There and back again.
I think I was afraid that my overzealous love for the original might cloud my judgement.
Then I blinked, and 10 hours had flown by.
Dragon’s Dogma 2 review
I blinked again.
It was 5 a.m. now.
Dragon’s Dogma 2 is an intentionally difficult game to summarise.
In reality however, Dragon’s Dogma 2 is a test in perseverance.
Every second, in every location, something is begging for your attention.
It’s a game about opportunity cost.
I set out from Vernworth, Vermund’s capital, towards the small port town of Melve.
Naturally, I agreed.
My party took advantage of its downed state and whittled it away to its final health bar.
I begrudgingly used my only wakestone to revive myself.
The griffin wasn’t so fortunate.
A dragon was attempting to raze the city.
This is the entire game in microcosm.
The plot also does a great job of guiding you across the map itself.
will cause them to offer advice, or begin sprinting in the direction of your objective.
In Dragon’s Dogma 2, the Vocations have been reworked to lean more into their established roles.
The map itself has also received a huge glow-up when compared to the first game.
There are options for fast travel, but they still come with downsides.
I did run into some performance issues on PC, specifically in regards to some occasional frame droppage.
Yet, not a single dip in frames occurred.
As of writing this, I’m roughly 60 hours into Dragon’s Dogma 2.
Yet, the mistakes aren’t meant to punish you.
They’re meant to educate you - and they have an odd way of rewarding you in turn.
I did, frequently.
Dragon’s Dogma 2 accessibility options
Contrast and brightness options in the graphics menu.
Tutorials are displayed as pop-ups, which can then be read again through the menu.
Options for disabling and altering motion blur, depth of field, and camera sensitivity.
Options for inverting X/Y axis.
UI elements can be customised or disabled entirely.
Controller support, alongside configs for both vibration and button remapping.
But the longer I’ve played it the less I’ve worried about my own bias towards it.
A copy of Dragon’s Dogma 2 was provided for review by Capcom.
