Alan Wake II has a ridiculously good, mind-bending and genre-mixing meta narrative that is brought to life by its fitting character casting, acting, score and graphical fidelity. AW2 might be the perfect example of how to handle a dual protagonist narrative not only through the distinct shift in tone of each storyline but with how you can mechanically swap characters whenever you please. AW2's only downfall is its combat, whilst unique and fun to begin with, it becomes a chore in the later stages of the game with encounters either being too large or too small. However, the combat is by no means bad and is easily balanced by the entertaining and unique narrative contained in this game.

Dragon's Dogma is a weird and wonderful RPG. It takes the best parts of other games in the action RPG genre and makes them its own. The pawn system is amazing, and whilst sometimes can feel a bit clunky and outdated it still holds up considering this was released in 2012. Combat is fun but enemies' variety fails to change consistently enough to take full advantage of all the systems at play.

There's so much more to say about this game but to summarise; whilst Dragon's Dogma excels in many of its core features it is sometimes held back by not having enough situations to utilise it all but with that being said it never fails to entertain and is a must play for RPG fans.

The original was ahead of its time and hopefully the upcoming sequel can refine what made this game great to create an unmissable RPG experience that once again paves the way for future RPGs.