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The character writing was a big problem for me though.  I don't know who played the last DLC for Mass Effect 3, but in it many characters are at a party being quippy and light.  It seemed like they were trying to replicate that tone, only we didn't have anything like the same level of relationship with these characters.  It worked at the end of ME3 because we'd faced everything over three games with these characters, we'd passed through professional and serious and become real friends.  Not only that, but the situation allowed for a somewhat lighter tone.  We hardly know who most of the characters in Veilguard are, and they're quipping us like we're the Guardians of the Galaxy or something.

Yeah turning Dragon Age into a PG rated Young Adult fiction and expecting the existing fandom painstakingly built over 3 games to show up, plus the "modern audience" zoomers did not work out to put it mildly. Tonally the game is silly and childish and just cringe scene after cringe scene.
 

And really, that was part of the problem:  Marvel has drained the well dry there and salted the earth with quip-machine dialogue.  When the elf mechanic girl I've just met is cracking wise to me in this survival situation like she's a Zoomer on drugs who has never faced any kind of hardship or struggle before, I roll my eyes so hard.

Exactly, the Venn diagram between the previous DA fandom and the Veilguard writers therapy self-inserts is around 1 million copies globally it seems. It's like Bioware is suffering from 2-3 brainrots simultaneously and nothing has been done about it for the last 10 years.   

At least the Veilguard marketing campaign managed to make me replay the old DA games.