100% True & Honest Review of Dragon's Dogma 2

I officially spent 100 hours in Dragon's Dogma 2. Here is my review after trying every single vocation and experiencing as much of the game as possible. Unfortunately, this game was played with day-one reviews and even week-one reviews from people who didn't play the game. misinformation about microtransactions, end game, and world design led many to believe this was a mess of a game. Thankfully these accusations are all inaccurate and while not perfect by any means, Dragon's Dogma 2 is a very good game. Overpriced, but has amazing gameplay which is the most important aspect.
Dragon’s Dogma 2 is a single-player, narrative-driven action RPG that challenges the players to choose their own experience from the appearance of their Arisen, their vocation, their party, how to approach different situations, and more - in a truly immersive fantasy world.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:56 Gameplay
03:34 Vocations
07:10 Master Skills
08:30 Open World
10:30 Enemy Variety
12:50 Dragonsplague
14:50 Camping Kit
16:50 Quests
19:50 Story
21:04 End Game
22:54 Extra
25:30 Conclusion
26:34 Outro
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[@OHaaaiden]

The first time a sorcerer pawn utterly nuked a full health griffin, I nearly fell out of my chair laughing…

[@smitty7326]

The first time that happened to me was when the sculptor wanted me to fight one slowly so he could study it lol. I blinked and two health bars evaporated.

[@Sameruno]

i got a sorcerer pawn randomly from the rift, i didn't check his skills. He had meteron. he completely demolished my adventuring experience that until i swapped him out. he one-shotted literally everything except a dragon

[@_Bya__]

"Mystic Spearhand is the closest to Mystic Knight because it has the word Mystic in it" would be the correct description

[@tubii-fushii1173]

Mystic spearhead is dragon's dogma dragoon if you know how to use it properly even the abilities are pronounce dragoon jus spelt differently

[@OD91MJ]

@@tubii-fushii1173Dragoon is pronounced Jedi

[@andrewgood7586]

I was one of the people who fought the dragon, became king and continued the cycle my first play through because I had no idea there was more. Ill catch it on my second run. lol

[@DirtyMindMonster]

I too just fought the dragon, am now playing BBI. I feel like I rushed the main quests a little bit? Do you think I missed a lot? Should I just start a new game or ng+? I feel like I’m missing the meat of the game.

[@andrewgood7586]

@@DirtyMindMonster ng+ and take your time

[@unwashedhands2087]

Between the reception of DD2 and Rise of the Ronin, I've learned that people will always find ways to trick themselves into not enjoying great games

[@syfodiaz4936]

Great to you , you mean! Some people think COD is a great game!

[@jprec5174]

I mean it's okay to like mediocre games. RotR is mediocre. Dragon's Dogma as a franchise is mediocre lol but I still like DDDA.

[@unwashedhands2087]

@@jprec5174 Mediocre means average or of moderate quality. From a gameplay perspective, both of these games are well above average compared to the action combat you would experience in similar games. Most Team Ninja games are tbh

[@jprec5174]

@@unwashedhands2087 yea. They aren't great. Just mediocre.

[@unwashedhands2087]

@@stankobarabata2406 That's what I don't get. People'll call games with almost objectively great gameplay "mediocre". I kinda expect it with Team Ninja games since it usually takes time to understand their complicated combat systems, (Nioh 2), but it shouldn't really be the case with a game like this.

[@ProStreeter100]

A little tip for everyone here that i haven't seen anyone mention - As long as you are not trampled (stomped into the ground and laying down, by for example a dragon landing on you) You can quickly open the item menu and use healing items even if your health is 0. So long as you don't hit the ground and is still in a death animation you can allways heal it with items.

[@ericmoreau4568]

In that cave with the saurians (one of the first quests) I had to do that repeatedly...yet sadly, it wasn't enough and I had to reload my last Inn Save, hours back...🙃

[@tr4l1975]

Asterisk for patch notes 3-29 and 4-1 "These options won't affect frame rate significantly. Improvements to frame rate are planned for future updates." They have NOT fixed those yet, some PC users are still waiting for CPU optimization.

