Dragon Age: The Veilguard Reviews
Dragon Age: The Veilguard isn't quite a full return to form, but it is definitely a step in the right direction for BioWare, and is a win that the studio definitely needed after a series of demoralizing releases over the years. The game, with all its positive points, always seems to trip over its own feet - fantastic environments but divisive character design, engaging story but overly cheesy dialog at times, and more. There's always a give-and-take that holds it back from being a great game.
Dragon Age The Veilguard isn’t the big comeback from BioWare we had hoped for; in fact, it seems like a project born out of countless uncertainties and shaped by an idea completely different from what we experienced in our 70 hours of gameplay. The game tries, and it would be unfair not to admit it: it seeks to embrace new elements, but it does so in a completely misguided and inconsistent way, partly due to shallow writing and an art direction lacking a true identity.
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As a Dragon Age fan, you're better off avoiding Dragon Age: The Veilguard—the once-dark fantasy world has been transformed into a Disney-like fairytale with childish, shallow dialogue, limited and inconsequential choices that restrict you to being nice, and a linear storyline that disregards the deep lore, impactful choices, and character-driven narratives the series is known for. Enemy design is laughable, side missions are shallow, puzzles are overly simple, and while the flashy combat is fun, it feels out of place, lacking strategic depth, making it painful to accept that this beloved franchise may meet its end in 2024.
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a gorgeous feast for the eyes with solid combat, but a vapid story filled with terrible, unrelatable characters.
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard offers beautifully crafted environments, but its shallow enemy design and lack of narrative depth may disappoint series veterans. For those seeking a more casual RPG experience, it could be enjoyable, but it’s not worth paying full price. Wait for a discount.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is truly an impressive game, but it might have fared better without the Dragon Age title, as it doesn’t entirely align with the series' concept. Unfortunately, certain controversies have overshadowed the game’s quality, pushing its merits into the background—a situation that’s never ideal.
Even with some missteps and controversial design choices inspired by Dragon Age 2, Dragon Age: The Veilguard paves the way for a triumphant return for BioWare, delivering the studio's best-written final act and one of the best in the entire industry. The main flaws lie in a few tedious moments in the early hours and an unnecessary amount of side quests that bloat the game.
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard is an action RPG with extremely fun gameplay, especially in the combat phase. The main plot and characters fail to captivate the player from the start, but if we give the narrative the right amount of time, we will have a compelling script and interesting teammates on our hands. Visually, The Veilguard is a spectacle, with its effects-laden abilities and postcard fantasy world design. One unfortunately gets the feeling of being led by the developers' hand a little too much, but on balance this is a very good product.
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard absolutely shines in some areas while falling short in others, though it never really coalesces to form something great. It's a fun, engaging action-RPG but BioWare still has a few miles to go before it can recapture its best days.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a triumphant return for the series, combining compelling storytelling, intricate character interactions, and action-packed combat into an RPG that feels both fresh and timeless. The game plays to BioWare’s strengths, creating an adventure that will keep fans and newcomers busy for dozens of hours. The world is super cool, and the regions all look completely different. The story is top-notch, the presentation is of an extremely high quality, and the combat is deep and tactical. It’s a shame that the dialogues won’t be equally interesting to every player.
Review in Dutch | Read full review
It should be said that for all of the criticism to be made about Dragon Age: The Veilguard, there’s nothing it outright does poorly. It is absolutely lots of fun in the moment, and the cast is worthy of note. However, when all is said and done, there’s little that sticks in the memory.
Returning to Thedas has never been so fun! Dragon Age: The Veilguard is the installment that Dragon Age fans have been waiting for almost 10 years and that will surely not leave anyone indifferent.
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a return to old form, albeit not the best form. The action-packed battles with tactical elements are once again a lot of fun and the characters, both good and evil, bring the usual Bioware quality. It could have been a bit more stringent and there aren't many really important decisions, but this is the studio's best title since Mass Effect 3.
Review in German | Read full review
Dragon Age - The Veilguard is far from being a disaster that many internet haters are claiming it to be. It's a serviceable and high-budget comfort food-level action role-playing game. Though if I'm being fair, that's probably the worst thing a standout trendsetter company like Bioware can commit: something that straddles along the lines of "fine".
Dragon Age: The Veilguard shares no true DNA ancestry with RPGs. It is at best an Assassin’s Creed look-alike, a Hogwarts Legacy wannabe, but its infantile and banal storytelling makes it more of a Roblox game in a grown-ups’ graphics engine. There’s an argument to be made that this game was made by the new generation for the new generation of gamers. The point of its existence is not to raise and discuss serious topics or explore dark emotions. It’s here to provide good fun. Its target audience seems to be your average high schooler. You don’t want to bother him with topics of racism, religion, oppression, inequality, dogmatism, relationships, social interactions and other big topics previous games in the series tackled. Give him positive reinforcement, fairy-tale cartoonish looking worlds and loot. I think Bioware thinks very little of the new generation if this is their vision of what a game for them should look like.
We were really hoping Dragon Age: The Veilguard would be the big, satisfying comeback that would remind us why BioWare was once an RPG powerhouse. But it just doesn’t make the cut. Instead, it makes us wonder if BioWare can still create games like the Mass Effect trilogy and the early Dragon Age titles as they did. If this is what the future of Dragon Age looks like, maybe it’s time to give the series a break.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard clearly wants to put epic action above all and sprinkles it with deeply emotional moments. Instead of choices and slow, tactical combat, the focus is on a pre-composed story and massive, action-packed battles. But if you engage with it, BioWare delivers one of the most thrilling role-playing games of recent years.
Review in German | Read full review
When the long-awaited game comes out clichéd, we have no words to describe our disappointment. Unfortunately, Veilguard fell far short of our expectations.
Review in Turkish | Read full review
That Veilguard exists at all is something of a miracle, and that it’s the first good BioWare game in more than a decade feels nearly impossible. It may not be a new standard-bearer for the genre, but merely being pretty good feels like something of a triumph.
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