44:34 Know this is unrelated to the point of the vid but Ds2 actually expands on ds1’s ending majorly with Aldia and his experiments to try and find an alternative to the cycle and with the DLC’s, with the canonical ending of the DLC the bearer of the curse leaves the throne while being outside of the confines of the curse due to the crowns in an attempt to find an alternative instead of in Ds1 where you either link the fire or actively choose to plunge the world into dark where as another chosen undead would come and continue the cycle. Ds3 then expands on this by providing an out in the painted work with the blood of the dark soul at the end of the ring city dlc.

basically the only actually honest and sincere review or video on this game I've seen other than sphere hunter's

Big sorcery spell is fun for hot second. but in the end, the casting time and stamina usage is bad factor. May be that's why they introduce spell sync in the first place. DD2 has improved mechanics such as quick casting, storing spells and stamina recovery. but losing 2 spell slots is killing me. just let me have more. >:o

I just bought the game last weekend. I love it. I didn't play the 1st game. I didn't even know it existed until i saw the gameplay of the sequel. I wasn't following the game in youtube or social media either, so I'm kinda shocked that people don't like the game.

The Coco Peru inclusion pleases me.

DD Dark Arisen being good Rpg game. Tats very tough one to say. Better than Dragon's Dogma 2 tats for sure... Which is very sad for me, my DD2 Arisen woman looks like the hottest 30s woman of all yeah!

Yalll the game is a bombbb. It is so addictive and I never had any performance issues and micro transactions are not necessary

I love DDDA. DD2 is a letdown. I don't care about the furries in Arthurian Utah or Utah at all, really. I prefer the world and locations of DDDA. Locations were all unique and interesting. The most interesting location of DD2 is.. idk, nowhere. Besides improved combat, everything else is worse.

Omg idk if people are slow or what They have microtransactions for convenience. If you don't like it don't buy it. It's so simple. No one is pointing a gun at you the "fantasy" is still there. If having an option is ruining your experience then you are the problem

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 quickly enough 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?

Good news is, no is asking for Dragons Dogma 3

5/10 it’s kinda below mid

Waste of money.

It’s a trash game, the fire one was way better. This is like a souls clunky battle and traveling alllllll day to unlock stuff . Running into walls,maybe 4 fast travels. FOR A SINGLE PLAYER GAME

The best 5 of 9 vocations of DD1 were destroyed by Itsuno and I would not have purchased his piece of crap game DD2. And how can you play Dogma without playing Bitterblack Isle and say that you played it. An obvious huge mistake or you are a liar. The vanilla game sucked until a new producer and Kinoshita directed Dark Arisen.

This video deserves more attention 💯

They really could have stood to give the main conflict another draft or two. The primary conflict could have been between 2 factions, the Vermudian pro-Arisen army and the Battahlian anti-Arisen anti-Chosen One/Fate forces each battling it out over who should be the one to take down the Red Dragon. Each faction could have had its own ties to the currently existing endings, at that. Vermund would be the ending where the Arisen takes the throne while Battahl would be the Unmoored World/breaking the cycle ending, with neither ending being promoted as the ideal outcome.

This channel is underrated and you pretty much summed up exactly how I felt about dragons dogma 2. As a sequel it's disappointing but as a stand alone game it's fine. Hopefully we get a dlc that rounds out the experience.

Excellent review! I'm glad that I'm not the only one that had a lot of the same issues that you did. Those issues need to be called out because the defense I'm seeing from fanboys is just "you're not playing it right" or "you just don't understand the game".

Beat the game after 25 hours, i doubt I'll ever pick it up again, no replay value

