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Our top pick of the week: Dragon Age: The Veilguard After a rough decade for BioWare fans, Dragon Age: The Veilguard was released Thursday and gave players reason to celebrate: The studio's single-player storytelling is back and, arguably, as strong as ever. Dig into some of the mechanics, and we're a little less effusive in our praise, but still — this feels like classic BioWare in the way that few other games have in recent memory.   "Dragon Age fans will already have made up their mind to get Veilguard, I'm sure," wrote Todd Harper in Polygon's review. "I can reassure those series fans, however, that I think they'll enjoy the game. It corrects a number of the mistakes that plagued the otherwise enjoyable Dragon Age: Inquisition, while retaining the elements of the series that make it what it is in the first place. For newcomers, starting this late in the series is not without complications. Veilguard takes place far away from the southern part of the game's world, where the other games in the series were set, but Dragon Age is a series with a tremendous amount of lore and official material on the periphery. I think it's possible to enjoy Veilguard on its own merits — there's no need to know series minutiae to get what's going on — but many of the Big Plot Reveals™ will feel more impactful if you know the DA universe well enough to understand their implications. Either way, don't let the slow start fool you. The game's cast of lovable weirdos will give you what you're looking for." 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