My Review of Failguard is officially here! :D Check it Out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfN56m-QXso

"I guarantee I can't be mean to anyone in this game."

Factually correct.

Hmm. The Warden's aren't there to defend people from the Blight. They're there to defeat the Blight by any means necessary. Is there any DA lore that the Devs didn't either butcher, or completely rewrite?!

This writing reads more like a self insert fan fiction. The next Mass Effect is DOA.

"Look how they massacred my boy"-True DA fans.

Remember in origins, there you could literally sacrifice a child to a demon to learn blood magic and then either lie about it or just straight up tell everyone. Good times.

Writers and directors of this game are not even good enough to work in a school play, let alone a multi million project.

When I saw the first Veilguard trailer and saw the Veiljumper elf chick, I immediately thought of Aquafina and it seems it is not inaccurate...

I noticed the scaffolding. Another YTer mentioned that the definition of scaffolding is a constructed platform framing to work from. And yet you can somehow bring down huge statues by bringing down the scaffolding. Scaffolding, again, is not used to prop up large structures, but to work off the side of structures more comfortably without having to use a ladder. Um... so it's magical scaffolding which also functions to hold up the huge structures being worked on. And the scaffolding/support structures are brought down by bopping a single plank a few times. Anyone in construction- and especially anyone who owns an expensive sword- will tell you that you can easily chop through planks using a sword- highly recommended if you want to keep the sword. Also the statues appear finished, so you might be wondering why there would be scaffolding, but Solas is a compulsive statue polisher, so... And he has to prop up his statues when he polishes them... So anyway the scaffolding/support structure partially falls, but fortunately Solas doesn't notice. I mean, the cutscene shows him not even being interrupted by Varric the smoothtalker at that moment, fully able to see across to where his scaffolding/support structures (that he needed for his statues for some reason) were falling into ruin. He just didn't notice- busy w the ritual. But then you and a mage noble woman shift aside a large support beam that would normally take a crane to lift and which was being held in its place by the weight of the statue itself... Easy peasy. And since Solas needed giant statues to complete his ritual... What? How can you tear down the Veil without huge statues around your ritual site? It's in the lore maybe. So, he had been personally sculpting statues for 10yrs, got them all scupted- lot of work, lemme tell ya- but he wasn't finished taking down the scaffolding. That's why it was still there. That or sculpture polishing. Look, he didn't take down the scaffolding because he was in a hurry... because... um... he knew the Rookies were onto him, and, being such a vulnerable, weak demigod who, as we saw in Trespasser, has medusa powers to turn people into stone. Yeah, in an instant- just turns people to stone. And not like medusa because he doesn't have to make eye contact or even see you- just poof and you're stoned. He does that. And now he's at his full demigodlike powers. So he was afraid, you see, and started the ritual before the scaffolding was down. You know- the scaffolding that holds up statues. But now the scaffolding beam wasn't there, so the statues fell, and NOOwww he notices and breaks apart the statue and... How did he break apart the statue? He just magicked it. He has some sort of Super Telekinesis power now... Yeah, he has that now. So he resumes the ritual... um... because he doesn't need statues for his ritual. You thought he needed the statues? Noooo, no, no, they were just there really, precariously held up by scaffolding. Were anyway. But now Solas got back to ritualing- or, as they say in Star Trek nowadays- he resumed magicking that shit. And that was when Varric the Smoothtalker simply grabbed Solas, because Varric has always had a way w words. And Solas- remember the guy who can turn people to stone in an instant w his mind and also has Super Telekinesis- and was planning to bring down the Veil which would've killed Varric anyway- yeah, that guy, the mage guy, yeah, he didn't use any powers, just deftly w his mage reflexes turned his ritual dagger around to sink into Varric's chest, clearly piercing Varric's lungs, bleeding him out, fatal wound, falls down the stairs as well, just a goner, dead as dead can be. Varric was OK, talked his way out of it. But, oops, Solas left his ritual dagger in Varric's chest. Rude. He's a bad guy, so... And forgetful. Forgot to keep holding onto the dagger as he stabbed his "friend" Varric fatally-not-fatally in the chest. I mean, he could've turned him to stone or telekinesised him away, but, why not plant his ritual dagger into his "friend" Varric's chest instead? And then leave it there... by accident. I mean, he's not chasing Varric's body down the stairs like, "Oh, crap, the dagger!" Forgot to mention that that's an essential dagger for Solas. He must've forgotten too in the great physical struggle of a demigod. It's his only means to traveling the eluvians... for some reason. But, oops, he left it in Varric's chest. And then the big elfy they/thems showed up and that's when... well, Solas says it was "magical energies" that blasted him into the Fade. You know, the land of black and white that the Fade has never been before and isn't in the rest of the game? Yes, that Fade. So "magical energies" blast him there which apparently didn't blast the elf gods next to him or anyone else in the vicinity. Just Solas. And then the superpowerful elf gods just let you get away. Which of course you can because the injured Harding would obviously be able to drag the lifeless (but not dead) body of the mortally wounded Varric all the way back through the field and the ruins, down the side of the hills and finally through the eluvian. And you end up in Solas' private Fade Theme Park area because... the dagger... is still in Varric's chest... or... Look, you asked about the scaffolding. I can't answer every contrivance that talentless writers interject into their "story." I'm sorry. Really sorry. Fine, I'll pull a barf.

