Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

This game has so much love and inspiration and top tier DLC (already included). Lots of jank and charm. Truly a masterpiece, a product of its time. If you like action class based RPGs with climeable monsters, the game is just satisfying. It feels like playing and MMO solo: weapon you can buy from shops, or they drop by mobs and chests. Same with materials, and even some are so extremely rare (and so many too). There is a HUGE crafting list (though, sadly, mostly redundant). You get 3 npc teammates, with different personalities, with one of them (your own pawn character that you can create) that learns and copies the user behavior! Also, upgrading is done both using materials and killing dragons HOLY ♥♥♥♥ YOU UPGRADE YOUR GEAR BY KILLING DRAGONs???? The only real shame is that through most of the game you can feel the development issues they had, cut content that we never received. This is also true with the sequel, and it has a very high bar to reach if, big IF, there is a dlc for the second game. This game is a unique experience that unfortunately shows the effect of poor management decisions.