It felt like a story about whichever city you didn’t ‘destroy’ and then the one that hates you. The Dalish and Qunari were genericized. Bell and Taash could’ve been better characters but became token identities. I didn’t hate the others but the romances I tried were kind of boring tbh. The main plot always seemed to awkwardly clash or violently disrupt all of these much smaller awkward stumbles. Oddly, even Solas becaꦑme generic and lost his layers. It was playable but it didn’t feel REplayable like the others. I started new games and diverted from courses but they weren’t offering anything outstandingly rewarding for doing so. I’ve never seen a DA so intent on making everyone feel insignificant to the story.

Honestly, it didn’t make sense in this fantasy context to roll out that drama. I liked Taash just fine with these decisions on a subtle level but it was weird to make your ragtag band of strangers involved. It could’ve worked as a subtle arc where you let her involvement shape it rather than weird decision cues but I was definitely confused about the choose a culture decision handed to a virtual stranger☂ or given this much weight. Romance is a natural anxiety state interruption but this is just weird timing and vocabulary that doesn’t exist being poorly pasted in. This would be at home in a modern fantasy game like Life is Strange but just a poor choice here. Something about her and Bellara felt too forced. I kept expecting Bell to announce it’s an ADHD thing, like they were being so stereotypical of it but thought not saying it outright was somehow subtle. It seemed to wipe out her entire personality even when they tried to deepen her character’s brother arc. Characters like Harding, Neve, Emmrich and Davrin felt more natural to the world, not forcing an agenda that wouldn’t have been an issue in Theda’s because it’s accepted culturally already like fluid sexuality even in static character choices. It’s disappointing to me that Bell and Taash were made so generic as if it’s revolutionary to understanding. Even those of us accepting already, it felt like an insulting and immersion breaking awkwardness like um, this isn’t actually that accurate to those issues either.