I hate the fact that the story is so contrived that I pegged exactly what happened to Varrick, guessed the finale, AND predicted the marvel style post credits MWHAHAHA monologue that proves the upcoming hard reset this game was a prologue for. Ugh it's SOOO BAD!!!

Don’t forget to do your 10 pushups you need to punish yourself for playing this game

When an archdemon dies the nearest grey warden is also meant to die, did they forget that? Because their soul transfers to the nearest darkspawn which is meant to be a grey warden so they can kill them for good

7:23 EXACTLY. I asked the same question when I first heard that exchange. The only guy who knew the Evanuris were evil was Solas and, in some circumstances, the Inquisitor, not the Daelish in general. Even Solas said so at the start of the Inquisition that when he tried to share his knowledge with elves he was basically chased off. FFS, the Daelish (those on the screen included!) still have their gods' markings on their faces! You'd think they'd find a way to remove them if they knew their gods were not the good guys

I hope this game is the nail in the coffin for Bioware. I dont even want a new mass effect. James Ohlen and Drew Karpyshn (Fathers of Mass Effect) are now working on Exodus. And the 2 minute lore trailers we get make modern bioware look like chilrden writing with crayons.

The dialogue is plagued by a problem known as Mouth Diarrhea where they just endless talk without reason. They needed a trimmer editor to come in and check the script.
The other issue is Useless Text where they reinforce an obvious or already said point in the same conversation multiple times or just say something entirely pointless all together.
Finally Unprompted Dialogue where all of a sudden dialogue that was not asked about or even relevant is suddenly now the conversation which comes out as forced.
These all mean the dialogue feel incredibly unnatural. Which is all techniques Silent Hill 2 used to make it feel off and unsettling. This should not be the case in a serious RPG.

The stupid part is all of these are basic level issues that would result in a script being handed back in college or University from a professor saying try again without them even bothering to grade it.

Wait what......THAT'S Dorian? WTF have they done to him? He looks worse than Isabela. Thank the Maker I'm currently drinking alcohol, it helped take the edge off of what I just saw. 😱

Bioware: we only implemented 3 choices from earlier games

Also Bioware: HEY! ITS ISABELLA FROM ORIGINS AND DA2! YOU LIKE ISABELLA. THANK US FOR THE FAN SERVIV.

Me: you gave.... ISABELLA a cameo.... and only implemented 3 choices from the previous games none of which had anything to do with DAO, DA Awakening, or DA2...

Bioware: YES!! DIDN'T WE DO AMAZING!! TELL US WE'RE AMAZING!!

Me: so you didn't think the fact you can romance Isabella in DA2 was important? That Hawke could still or not still be stuck in the fade was important?

Bioware: I KNOW WE REALLY ARE AMAZING!!

Damn right, only the environment team pulled their weight.
I've never been into the lore and story of anything that became so bad, even for GoT I was a casual fan. This game is so, so bad, it really is the worst kind of fanfiction, feels like "baby first RPG" meets "15 year old with talent in the negative writes 200k while waiting for the next installment of the franchise"

Hey, stop comparing it to much to Hogwarts Legacy - while the combat indeed looks very similar, Hogwarts is just a school for kids to learn magic, so the artstyle is much darker and very diffrent! Not like Dragon Age, which is a fantasy medival setting where people fight wars, which is obviously much more cartoony.

So far most of the coverage I'd managed to sit through was going over broad examples of companion writing, the identity politics debates/discussions/slander, etc. - But seeing some of the shit interactions and "narrative choices" that completely break or attempt to retcon some of the stuff we've come to know since Origins... Jesus Fucking Christ. Absolute butchery. Dragon Age has officially tumbled into the abyss of being a "Modern Day Gaming Product", Dragon Age only in name. I hope that if there's any canonical followup to Veilguard (without looking ahead for a while because I just don't want to know how much worse the story direction has become) that it's able to course correct.