Well,
shit. Trespasser WAS pretty awesome! I mean I wouldn't call it mind-blowingly good or anything, but it was definitely much better than the base game. And what the hell is up with that music? IT WAS FUCKING AMAZING! I can't believe we went from the forgettable and bland stuff of the base game to THIS. Everything that played during the DLC was goddamn great. Definitely rivals the best of what Mass Effect has to offer.
JUST LISTEN TO THIS SHIT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kM4Jo74EEs
Being able to spam my rift abilities like a crazy person in the final fights was a lot of fun, too.
I didn't think it was possible, but now I'm genuinely interested in the next Dragon Age. Maybe even a bit excited! That Cassandra book reading thing closing the game during the credits was such a weird idea, though.
But yeah, the game as a whole... Whew. What an uneven experience. I'm not going to call it a particularly good game, considering how much I had to skip content and sort of just actively ignore stuff to make it fun, but admittedly - when I was having fun, I genuinely
was having fun. It was at its most enjoyable around hours 10 to maybe 25, when I was getting new abilities and gear at a fairly nice rate and the combat was a solid challenge at normal with a bunch of trials activated.
My feelings haven't changed much from what I wrote in the first post. One thing that I did notice was that I did warm to the humor a bit. "Witty" stuff like anything Sera was as painfully unfunny as before, but there were some flashes of brilliance here and there, usually in my inquisitor's lines. As for events, judging a wooden box of remains stuck with me the best. Def funny.
Highly doubt I'll ever replay this (and if I do - PC version! Gonna need those mods and cheats to make A LOT OF STUFF tolerable) and while Trespasser was good, I have mixed feelings of the whole affair, but overall I'm glad I actually finished it. I'd say I probably enjoyed it at least to some extent more often than not. So, I dunno... Maybe a 7 out of 10? Not higher than a 7.5, not lower than a 5.5, at least. So something between those I guess lol.
In-game clock says 40 hours, but there was a fair bit of idling whenever I wasn't exactly enjoying the game, I'd say it took me closer to 33-35 hours in truth.
So yeah, actually looking forward the the next game in the series, which is not what I expected to feel when it's over. In the mean time I feel like playing more fantasy games. Maybe I'll replay The Witcher 3 next. Not gonna make a RTTP thread for it cause I don't really have anything to say about it other than that it's pretty damn great and "I think I kinda dislike Geralt??" lol.
