Dragon's Dogma 2 Critique - An Overrated Disappointment 

A game where you fight 72 unique bosses and over 100 unique normal enemies: 10/10 A game where you fight the same 7 bosses for 95% of the game, 6 of which are reskinned from the first game, and 5 or 6 normal enemy types which are also from the first game: 9/10 almost as good as Elden Ring 🤡🤡🤡 (I know that not every boss in Elden Ring is a banger, but some of the 15 bosses in Dragon’s Dogma 2 are pretty bad too)

The fact that this game has a new game+ but its the same difficulty as the normal game just blows my mind.

If you look at the amount of devs that worked on the game, Itsuno had way less than a standard Capcom game usually has. To me, it seems like either someone doesn't like Itsuno or Dragon's Dogma so the series was again sent out unfinished.

I killed 3 dragons right a the start of the game by standing next to the water.

Playing this game just made me want to go play Dark Arisen again.

Finished the game last night. I sat in disbelief at the ending, there is zero resolution for the entire Queen Regent arc that you spend the first 70% of the story setting up. The minute you get to Batthal the game loses the plot, so to speak, and never recovers.

The problem I find with game reviews like this, especially in the past few years, is that we have become so braindead so as to categorize everything as either the "worst thing ever" or the "greatest masterpiece". Elden Ring is "the greatest masterpiece of all time". Baldur's Gate 3 is the "greatest game of all time". Meanwhile, Starfield is "absolutely f***ing dogshit". Cyberpunk used to be "absolutely f***ing dogshit" and now it's the "greatest RPG ever". I'm so tired of this trend. If everything is either the greatest or the worst, then everything has no value anymore. Where is the nuance?

You forgot to mention the best gear is found in shops, and not by looting the open world chests.

dd2 is a $70 engine showcase for monster hunter wild

Yea the story fell apart for me once i hit battal. I almostly hated that regions story. Giving the godsbane to evil scientist was most braindead writing ive ever seen

The vast majority of Reviews that I've seen are either a "near perfect game" or a "terrible failure."...For me, its somewhere in the middle. Game has a lot to like, but sadly also a lot of issues that range from minor to annoying. And its a mystery to me how so many of these issues got ignored? I loved the original, but this game feels like a number of steps forward & an equal amount of steps backwards. For example, the map is 4x bigger (step forward) but the vast majority of the map is nothing but extremely long & narrow paths that zig zag all over the map (step backwards). Game has more caves & such to explore (step forward) but they are all short & look exactly the same (step backwards). Game introduces a handful of new enemies (step forward) but also removes the same number of enemies from original game (step backwards). And I could go on & on. And I feel like much of the content that was planned for this game but got removed so as to sell as DLC later. I like the game, but it still feels like a disappointment. The original game was extremely dull initially but got much better the deeper into it you got. Whereas this sequel is the exact opposite, where it was good initially but eventually gets more dull the deeper you get into it.

Huge DD fan here. Played over 1200hrs on the first one. Even made multiple accounts to build my own pawn party. I was really excited for DD2 and left a positive review of it when I completed it. But like you said at the beginning, I was reviewing what I wanted DD2 to be and not what it actually was. Everything stated in your review is regrettably, but unmistakably true. A colossal missed opportunity to make this franchise everything it could have been. But they missed the mark hard.

I hate how hype creates people that just latch onto a product and defend it for months no matter whether it's good or not. Fans were excited for DD2 because it was meant to have at least DOUBLE the content of DD1, not just recycle what was there, cut some of it and make it run at 20 fps.

I bought this game to walk around with a bunch of skimpily dressed female pawns, it's a 10/10 in my book.

