I’ve been writing about video games, television and movies for Forbes for over 10 years, and you may have seen my reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic. I cover all manner of console and PC games, but if it’s about looting or shooting, I’m definitely there. If I’m watching something, it’s usually science fiction, horror or superheroic.
I believe context is important when writing reviews, so up front I think it’s relevant you know that…I do not really like Dragon Age.
The central “Veilguard” refers to us, you guessed it, assembling a team to take them on and save the world, with our character “Rook” being sort of a nobody, but thrown into all this by a working relationship with Varric, and all of this takes place ten years after the last game. Combat was initially hard to get used to and I wasn’t really vibing with the early team members. But as the game progressed I got to know everyone, and started working on an actual character “build” for my slashy poison Rogue through skill points and gear, everything felt better, both narratively and through gameplay.
BioWare seems to understand the central draw of their games, the team experience and getting to know each member, be they friend, rival or love interest. So much so that I would say a solid 70% of the entire game is some form of companion quest. This is not Mass Effect’s do one big mission, go on one hangout type stuff. Five missions, five hangouts? Yeah, that’s closer.
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