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[tuwasduwillst]

I Finished Veilguard (No Spoilers Version)

I'm going to make two of these: One with spoilers, and one without! This is the former.

Sooo as of a few hours ago, I officially beat Veilguard!

It took me ~77 hours for my first playthrough, apparently. And overall I would say that I really enjoyed it!

It's been over nine years since the last Dragon Age game was made, and I honestly never thought I would ever see another one get finished. I had almost entirely given up hope; when Veilguard finally got announced and had a release date, I almost couldn't believe it. And I still almost can't believe that it actually came out and I finished it!

Here's a list of pros and cons:

+

Combat was fun, especially at higher levels

Despite my disappointment about the world state situation, I do think they did a fairly decent job of working around it

The entire ending section was incredible IMO

The game felt whole and complete at launch

The companions were fun and I enjoyed having them along

Speaking of companions (and combat), I loved the battle shouts

As a Mourn Watch elf Rook, I felt like there were plenty of times where lineage/faction were recognized and that there was lots of unique dialogue based on it!

All sidequests felt relevant, important, and worth doing (which may make replays a little tedious, but oh well. It made the first playthrough better.)

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Early combat could be rough as a mage (and sometimes even later on), because enemies pretty much exclusively target Rook, which means you get knocked around a lot instead of being able to case spells/attack

The early game is a little rough and feels kind of disjointed (but it quickly gets better IMO)

I do still wish they would have included more world state stuff

The fashion is... well, maybe it'll work better for my other Rooks, but there was pretty much nothing I wanted my first Rook to wear (I ended up using the pre-order dragon mage outfit for the entire game & the default Mourn Watch casual wear for at the Lighthouse)

I love the Crows, but their portrayal in newer DA stuff does feel like a bit of a "Cullen situation"; I've heard that even as a Crow Rook you don't get to discuss things much about the darker aspects of being a Crow (besides, y'know, the assassinating). I will concede that this could be at least partially due to mostly interacting with Talons instead of common Crows

I loved Lucanis and his romance, but something about it felt... thin, maybe? Threadbare? I love a good slow burn, but I don't think there was enough space for a proper one. Even just one more conversation between "properly" getting together would've made things better IMO. (This is complicated by the fact that he apparently gets together with Neve if unromanced, and they apparently have a decent amount of content together...)

I'm not really sure what else to put in here that isn't a spoiler... hmm.

I apparently took ~1.2k screenshots, and it probably would've been more if the stupid "skip cutscene" button didn't show up during cutscenes u_u I might see if there's a way to turn that off, actually...

But that's for later! Now it's time for the spoiler-y post. :)

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