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Dragon’s Dogma 2 review: Capcom’s latest RPG doesn’t hold your hand
20.03.2024 - 17:08 / digitaltrends.com / Tomas Franzese
Dragon's Dogma 2 MSRP $70.00 Score Details DT Recommended Product Pros
- Full of exciting emergent moments
- Tense open-world exploration
- Vocation and Pawn systems
- Encourages player creativity
- Slow start
- Frequent frame rate issues
- Poor save system
Last week, a Dungeons & Dragons adventure I took part in with some friends went terribly wrong. Our DM created a small encounter with some mummies in a graveyard as a fun side excursion during a larger quest, but a series of bad rolls turned it into a bloodbath. Players were nearly killed, my health was permanently debuffed, and an encounter that should have been over in a turn or two took the whole session to beat, escape, and recover from. Emergent moments like that are what draw people to RPGs, and it’s a style of video game design that’s only getting more popular with the likes of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Baldur’s Gate 3, and Helldivers 2.
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Dragon’s Dogma 2 from Capcom is the latest in this wave of “emergent games,” and it’s one tailored to the most hardcore of players, for better and for worse. I’ll never forget the moment when I was riding in a wooden gondola above the desert of Battahl, only for a boss-level creature to appear out of nowhere and fly into the gondola, destroying it and causing me to fall to my death. I also won’t soon forget the game’s poor save system, which sent me back to replay over 30 minutes of gameplay after it did that.
This is one of Capcom’s most ambitious games ever. Dragon’s Dogma 2 sports a large open world, 10 varied vocations for players to master, deep character creators upholding a pawn-sharing system, and towns full of NPCs that operate on schedules and can permanently die. It’s also one of the worst-looking and worst-running games on the RE Engine, its game design feels unpalatably old school in some ways, and it’s not quite as instantly fun as the other emergent games I mentioned. Those searching for a diamond in the rough will find lots eventually, but it’ll take a proactive effort on the player’s part.
Emerging with Power
For a game where a lot of dynamic moments can feel like they are out of the player’s hands, it’s ironic that the narrative of Dragon’s Dogma 2 is about control. Players control an Arisen, a moniker given to people who have their hearts stolen by a dragon and can control universe-hopping Pawns. Being an Arisen fulfills a prophecy and is supposed to make the player the ruler of the kingdom of Vermund by default, but its queen doesn’t want to lose power, so she wipes the Arisen’s memory
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