#juno plays datv

[sewermageboy]

Hey remember how in that one interview they were like "Oh yeah we only wanna bring up choices that are meaningful, not just one liners and cameos"?

And how most of the three choices we are given boil down to flavor text?

Disband Inquisition or have it join the chantry? Doesn't actually matter, the Inquisitor is doing the exact same thing and there's none of the corruption from within that was given as a reason to disband the Inquisition in the first place

Inky vowed to stop or redeem Solas? Also doesn’t matter, most of their lines are identical, they'll still argue that he might listen to reason and will still help you redeem him

Who did you romance? Literally only comes up in one codex entry letter from the love interest (or in case of Dorian: a two line exchange as they're standing next to each other at the end). Only matters if you romanced Solas, which also affects weird things like your Inquisitor only asking Rook after their love interest if they've romanced Solas, like, what??

Anyway idk if I am pissed at this or just find it funny. Like. They knew that the three choices they put in barely influenced the world, and they STILL gave us that excuse??? What's that about???

(Honestly, I would have respected it a lot more if they'd simply said "yeah, we had to work with the time and budget we had, and while we would have liked to include more choices, we had to narrow it down to what's directly relevant to the story of this game")

[sewermageboy]

Alright, so. I like the Lucanis romance in general. But there is one major complaint I have, and it's this scene right here.

This is the romance lock-in scene.

Now, you'd be forgiven if you didn't catch that when watching the video, because literally the only indicator that this is the lock-in is the dialogue wheel telling you it is. Nothing happens narratively in this scene that would indicate the beginning of a relationship. If anything, there's gratitude and some light flirting.

The next time I took out Lucanis and Neve with me, Neve congratulated him on his relationship with Rook. Taash told him to take Rook flying on a date. And I'm just there like: "That's very sweet guys, but how the fuck do you know we're even together? Did the dialogue wheel tell you, too?"

My complaint about Lucanis' romance isn't that it isn't "spicy" enough or whatever, or that it's a slow burn. It's that it genuinely feels like an entire scene - the actual start of their relationship - is straight up missing. And honestly? That kinda sucks.

[sewermageboy]

Apparently it's an unpopular opinion but honestly? Dorian's new design slaps, fits him, fits the art style, and anyone who is upset about the mullet obviously doesn't remember the ending slides from Trespasser (I've been waiting for this mullet for years honestly)

[sewermageboy]

My trend of only wanting to romance Solas with characters I can't romance him with continues. Male Lavellan. Non-Lavellan Inquisitor. NPCs. And now with Rook. It's truly a curse.

[sewermageboy]

ngl little dumbass Rook de Riva standing in front of two dragons, calling for Viago, made me a bit emo :')

How often do you think Viago has had to bail them out of trouble when they got in over their head? And here they are, facing down two dragons with a pair of daggers, and they think they're COOKED, except Viago is there again, bailing them out once again, telling them: "Let's bring them down, Rook!"

[sewermageboy]

Turns out my type in Dragon Age men is "mage who peacefully tried to bring about change for ~ a decade, then decides to say fuck it and give violent revolution a try, and who is also generally a bit of a cunt (affectionate AND derogatory)"

[sewermageboy]

That Lucanis romance scene was so sweet and so tender, and so worth the wait ahhhhh

(my Rook is named Scipio and uses they/them pronouns btw. i am in love with their lightning scars)

[sewermageboy]

You guys realize that you can like Veilguard and still criticize it right. It's very important to me that you know that. Criticism of the game does not mean "I wish it didn't exist and everyone who likes it is an idiot," it's a vital part of fandom, especially this one.

(Feels like the Barbie movie all over again - where bigots hated that movie so much that any criticism of it was immediately taken to be an attack on feminism as a whole)