A Critical Review of Dragon's Dogma 2 by someone who actually likes the game | Myelin Games 

I'm really bummed out by the enemy variety idk how you release a sequel with less enemies its pretty baffling

The camp sites are huge if you played the first game imagine sprinting to the capital evertime you need to rest

I remember when the rose colored glasses kinda wore off and I was like wait this is just dragons dogma 1.5 they don’t even have 2 on the title screen 😭😭

A late game mount would be amazing for when you really want to backtrack as quickly as possible. Plus it would create so many more insane scenarios.

I hope you keep making reviews dude.

Leading into release day, one of my top wants for the game was the "infinite stamina outside of combat" thing you mentioned. I replayed DD1 a few months ago to sort of prep myself for DD2 and the stamina drain outside of combat was a total drag, BUT I understood that the game is 10+ years old. I was hoping DD2 team would pull a FromSoft Elden Ring QoL change and do the infinite stamina out of combat, especially seeing as how DD2 is "4x larger than the first game". That was a total bummer. I still love the game dearly, mind you, but I'm not going to lie to myself and others and act like it's a 10/10.

Cool Hobbit sword and old school PlayStation:) Totally agree re camera angles, it's not mentioned enough in reviews. Especially indoors, the awkward camera angles have killed me more often than the enemies themselves. Anyways expected to like this game but was surprised at how much I like it. I usually hate companions in games like this and almost always play solo, but in this game I find the pawns especially my main pawn, so weirdly charming. I make a habit of never watching guide videos before I've put some solid time into games like this. Just to avoid spoilers but also because of things like this: when my main pawn died, I was heartbroken. I'd spent hours exploring the countryside with her, she'd had my back fighting hordes of enemies, I'd chuckled at her weird sense of humour. It wasn't until one of my other pawns mentioned that I could resurrect her at a riftstone that I actually realised this was possible. I didn't learn that from watching a RU-vid guide, I'd learned it organically by simply playing the game. Any game that can make me care about a companion NPC that much is a winner for me. I couldn't care less about best builds, OP builds, best pawns, "beating" the game, etc. All decisions are made by instinct not strategy, and the game is so much better for it. This is fast becoming one of my favourite RPGs.

Don't get it confused. Performance on PS5 is not great either. It's not as variable as PC but I constantly feel like I'm playing sub 25 if not lower.

I prefer to have a lock on option because it helps with the funky camera angles. Too many buttons to push and still have to navigate the camera.

I’m looking forward to this game. I’m going to wait until there’s a performance patch though!

The best thing The Witcher 3 did was the update that made crafting materials weigh nothing. I feel like DD2 needs that. Also, it took me an embarrassingly long time to realise that camping kits were NOT single use: I was only using them when I reeeeeally needed to, which actually made the early game way more fun :)

half item weight mod completely saved this game for me. I need to loot without high bag stress.

I think fast travel isn't that bad I have plenty of ferrystones and you can buy them pretty often just not non stop which I think is a great balance

If you use the ox carts and set up port crystals where there are no ox carts you can get around quite fast. Besides that just set some gold aside for ferrystones and you’re good. The traversal feels very similar to BG1 in some regards. You have to manage your quests and your party carefully lest you spend ages backtracking. DD was always a love letter to old school rpgs/dnd just with Capcom’s specific brand of action.

This game's biggest shortcoming is its story and world layout. While the gameplay and/or exploration can be addictive along with those big monster takedowns, ragdoll moments, etc., the world and story are just some subpar version of Tolkien mixed with other elements like Elden Ring. The game shows some technical expertise or know-how from the Capcom development team, but the big picture and visionary writing/literary stuff is very lacking. If someone with vision partnered with Capcom to create a compelling and complete story with world design, Capcom could stun the gaming world. PERHAPS Capcom would go full traditional RPG (like Ultima) and have your class locked for the entire story, then the game could be compelling, UNIQUE and technically impressive.

I think the open world comparison between Elden Ring and DD2 is: ER has better level/map design, but DD2 has better systems. I think those systems limited the map design to some extent (though they could have done more).

Yeah DD2 is really flirting with the quality and scale of games like Elden Ring and Witcher 3, but it's just not quite pushing the ambition far enough.

M, why do you not look at the camera?

I love this game....but it needs more variety in mobs....

The exploration you talked about from Elden ring is a good comparison. Skyrim was for me as well. It had click to go fast travel plus it had carts like DD2 but I still found myself traveling overland on foot a lot and always making sure to point myself toward an area of the map I hadn't explored yet on the way. It was great! At first... After a while, you have been there, done that, killed that goblin and you just have other bigger things to do. I get what they were going for but the constant repeat slog goes from positive to negative after some time.

I was going to say skill-gap(e) on the cam issues but he beat me to it

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The inventory management use to KILL me in DD Dark Arisen!!! We need a magical infinite satchel

This game would callapse with easy fast travel

The game is good for like 20h. By then you have seen everything.

It's kinda meh for me. I'm just looking for something to fill the gap until Shadow of the Erdtree. I'm lukewarm here. The frame rate and performance issues should not happen in this day and age, we are well past 30fps. The combat is pretty dull. Other than that, I'm enjoying the story and will see it through to the end. It's ok, but it's not great.

Without question this is the last game I'll ever pre-order. The microtransactions/performance alone would have been enough for me to not buy. And unfortunately these two issues vastly over shadow the other gameplay and story issues I have with the game. Comparing this game to dd1, it doesn't even hold a candle. Feels like they took two steps back for every step forward.

I miss the pause combos, the secondary abilities, which is reduced to one now, and a descent jump since a lot of jumping attacks don't work anymore. That's a downgrade to the first game and it's baffling why they did this. Yes, you still have a much larger toolkit and more to experiment with as in for example Elden Ring but not even to the degree as the over a decade old predecessor. You could describe DD1 as a small DMC4 in a big world and I expected DD2 to be a small DMC5 in a big world and that's sadly not the case. There are improvements that makes it interesting, the balance mechanic on big enemies let's you use your whole moveset on them and leads to cool finisher moments. The physics work amazing with the AI, the game is now even more of a sandbox in which all sorts of situations can occur, which are awesome.If this game would be a meme it would be "this escalated quickly". I love the game and in most cases the direction it took, there are moments only possible in this game but when it comes to sequels the training wheels are off, so it can stagnate in some parts but it shoulden't have worse elements and especially in the area where the team usually is king.

Just 3 minutes in but that clip of the guy on the gryphon is the biggest skill issue I've seen in years lol

Love the gameplay hate the second half of the story

Mostly you run to a cave there's a lot of different kind of enemy specially werewolf and vampire some are lizards you have to explore more

So liitle has changed, especially the more annoying and dated things. It's like they took the original game, mixed up the map a bit, added a couple of characters and slighty imprived the visuals. Absolutely nothing was done to improve the game with even the QoL fixes from Dark Arisen completrly missing. 12 years for this is terrible.

IM loving it, except a few things.... Enemy variety is, the same as the first. Which I have over 500 hours in. Thier way of making world not boring is apparently fights with bs enemies every 4 feet. Movement is janky, and the dragon aids is unnacceptable. This game likes to waste your time.

The lack of enemy variety that is in opposition to a world map without cities, towns fast travel and the lack of roll mechanics and some unnecessary survival mechanics , is hurting the game from being one of the best of all times.

Not only do I disagree with you, I think your takes are pretty awful. Please go play other game and leave us Dragon's Dogma fans alone for Pete's sake.

So clearly you never played the first DD....🙄