This game has only 1 new thing going for it : the atmosphere. Otherwise not only does it not really offer anything new, but it even took a few steps backwards from the first game. It has outdated stuff from 12 years ago, such as how the NPC's don't react to you stealing their stuff, and they don't change their dialogue and behavior when one of their loved ones die or was killed by you. They cut down the amount of skills you can equip by half, which greatly reduced the versatility in combat. And they got rid of several classes such as the Strider, Assassin, and Mystic Knight. Some abilities were carried over, but many were removed, such as the ability to dodge roll and double jump. Several spells were removed as well. The brine used to be a lame excuses for the developers to not need to implament any swimming animations and mechanics, but now it has a lore explanation behind it, a sh*tty one. Lesser Drakes were actually more dangerous in the first game, as they had this shout that could instantly kill all your pawns, and they would more frequently try to grab your pawn and control it. And there was a chance that one or several of your gears could get "Dragonforged" during the actual battle, as long as they've been improved at least once. The better the upgrade, the greater chance of dragonforging. Whats confusing is that they brought back 1 enemy type from Dark Arisen (Garm), but none of the others? They missed out on so many opportunities here. But if rumours are true, there is an expansion that they worked on along side of the main game, that will release much later this year. My guess is that they are saving a lot for that one. But i doubt that expansion will adress any of the core issues the game has. The world just doesn't feel alive with people, it feels alive with monsters and organic robots who repeat the same lines of dialogue, and they either have ZERO reaction to theft and murder, or they have an overreaction on you simply drawing your weapon. Also who the f**k designed this worlds map? It's beautiful but why are so many surfaces so slippery? These guys have clearly not been out in nature much.

The quests are infuriating. I've put in over 100 hours and getting so sick and tired of the vague ignorant quest design I'm about to quit for good. Whoever designed the quests needs a swift kick in the arse.

Another bad thing about Dragon's Dogma 2, it uses ALL of your CPU for all the NPCs and the NPCs have almost no reactivity. This is in line with how nobody cares about you stealing everything. You can take Ulrika, chuck her off a cliff, nobody cares. Even her dad (or whatever he is) didn't care he just wanted me to poison the saurians. I started a new game and was going murderhobo at Melve and the only thing that happened was the main quest making me go through the waterfall caves because I killed the guy who tells the guard to open the gate. So really all the game does by chugging all your CPU power is keep track of the pointless affinity system. Or at least that's my theory. It's either that or some other poor optimization.

Two people I really dislike for having shilled this game- Rurikhan and Fighting Cowboy. Dude. Those guys are either complete paid shills or they have no concept of what is actually fun in a game. Disingenuous man. There’s no freaking way this game is any close to an 8/10.

That save system was pretty annoying. I had to hurry up and quit without saving multiple times because of that shit.

synthetic man/ coby goldst31n coped hard for this game. you, gibby, and mugthief appropriately critiqued this game.

Wait Did you play dark arisen? From the intro it seemed like u only played the original game and not the expansion. Way over 10 bosses especially with bitter black isle

Omg finally a youtuber that talks about the issues in the game. I don't know why so many youtuber regurgitate the same things over and over again. No one to my knowledge that I watch review the game pointed out how little enemy variety there is, not just in bosses and how most of them are just straight up reused from one. If they were going to reuse enemies then why not reuse vocations too? We would at least have more variety. The game has more issues than what the popular media hinted at. Yeah yeah, micro transactions, that wasn't even my biggest gripe. They got so fixated on the micro transactions that they ignored the game as a whole. It is an overrate disappointment, how are we getting sequels that are still not just straight upgrades over their predecessors. Yes there is some improvements but there's also some step backs. It's not triple A price worthy.

I gave up on this game like 10 hours in, so damn repetitive and soulless

Agree, it has so much potential but they did nothing with it... paradoxically they repeated their own dogma 🙃

The subreddit for this game is nuts. I encountered two game breaking bugs and when i posted about them they basically all tried to gaslight me into thinking they werent bugs. One was every npc in vernworth aggroing to me upon arrival, and the other was the priest in the slums of vernworth being locked in place and not being interractable. Absolute craziness. Went back to BG3 shortly after lmao.

