Dragon Age II Review
I never reviewed any game before, rewrote…yah, but not this. Well, here I’m: Dragon Age II is an excellent game, well, to me, I felt horrible after finishing it. Although it has a few dragons playing no major roles, Dragon Age II brought a new world of adventure.
2 years back, I brought dragon age origin, played for 2 hours and broke the DVD after uninstalling it. Well, it’s because, it was a utterly crap combination of third person and strategy. Great idea BioWare! I mean, I loved mass effect but dragon age brought BioWare to the knee! To me at least, so I stopped dragon age. There were tons of thing in my hand. And two weeks back, after finishing Kingdom of Amalure, a great rpg…..I was stunned. There was nothing to play. End of the World!!!!!
Well not exactly, Alim saved the day, called me and said….play dragon age II. I was like…dragon age??? Nooooo noo fuckin way….first game was a disaster. But, needed to survive as the crap hsc result was on me. So I installed it, played it for half an hour and realized, woh! This is nothing like the first! I was suddenly back with geek glasses.
The first thing that got me was the graphics. This wasn’t as good as skyrim but, it defeated Kingdom of Amalure, Dark Souls, DmC and Tomb Raider. You can actually see the sun reflecting on your warrior armor! Next was the gameplay, I must admit, it pinned me down to the chairs for lasting 34 hours! Nights after nights! I won’t spoil, but it was good. It felt like I was playing mass effect 3 again, only with arrows and magic. I liked the dialogue system a lot, it’s a BioWare signature. Every dialogue that you choose has severe good or bad consequences. Again, just like mass effect.
Unlike Commander Shepherd, the lead character of this game, ‘Hawke’ is jollier. The male Hawke in my opinion was the best joking character. As you progress, you find more likable companions and also, weird pathetic ones. Verric is a blond dwarf which I liked most. Fenris and Anders are pain in the ass characters. There are mad characters like Carver or Merril. Maybe most loyal characters I find is Bethany and Anders, but Anders annoyed a lot. Not to mention his alter fuckin ego blowing up the whole palace killing the queen.
The missions are great, especially main story missions where you must make brutal hard choices for greater good. OR, stay with the obvious one and fuck the greater good. There are 3 large, I mean, LARGE main missions (each reaching up to 4 hours in hard mode) and lots of side and companion missions. The rewards are satisfying and best because it ends you up nothing buying from the shops. Side missions provide good stuff!
Well, I would have given the game a 9/10 but the thing I feared came alive after playing a while. BioWare never, I mean NEVER gave a good satisfactory romance option. What’s wrong with BioWare? Even skyrim has good looking characters to romance or marry but…let me put it this way,
Bioware fucked up with mass effect, why? Because in the romance option for male shepherd, either you choose a stubborn pain in the ass character Ashley, or a blue Alien with heads of octopus. I hated Liara T’soni, and her blue alien race in the whole series. Hell shes too blue!!!!! :\ in mass effect 2, its either a Genetically created specialist Miranda, made on the image of yvonne strahovski, the famous actress from chuck, sarah walker. Well I liked her, till I saw Dexter! OH MY G! Why?????????????????????Fuck!!! I hated HannaH Mckey, the worst attitude ever. Even our bad mouthed Debra Morgan seems tons of better than her. So, Miranda of mass effect was out of the equation. It left shepherd with two options. Either he becomes gay, or choose Tali Zohra vass Normandy. I admit tali has a great figure, but shes out of the equation. You ask me why? Why…..it’s because throughout the WHOLE fucking 3 mass effect games, SHE………………DOESN’T……………SHOW……………….HER………………………FUCKIN…………………..FACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WAH Bioware Wah!
Got nothing to say of mass effect 3, its even worse. So it takes me back to Dragon Age II. I felt good about it at the beginning, but soon realized, its romance system is fucked up, just like mass effect.
As male Hawke, you have only two romance partner. One is Merril, another is Isabela. Merril is so skinny…..sooo skinny you would feel pity instead of boner. That leaves the player to Isabela. A pirate! Well, I really have no intention to get my character fucking STD!!! out of the equation. For Female Hawke, either you choose Anders, Sebastian or Fenris. If you choose Anders, you are screwed coz you have to kill him later. If you choose Fenris, you are again screwed coz, he doesn’t understand EVEN A LITTLE JOKE! That’s the worst kind of attitude I’ve seen to this day. Sebastian is a dlc character, you wont get it unless you buy dlc. The only good looking character I find is Bethany and Meredinth. Well guess what, bioWare just squeezed the player as these good looking characters, Bethany is Hawke’s sister and Meredinth is freaking fucking Main bitch Villain of the game! Wah bioware wah!
I really wanted to give this game a GPA 5, but bioware ceased it with crap romance option. What good it is if the lead character can’t romance? The ending of Dragon age II was okay; it had no deep roots like mass effect, so I liked it. Overall, here’s the result:
Gameplay: A+
Graphics: A+
Sound Effects: A+
Background music: A
Dialogue: A+
Choices: A+
Story: A+
Side Missions: A+
Game Length: A
Romance: B
Ending: A
Result: GPA 4.49
It though earned my respect coz, this game pinned me down in front of pc for hours. I suggest you to go, now, buy it, it’s only 50 bucks, go and start playing. Great game guys, Great game. Adios!
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