[@ultradius7]

Exactly, the game has a major performance problem, even though it mentions that it has had no problems with the game's performance, in the video you can see how its FPS drops brutally at 24:55... Capcom need to fix this, its a 70$ game.

[@DANCERcow]

Get a better PC or play as a lower resolution and lower frame rate like a normal person!

[@Oozaru85]

​​​@@DANCERcowSaying this without knowing what hardware he has just shows how ignorant you fanboys are. Also, the CPU issues have nothing to do with graphics settings, you dolt. Capcom themselves said, that lowering those settings wont fix the CPU issues.

[@Jonrskittles]

@@DANCERcow Or maybe the people that made the game should optimize their games before sending it out so that ALOT of people wont have performance problems even when playing low on everything JUST so they can move around in their towns and a couple caves? I have a 3080 there should be no excuse as to why I get 35 frames per second on lowest everything its ridiculous, meanwhile in their recent games like Resident evil 8 i can run it fine at 120 frames near max

[@BraapTales]

@@DANCERcow 4070ti here, game crashes every single time I turn on DLSS or RT. Capcom needs to fix their crap.

[@InkubusGames]

I pretty much agree with almost everything you have said but I would point out 3 things which might be significant. 1) Microtransactions are tests by the publisher. They will do this in certain amount of games and later, they will make them more severe. 2) I am having RTX3070, playing on 1080p and I am getting frame drops in densly populated areas such as Vernworth. DLSS changes only the amount of noise that my card makes (it is lower when DLSS is on) 3) Trickster class is intended for those who like to play minion builds (in this case pawns are the minions) while debufing enemies. I am playing games since the mid 80s and DD2 is for sure a unique experience of having a good adventure with team mates. The world feels alive due to a non scripted nature of various pawns moving around and having unexpected giant monster to fight. What DD2 needs is to have more emphasis on the party where pawns would be more attached to the arisen especially the main pawn. What I am talking about is the level of attachment commander Shepard has with his/hers crew in Mass Effect series. The first part of the DD2 main quest was supposed to be some sort of a dectective investigation but it flopped and it just made me willing to go out and explore while putting my main quest on hold until I have reashed lvl50. With that said, going to Bathal has more than one path. What I really disliked is SeekerTokens. While Beetles were ok to find, tokens were tedious (yes I know about the trickster's ability to detect them, still tedious). I think that doesn't bring enjoyable gameplay and should be overhauled significantly. The combat on the other hand is really enjoyable.

[@EVA.nefilim]

Totally agree. But the microtransactions topic is kinda obvious, if they get more profit of course they will add it. It reminds me of Ubisoft, people hate valhalla because of skins and stuff but at the same time it gave the most profit to them; so obviously they will keep using the formula

[@xavierdoesntmatter]

I didn't hear my #1 complaint. They went with a voiceless protagonist which I love but there is no text for what you say either. Which creates a lot of weird situations where an NPC asks you a question and then afterwards reacts to what ever you said but you don't actually know what you said. This is shown as soon as you escape and you're following a soldier and he says "So tell me about this prison you escaped from" and after a pause "I've never heard of a prison like that"... Ok, for starters you're dressed like a soldier so why would i even tell you I escaped a prison considering you might take me back and secondly why would I tell you about the prison plus what did I tell you about it? I was there for like 5 minutes, I didn't even have time to understand what I was seeing or doing since I was basically being rushed through a tutorial with no understanding of context.

[@greatrulo]

Eh, a lot of people grew up on JRPGs like this, you get used to it.

[@JMrealgamer]

This is so true my man! 😂

[@venomshake8187]

Eh, seems like such a non issue

[@gabbagoobus9158]

@@greatrulogetting used to outdated game jank doesnt create a better experience. You’re just willfully ignorant to bad game design. Dd fans are so dead set wanting this game to be a masterpiece that they ignore all of the terrible game mechanics: jank, unfinished nature, large but yet mostly UNEXPLORABLE map, incessantly repeated npc dialogue, terrible ai pathing, and not a single shred of proper lip syncing outside cut scenes and thats just off the top of my head. And everything i said about the game wasnt even an opinion 😂 its ALL TRUE!