Notes : I never got any NPC going hostile on me for no reason. Also never engaged with "stealth" since it's quite easy to grab a guard uniform early in the game and it allows free access to the castle and jail as long as you avoid the main door. It seems days in the unmoored world only pass when resting. With allheal elixirs, wakestones and swapping pawns I never saw the mist progressing past the Melve area. Actually thanks to your video I now know that it is indeed supposed to progress :p Thoughts : I preferred how the first game had a clear divide between main and side quests, my first playthrought of DD2 was confusing because I didn't know when a quest would progress the story and potentially prevent me from finishing a side quest. The first part is centered on court intrigue instead of hunting monsters and the general narrative makes the Arisen more interested in taking the throne of Vermund that it should be. With the dragon trial/choice and the Duke in the first game it was pretty clear that the Arisen should be above this, just yearning to roam free and take on challenges. The tighter narrative of DD2 thus feels constraining. The game really feels rushed out and inconsistent. Again! Caves and dungeons are plentier than in the first game, they're also (way) shallower than even Skyrim's. The Moon Tower is a joke. I can think of a handful of places that were half-interesting to explore, and most are optional. Didn't these guys made Bitterblack Isle? The catacombs? The Bluemoon Tower? Even the Shadow Fort had more going on than most of DD2's caves.

I expected to like this game but was surprised at how much I like it. This is fast becoming one of my favourite RPGs - I am genuinely immersed in the world DD2 has given me to explore. It's a new Skyrim for me, a game I have sunk days into and will gladly sink many more.

Such a shame I'm new to the series and even upgraded to a 30 series graphics card, my friend on a 40 series and we're both seeing major frame drops making the game un-enjoyable, so far Capcom seems to be fixing everything except the performance here on PC

I want to like the game I finished the game, and wanted to try NG+ But... what is there to do? You melt through enemies like they're nothing. There's nothing new for ng+ The story just isn't gripping enough to want to experience it again, as it doesn't even matter in the grand scheme of things. You can do the bare minimum and get the same results as doing everything.

Wow, it amazes me that your channel is as small as it is. Out of the many reviews and critiques I've watched thus far, this one definitely ranks at least top 3. Everything down to even the music choice is extremely well done. I'm eager to see where you'll go from here. Definitely subscribing <3

3:45 HAH? as far as ive seem dragons dogma 2 took everything that sorcerer and mage did awful in the first game and made it worse, granted there wasnt many issues in the first game, but this game made them even more glaringly slow. you need 2 rings spent on spellcasting speed increase just to not get constantly gaggleforked by every goblin that remotely looks in your general direction

dd2 > rebirth

Great video man

Dragons Dogma 2 has to be the most disappointing and bizarre experience I had with any game, it's more of a remake than a sequel but it did not address any of the games previous issue, in fact outside combat (that a point could be made for the first game's to be superior) everything is a downgrade: The story and characters are worse, exploration is mid at best since all the best equipment is found in stores again and almost all _dungeons_ are three room caves with saurians, systems like armor layering or dragonforging were better implemented in DD1 and the post game has nothing on the Everfall/Bitter Black Isle, *it doesn't even has a final boss* I really don't get how they basically made the same game twice with the same flaws.

Amazing review. It's super fair and stands well on its own even without comparing to DD1, BUT as it's a sequel, a comparison is needed. Doing so is even more disappointing too haha. Thank you for your well-written thoughts!

Of course it was good, it was amazing in fact, no need to ask the question at this point.

This franchise has some shitty writers and directors

I have to disagree quite a lot on the vocation section, especially on Sorcerer, this Vocation got gutted heavily. Losing all Darkness and Light affinity spells, removing some seriously cool spells like Brontide(Eletric whip). For some mere QoL features are not close to being worth it. Also, you really like the Trickster, you don't see an issue of Vocation which deals zero damage? Being sole support in the singleplayer game, with AI companions? It sounds like it is really bad desing then anything. However, I enjoyed your video greatly, thank you for the last section of the video, seems like not many reviews if any really, touched on the Hideaki Lies.

Always complaining about transactions lol if u can’t control urself than just say that. Transactions help the company generate more money for the new games as well as help people who don’t slave there life away like u on this game. Some of us don’t got time like u selfish bastard! With that said imma still watch the rest but u better not be on no bs

Not having a dodge on the warrior killed this games replayability for me whoever decided to add a halfstep shoulder check that never hits and is oitright useless over a dash, dodge or sidestep deserves to be fired.