Yeah the writing was awful. DD2 is my favorite game but I have to agree here, like in the story and even the dragons tell you that you are the Arisen and that you have no heartbeat no pulse yet we still have to prove that we are the arisen, the society that worships arisen does not let the Arisen's main servants on to royal ground that's bizarre. You can tell that a lot of corners were cut with the story like they had an idea at the start but then time constraints forced them to just force you to the ending so we get alot of moments that feel unearned like the mean wizard was straight up evil, he sent a dragon to wipe out a village he was experimenting on poor people and creating the STD dragons, but in the end they want us to know that he was a good guy. Same for the Queen she did so much evil but in the end the story wants us to know she was a good mother; bitch sold MC into slavery, was an all around awful person to her people and screwed over many people during an end world event to keep her political power she is not redeemable she is a scum character. Then the actual why big bad guides you to a point where you could rise up against him. you get the god's bane blade and this allows you to go to the unmored world I mean you did not really need the blade to kill the dragon just to operate the lifts and machinery, I feel the unmored world should have been a secret ending something that you do a certain out of MSQ quest chain to get. and again we don't really get good story fights Ragnall a merc that the world hyped up was easy the dragon a world ending threat was a major step down from the 1st game and even the dragon at the very end was not a boss fight they really gave the player the sneako treatment with some parts of the game. In the end Capcom screwed them over but still u can't keep using that as an excuse (Same was said in DD1) it just reflects poorly on Itsuno himself as for your issues with wakestones they are easily farmed from novice pawns it sounds like a skill issue to me stop dying *shrug*

Great summary dude 100% agree. Loved the OG but it had a lot of issues due to being unfinished so I gave it slack. Itsuno said DD2 was his vision realised. And frankly it's garbage I have no clue how it got so much positivity from reviewers I played for 20hrs and I could already see the issues everywhere. for $70 as well.

Good fucking review. I feel like I'm going crazy with all the praise the sequel is getting from people. Thank you for the sanity check.

This is the first review that actually captured my experience with DD2. I was straight up upset by my experience with the game and felt like all the reviewers were outright lying about the experience. It is so unbelievably mid, so frustrating to engage with, and has almost zero reward for sticking with it. I got to the true dragon and put it down. I wish I waited til it was on sale and I wish I only played til I got to battahl. The rest of my time was wasted.

Mh Wilds is going to smoke this game into the ground. Cannot wait for it to come out and everybody realise "Ohhh, right DD2 was a pile of shite"

When I saw videos for this I knew it was going to be a rehash of the first game and it 100% was. It's sad people are back on the "Capcom can do no wrong" train because of Resident Evil.

Itsuno vision, but Itsuno has wrong glasses

"No no no, you don't understand! The story,characters and quests are bland and boring because they are supposed to be so! You see, the story of the Arisen is a play! So Itsuno made a 70$ game boring on purpose because he is a trailblazer!"

Bought this game, played for 7 hours, never touched it again. If that doesn’t tell you this game FAILED, idk what will. I have over 300 hours at lvl 267 in Elden ring, played every assassins creed game twice or more. Hardcore gamers were disrespected with this release.

There's things I like about the game, but for everything I like l dislike something. Some of which makes it worse then the first game. Like standing on a large opponent to recover stamina, but while clinging the stamina runs out like crazy even with augments boosting climb speed and stamina drain.

I don’t think you should have to defend your opinion on this game at all. I made it as far as that cave that rose up out of the water thinking it was going to be some amazing area to switch things up again but no, just another cave 😞 I quit after that. I don’t hate the game but it’s so boring that I can’t muster the effort within me to finish it off. Maybe I’ll come back to it another time, maybe I won’t but for now, it was just another waste of £55. RIP. Anyway, Stellar Blade in 2 weeks! 😃

The early main story quests (with the masked ball and such) literally feels like a minecraft adventure map. It baffles me why put those in.

DD1 is also a huge stat game, there're no max damage cap , the amount of damage you do to a boss when you're below its defense level is completely pathetic, and insanely high once you pass the defense treshold. The difference in clear time between stacking attack and not stacking (and possibly undergear) for the final boss (awakened daimon) is 15-20 second vs 10-50 minutes.

just finished the game you are mostly right in everything you said the game encourage exploring and traveling but punish you for that with the awful stamina management and the absurd prices of ferrystones (80% of my expenses in the game went on those) and if you decided to travel on foot so your reward is fighting the same enemies 2414214214 times.... the combat is really good but anything else just screams "UNFINISHED"

