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

I suppose just silly is an improvement but not if it actually impacts on the development of the companion character.   I wonder how long Rook has known them.   Have they only just met?   Why would Rook's endorsement of their life choices matter to them at that point?   

Still it is better than the situation with Leliana in DAI in Haven over that spy of hers and if you don't ask her to spare them, she is set permanently on the path to murder Divine.  That really annoyed me when I discovered that was the case because at the time I had only just joined the Inquisition and was not yet their leader, whilst she was the established Spy Master, so should be capable of making her own decisions without deferring to me, a comparative stranger.    My Dalish just stood back and observed because I had been sent as a spy and knew little about how humans did things, so it didn't seem my place to interfere.   Plus the spy had betrayed them and I had no personal connection to them or knowledge of their motives, so why would I object to her ordering their death?     Subsequently, I was actually a merciful judge, told her she was right to pull back her soldiers when they started going missing and ordered her to spare the nun at the end, but none of that mattered because of that first decision not to interfere.   So instead of what should have been a cumulative effect, it boiled down to one choice and you were done.   

Sometimes the way they framed choices and consequences in previous games seemed illogical to me but I just had to live with them.   I didn't make vengeful Leliana Divine but voted for Cassandra instead.   The disappointment was that my Hero who was in a romance with Leliana wrote asking if I could do something for her as he thought the Divine's death had hit her badly but by that point it was too late.  Poor chap got murder Leliana in place of the sweet Leliana he previously knew.

Still, none of that matters now anyway.