BioWare wants Dragon Age: The Veilguard's opening mission to make Inquisiton's finale look like a "minor inconvenience". As part of this, The Veilguard will throw us straight into the action, kicking off with Solas' plan to tear down the Veil.
This was explained by The Veilguard's director Corinne Busche in an interview with Edge Magazine (thanks, GamesRadar). Here, Busche says that BioWare wanted The Veilguard's first mission to "feel like the finale of any other game", suggesting we're in for a big change compared to how other Dragon Age stories have opened.
"We wanted the prologue to feel like the finale of any other game we've done. Where it puts you right into this media-res attack on a city and gets you really invested in the action and the story right away," says Busche.
"When I think back to Inquisition, how the sky was literally tearing open [...] the impact of [Solas'] ritual really makes that look like a minor inconvenience."
True enough, what we saw in the gameplay demo was pretty intense for an opening. Here, we saw Rook and their companions - including Varric - get in the way of Solas' plans. This caused two figures to be...
