Does Dragon Age: The Veilguard do enough to renovate BioWare’s rep?

A BioWare game is a tricky thing to review. There’s a slightly different balance than there is in other games and the players expect — nay, demand — certain things that they might not care about or even consider in other titles. So I feel compelled to give Dragon Age: The Veilguard two different ratings: One, for how good, fun and playable it is overall as a game; and two, how satisfying and enjoyable it is as a BioWare title. Since that’s not really an option, I’ll try to condense that opinion by saying that it’s a very good game, possibly at the expense of being a good BioWare game.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard is the latest game in one of BioWare’s flagship series, for which fans have waited nearly a decade. Taking place ten years after the events of Inquisition, the titular group of characters band together under the leadership of player character Rook to stop Solas, a companion from the previous game with designs on world destruction. However, their attempts to stop him inadvertently unleash a much greater evil, which Rook and company will have to rock-and-roll all over Thedas attempting to stop.