It really sucks how we don't even get to learn this Dragon's name Also how the quests don't have the same level of reactivity as the first. For instance, the quest where you help the empress of Battahl root out a traitor, I got the ending where she poisons herself to avoid questioning. I thought, "Ha! Got your ass, you ain't escaping that easily, " and tried to use a wakestone on her, but the game wouldn't let me. Not only is this shallow, but it's straight up lore-breaking that I couldn't use that wakestone when you can use them in any other situation. Now compare that to DD1. If you interrupt the duel between Mercedes and Julien, you kill Julien, Mercedes is pissed and leaves. The quest ends there. But that doesn't stop you from using a wakestone to revive him, which results in him going to prison. Then you visit him in prison, and he gives you his shield. Then, you can unlock the door and carry him out of prison, all the while Julien is left utterly confused about your decision-making process and whose side you're even on. And keep in mind, you didn't have to do anything more than kill him. The quest ended. Everything past that is just a bonus reward for creativity, Dragon's Dogma 2 just doesn't have that same inventive spark

Idc about the optimization as much as I do about the armor slot customization and lack of enemy variety

Did you seriously call those linear short caves dungeons? Naw I'm out with this video. This game is a turd and sours the taste of the original.

Most of "immersive-breaking" mechanics in the game matchs Itsuno's vision of oldschool-JRPGs, like " immediately breaking prison and get your itens back - or maybe walking into a house of a random person and snatch their chest - choice picks that's complete meaningless in the end". I know people don't appreciate those features but ithat's how asian JRPG-filosophy works. I know the hate train with this game is keeping getting bigger with new passengers but every single decision behind design-perspective in this game has a logical explanation behind it, and honestly it's sad that people don't really do researchs on those topics and just are more focused into "finding an original way of communicating the same old critics"

And oh, the Seneschal entity isn't the same as the Pathfinder entity. Pathfinder has the control of the Brines, Seneschal in the original game COULD DIE to the Brines (despite of being a god-like figure). The only Seneschal you see in the game is Rothais (the Arisen you find in Seafloor Shrine and self-claimed founder of Vermund). Pathfinder is probably one rank above of the Seneschal. The Pathfinder happens to show-up because his radar/sentient nature sensed that something was changing the balance of the cycles, then during the story you find out that this figure was the Seneschal (Rothais) that was killing the Arisens and collecting fragments of their souls. Rothais also gives the Godsbane to the Arisen after it disappears momentarily. Note: Rothais is still alive since you see him again in the post-game". If you compare with the first game, the Godsbane is also a gift from Seneschal Savan. During the fight with Dragon, it plants doubt in Arisen's head about how the world works, and that bring you to he Unmoored World, which you can face as "the outside of Arisen's Matrix", the world being torn-apart by some unknown force. Pathfinder reveals that the "Greater Will -> God -> Creator of the Universe" created the cycles and Dragons to prevent the world of being completely destroyed by this unknown force. What Pathfinder wants is that you continue the cycle without the inferference as he considers himself a "writer zealot", an instrument of continuity. In the end, it's safe to assume that this game (despite of being a remake of the first game), complements the story of the first game and it's a direct sequel.

Also, the game wasn't in the makings for 12 years. The development started in 2019 and stopped in the same year because of Covid, they had to revamp the whole climbing system and some other features in the game. Development of this game took roughly 3 to 5 years. I agree with you that the characters are unidimensional and lack personality, it feels more like "bots" than "characters" tbh

Actually... Mystic Spearhand can be acessible at the very beggining after the second dragon attack on melve. Sigurd will be there and if you talk to him, he'll give you acess to the class.

I dont think you know what the word "Dogma". Like to complain about the ending being about a test from God, in a game called Dragon's Dogma, is pretty crazy like are you mad that Sauron was after the Ring of Power in Lord of the Rings

