#yeah I'm down for messy aspects like dalish kicking out their mages or the idea that mages need to be kept in check bc - | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

sun-marie · 6 months ago

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the issue for me with DAI is that for the most part, I do kinda like the story it's trying to tell. in a vacuum, it's well-written and has many thought-provoking choices.

but there is just no way around the fact that in order to achieve that story, it has to throw away like half of what both the previous games were all about, while still cashing in on them with returning characters and cameos, which results in a lot of "he would not fucking say that"

#idk if i'm explaining that right but it's like.#yeah I'm down for messy aspects like dalish kicking out their mages or the idea that mages need to be kept in check bc -#of their higher risk of being corrupted #but it just *directly* contradicts the previous two games #(dalish treasure their mages and the risk of mage corruption does not justify the extreme treatment they receive from the circles)#and to me it reads like BW just kinda got tired of writing the mage/dalish oppression narrative and wanted to drop it #which is like. okay maybe they should work on series other than DA then lmao #bc all we have now is characters like alistair saying the templars were right abt mages when talking abt clarel #and a hawke who is potentially a *bloodmage herself* denouncing blood magic at every opportunity #but yeah i'm replaying dai and i am surprised by how much i am enjoying it #until i try to relate it back to the first two games and then i don't enjoy it as much anymore :(#marie plays dai

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