggests playing on normal difficulty for the first 10 hours and focusing on the story. Despite the criticism, the finale is acknowledged as fantastic. The sponsor, Brilliant, a learning platform, is mentioned at the end of the video.