Firstly, this game looks so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ pretty and, in my eyes, it is the best example of a "Pixar film in game form" I have played so far. And that's it for praise.

1 dimensional combat that is flashy but never fun and never takes any real thought. Enemies are so spongy that I felt the need to lower the difficulty to make it more fun. A bland story, where every single character interaction felt both forced and vapid of any life. Every character personalty just boils down to "I care about this one thing, and I don't like evil people cause they want to harm the one thing I like! Urghhh!"

Having completed this game, and payed for it, i would never recommend this game to anyone in my family or my brothers/sister from another mother. I can not recommend this to anyone thinking of buying it, not even when it goes free or the bargain bin price. If you are looking for true RPGS/JRPGs, then skip this game and save your money.

This game could have been way better, 1) they removed any important choices from DA: Origins, DA2, DA: Inquisition leaving it a shell of an game with no soul to support. This really could have been another DLC for Inquisition or just a whole another game not related to DA.

The writing was off, there are no dark elements for a game that is trying to put the end of days in coming, it was more leaning to "ohh something is coming, but let us focus on the strength of friendships". it was like water down version of the 80s Care bears. i get building trust with companions, help ME1-3 had those but they were things they wanted done if they died in their travels to have no regrets for their time alive.

If you are a Dragon Age fan, ignore the hate and play the game.

I'm not saying this game doesn't have flaws, quite the opposite. All the most common criticisms are true: this is Dragon Age: Endgame, a "marvelization" of DA. For me, DA was always first and foremost a deep setting, with profound social, cultural, and religious themes driving the narrative, and a world full of morally gray characters, but also wit. It's The Song of Ice and Fire (GoT), not D&D. And this feels like the last seasons of GoT: rushed, with a decrease in dialogue quality. Rook is very much defined as a lawful good main character, which means the companions — while having potential — can't really be challenged and never truly disagree with you, making them more one-dimensional. Beyond the companions, the world also seems less reactive to who you are: where are the racial slurs against an elf or Qunari in Tevinter? Gameplay-wise, as a Tactical RPG player, I initially disliked that they made DAV a pure action RPG.

But this doesn't mean it's a game so bad that it's not worth playing if you're a DA fan. It's full of huge lore drops about mysteries the community has theorized and discussed for 15 years, it's the end of the story, and it has some truly epic moments, like the final mission. Weisshaupt and Minrathous are locations I've wanted to visit since Dragon Age: Origins. The LGBT themes aren't as present as it seems from youtube, and that character (Taash) is probably one of the most interesting in the game precisely because she's not particularly likable, much like Sera was in DAI. Even the fact that the companions are all too likable — not in the typical DA style — makes sense in the end for the story they wanted to tell, even if I don't agree with their artistic choice. The gameplay is fun, and from mid-game onward, it's more complex than it looks, even if never truly difficult.

You have to take this game as it is and enjoy the ride. I disagree with the direction they took, but you can see that it's a game made with love by the remaining Bioware veterans, trying to give us an ending to the story after years of troubled development. In the end I was sad that it was over, that DA is over. It's more that I can say for many games.