Two Torches (Out of Five)
Do you like golems, annoying puzzles, and running around in circles in the dark? Then I have the video game for you!
Bioware’s “The Golems of Amgarrak,” a new DLC released today on XBox, PS3, and PC for its popular RPG Dragon Age: Origins, is set in the deep roads below the dwarven kingdom of Orzammar. Your Grey Warden character (imported or new) sets off with a dwarf rogue and his large pet Bronto named Pug to find out what happened to a missing dwarven expedition. Along the way, there are puzzles to solve and lots of golems, skeletons, and various other bad guys to fight.
It’s a short adventure — only about an hour of playing time — but I’m not sure I would have played it for longer, anyway. It was fun to re-enter the Dragon Age world, and to fight golems, but the game quickly became boring and frustrating as I spent most of my time wandering from one dimly lit room to another while trying to avoid getting boxed in by my (much larger) companions. It’s all fun and games having a bronto and a golem on your team until you’re stuck between them in a narrow corridor.
Combine that with puzzles that are more frustrating than entertaining, and by the time I got to the boss fight (which was fine, but nothing special), I didn’t even care about the outcome.
If you want to play more Dragon Age, skip “Golems of Amgarrak” and stick with Awakenings and the much better DLC “Leliana’s Song.”
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Nice review. The dim light, the huge companions blocking the way, and the character getting stuck in invisible walls around pillars made this a huge frustration. And seriously I had no time to enjoy among such frustrations. Leliana’s song was pretty good. That was one DLC worth buying.
It wasn’t that bad, IMHO. I was a little disappointed because they’d been making it out to be uber super difficult but with an imported character (if you’ve played a character through Origins and Awakening then it’ll probably be L30+, which shouldn’t have too much trouble with this DLC on Normal).
I found the puzzles to be ok though it took about 5 minutes to figure out the main one (hardest part was finding that first switch because I didn’t notice it at first).
Also, the boss at the end is pretty badass.
I played Dragon Age: Origins. I finished it, and man s that dragon at the end hard to kill. The add-on Awakenings was not that good, IMO. Thanks for the heads-up on this new addition. I won’t be adding this to my Xbox 360 catalog.