🍓Berry🍓

he's all wit, all earnestness. he's a warrior and he hasn't had an easy life, but despite some layers of irony, he's incredibly frank with his emotions. that is totally not what i expected from an older game. he grieves freely and he loves profusely. he's a hero in a very typical mode but he also isn't. he's not macho or drawn toward leadership. his strength resides in both staunchness of principle and in an open-mindedness that lets him look upon a stricken world to find good and beauty in it

this is a dude who chose to save that world when he could have just walked away! it's a simple bravery that has been continually renewed in many stories, but it's the sensitivity with which his character is treated that elevates him. there's a brightness to him that stares the isolated, desolate tone of origins in the eye and works with it to make the whole experience that much more nuanced

The Milfs/Dilfs of Dragon Age (Veilguard edition)

It actually approaches disasterpiece levels. What if we had a boyband road trip, but it’s actually a royal convoy, but it also makes zero sense as a royal convoy cuz the convoy is an idiot boyband. What if you spend the entire game rolling around a dying world with these idiots, and you get really attached to them in spite of yourself because you spend all your time fishing and camping like normal people. What if the game was just an ad for Coleman. What if you stay up all night fishing while the demons swarm you while your Coleman camping gear is safely enshrined in holy light. What if there’s a resort that’s also the only port in a bajillion miles, and that’s apparently normal and also it’s always busy but nobody uses it. What if the villain isn’t a villain at all but just the broken half of your savior narrative because the villains are the gods actually and you’re going to act out their fucked up sacrificial narrative no matter what. What if there’s a train to nowhere and everything is demons. What if the heroine is the most important character and we don’t even make her a character. What if we don’t even put the story in the base game at all.

Oh and the combat is a frustrating mix between hold-button simulator and a genuinely innovative and fun teleportation magic system. Good luck.

There are 14 of these that chronicle major events in Thedas. I worked way too long on these, so don't steal them, but feel free to share them!!