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A third person action RPG created by BioWare, this is the fourth game in the series which began in 2009 with Dragon Age Origins, followed by Dragon Age 2 in 2011, Dragon Age Inquisition in 2014, & the much anticipated Dragon Age the Veilguard in 2024. The lore is cavernously deep, & the ongoing story across all four games is powerfully emotive, with the decisions you make as a player affecting not only the end of the game but each chapter throughout it, plus affecting the world state (setting) of the next. I have spent hundreds, if not thousands, of hours following other people’s various playthroughs on Twitch (& forging some incredible friendships along the way).

Like many fantasy franchises, characters are not limited to only a human race (with the exception of DA:2). Dragon Age has humans, dwarves, elves, & the Qunari – horned humanoids who tend to be taller & broader than the standard human. Magic finds itself stronger in some than others. You can choose body size, shape, gender & pronouns, with your choice from four talented voice actors giving voice to the main character, Rook.

Unlike previous instalments, DA:V doesn’t look to your prior save games for your world state, though the familiar faces of much loved characters from previous titles will work alongside you. DA:V is real time action based rather than the tactical strategy of the previous games, there are 7 companion characters you can step in & out of your party, & on the RP story side of things you can romance the NPCs.

This is the first of the instalments that includes photomode, & I was incredibly excited…. & extremely let down.

Dragon Age the Veilguard is a visually stunning game. The art, characters, & landscapes are all absolutely beautiful & the photomode utterly lets them down. It’s clunky to use, is untrue to the game’s graphics & lighting, has extremely limited options, & then self-saboutages on shutter press. I’ll go into that in a blog post instead of here. Instead, I’ll show you how beautiful the game is, using a mix of photomode & the print screen function of Windows.