Dragon's Dogma 2

During my 2 hour’s gameplay I found this game to be nearly intolerable, let alone fun/enjoyable. This games only deserves 20USD price at best. • Combat tutorial is a huge mess. You’re stuffed with constant verbal instructions from NPC while focusing on the monster in front of you. I barely had time to try the first technique NPC taught me before them came up with the second technique. I even interrupted NPC’s combat instructions because I killed the monsters too quickly. As a sword&shield fighter playing normal difficulty, I just don’t have the that much energy to listen to what NPC was teaching me while defending myself from enemy blows. By the end of the combat I barely remember half of those combat tutorials. •The English dub was PAINFULLY plain and emotionless. I know people online praise this game of using medieval phrases but I feel like 2/3 of the NPCs were reading their script with no emotion at all. Even AI can do a better job than what’s in the game. There were no racism despises like Skyrim. There were no enthusiastic combat shouts like Helldiver. Everyone outside the cutscene sounds hollow. •The starting plot was horrible. I was very excited to gain freedom and starts to roam around the map but everything in my mouth turns bad the moment they introduced “pawns”. The player was brought up from the pitiful prisoner to a chosen champion where so many people would follow you blindly and for no reason all of a sudden. In any other games if you were to be given a companion, it would be a reason for either gold, friendship, life-saving but not in this game. It’s like using a cheat at the noob village but on the plot level which makes no sense and made me lost all the interest for the progression system. This is probably the worst thing in the game. “Pawns” are driving me nuts. I can’t imagine leading a group of mindless zombies with none of them being unique. I played Mass Effect and it was a shiny example of companionship. Each teammates have their own story and culture and personality. They interacts with each other and none of them is replaceable. I’d sacrifice millions of pawns in exchange for a one friendly NPC that isn’t a zombie manifested out of thin air. This is beyond stupid. I know I don’t have much time invested in this game. If it can’t hook me up in 2 hours, it’s not worth my time. I’d keep my game copy and support the dev if it’s cheap and has potential. But not in this case. This is an expensive slop made by a big company. So it’s not worth my money either.