Dragon Age: Inquisition (Plot Details in Spoilers!)

Great game overall. The main story is very short even if it is quite good. The side quests and intrigue you find in the zones more than makes up for the short main story as it all ties in together. I found myself doing every single side quest with the exception of some of the collection garbage and closing every rift. I might go back and close all the rifts as I probably only have 8 or so left. I started out thinking I was going to hate the war map and aside from some complaints about how things are shown on it I found myself always running back to get mission results and see how things were working out.

Overall I'd say the cast of characters is excellent. I despised Cassandra at the start but she ended up growing on me as the game went on. I was hoping to have Leliana as the new divine but I didn't romance Cassandra in this version and not sure if that matters or not.

I did romance Josephine and that tight ass cunt didn't put out. Did all her story missions, hearted her when I had the chance and made the effort to ask her to join me often to try and pre heat the oven before I stuck the turkey in. No dice on getting her in the sack.

I ended up liking everyone in the end although some of the characters had better story quests than others.

I can't shake the fact though that Leliana's story and interaction in game was very weak compared to the rest and how epic her actual life was. Now it gets saved because of the very epic part in the fairly early game with all the time travel but after that there isn't much of anything to her. The story quest was ok, but for someone of her level of intrigue and given her involvement with the PC in other games it felt really flat in the end. I kept going back to her hoping some new cut scenes would open up and once her story mission opened I thought "woo hoo here we go finally!" but after she gets the box it was just kind of meh you saved the nun big deal. I guess it might make more impact if she is selected divine. I found it disappointing given her epic interaction in the past with the PC.

The ending was a bit anti climatic although some what expected. The story board was fair. The very end with Solas as the dread wolf going after flemeth offers up some info on the next game which looks like it could be interesting. Her whole involvement and Morrigan was probably some of the best lore in the game and really sets up the next game well. Seems too good for DLC.

Leliana I also thought was very meh. I was a little disappointed that her "crisis" point was once again the whole "I like being a bard but am I a bad person?!" That was essentially the major character decision you make in DA:O as well. I LIKED the idea that Leliana embraced spymistress in DA:I, because I sort of thought it was very necessary to who she is as a person. She's an "End justifies the means" person, but she's also extremely compassionate and a good person. Reconciling that you can be both ruthless and cunning when necessary to make sure evil doesn't win overall is sort of what I saw for her. Rehashing it in this game just felt really blah. My second playthrough was a Leliana/Fem warden romance, and while I haven't finished it, I am getting a bit more insight into her, but overall not much. I'm curious what she will say when it comes to the Divine. She's already told me when the Inquisition's purpose is fulfilled she is joining the Warden on whatever quest they are on, so we'll see.

Also agree with the anti-climatic ending. To me, DA:I seems more like an ME2 or AC: Revelations. Really cool as far as fleshing out the world, the motivations, the people etc, but overall not fully progressing the story. We know crazy shit is happening, but Corypheus was just a "by the by" enemy. He took advantage of the situation, but he is not the main issue. I wanted something more oomphy; ME2 had a fantastic finale despite it not being the Reapers, but I am somewhat optimistic that a real expansion might be forthcoming that is sort of a better note to leave off of.

DA:I had some really fantastic mind blowing revelations though which I loved. Finding out lyrium is alive and that red lyrium is lyrium with the blight was really cool. Flemeth as Mythal and Solas as the dread wolf? Also fucking cool.

I had a few gripes over all. I was really excited for this game when they were talking about it all those months but they fell short with a lot of what they wanted to do I feel. Nothing that makes me shy away, but I do feel a bit let down. I am happy it wasn't a shitty game though.

The other issue is that I actually don't feel as connected to my Inquisitor as I did my Warden or Hawke. I have no idea why. In Here Lies the Abyss, if I had been able to let my Inquisitor bite it over Hawke or Stroud, I would have.

The characters, while written really well, felt more wishy washy to me. I was pleasantly surprised by Cassandra. I expected to hate her, thinking that she would be this super strict warrior of heaven or some crap, and it turns out she is one of the most reasonable people on my team. My mages are bigger supporters of the Chantry, like wow. And not in who they are, but who they are in regards to the Inquisitor. All of the characters were great, but I didn't feel like many of them really gave a damn. That might be because of the way reputation works, but on my second playthrough I paid close attention to choices and made the most of positives. Unless certain choices cancel out things, or cannot co-exist with other choices, these people should fucking love me.

Overall a great game though.