Comments on: Dragon Age, breeding fangirls since 2009

By: Kadomi

Kadomi — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 08:28:23 +0000

Merrill plush, make it happen! I’d buy one and cuddle it and love it forever. Isn’t it amazing how fun and lighthearted she seems, but there’s so much darkness underneath the surface? I am playing the friendship romance path at the moment, but I can only recommend the depth of the rivalry path, where she will actually destroy the eluvian for you.

I don’t really mind that Anders comes on strongly, but if I ever play one of the male romances, it’s probably going to be Fenris. Anders is such a psycho, so possessed, and ultimately worse off than Merrill who he hypocritically rants at time and again. His actions in the end are quite a showstopper.

By: Vrykerion

Vrykerion — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 03:45:59 +0000

As a red blooded American Male… I SOOO WANT A MERRIL PLUSH! ^_^ She is probably the most fun and yet deep character I’ve run into a game since my first time bumping my way through Final Fantasy 3(6) on my SNES (My favorite FF for characters…) I actually went for the full on friendship romance, helping her put the mirror together and everything, it is a rough emotional ride.

However maybe it’s because I’m a guy, but I never liked Anders. Well, not DA2 Anders. Not because of his flirtatious nature (which I found fun) but because of his fanaticism to the mage cause. My first Hawke spent the majority of the game trying to do nothing more than make Kirkwall a peaceful place. Try to smooth things out between the Arishok, try to get the mages and templars to take a minute to look at things from each others POV. I was Hawke the Peace Keeper… and then Anders does THAT?! Sorry buddy, but that went against everything we had been working to do. While I was originally tempted to romance him on my female Hawke playthrough, I don’t think I can knowing what I know now. D:

By: Terajules

Terajules — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 21:26:25 +0000

I’m glad I’m not the only one who misses pretend people, lol. I even have a hard time responding to the ones I like negatively on a second or third play-through to see how differently things go. My husband, on the other hand, intends to have a Totally Evil and Nasty run when he’s done with the one he’s on now. I think I’ll just watch his, lol.

By: Kadomi

Kadomi — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:40:44 +0000

I have no one to gush at, because my partner is still on her first playthrough, and my officemates aren’t playing, so I had to use my blog to gush about Merrill. Despite all its flaws, Dragon Age 2 has definitely done some things very right.

Going to pick any special relationship for the 2nd playthrough? I heard most but not all relationship bugs are squashed in 1.02.

By: Kadomi

Kadomi — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:37:16 +0000

My Hawke was the epitome of goodie good, who would have been a paragon in every other Bioware game. She was with Merrill, so ultimately she kept Anders around, to redeem himself. I, as the player however kept thinking ‘The cray-cray is strong with this one, wtf’.

Didn’t think he’d be quite that extreme.

By: Spinks

Spinks — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:24:34 +0000

I figured he was up to something and was deliberately not giving me a chance to talk him out of it, but when it happened I was furious. But in the sense of, “Wow, for someone smart you really do pull some stupid shit sometimes. We’re going to sort things out here and then we really are going to talk.”

And I was worried about him too, so there was never any chance I was going to kill him or boot him from the party. Couldn’t do that just when he really needed the help.

Not sure how much emotional impact that part of the story would have if you weren’t attached to Anders already though.

By: Hana

Hana — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:23:26 +0000

I was gushing like I could not believe over Anders, and I’m way out of the teenage age bracket hehe. My poor officemate had to listen to me talking about how sweet Anders was for days. Like Spinks, it really meant a lot when Anders was comforting my Hawke after she died.

I’m going to start my second playthrough as soon as the patch comes out, just because I want the bugs to be fixed before I go through again.

By: Spinks

Spinks — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:20:28 +0000

It was totally justified!

By: Kadomi

Kadomi — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:00:25 +0000

Yeaaah, you could say that. No spoilers, you have to see it for yourself. It’s a powerful moment.

By: Kadomi

Kadomi — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:59:49 +0000

Yay, so glad I am not the only one. I am only on my 2nd playthrough, this time doing the friendship romance with Merrill. Then my 3rd playthrough is going to be Isabela. I never played Awakenings, because I was put off by bad reviews. I am really hoping that the DA2 DLCs will be more of a quality that the Mass Effect DLCs have. I can’t wait for the first one.

Deviant Art has so much lovely Dragon Age artwork. There’s incredible talent out there.