I had every npc attack me i had to reload from in an lost 5 hours of gameplay

I died during the Talos fight. I had a Wakestone but didn't know it. I thought I'd be met with the Load Last Save option. It usually takes about 10 fucking years before it lets you choose that option because there is an infuriating delay. I was bashing X in anticipation of reloading but Use Wakestone? popped up instead. I wanted to use that Wakestone and keep up the momentum but for some reason the default choice is No and the button registers instantaneously. This is basic stuff and these incompetent imbeciles couldn't even get that right. I couldn't climb back up Talos and it all just killed my interest in the fight. I got his last weak point, was waiting for something to happen but then died again. I reloaded again only this time Talos is not moving and the fight is over. What did I miss? This whole fucking mess has just pissed me right off. Also, the darkness of night lasts way too long. How am I supposed to explore the game world when I can't fucking see it?

They dont hold your hand cuz there's nowhere to go lol

Finally a refreshingly honest video. I’m tired of being gaslit into thinking this game is amazing by soygaping redditors despite playing it myself for dozens of hours and it’s so exhausting and boring. Look at how they circle jerk eachother into being angry at people who don’t think this game is as good as everyone says. Elden ring has better bosses, customization, performance, exploration. I don’t care if it makes me sound like a casual, Elden ring is way more polished than dd2

Totally agree. This game has disappointed me so much! I wanted Dark Arisen but with budget and time to make it even better. We got a let down in just about every aspect except size of the world.

I played through the game blind. Took my time and explored everything and tried to find all the side quests and secrets. Was having a great time until the end quest popped up and i realized how little there is in the game. I dont wanna keep running around the same roads if theres nothing in them

The section of the game where Brant gives you those three quests in the capital might genuinely be the worst section of an RPG ever. What the fuck were they thinking.

Aaaaand you said it. People are lying with themselves and more importantly with US to get review codes 🤷‍♂️. It’s not a surprise. We all know it. Thankfully, we have you to call out this bs and bring the real issues to light. Don’t be sorry for your content. It isn’t negative, it’s constructive and just. Keep up the good work 👍.

Another way to to regain full hp without a rest or wakestone is to use the Item All Heal Elixer it will restore health to full

Got about 3 hours in. Crashes, Frame issues, food that goes from fresh to spoilt in an hour or less, Max HP loss due to attacks that only got me due to frame drops and bugs. And for all of that at 3 hours in I dropped the game and replayed Elden Ring instead because I was bored.

You know it's a disappointing game when you can recommend folk to play the prequel because it's better in every way. I'm serious, all the complaints you addressed: repetitive enemies, annoying fast travel, lack of dungeons, filler npc's blending with quest givers and a mediocre endgame aren't a thing on the previous game, Dark Arisen. The only thing that both game share is that the story is bad and the enemy pool is the same but since the map of the first game is much smaller it doesn't fill as repetitive, plus Bitterblack isle which is the post-game dungeon features more enemies that aren't present in the main map. For real, I still don't get how the sequel not only didn't address any of the original game's problems but introduced even more or brought back issues that no one liked from the vanilla version like the limited fast travel, also I find it extremely bizarre that the focus of the marketing was the story and world-building which are the worst aspects of the game.

Wow amazing video, I love how you articulate and also own up to your errors you made in to the video. I feel like dometimes hype culture really get people excited for some games and when something surges in popularity, people tend to praise a game with little to no flaws such as frame drops or poor ui without tackling level design sometimes. But it is sad to see dragon dogma 2 didn't improve on the first game's flaws as most of it was boring and arisen is where it got good due to post game content.

So... I finished the game. Still enjoyed it. I was right on predicting what you'd say, but that's not me defending the game or attacking your criticisms. In fact, I agree with you on a lot of what you said. I could cherry-pick some of what you said even after you went back to clarify a few things, but nothing I can say could/would change your or anyone's opinion on this. Besides, I'm not interested in doing that anyway. For me, the game is like Kingdoms of Amular: a shut your brain off fantasy RPG where you can become a God. And that's good enough for me. Sometimes, I want the gaming equivalent of junk food. While on a comparison mention, I am baffled who's comparing this to Elden Ring. I guess I get why, but even so, I find it jarring. So... yeah. I think the game is fine. It's not a masterpiece, but it's also not offensively bad. And just to be perfectly clear: I couldn't care less how you feel about this game. I enjoy your content and respect your opinions even if I may not always agree with them.

