Dragon Age The Veilguard Criticism Thread (formerly Skepticism Thread) [Spoilers]

Ease up the spoilers buddy

I'm confused now

Yo there are people like me who haven't finished the game yet and want to find out themselves, so please can we be more careful with spoilers about tne ending? I've already read things I didn't want to know.

Disliking the game doesn't mean I want major story spoilers on just HOW bad it is. I want to experience this live or there's no point in playing.

Had me in the first fifteen seconds.

It almost feel like they designed the game backwards, and didn't really figure out how to make all companions and factions work together as part of larger narrative.
Like the "save which city" choice, happens early on.
Why on earth should I care about either one? You barely do any quests for them, and you're not in any way responsible for protecting it. And there are no real moral dilemmas which option is the lesser evil.
Compare this to choice in Awakening, that happens near the end of the game: saving city of Amaranthine or Grey Warden's Keep. It's a decent dilemma because you have to choose between idealism ( sacrificing your keep for sake of upholding Grey Warden ideals of self sacrifice) and pragmatism ( sacrificing the city, because your trained soldiers are more important during war). And you are emotionally invested because you spent enough time to get to know npcs in both places and sympathize with them.

I think story should have been done completely differently, whole structure and flow is completely messed up.

Prologue: Several different origins, From playing as Ben'Hassrath, Venatori slaver to Grey Warden, by the end of it you're recruited into organisation to stop Solas ( by Inquisitor him/herself who acts as sort of Illusive Man in ME2, since s/he is disabled by the end), 

Act I: You have several leads chasing Solas' agents across cities in Thedas, you're working with factions to gain their trust, and recruit potential allies/specialists. At this point nobody really trusts you.

Act II: A.k.a shitstorm. Peace agreement is arranged between Tevinter and Imperium, but Solas ( secretly) fucks it up, all out war breaks out. He also manipulates Dalish Elves into uprising, Chantry declares another Exalted March, while Orlais and Ferelden prepare for another war.

After this story continues with major wars in the background which you try to defuse ( and convince everyone they are being used as distraction from real catastrophy), while trying to stop his plots.

Got bored on my initial playthrough. Started a mage. More fun already. No wonder people came away from their initial impressions with positive news.
Anyway, why is it that whoever you take to 'the ritual' gets 'badly injured' to the point that the game will incessantly mention it? And Rook slams head and back first into a wall, drawing a good amount of blood, and it's as if it never happened. No headwrap, bandage, no mention of it besides as a means to justify meeting Solas in the fade.
Narratively, every single thing about this game falls apart if you begin to actually think about any of it. It's the kind of writing a middle school teacher would hail as an example of what not to do.