Thayder

Every couple of months I feel contractually obligated to remind you why I hate Dragon Age: The Veilguard: • Three games worth of choices? Basically irrelevant. • Your world states from Origins, DA2, and Inquisition? Decorative. • Years of carefully built lore? Compressed into “the elves did it.” • Except wait! Not even the elves, because now the Executors (a secret Illuminati faction we’ve never heard of) have apparently been manipulating events behind the scenes the entire time. So congratulations: Illusion of choice ×1000. But wait, there’s more: • The Chantry/Maker mystery—one of the most interesting religious conflicts in the setting—basically sidelined. • The Old Gods/Archdemons lore thread that fueled the entire Blight storyline? Suddenly background noise. • Decades of political tension between nations like Orlais, Ferelden, and Tevinter reduced to set dressing. • The morally gray world that made Origins special replaced with something that feels way safer and flatter. • Characters constantly explaining the lore instead of letting the world breathe. • The tone shift that makes the setting feel less like dark fantasy and more like fantasy theme park dialogue. Ten+ years of buildup and mysteries and it all boils down to: “Actually there was an even more secret secret group controlling everything.” Amazing. Glad the last three games were basically optional reading.