Finally got my hands on my Veilguard copy. So I've decided to ride my neurodivergent fixation on closure with you all. Let's go.

Character creation

First things first, is the lore broken? Can dwarves be mages?

No

That good, however all qunari must have horns.

This causes a discrepancy issue when it comes to the inquisitor's appearance as they had the option of being a hornless qunari

I guess in the 10 years betweenthis gane and the last all qunari just suddenly sprouted horns

Foreshadowing that this game was made by the Anthem team, but more on that later. But do to this I won't/Can't recreate my canon inquisitor, so porting in my all human worldstate inquisitor

Here's my rook:

They're based on a certain dramatard.

Here's my inquisitor:

Oh, and these frickers call difficulties playstyles now

Play

Game opens up with a bar scene like the trailer. I want to be regal and upper class so I talk my way out of a fight, and then proceed to meet up with fantasy Garrus.

Most levels so far have been pretty linear (like Mass Effect). Talking hallway, fighting hallway, talking hallway, cutscene, boss arena, repeat. You really start to see the bones of Anthem in the gameplay, like how healing isn't a strategic thing to consider anymore but just a pick-up

Gameplay isn't bad in a vacuum, honestly Anthem probably would of been better if it was more like this, but as an RPG it's pretty lean and very simple. The melinnial writing is just shit though.

After many hallways we final confront the egg himself

This segment is pretty much a prolonged cutscene that serves as a cutting instrument for all the previous games. Solas' ritual is stopped, fantasy Garrus is stabbed, and mystery neighbors steal the plot, also Solas ends up in your head, somehow, it just kinda happens. You and your party are then taken to Solas' hideout in the fade. Harding, the dwarf is taken aback by it all, as dwarves don't dream, thus don't enter the fade when they sleep, thus should be freaked the frick out by dreams and being in the fade props for being the first game to actually give a dwarf a proper reaction to that shit.

Next, we head to the forest to recruit the worst party member. This segment is very not safe for chud

Honestly kinda a slog through more of the same, maps are a tad bigger though. With abilities and companions starting to open up more I've come to realize that your party members are just glorified abilities, they're more or less useless (like in Mass Effect), they also don't have health bars, so in the rare event an enemy focuses on them they'll just play piñata until you kill the enemy. Abilities are flashy, but honestly button mashing works just as well 80% of the time, even on the hardest difficulty. Boss of the zone is the stupid ogre.

I just stun locked him to death.

I knew I'd hate the quirky asian elf the moment she did that goofy portal jump in the reveal trailer, so this is where my daily tolerance falters.