Its great. You meet treasure hunters who share artifacts with the cultures they're from so that those cultural leaders can decide what to do with them. You help a character come to terms with their gender identity. You encourage people to build community in more than just a "we can win with the power of friendship" kinda way. I'm only on the first half of the game too.
It reviewed kinda mid but honestly these touches have totally sold me. It's actually feels like the writers of this game were a multicultural group of people who put thought into making it inclusive.
Is anyone else playing? Is this the experience others are having? Is all this based-ness why people are review bombing it?
i'm really really loving veilguard. i'm not that far into it (i think i just got past the tutorial sections??), but i just never played an rpg that allowed me to choose how my character views his trans-ness and his relationship with that part of his identity. I just really like that they gave multiple avenues and you can genuinely tell that trans and genderqueer people were involved because of these choices.