Potential patches for romance?
Given the responses here and on Reddit, I don’t think it’s controversial to say the romances are not living up to what we were advertised. “The most romantic Dragon Age” this is most certainly not. T...
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EXACTLY, EXACTLY, EXACTLY!!! omg i hope EA or Bioware is actually gonna read this because i’m LIVID about this. I hope they add more to all the romances but Lucanis’ especially because it feels so empty, it’s not even a slow burn, the climax being THE END OF THE GAME. But most of all i do hope they do something about disabling companions romance with each other, because it feels like they put more work into that than into Rook’s romance, and it’s honestly infuriating and insulting.
TL;dr: oops I typed too much again. Dear BioWare, Please make Lucanis better, he’s making me sad. Xoxo
It’s really not even a slow burn, since the final scene feels very much like they’re already established and comfortable with each other. I would have been fine with a true slow burn, where the final scene is a culmination of all the build up that came before, like Solas and his Quizzy, but that isn’t what we got.
As it is now, it goes: Almost something, nothing, nothing, “Idk what this is, but I’ll take it”, and then what seems like an established relationship? The burn all happened off screen, like the player wouldn’t want to see their relationship develop and would rather see the awkward nothingness we got. It’s baffling. It seems like the party banter is implying the relationship is progressing, but we don’t get to see it.
They’re “together” enough for the companions to comment on it, but we don’t know what being together even means. Why is this being kept secret from the player? We can’t even be sure when their first kiss is, because the codex, party banter, and the behavior in the final scene doesn’t really scream “they’re not doing anything in their downtime.” We can only find out about Lucanis’ romantic history through party banter after meeting a checkpoint with Emmerich, how is that not a discussion to be had between Rook and Lucanis???
BioWare, plz. I’m on my hands and knees begging for clarity. Lucanis doesn’t know what it is? Me, the player, doesn’t know what it is either, and that’s insane. You can apparently tell Emmerich you’ve never been kissed, but you can’t even clarify what the relationship is with Lucanis in by the second to last scene of the game.
