Beware spoilers for Inquisition and its DLC in the paragraphs ahead.
Rook is a custom protagonist, and Dragon Age’s character creator has seen a massive glow-up.
This chance to test out your character’s aesthetics is amply justified.
While the saturated colours can be a bit cloying, I think the new character designs are gorgeous.
Hopefully the same will prove true of the costumes, because Inquisition had some absolutely hideous armour.
My warrior qunari Inquisitor dressed like a bargain-bucket Xmas tree, pretty much.
It’s very much of a piece with the character backstory ramifications of Origins and Inquisition.
The combat, though?
That’s more of a departure.
Like chess-boxers in spiked shoulderpads, the Dragon Age games have long alternated between real-time fisticuffs and freeze-time planning.
But going by the skirmishes I saw, it’s much less elaborate.
How much of this is a reflection of our demo being taken from the early game?
Makes sense: you’re leading a crack squad, not a rogue nation.
I’ll miss being able to choose Skyhold’s curtains, though.
Just, c’mon lay off with the ghastly tinted chainmail this time.
The qunari deserve better.
The flurry of summer games events are now underway!
