There is a limit to how much inconvenience and unfriendliness can be dressed up as something 'idealized.' It’s unreasonable to call presenting an incomplete product, from which many necessary aspects for enjoying the game have been removed, a 'philosophy.' At this price point, it's difficult to recommend the game with a light heart.

Setting aside discussions about DLCs or game systems, the most disappointing aspect was how many quests and stories felt incomplete or ended abruptly. The most enjoyable moments occurred when I ventured off the beaten path to explore, away from my backlog of quests. However, even these enjoyable experiences were often disrupted by inconveniences and an unfriendliness disguised as 'idealized' or 'philosophical.'

Ultimately, this recommendation is very precarious, leaning strongly towards not recommending the game.

Writing this review feels almost as disappointing as playing this game.

One might think that CAPCOM learned from the flaws of the first game, solving them while improving on the strengths right? No, quite the opposite:


-Enemy variety? instead of fighting the same 6 monsters-types like in the first game you fight the same 3.

-Tedious travelling? Instead of fighting the same monsters every 50 seconds you fight them every 20 seconds.

-Romance system? Basically the same only made more pointless

-Story? They are even reusing the exact same story with the same twists. the only difference is that using the same twist (post dragon) does not work again because it's so predictable if you have played the first game.

-Bosses? There actually are some new bosses added to the game but instead capcom thought it was a good idea to let you fight ogres and cyclopses AGAIN for 90% of the time, while taking out the best bosses of the first game (beholder and hydra)

Classes? Yes the classes were pretty unbalanced in the first game, but instead of balancing them they just butchered all of them by giving you only 3 abilities (except for the warrior)

My recommendation is to stay away and play the prequel with the DLC (which is the best part compared to BOTH games). After that you can get this on sale and be as disappointed as i am if you crave a game with a combat system as unique as Dragon's Dogma.

Eh game seemed okay. Definitely not worth 70$ though. You want a generic feeling open world RPG, go for it. Feels similar to any other game in the genre, nothing necessarily great about it. The microtransactions and sketchy business practices on a 70$ singleplayer game are the reasons I refunded. Stop paying for companies to rail you.

Thought I might try the 2-hour offer. Here's how it went:

20 minutes to compile shaders
20 minutes in character creator
CRASHED during character creation
Uninstalled.

Bad performance and tedious travel with hordes of repetitive enemies/combat. The pawn system is really cool and has some potential though. Not worth at full price imo

Optimisation is still bad after being out for months. The mechanics in the later part of the game are very annoying and basically just waste your time. The "open world" is basically just wide corridors that give the illusion of openness.

I would give a neutral review if it wasn't for the price they are asking and the MTX in a fully price (basically single player) game, I don't care if you don't have to buy it, if it's doesn't effect game play why does it cost money? Why not just add it in the options menu for free?

In the end this game is just a half-baked cash grab. Very disappointed.

Elden Ring is Cheaper and better. Buy that over this unfinished mess.

remove Denuvo

I regret buying this game on discount if that doesn't say something than Idk what will.

Game runs terribly even with specs being well above the recommended. For 70 dollars with no sale, The performance issues make it not worthwhile.