Pretty similar in my opinions. Love the combat, but find enemy variety lacking and the frequency of encounters tedious. Love how unique the vocations feel, but the lack of a dodge or block on archer and especially mystic spearhand felt really bad imo. The mage classes, while generally more fun with quickcast, lost some of their unique and interesting spells compared the first game, especially sorcerer. Honestly, without the catastrophe spells, sorcerer kinda just feels like mage without the support spells to me. Rip mystick knight my beloved. Also, imo the dragon fight was extremely boring. Any random drake encounter was more fun and interesting for me. I don't understand why they even kept the affinity system, the romance system feels even _less_ finished than in the original. The reveal with the dragon at the end feels even weirder because your relationship to the 'main' romanceable NPCs feels somehow even less pronounced. But hey, at least I can 10% discount by dropping a couple wyrmslife crystals in a vendor's pocket. The story disappoints me the most. The political intrigue gets built all the way up to fall flat on it's face, Battahl gets nothing interesting in the main quest aside from a main antagonist living there, and everything relevant to breaking the cycle comes _after_ you've already made the choice to do so, and you're not really given a reason for why it needs to be broken in the first place. I can see how a very interesting story with actual decisions could exist here. (from here I just theorize my proposed story alterations) If you will indulge me: After the coronation, you learn from Mad King and/or Phaesus about the cycle and why they want to change it. From there you decide whether you want to break it or embrace it. If you decide to embrace it, it can lead to a plotline where all of the major political powers are against you and you eventually oust Disa and her schemes _before_ confronting the dragon and becoming the Sovereign. If you decide to break it, the Great Will could invoke the Gigantus and potentially other monstrous threats against you. Maybe the unmoored world _is_ the end of the world, or at least a new state for the world to be in that doesn't get reset for no adequately explained reason. That would imply consequences to your choice and reinforce the Great Will's design. Then, perhaps, you fight the great will itself, with swords and sorcery instead of a glorified cutscene. Idk, just kinda spitballing here. The lack of a reason to break the cycle and the complete disregard of everything you do in Vernworth are my main points of contention with DD2 and I like to think this would fix those issues.

How I feel is good, but… the DLC gotta be something massive🤷🏾‍♂️ otherwise the game is slightly disappointing

Now to wait for the Dragon's Dogma Online video. No clue how the story is, but playing with other actual people with this combat system has stolen around 200 hours of my life last month.

I must heavily disagree about the good start. I remember constantly hoping that eventually something will happen, but it never did. Then we arrive in the city and it seems like the most boring fetch quests in DD1 for ser Maximilian are back and amped up even more, being even more boring since they now don't even involve combat. Then it turns out, the boring missions didn't even lead to anything, you walk up to the castle, your lawn gets a headache and you immediately leave. Like, wtf? All that build up just for that? In the first part at least you were constantly fighting, the boring trailing missions were at least short, but between the ball, ""sneaking"" into the castle multiple times just to talk to Sven once and head out again, I dont know, my points go to the first part any day. I could rant about a lot of other things I disagree with, but what's even the point. I didn't think I'd be in the minority with my gripes, having watched quite a few of reviews and takes on the game now, so apparently my opinions are just not justified, or something

Thanks for affirming that I'm NOT crazy. When this game came out, it was heavily praised. Keep in mind that I am a huge fan of the original, despite its many flaws...but when I played this sequel, I scratched my head to find all the improvements? The entire game feels like a series of steps forward & an equal amount of steps backwards. The map is 4x larger, but its nothing buy narrow winding paths with an excess of the exact same mobs. The game adds a handful of new enemies, but removes the same amount of enemies from the original. The game has more explorable caves, but they are all identical looking. The game just re-uses so much from the original, down to armor (which is fine) but now limits the number of armor pieces. And I could go on & on. The problem is that where the first game was extremely slow & boring initially, it got much better the deeper you got into it. Whereas this sequel is the exact opposite, where it starts out strong but gets extremely tedious the deeper you get into it. It seriously feels like so much more content was conceptualized, but never implemented so as to save for future DLC. And I thought I was going crazy wondering where is the game that everyone seems to be praising because I just don't see it? That's not to say its terrible, just not the masterpiece that so many claim. Its full of inconsistencies & mis-steps. And I want the game that was promised. Guess I'll just have to wait for the DLC, for a price. I'm getting so pissed with Capcom's greed.

I heard it's more a remake than a sequel as one who has never played the first I wouldn't know. Hopefully, they'll expand upon it with DLC (or a sequel).

performance isnt an issue for me....the story and npc interactions, the world of npcs, the quests are shallow and simple. They offer no deep immersion for the player. all this game is a nice looking fantasy world with action packed combat. The only good npc interactions involve fighting. However, the monsters have become easier than the first dogma. Apart from that, this game feels like a reskinned, graphically revamped first dragons dogma. Like the first, story, quests and relationships with npcs are wonky and awkward