![]() ![]() fanart, fanfiction, gifs, non-character focused screenshots, cosplay, etc) We only allow (Original Content) submissions that are self-made for Fanwork (e.g.All post titles must contain one of these tags or they will be removed.If you don't navigate a very delicate tightrope for darling Merrill, for instance, as gentle and sweet as she is, her loyalty mission can become the game's biggest tragedy, a bloodbath that upset me so much I had to turn the game off. The characters are so nuanced and well-written that they act believably according to their natures, and those actions lead to love, kindness and illumination, as well as to devastating loss on all sides. Inevitably, events and passions come to a head in DA2 in a way that feels inevitable, however tragic they may ultimately end up. It's all ultimately pretty thrilling and beautifully paced. But the story! the characters! I have to forgive that stuff when they give me the chance to know people like Isabela, Fenris, Merrill and Anders. The Kirkwall setting can get a little confining, and the night quests throughout the city's seedier areas can get really tiresome, simply because you'll have to fight an endlessly respawning series of slavers and thieves. The sweet villager who helped you find your way? Dead.)ĭoes Dragon Age II have flaws? Sure, on a minor level. That cute kid you talked to? Likely dead. it hit me like a punch to the gut, because the town no longer existed. ![]() (I still remember how shocked I was when I could no longer go back to Lothering in DAO. Lothering was later utterly obliterated shortly after our time there-overrun by darkspawn. That Lothering beginning is an especially clever way to tie Dragon Age II immediately to Dragon Age: Origins, as Lothering was a key location in the plot early on, and it was where we met DAO companions Leliana and Sten. When you're playing, the focus is less on where the next battle is, and more often simply on your Hawke's attempts to survive on a seven-year character journey that's positively Dickensian-arriving as a penniless refugee fleeing the darkspawn attacks in Lothering and rising through the years to become an actual political power in Kirkwall. My favorite thing about DA2 while experiencing the game's storyline was its immediacy and intimacy. ![]()
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