I've tried posting like 4 times to just say, this game always looked dull to me ... I was not taken by the looks of this game ...

If you like the Dragon in this game.... Let's just say he's infinitely worse than Grigori, the Dragon in the first game

Dude, the game ask if you are sure to load the inn save file. The guy Who lost all the progress didnt even read the screen

not gonna lie (and this may be more brutal than this review) but after beating DD2 i decided to play the first dragons dogma and honestly... Dragons dogma 2 is the Capcoms equivalent warcraft 3 reforged love to hear vets opinion on that statement because i cannot help feeling love for the first game but hate to this "Sequel" after playing the first and truly understanding what could have been :/

Honestly a relief to see a review that honors the experience I had, I felt super hoodwinked by the reviews with the exception of Mortismal I suppose. Thanks for keeping it honest, I thought I was going nuts for a second there "Did I play a completely different game??"

the false arisen was among the group of guys you fight at the end, just to get that out there 😄

DD2 made me reinstalled Dark Arisen. What a fcking downgrade DD2 is

Amazing review, mad respect for such detailed and honest video essay 🍻 Please continue, I wish your channel to prosper with amount of work you putting into your vids 👍

I'm about 30 hours into it and I'm probably not going to continue. I really want to like this game. It has its moments in the open world. But the battles are repetitive and meaningless. The loot seems negligible - and as you say, the quests are nothing short of tedious. I don't mind walking through an open world without a mount or fast travel if it's mysterious, atmospheric, surprising, and immersive. As I said, there are moments, but none of that is anywhere close to something like Elden Ring. Loot and stealth: why would people in homes, castles, camps, etc be happy about you just walking in and opening chests in their private space? That's just weird. And the pawns are annoying as hell. I really, really, wanted to like this game. Very disappointed. More disappointed that I'm about to abandon it. Thanks for your detailed and honest review.

I believe this game was rushed to release too, it released in March during Monster Hunter's 20th anniversary... my tinfoil hat theory is that they needed more time to develop Monster Hunter Wilds and pushed Dragon's dogma II instead. What is sad is that this game has sold millions (as CAPCOM expected) and they now will make more of this..

Game was not rewarding at all. Waste of $70

Thank you for being so truthful about this dribble. I think people are so positive partly because people are starved for a good game.

games like this are the cause of the economy, with interest rates up, companies like capcom cant invest the appropriate money on making good games. the selling point of this game was the graphics looking next gen on paper but quality and QA sucks, because majority of the budget probably went graphics and marketing.

when i reached the endgame i just rock the magick archer to kill everything fast and get over with this game

Totally agree… I dont understand all the positive reviews. I loved Dark Arisen and found this game pretty horrible.

Enjoying the game, I'm pretty close to beating it but it is indeed pretty flawed. 1. The combat is a step down from DD1. The movement and pace is incredibly slow and cumbersome, and the shit performance and chugging framerate doesnt help. Im not sure what they were going for, but it is, in fact, not fun to have to crawl around on the floor for 15 seconds every time you get hit with a big attack (which if you play warrior like me, is relatively often). They should just patch that shit out of the game. I maxed out fighter for the diligence augment which makes you recover from this faster, and it was torturous. Maybe it just doesnt click with me, but playing fighter is incredibly annoying because you constantly get stunlocked by dumb stuff like shitty little goblins and random skeletons yet they super armor through most of your attacks, this would happen even towards endgame in spite of the fighter being positioned as a tank class. Im supposed to hold aggro, but i am constantly being slapped around, stumbling and flopping, cartoonishly bumping into walls with these long ass recovery animations that remind me of GTA 4 ragdoll physics, its just not very fun. There is almost nothing fighter does that warrior doesnt do better. Not to mention being totally useless against flying enemies. 2. The loot is shit. Towards the middle of the game i gave up on exploring the environment and caves looking for treasure because the loot was boring. Probably the only cool thing i found the entire game was the dragon visage shield (? Forgot name), 99% of chests just have stupid nonsense like roborants, boring shlock like a few thousand gold, arrows, a random cape you could have gotten from the town vendor anyways, whereas in 1 you would find unique weapons and armor all the time. This game isnt terrible but its a step down from 1 in a lot of ways, which, considering they took like 11 years to make the sequel isnt understandable. Hopefully we get a Dark Arisen like DLC because it left me wanting for a real dungeon but knowing capcom it will cost a decent chunk of change.

