If you want quick, full-throated roaring action, this is *not* the game for you. The combat is the very definition of tedious, exasperating and frustratingly dull. The story, if you can hang in there, rewards you as entertaining, the characterizations interesting and the romances satisfying, if you like that sort of thing. Pair this story with DA:2's combat and it would have been unbeatable. Alas. Three stars for the story and characters. No stars for the painfully awful combat and sluggish fight animations. Does it deserve the frothing and slavishly bestowed 'legendary' status it has? No, not remotely. It had novelty and talent behind it, but the execution was ultimately not what it could have been. Buy it on sale, and praise to the excellent work by the writers and voice actors.
