Late Gamed: Dragon Age II

 As you'll find, I'm a bit of a late gamer. I rarely play anything upon its release, and usually have a stack of games I have yet to get into (not so different from the stacks of books I have about.) So I'm not so interested in giving any game a well-rounded review; there's plenty of wonderful sites and youtube channels that already do that for us. What I'm interested in is the "literary" merits of games. How well was the plot? the characters? etc.
And being a video game, there are certain aspects to it that make it a different animal rather than a book or a film, especially these titles Bioware churns out for us. (**and yeah, there'll be SPOILERS**)