Him calling out Luke was gold. I’m a huge fan of Luke but this really felt like a forced parallel

My faith in gaming reviews has been on a all time low for a while, this game made it even worse, thankfully some people like yourself and Mortismal gaming is actually telling like it is.

Great review. *I feel so seen, thankyou!* I had to unsub from 2 channels because I called-out DD2 and got so much abuse for it. The braindead 'arguments,' gaslighting and corporate apologetics were shockingly persistent, stubborn and almost, proud? One channel was just a streamer so it wasn't too big a deal (though their popularity is clearly not proportional to their intelligence or honesty) but the other was someone who is clearly very thoughtful and considered and to see them arguing with me saying the same thing like a PR talking point, was just so sad. Clearly they were doing so for review codes and I just thought better of them.

love ur videos fam

It’s actually criminal that they charged 70 for this💀like wtf

Have you considered doing a playthrough of the first dragons dogma to see how it compares?

I just finished the game unknowingly after 50 odd hours, which honestly the sequence in the main story felt like mid game to me (For a 70 USD game). Before people start saying “you didn't explore enough", I'll tell you that I was so bored of exploration, it became so much of a chore that I was looking forward to the main quests, which was honestly abit more interesting to me. Why was exploration so boring? 1) There's no challenge, enemy types were severely limited and walking around running into the same goblins/ ogres/ dragons were boring AF. 2) There's no interesting items to be collected, I have no need for best-in gear slots since the game is so obnoxiously easy 3) Not all quests are fetch quests yes, but some potentially interesting quests such as Ulrika's should be built upon, it felt like each questline were planned by CAPCOM intern groups as part of their final year short projects. All other quests/ escort missions are just rinse and repeat, Brant's missions are just forgettable, honestly there were no memorable and unique NPCs for me after beating the game, doesn't feel like being an Arisen was impacting their world at all, I'm just some random errand guy. 4) Pawns are just there to waste my time re-rolling for a $10,000 reward to kill Cyclops/ Griffin/ Ogre so I can hit the next town and buy then next available weapon/ armors for better stats, there's no need for any actual combat synergy planning. Planninng and guessing your next possible kill (Cyclops? Griffin? Ogre? Golem?) is the real challenge here. 5) Extremely dumb AI that bugs out on responding to chests that are EASILY accessible via levitate/ shield launch (they just wont do it), utters repititive lines throughout the entire 50 hours.

Man I love feebleking's game reviews. They are extremely honest. Not afraid to say it when a part of a game is absolute sheit.

This game Is the perfect encapsulation of modern AAA gaming and why it's such a shitty industry: - Sequel that didn't fix any of the original's problem - The bloated budget only ended up improving the graphics - Poor performances on launch and baffling design choices, BUT a perfectly functioning MTX shop that was hidden in the review copies ;) You know why DD1 was good, despite it's flaws and problems? Because It was bold, and It had a soul and an identity as a game. It went against the odds: low budget (in the context of AAA, of course), basically little to no marketing and an original concept and vision. That's how some of the greatest series are born (think about demon's souls of final fantasy) and people hoped that the same would be true for dragon's dogma: a rough gem that could have been developed into a great series. But of course modern AAA can only copy and mock without understanding. Taking what fans loved and only providing the most surface-level version of that. Want an example? Let's talk about how shitty the intro Is compared to DD1. "Oh, the big dragon was in the first game so we're putting him in too :)" without understanding WHY Grigori's introduction was so memorable. In the First game you HAD to challenge him in the beginning, using your shitty weapons and without abilities, and that's how you developed a connection. You tried your best, knowing that you'd fail, but you still wanted to try and deal as much damage as possibile. That's how you create a connection between the game and the player: your intentions matched the story and the vision of the designers. In DD2? You get a high budget cutscene. So glad that I didn't preorder or waste my money on this game. Fuck Capcom and fuck 99% of AAA studios.

