What "cartoony" means seems to be something of spectrum, with actual cartoons on one end and the most realistic graphics currently available on the other. I don't see BD3 being anywhere near even the middle of that spectrum. Certainly not cartoony to me at all.
As for colors, my friends and I have been playing Dragon Age Inquisition multiplayer lately. The color palette for armors in that game is quite muted. And man, do the armors look like shit (models are awful too).
