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[dai spoilers] My thoughts on Dragon Age Inquisition
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So, after almost a month of playing, I finally beat Inquisition last night, Trespasser included, and honestly I really liked it. Sure, maybe it's not perfect, but it's still a great game in my opinion. So, like I did with Origins and 2, here are some of my thoughts about the game:

-The character creator was weird. I came with low expectations for it after reading a bit about it here, and it wasn't that I disliked it, it was just a bit tricky, the sliders especially. The hairs do could have had more variety, but I'm not exactly dissapointed by it, I'm mostly satisfied with the ones it has. That being said, let me tell you, it has a lot of potential for creating The Ugliest Man Alive.

-The combat system was... not bad, but hard to get used to, after the first two games. Took me a while to get the hang of it.

-The graphics were beatiful, in my opinion much better that some games from nowadays. From what I've seen around here, a lot of people didn't seemed to like the brownish filter the game had, and honestly, I kind of liked it. The lighting from the interiors looked good, and the shields looked so pretty when reflecting the lights.

-And that reminds me, please Bioware, please I beg you, add a Hide HUD button in DA4 again, please. It was so annoying having to go to settings to hide the HUD and unmarking my current quest in the journal just to take a damn clean screenshot.

-The scores and the music are my favorite across all three games. I always hummed the music from the main menu, and the one from the end of Trespasser was beatiful, it really gave off this feeling of 'something ends, something begins'. And the songs in the tabern were great too (especially the one from Tresspasser about your party), more than once I hanged around just listening to the bard sing. Absolutely loved the music here.

-I also loved the companions here. Gives Origins a run for it's money in my opinion. Loved the variety between them and they seem to have so much depth. Props to Iron Bull from being honest with me about who he really was from the beginning, unlike OTHERS (altough I already knew about Solas, but Blackwall did suprised me).

-It was nice seeing so many people from Origins again. Also, before this game, I had this theory that Flemeth was actually Andraste, which wasn't the case. Still, I was not dissapointed with who she was. By the way, is she dead? The post credits scene from the main game makes it seem like she intentionally killed herself to give her power to Solas, I'm assuming that's the case. It wouldn't surpise me if she was still alive, though.

-The story was good, I'm not going to compare it to the others though, I'm just going to say it was good. Not AMAZING, but good. It had a lot of great moments (In your Heart Shall Burn is probably my favorite quest in the game), though I did felt it was a bit too short, I think? If it weren't for the sidequests, I think it could be finished really quick. It also sucked that you don't even have to visit most areas while doing it. Other than that though, I really liked it.

-Before playing it, I had thought this game was set almost entirely in Orlais. While I wasn't dissapointed per se that this wasn't the case, but I did was dissapointed that we barely get to see anything of Val Royeaux. We literally only see the entrance of it. That sucked a bit. Don't get me wrong, I loved seing Redcliff again and all the areas in Ferelden, but if I had to choose, I think I would have preferred the game to be set almost entirely in Orlais.

-Across all three games, I tried to complete all sidequests with a bit of help from the wiki (especially exhausting in this one), but that came with one downside in this game. By the end of the game, I was so OP that I breezed through the final quests. The final fight with Corypheus was the only time across all three games when I seriously considered sending the dificulty up to Nightmare. Just when I decided to do it, Corypheus died, so yeah, that was a bit underwhelming. Also I wish there would have been a sequence of you fighting alongside all of your companions like in the first two games.

-Jaws of Hakkon was fun, and it was nice getting to know more (and briefly meet) about the first Inquisitor, especially with all the reveals about him. The Descent was really fun too. Props to it because after my experience with the Deep Roads in Origins, it actually made me like them (although tecnically the part I liked the most wasn't actually the Deep Roads). The Bastion of the Pure was such a beatiful area too, the enemies were cool (the lyrium machineguns were dope), and the lore behind it was great, especially everything surrounding the Titan. The ending also really gave me this Legacy from DA2 vibe, so I think we will probably see a bit more about the Titans in DA4.

-Trespasser was amazing (except the fireworks minigame, fun at first, but then it becomes pure suffering), and it clearly sets up a lot for DA4. It really sucked for me that the Inquisitor had to lose an arm though. I'm a sucker for happy endings for my characters, and while this doesn't means he doesn't gets a happy ending, it's just not the same in my opinion. Would be cool if he got some kind of mechanical arm, though. On the other hand, the final few minutes were absolutely great. Fighting through the elven ruins and going through the Eluvians, the talk with Solas, all the reveals about the elves, deciding the fate of the Inquisition, the epilogues, and that final scene, it was awesome. Cass reading Varric's book in the credits was hilarious too.

And I think that's it. My journey across all three games is now complete. To be honest, I feel a bit... empty I think. Kind of like when I first beat the ME trilogy for the first time. I think I got too used to playing a Dragon Age game almost everyday, so I'm like, what now? I guess now I have to wait for DA4, just like you everybody else. It cannot come soon enough. However, this was an amazing journey, and I really, really enjoyed it. Definitely will be playing all the games again. They were a very fun ride, and I will remember them fondly.

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