As someone with the tiniest shred of nostalgia for DDDA, (played it once up to the post game, until little Timmy [Timmy in this case being me like 2 years ago] got fucking stuck in the everfall, thinking there was no way out) DD2's a solid 8/10. I quite like the video game. I like that the world actually changed in postgame outside of "Oop! That wolf is now a hellhound! Oooh! Not impressed yet? Well, the world now has a god-awful filter! Not like you'd know any of that because 80% of the postgame is in the everfall!" I was really hoping when for the postgame to be a wee bit more, (and ditch the fucking GARBAGE filters they use, I get its the end of the world but damn) would've been dope to FULLY explore the seabed, instead of just the rim and some dried out rivers/lakes. Sexondly, I'm gonna be the first to say this... I LIKE the DD2 ost! Almost equally as much as I like the DDDA ost! The Cassardis theme and the entirety of Bitterblack Isle's soundtrack are still SS+ tier. But I would be lying if I said I didn't like the DD2 ost. The theme for the purgeners is so, so good. Nonetheless, I had fun with DD2 *and* DDDA, but the reason I don't return to DDDA is honestly just that beginning god-awful escort quest, anybody who isnt bored to tears from that (I assume) mandatory quest is a psycho.

Again and again Japanese developers prove they HATE players having fun. JAPANESE HATE FUN. Dont @ me

Def didn’t forget Elden ring that’s for sure. Idc what people say Elden ring is my fav game to date. This game is okay but not even close. I did like this better than monster hunter world tho and def rise. I just like games in general. My complaint with dd2 is kinda same. I like the combat and that’s most important part for me. Story I don’t like much. It is fun to explore around but the quest are awful overall with a few cool ones. I think just like with Elden ring if people would just play the game atleast once before running to RU-vid to meta early or figure out quick ways or even help they will enjoy and get a lot more out the game. Like with Elden ring if you genuinely explore and do first run on your own man it’s hard to beat. This game can be good and better than a good bit of games but don’t compare to Elden ring or even Witcher 3 imo

It makes no sense for the story to be this BAD. When they could have easily picked up where the first game left off right after killing the dragon. The everfall opening up could have branched out a great story in so many different directions. We should have went back to gransys.

I'm disappointed as well with DD2, I hoped it'd improve so much more compared to DD:DA, but it sold really well, and a lot of people feel what I felt with DD1 already, its a cool game burried under a lot of unnessesary crap, hopefully with the DLC and DD3 they get the ressources they need and get some people who are able to get rid of the crap while preserving the awesome from the game, and I'm sure its doable.

02:45 FINALLY SOMEONE SAYS IT. I thought I was losing my mind since none of the reviews I watched bother to mention this mechanic. It's such a deal-breaker for me. Why would the loading of the autosave not put you back into the exact state that existed when the autosave was created??? I like taking on every fight I encounter in games, but DD2 pretty much forces you to run away from fights when you get put into OHKO range if you can't beat the enemies in the first few tries.

Hey, an honest reviewer with testicles. Well, done King.

Perfect review, tired of all the shills acting like they got paid to say how awesome cool and fresh this game is. Is was a huge disappointement and you picked out all the bad points flawlessly. I'll just add the TINY INVENTORY PREVENTING YOU FROM LOOTING IN AN RPG, oh but don't worry, you can get golden scarab to raise inventory capacity....... BY 0.15 !!! ive found like 4 or 5 of them kek.

Yah, I "finished" the game today. I fought the last boss 3 times without knowing what the hell was I supposed to do to end the game already. Then I searched online and read about the "true" ending. After entereing the unmoored I was met with more meaningless enemy encounter spam and was supposed to go to these beacons. I quit. Looked online to see if it was worth it and honestly, asking the player to walk the entire map to convince citizens to move to another place is the least interesting thing someone can do in an endgame. So I unistalled. Had fun with the game in the first 20 or so hours, but after that it was total boredom

Oh okay It wasn’t just me…. I just wanna freaking find a game that I could enjoy. Why is that so hard now of days and I don’t think it’s the vast option of games

Great review dude, just spot on about everything. I 100% agree.

