39 hours in, 37 hours playtime.
Obligatory disclaimer, you can skip down if you’ve read it.
Something came to my attention. I need to make it crystal clear that I utterly love the diversity in DAV. It’s fantastic. I’m also a heavily left leaning, non-binary, queer as fuck reviewer, editor, and author.
I’m on media blackout while I play this, so I’m only getting second-hand info on how awful it is right now in the DA Fandom. Please be safe and take care of yourselves. Arguing with incels and white supremacists is completely pointless. They sea lion worse than an actual sea lion. Your mental health is important.
Though, every single time the anti-queer brigade comes out for a new DA game, I sit there thinking ‘have you bozos ever played any DA game, like, ever?’ My guess is nope.
Spoilers for Dragon Age Veilguard and all other Dragon Age media. (I’m a lore fiend.)
I’ve played for a while today. I’m stuck in bed due to the embolism, and goddess do I need the escape from reality right now.
Met Inky again. The scars I gave her in CC didn’t show up. Saw Solas again. Still doesn’t look like himself.
I still really hate how everyone talks about him. Like he’s evil for trying to keep the Evanuris from breaking free. And fix the world of the mess he made. Y’know, the veil that, according to the Lore, should be full of holes and strangling the magic and life out of THEDAS. But oooo, no, he’s such a bad dude. And they all know the point of his ritual by now.
Guess the devs just wanted to hammer home the everyone hates Solas angle?
Sucks to be Sollavellan playing this game, let me tell you. It’s disappointing, irritating, or infuriating by turns if you actually understand Solas.
Have decided Neve is a bitch I don’t want anything to do with. Wasn’t sure at first, but she’s arrogant, suspicious, and just unpleasant. No thanks.
Also, whoever wrote some of these conversations with characters you might end up in a Romance with needs to read some bloody Romance. Sheesh. I think it should almost be a requirement if you’re going to write Romantic material that you should be a regular if not even an avid reader of it. It’s known as the hardest genre to write for a reason.
Davrin is curt and dismissive, though his bond is higher than some. Amazing voice, a bit blocky for my taste but he’s a tank so it works.
Emmrich is a darling. I love Taash, and game version of Lucanis is pretty cool. Haven’t really settled on one, since there’s no such thing as polyam in Dragon Age despite only 30% of the dating population being monogamous. Cowards.
I’d say I’ll be glad when a polyam mod comes out, but unless this game gets better, I highly doubt I’ll be playing it again. It’s probably taking me longer than it really needs to because I’m doing puzzles and searching for everything simply because I highly doubt I’ll play it again. If I even end up finishing it.
FWIW? I’ve played DAO twice, DA2 once, and DAI 4x. Soooooo.
They made the memorial gardens in Nevarra so beautiful. I’ve always enjoyed cemeteries. They’re usually so peaceful.
I don’t even have all areas on the maps opened up yet, so there’s probably a decent amount left.
It could be because I’m playing it pretty fast, but it’s weird seeing the percentages of Steam players getting the achievements drop lower and lower. I think only 25% actually got the ‘finished getting a team together’ achievement. I’ve never been sure if that means people have quit or not.
Kaija Rayne 