All other "open-world" games are made for and by cowards.

DD2 is one of the coolest games I've ever played. There are things this game does that are so wonderfully spikey, it make perfect sense how many people bounce off it. The spikiness of game design results in some of the most extreme emotional reactions to gameplay I have both felt and witnessed since Morrowind. Both in valleys so deep that the unseasoned game players will be trapped in despair and swear the game off as "unplayable", and peaks so high that very few games will ever dare attempt to match, resulting in all future open-world game being judged against Dragon's Dogma 2.

DD2 is one of the few AAA games that makes full use of its budget to push the medium forward. I think everyone who cares about open-world games and/or action-RPGs, owes it to themselves to finish Dragon's Dogma 2.

Hell, the dev hours put into things that only 10% of players will see is in of itself astounding and worthy of praise.

Reviewed on Apr 20, 2024


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