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mouthpiece
Talk about a lifeless adaptation… While not aware of the games, I have watched a few videos about them and they are quite close to a standard D&D; campaign, full of knights, wizards, elves, and of course dragons. It felt quite typical but it surely wasn’t as blunt as this movie. There is simply very little going on and are presented in the most simple way possible. Every single event and character in it are closer to a fairy tale than a dark sword and sorcery adventure, so it fails to be attractive in both sides of the spectrum. Too violent for kids and too dumb for teenagers.
So, the plot is about evil mages using an elf girl to order dragons to attack the main temple of their mortal enemies. The champions of the temple find out about this in time and attack while performing the ritual,…
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First of all, if you want to watch the movie, because you are a fan of the games or books - just move on and forget this movie title.
The creator of the game series has created a rich world with much lore, politics, struggles between races, religion and morals considering if magic is a curse or a blessing for the society. It specially focused on the origin of the characters, like a mage will start the game on a different place and will play a different role then for example a knight or a thief.
Without spoilers to the movie I can explain, why this storyline completely ignores all game lore and game mechanics:
At least the two countries I know of, are controlled by different powers - usually by the political ruler (in both cases a Kingdom) and the Chantry (church). The Church sees the mag…
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This is an anime that had so much promise, unfortunately it fails horribly to live up to what it is capable of reaching.
As an anime that is meant to appeal to fans of its source material (Dragon Age franchise) it fails almost immediately in every department.
One of the first things that came to mind when watching this was the art style, it sort of looked like a good old PS2 game, while the graphics itself isn't terrible ( I actually liked the facial animation and some of the motion capture was pretty smooth) the direction was incredibly boring, the fight scenes were poorly directed and the environments looked even more dull and boring than the environments of Dragon Age 2.
Another reason why this anime was a complete let down was that the production studio obviously didn't do enough re…
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Dragon Age: Origins by far one of the best games I have ever played.
I have all the DLC.
I played as a mage, had a baby with Morrigan, kicked the blights ass while being the good guy and rocking some pretty high stats.
Moving on from the epic events of DA:O, we come to DA:O:A, I was now the Gray Warden Commander, still kicking darkspawn ass with even higher stats than before.
I chased after Morrigan, to confront the mother of my child and love of my life. We walked through a portal never to be seen again.
DONE! Finished! That was it! My RPG hunger was satisfied! BioWare did it again!
Then they announced DA II.
I was exited out of my mind.
The legendary mage who stood with his friends against the impossible blight had more to give.
Boy, was I wrong.
DA II never lived up to the hype that I…
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The anime reaffirmed my dislikes of some aspects of western role playing games, that is, their tendency to have characters so old. That was something I disliked in Skyrim, everyone all elderly. However at least in Mass Effect I could have characters look kind of younger and in dragon age. That is to say, the anime had some pretty nice designs for characters. Regalyan D'Marcall was pretty cool for the main male protagonists, Fenric, while old and such, was actually an epic antagonist. Mages are always superior characters when faced with sword only users, and he and the other blood mages were like no other. Regular mages too were cool too, such flashy and powerful skills. Cassandra took awhile to like for me. Her english VA sounded weird trying to get an accent (I didn't know she even has an…
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