There's a good chance that, if you're familiar with BioWare's Dragon Age franchise, the look of the classic enemy darkspawn in Dragon Age: The Veilguard will be surprising. There's a certain gross fleshiness to them in the new game that's hard to define. And while some folks might think they look silly, I can confidently say that yes, there's a reason they look like that, and it does actually make some amount of sense.
In an effort to not reveal major story spoilers, the short version is that during my extensive hands-on preview across Dragon Age: The Veilguard's first act, characters canonically speculated about how strange and unusual the darkspawn they fought were and why that might be. Even with the assumption that there's more to the story than what was revealed during those moments, it goes a long way to justifying the new look.
