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The game at release is so unfinished that playing it feels like playing a beta that has never been fully tested. It is sad because it looked like it had big potential and could have been a great game with a lot more work.

I didn’t want to review the game just after release as I hoped that the controls of the PC version would be patched quickly considering how awful they are and how many players complained about them (the developers even acknowledged the PC community concerns on the official forum). Unfortunately more than 2 months have passed since release, they just have released the third patch (second post release) and nothing that really mattered has been improved! If the controls were correct DAI could have been a good game: It has an interesting story (under condition that you focus on the main story and just do the minimal necessary amount of optional content that is mostly unscenarised and boring). It has some charismatic new and returning characters. It offers a few choices that really affect the main scenario for replayability of the game. It was definitively not done with the same attention to details that they have put in DAO and unfortunately they have privileged to often the quantity of content over the quality of content but it still could have been a relatively good game. However the PC gameplay doesn’t follow. If you try to play it on PC (with the normal PC input devices) you quickly realise that they have provided the minimal effort necessary to port it from consol to PC. It’s enough to be playable but not to be really enjoyable and it just gives the feeling that they consider their PC customers as second class customers. To conclude, the game had a lot of potential but the gameplay is so ruined by the awful controls and interface (that are badly ported from console) that I cannot really enjoy the game.