#dav critical – @vanmarkham on Tumblr

i think my final rating for veilguard is a 5/10. solidly mid... super fun to play through imo, but the storytelling is paper thin and the handwaving of a lot of the world's established conflict to hammer it down to some good vs evil thing is... disappointing

#dav critical #like... a lot of the lore retcons have me just seeing the first few games setting as something entirely separate #also they truly did just say all of the south is Gone Gone fdskalfja #i honestly think i would have enjoyed this more if it was a different IP bc it was a fun time #but not anything i want from a DA game #and i did not love how gender was handled

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it-is-all-yellow

I’m at the end of Act 2 of DAV and I want to say that so far my biggest concern (among many others unfortunately) is that the devs treat previously established lore as a major inconvenience.

Sometimes it even comes out to me as spiteful?? It’s like they were rolling their eyes when implementing some of the world-building decisions and disregarding others… Maybe I’m imagining things, I really want to. I’ll definitely finish the game first and then come up with more thorough review.

#lmao my favorite instance of this was bellaras quest where rook says #‘I thought elves planted trees for their dead’#and bellara just is like nope we do this thing ur just hearing of now #dav critical #dav spoilers

vanmarkham

crazy how they managed to make the crows boring

#dav spoilers #dav critical #I hate the whole ‘the crows are actually super niceys now’ schtick