Inksday Dragon Age: The Veilguard Review

I will preface this review with a little background. I first played Dragon Age: Origins on my XBOX 360 so many years ago and fell in love. And admittedly Dragon Age has been in a downward spiral since. Didn't like DA2. Didn't like Inquisition. Well lets get on with it then. We have a lot to cover. Art style: 1/10. Looks like some lazy live service fortnite stuff. Its ugly, doesn't fit the dark theme of dragon age, and is just off putting. Writing/Dialogue: 0/10 Really, really bad. I have to agree with Skillup here. It really does feel like HR is in the room playing with me. Every line feels like sterilized corporate speak. Theres even a small part of me that thinks some of this writing was done by AI. I'll come back to this in a moment in the next section. RPG Aspects: 3/10: And I'll tell you why. The character creation is pretty good but its not enough to save this game in this category. Yeah you can choose all sorts of stuff about your character. But the choices you make don't make a difference. Going back to the bad writing for a second we can address how choices in this game aren't real. They are false choices. Sure you get multiple dialogue options to reply to people with but is it really a choice if all the dialogue options say the same thing with different words?Can I be a bad guy? No. Can I make bad decisions? No. In DA:Origins I could literally sacrifice a small child to a demon. In Veilguard I can't even tell a person no. My dialogue options are A) Agree. B) Agree in different words. or C) Agree in a sarcastic tone. Combat: 5/10 Not the worst combat. Not the best. I'd probably give this a 7/10 if it wasn't a Dragon Age game but I refuse to reward them for removing even more of the CRPG elements that made DA: Origins so good. All in all, I would not recommend.