Dragon's Dogma 2

20 hours in as of now and it's a solid 7/10* ( 2 years waiting for the fixes + removal of DRM [ main reason I waited 2 years to buy the game ] ). Combat is fun and changing vocations to experiment with different playstyles paired with exploring the map without any guides or external sources of information is an amazing experience, the community pawns helping point out POIs is really nice. Game runs reasonably well and mostly free of bugs ( small stutters while running in open areas and NPCs still load just a few feet away from the player inside cities - 2 Saurians spawned at the center of Vernworth but that only happened once and it was pretty funny so I guess I can let that one slide ). Will keep an eye out on the DRM situation since Capcom added Enigma to other games after removing Denuvo ( changing a product to a state in which a consumer would have avoided the purchase is a pretty important part of consumer right here in Brazil so I am making it as public as I can - I only purchased the game due to the removal of DRM ). Edit: * - 7/10 is good almost great - one more big patch to fix those minor stutter and increase NPC "draw distance" and it's a 8/10 ( that to me is 1 point short of games such as Witcher 3, HiFi Rush, Baldur's Gate 3). Good on you Capcom ( thou it would've been better to release the game as it is right now in the first place ).

Peak Medieval fantasy RPG experience

游戏最大的特点是代入感，适合喜欢异界冒险、剑与魔法西式幻想题材的人。人物、剧本、支线、音乐、怪物等等的设计都普普通通，甚至可以说是粗糙和敷衍。战斗动作模组很帅气，但战斗本身并不怎么有意思。某种意义上说，战斗只是饺子醋，它存在是服务于代入感的，而不是让战斗本身如何好玩。毕竟，剑与魔法的冒险故事里总需要一些怪物，需要下地牢打怪，所以游戏里设计了哥布林，骷髅兵，蜥蜴人，鹰身女妖，狮鹫，巨龙这些经典形象，但也仅限于此。 我不推荐这游戏的主要原因是它最大的特色“代入感”有时会让人感到无力。很多系统，还有任务线索在游戏里都有些隐晦，有些能猜出来，有些则很难和制作组脑洞对上（比如中期一个寻找摘花被狼叼走的小男孩的任务）。这些因为追求代入感导致的不便，让第一次游玩的体验极差。但如果去查攻略，则又显然破坏了“代入感”。所以结果就是：如果你想玩得顺畅不便秘，那最好看一些攻略提前排坑。如果为了追求代入感初见不看攻略，那就做好赤石的心理准备。

Few games are as fun when it comes to killing bosses; this is certainly one of them, although there are many aspects of the game that need significant improvement.

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What a ♥♥♥♥ Game i tryed to like it there are many parts to like it but why does it feel like im just the side character and do literaly no dmg at all and when you fight a big monster suddently many small ones appear out of seemengly nowhere. And exploring doesn't feel like oh a chest i may find some good weapon or so but no just finding weapons for other vocations then the one i play. its jus feeling so not fun to play the combat sometimes feels very slugish and slow the stamina bar is almost empty after 2-3 abillities they do then only dmg to the small fry but the medium to big oponents your pawns will do the ehavy figthing wil the "Arisen" is just the passenger princess. i tryed to like it it is sometimes fun but hitting endlessli the enemy for no impact just is not what im searching for. After this big crash out i can't recommend that game at all.

They made the performance much better over the course of my playthrough with the new patch. So performance is not an issue for me anymore. Gameplay is awesome, it is a lot fun, although loot is meaningless everywhere except towns. They need to make that better in the DLC, because adventuring is fun, but pointless for equipment and treasure. Be careful that if you go too far into the main quest, it also locks you into the ugly red epilogue world, which was a sore to look at, despite the enemies being fun. So make sure you do all the side quests and explore everything you want to before progressing. The story is very bad, most of the quests are very boring and most of the characters have the most boring personality and dialogue I've ever seen. The middle English verbage is also annoying and repetitive. The ending tries to justify the poor quality of the story and characters that with some badly executed metanarrative ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ which is even more badly written. Seems like the writer was whining about the state of fantasy stories, but they did not have the skill to come even close to executing it properly. If I wanted that, I'd play Undertale. I have seen countless mediocre triple A and indie games with mediocre or boring stories, but Dragon's Dogma 2 takes the cake for actually being able to piss me off by the end of it. Pathfinder is also the biggest ♥♥♥♥♥ I've ever seen in any videogame. I won't say "play if you don't care about writing and story in videogames", because the story is very intrusive, and the pawn dialogue also gets very annoying throughout it. So in that sense it isn't something you can ignore. Buy the game only if this unique gameplay still makes you want to play despite all the rest of the game being completely bare bones. If you can wait for when the DLC itself gets a discount along with the main game, that'd be the best time to get it.