Dragon Age: The Veilguard (PS5)

Dragon Age ist zurück! Und auch wenn manche Änderungen anfangs ungewohnt waren, weiß die Geschichte wieder zu fesseln und zu überzeugen. Ich kann es kaum erwarten, wenn mein zweiter Durchlauf beginnt - welche Frakion habt ihr gewählt?

Dragon Age: The Veilguard ist ein Rückkehr zu alter Form, wenn auch nicht die Bestform. Die actionreichen Kämpfen mit Taktik-Elementen machen wieder viel Spaß und die Charaktere, sowohl gut als auch böse, bringen die gewohnte Bioware-Qualität.

Mit Dragon Age: The Veilguard schafft es BioWare die Serie in die Gegenwart zu holen: Tolle Technik, ausgezeichnete Spielbarkeit, gelungene Story und Charaktere und vor allem ein fantastischer Action-Kampf ergeben ein herausragendes modernes Rollenspiel.

The Veilguard is a beautiful-looking and highly enjoyable game, and a nice return to a more focused feeling RPG that does justice to both Dragon Age as a series and also to Bioware. It's fun to play in the moment-to-moment, the big decisions feel impactful and worthwhile, and fans of the series will be happy to be running around chasing after that lamentable egg of an Elf once more. It's no Dragon's Dogma 2, though.

The Veilguard feels like a return to form for BioWare but issues keep it from being great.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard isn't quite BioWare back to its absolute best, but it is the most cohesive and emotionally engaging RPG that the studio has delivered since Mass Effect 3. Its shift to crunchy action combat is an improvement over Inquisition's middle-of-the-road approach, and although the game feels a little light on meaningful player choice, the storytelling pulls no punches when it actually matters. This is a gorgeous and gripping adventure, backed by a cast of endearing heroes and deliciously devious villains.

A genuinely enjoyable, gorgeous action-RPG that lacks the storytelling nuance of previous Dragon Age games.

Despite some small caveats, playing through a new Dragon Age game after 10 long years has been both personally cathartic and surreal, and likely would have been even if I'd not genuinely largely enjoyed myself throughout. To absolutely butcher the Grey Warden motto in service to my point, if this was all a war for our collective time and money, Dragon Age: The Veilguard feels like a victory.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard refreshes and reinvigorates this storied series with enjoyable action combat, a fantastic cast of companions, and moving character writing.

A fantasy role-playing game of astonishing spectacle. This is the best Dragon Age, and perhaps BioWare, has ever been.