LogFAQs > #950404628

And with that, I finishing Awakening in about 10 hours and I decided to clean up Witch Hunt which took an hour.

My general feelings are that Awakening is an amazing concept that needed to be bigger than a DLC, and unfortunately a lot of important plot points are rushed through in the final minutes of the game (like the Architect starting the most recent Blight, or who the fuck even is Utha). When I heard the DLC was supposedly 25 hours I felt like that was pretty good length and figured that even if I went through it a little faster than expected, I'd still be done in about 15 hours at the soonest. But to see stuff like saving Amaranthine take less than 20 minutes and quickly moving on to the final dungeon, it felt so... small. Like for all the knocks against DA2 for the lack of areas and reused dungeons, the game never felt as utterly small as Awakening did in key moments. Especially for such a grandiose idea (intelligent Darkspawn).

The Architect was great. The Mother, as horrifying as she was to look at, was pretty dull and I wish we had gotten more from her beyond the two cutscenes before the final encounter. I actually let the one disciple go which I think caused more problems than I expected (with him spreading the taint). Also, I left behind Anders, Oghren, and Justice at Vigil's Keep and for whatever reason the codex said they were dead (which made me think "uh oh, I've created a plot hole") but they showed up as alive in the epilogue.

But now I'm ready to start DA2. I'm thinking I'm gonna go with the single big-ass sword swinging warrior.

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