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I've done it.....63 hours and 158 screenshots later.....I've beaten Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

The non-spoilery tl;dr: I liked it! Maybe it was the high of playing a new Dragon Age game for the first time in ten years, but I had a lot of fun with it. The combat is snappy, the characters are charming, the sidequests aren't all tedious time wasters. I think a lot of the complaints online are bad faith arguments or personal preferences. (Not that the game is perfect or there aren't valid critiques, just that you can tell who's like, mad about DA being ""woke"" now or whatever lmao.)

So yeah, I'd recommend it, and I think people who haven't played any DA games could still have a good time too. There's callbacks and stuff that wouldn't really mean anything to newbies, and obviously there's spoilers for Inquisition (but I feel that particular cat is out of the bag anyway), but overall I think new players could definitely just jump in and have fun without having played the previous games. (But you still should play the previous games because they're great. DA2 is still my fave. Sorry Veilguard, you could not dethrone the king.)

Please look at some pictures of my beautiful Rook before I continue on with my very spoilery commentary below.

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I feel like I could probably go on forever about random stuff as I think about it. This post has already taken two days of poking at it on and off and is way too long so I should probably just wrap it up. If you read all this you should probably get an award or something. I don't even want to re-read it to proofread lol.

But I would love to hear other people's thoughts on the game, good or bad! I have to catch up on the reading list so if you already posted your thoughts I am on my way 👀