Dont know if you mentioned it, but the story is sooooo bad that you can meet the queen and slave master (who know amd hate you, btw) and speak to them. The best part is THEY DONT KNOW WHO YOU EVEN ARE. you can also pick them up, and i assume, kill them. And complete the plot instantly.

Amen. Only gamers born yesterday can say otherwise.

My gripes with the game after around 130 hours. The ability to pull up the item menu mid game without the pause menu seems to pull up like half curatives only The escort requests dont tell you where they are headed until you accept (really fkn annoying) Gave my warrior pawn the master skill and he just constantly blanks his stamina and doesnt use it intelligently at all. Or any master skill for that matter Other than that, it feels like an improvement in all the areas i care about. If the expansion dungeon rivals bitterblack, ill rejoice. Its a fantastic rpg, and i really am getting excited to see how the build off of MH Sunbreak and take what they applied with DD2 for MH Wilds or whatever 6 will be called.

Feeble King❤

DD fans are insufferable. Correctly complain about their life wasting time dump of a game and they seethe. Their opinion means nothing, I've seen what they think is entertainment.

Just lost hours of save data because I rested at an inn and the game completely froze. I was given the choice to load from last save or last inn stay. Of course I picked from last inn since technically it showed me resting and returning to the game. So I figured, maybe it just glitched.. nope I'm now several hours behind. Leave it to say I uninstalled and will be moving on with my life now. Thanks for nothing, Capcom.

Yeah, main failure of this game is that it feels exactly like first game, huge potential with big weird flaws.

I'm not sure how Capcom works, but they should have just let the Monster Hunter guys have a crack at it after they finished to sorta polish the game as far as the combat and enemies were concerned.

To me, it seems Capcom or developers knew exactly what they were doing. It was brain dead or oversight. Because even if majority don't fall for the microtransacrions- there will still be people who cater to the trashy setup

Wouldn't a disappointment sandwhich be the beginning and end are good, but the middle is bad? Like we don't call a ham and cheese sandwhich, a wheat bread sandwhich or whatever you use to hold the meat or veggies in place.

another few things to improve the game in the future: - NPCs should utilize more world assets, such as using the large ballista whenever a large monster attacks like Ulrika did in the intro. other examples are using alarm horns on top of vernworth castle when monsters attacks, attacking training dummies, sailing, camping, etc. - more activities/minigames such as, fishing, sailing, hunting/tracking, bounty hunting, thief jobs, etc. - more romance activities other than escorting. - more lairs for unique monsters like the medusa. - more roaming monsters like the griffin (significantly less normal monsters between one another). - more visual npc activity, including bar fights, fishing, hunting, bounty hunting (for you), stealing, bandit raiding, begging, mugging, sparing, arresting, etc. - maybe consider adding some kind of mount. - unique gear found in the open world. never anything you would find in shops (shops should give players a good place to start).

Jesus Christ, wtf. I'm writing a whole new comment for this now after the video. I'm having an alright time with DD2 atm and i'm trying, like in every game, to complete as much content as possible. Currently doing everything before talking to the guy that needs the wyrmslife crystals, which only is collecting all Seekers Tokens as the last thing. Idk how, but the microtransactions and saves being automatically overwriten by loading inn saves went over my head completly and it's sounds awful. The unmoored world taking away autosaves is riduculous and it continuing all the fetch quest stuff sounds insane, in a bad sense obviously. The "lover" in the game not being relevant at all basically is infuriating after taking quite a bit of time to get the most affinity on an npc. Pretty much everything that was listed sounds terrible, although i don't have any problem with fighting the same bosses all the time for some reason, which might be because of the badges. The only bigger thing i had a problem with while playing, besides enemy variety, quests and performance, was the music, which wasn't mentioned at all in the video. After around 150 hours, i can't recognize a single soundtrack, nor do i remember even one. Music in a game like this is so important, just for important moments alone. A game like Elden Ring, or the souls series in general, would be straight up worse without their memorable soundtracks. At least 2-3 tracks should be in everyones head, but DD2 doesn't have any. This game, after seeing all this, went from a solid 7 to a confused 4 or something, idk dude. Maybe i'll do NG+ and kill all the npcs this time. Shadow of the Erdtree as a dlc probably deserves to get goty more in the end, if games like this continue to come out