Dragon Age II
Feb. 14th, 2013 07:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylI've finally finished Dragon Age II, my most recent of time-sink obsessions. Over all, I liked it. I thought it was easy on the eyes, I liked the gameplay and I enjoyed the plot and the characters — especially the voice acting and the banter between the NPCs — and I was amused by the cheerful bisexuality of the NPCs who, if you're nice to them, happily flirt with your character regardless of gender — it all so sweetly done it's hard to see why people were upset when the game came out, but upset they were.
I had slight problems with the relatively limited range of settings — I'd have preferred something like Neverwinter Nights where the location changes with every section — and I wasn't entirely convinced by the way the Arishok switches gears from slightly passive existentialist to furious destroyer, but the story and the way the game forces the player to make ethical choices more than makes up for these minor misgivings.
I had slight problems with the relatively limited range of settings — I'd have preferred something like Neverwinter Nights where the location changes with every section — and I wasn't entirely convinced by the way the Arishok switches gears from slightly passive existentialist to furious destroyer, but the story and the way the game forces the player to make ethical choices more than makes up for these minor misgivings.
