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[maagisterpavus]

So I made the grave error of entering the Dragon Age subreddit. I know, rookie mistake. Anyway, I saw so much garbage in there about how the game “isn’t dark” or how it’s “tame and sanitized” and boy do I have some thoughts. Dumping them here cause trying to talk sense into gamer Redditors is like shouting at a brick wall.

It seems that people are confusing a brighter art style with a lack of mature content. There are so many things in this game that are straight up disturbing—Blood of Arlathan with the Ventatori using discarded corpses of slaves as furniture comes to mind. Also, I’m not sure if this dialogue occurs with every companion, but I brought Bellara for that quest and she is rightfully horrified when you reach where the Ventatori are sacrificing the Halla. If you stop running to look, Neve will say “let’s keep moving, we don’t need to watch this.” I took this as a cue for me, the player. Not for the characters.

I like the art style for a lot of reasons and this is one of them—any more realistic and I probably wouldn’t have been able to stomach it. (People can call me a wimp, whatever.)

There’s SO many disturbing things in the background if players would just take the time to look. The game doesn’t smack us in the face with gory cutscenes to show it, it’s built into the fabric of it all. You can run past a lot of it without even realizing, which is more messed up, imo. Like, the amount of times I stopped running and went “wait WHAT?”

Another example, and I admit I missed this for a good while into my first playthrough, are the tree people in Arlathan. Are they gross and bloody and gory? No. They don’t need to be, that’s the point. These are people who were fleeing and couldn’t get away fast enough before they got petrified into TREES. Some are holding hands as they run, frozen in time. Others are cradling each other on the ground. In certain areas, if you stand close enough, you can hear them screaming. If you’re not upset in the slightest by that, I don’t know what to tell you. That’s almost like looking at images of Pompeii and feeling nothing.

The consequences of what Thedas has been through and what it’s currently going through are woven directly into the environment. It’s not just grit for the sake of grit, or gore and body horror for the sake of shock value. It requires that the player have some level of basic empathy and the ability to see past the end of their own nose. You can walk right on by the beggars in Miranthous and never give them a dime. You can run right over the countless bodies in the streets sacrificed for blood magic without giving them a second glance. The list goes on (don’t get me started on the market-turned-field-hospital if you don’t save Treviso.) The horrors and injustices are around every corner, and the game gives players the opportunity to simply turn the other cheek. Personally, I don’t know how someone can when these things are literally everywhere, but clearly people do. Maybe those who choose to ignore it should ask themselves why they can. (Something something societal commentary? Are we that desensitized to suffering? Or are some just too privileged to notice it?)

As for the “there’s not enough evidence of slavery!” crowd… okay, um, weird fetish. But if we must: what do you think all of the person-sized cages are for???

Oh, and if we want to talk about things that do smack you in the face: a few hours in, you visit D’Metas Crossing. Which is sickening. You find out that the mayor willingly blighted his entire town for gold. For money. For greed. Whether or not “the gods are in his head” doesn’t matter. They played into his desires, and that’s what his desire was, and what he was willing to do for it. You find him tied up, suffocated by blight tendrils, and surrounded by piles of gold soaked in the blood of his townspeople. HELLO. Can the picture get any clearer?

(I left that MFer to die the first time, and it was extremely difficult letting him live the second.)

I’m convinced people are just playing with their eyes shut or staring at their Rook the whole time or something. If some prefer more overt displays of gore and horror, that’s fine and there’s no shortage of games like that out there for them. But the people saying Veilguard is “bad because it’s sanitized” or “Disneyfied and for kids” just aren’t paying attention. Honestly, saying this game is kid-friendly is completely batshit.

For as much as Veilguard is a tale of hope and perseverance, it’s also a reminder that saving the world doesn’t automatically mean that the world is fixed. There’s still plenty of monsters left to slay. They just don’t have two torsos and tentacles—they look like the person next door.

(Of course, then that starts the question of “is the world as it is even worth saving then?” and then we get into “we should have let Solas tear down the veil!” and I’m so not going there cause this post already got away from me. (And no, no we shouldn’t let Solas tear down the veil. FFS.))

Whew.

Anyway. The game is plenty dark. Just maybe not the kind of dark people were expecting… or are comfortable with.

[ohmuqueen]

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[pan0ramy]

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[minorfamilysupremacy]

said it once, saying it again outside of tags: the person you are when you're being abused is not truly reflective of who you are. in an abusive situation, you are in constant survival mode. you are behaving in ways that you think a) are going to please the abuser and b) are going to keep you from being hit, berated, or otherwise punished. you do not get to be who you really are because that is legitimately dangerous. it creates a vulnerability you cannot afford. you need to act with your self-preservation instincts in mind first and foremost, and self-preservation often conflicts with authenticity and honesty. so when you're looking at those texts, judging build for being such a thoughtless, hateful person, try to understand what it's like mentally to have your back to the wall for months or years on end.

[the-mostdiabolik-of-lovers]

Hello! I hope you doing great!

I'm very curious if Reiji would spend some time in nature, like in a camp, would he stand it, because there he would have to live in a tent and make a fire himself with his s/o

I challenge him, ha

Reiji: You are questioning my capability as if you have no knowledge of how in-tune with nature I consider myself, already.

Reiji: Do you not know how well I get along with the wildlife surrounding our house?

Reiji: Whilst, naturally, I would much prefer a proper roof to the plastic sheet of a tent, I am more than able to spend a night under the stars.

[florenceandthejellybean]

Realising that no matter what you do you're still EXACTLY who your parents raised has gotta be one of the most defeating things in the world.

[bebagerie]

sorry, WARLORD?

[dent-de-leon]

Molly looking so happy on his cover art versus Caleb's grim determination. The way Caleb appears to be reaching for those sparks of fire and light that flow right past Molly. Molly bright and free and looking forward to the future, Caleb still caught up in the horrors of his past--

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

tumblr’s tag limit is rlly my enemy for life bc i max those bad boys out every time and still don’t really feel like i’ve said enough ,,,,,,,,

[athenxt]

i feel like the amount of romantic media i have consumed in the last 24 hrs is starting to negatively effect me

[incorrectdisa]

Gretta: You are my Champion. Your Fate is now eternally bound to mine. Dwight: Nope! Dwight, walking away: Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope. Baldric, watching Dwight panicking: I think he's taking this rather well.

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[ohmuqueen]

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