[@TheConcentrated]

It's lame. Agreed.

[@harrybroaddus846]

You nailed it. Loved BG3 but having hella lots of fun exploring in this one. Very different games. no performance issues at all with my PC.

[@lebalsie362]

Awsome bud. Ive been waiting for your insight. Spot on.

[@stevenfrye8640]

At 21:04, what is the song/OST playing in the background? I love it!

[@davideddy8557]

I have to wonder if the devs were keeping Unmoored World/NG+ in mind when distributing the ferrystones. You get a decent few as quest rewards during game, but after dicking around in the unmoored world for a few days I ended up getting 7 ferrystones out of chests and my pawns picked up a further 16 that were just laying around in the former watery area. That has so far trivialized most if not all the travel issues in my second playthrough.

[@KodasGarden]

yeah I mean, the first game was kinda the same way, barraging you with the QoL stuff in the Everfall and such. I think the devs just want to reward you for persevering to that point, which I think is a really interesting way of doing things. of course, then Dark Arisen came out and added the eternal ferrystone, but then BBI still barraged you with convenient rewards, so it was still fun

[@richardclark7990]

love to see this channel growing, found you when i was playing outward a handful of years back and it helped out a ton! and youv just been uploading vids on all the games iv played since lmao love the content!

[@zentryx32]

after playing the original DD like 10 times, i really hate the enemie variety, i mean they reused the goblin, quimera, ciclops, dragons body squeletons, why not do the same with the cocatriz, beholder, manticore, because now we have dullahan instead of the living armor or minotaurs instead of eliminator, also i understand they separated strider in to thief and archer but i hate they dont have an upgrade like sniper or the incredible assasin, and for me trickster and wayfarer are like filler

[@TetrisChemist]

do you think that a game made 12 years ago on an old engine can just be ported directly to the new RE engine? this ain't bethesda, bud, it's not that simple

[@pidgy8927]

@@TetrisChemist they never said that

[@OtakuBenny2210]

Christ so many spelling mistakes....

[@Copperscaled]

because all of these enemies need to be made again, there's no shortage of enemy "ideas", the issue is designing them and coding/making them in the new engine. i do agree with the trickster/warfarer. i feel like it would've been only fair that we expect all basic vocations to have an advanced one, and hybrids in between (especially when they use the same color scheme from the original, which did this thing we expected)

[@BenkaiDebussy]

You are deeply misunderstanding the Warfarer if you think it's filler lol

[@mykindofgaming7345]

Traveling on those ropes. In that cart up in the air is so fun and cool looking.

[@ajackson5683]

Dragon's plague should drop Plagued Armor set that has that black plague affect visible on it after you fight the Plagued dragon and if you don't defeat it THEN the people in the town will die.

[@henrikaugustsson4041]

There IS a way to deal damage with Trickster, so long as there are multiple enemies. You can trick the enemies into attacking one of them by "possessing them" with your illusion clone. When fighting big monsters, you can't hurt them, but you can distract them into attacking your clone and keeping your party safer.

[@STNJ_YT]

Gotta say, I rarely felt frustrated with the questing. Maybe wishing the end game felt more fleshed out compare to the beginning part of the game. It does sort of just end unsatisfyingly. However the quests themselves I was never frustrated by their design. "Oh i cant continue this quest cause they want me to come back in a few days?" Okay, so go do a different quest. Go explore. Go kill some shit around the area. Go play the game. You dont have to "oh now i have to rest to see the next quest." You can if you want, but why would you want to? Play the game lol

[@ToliG123]

Agreed. Had no major issues. Sure, it's tedious at times. But thats such a fundamental video game issue. Almost no RPG is free of such moments. If anything this game had pretty unique solutions and different conclusions for tons of them.

[@mrmaggot6699]

I actually agree on the poor quest design, though not because we often have to return to questgivers at a later time. I think there were many instances of quests just not being fun. For example, in The Caged Magistrate, you are sent to sway a magistrate in the Vernworth jail to your cause. Once the magistrate has been found, you need to open his jail cell so you can go inside and talk to him. Later in the game, when I was asked to interrogate an inmate in the Bakbattahl jail, I immediately opened his cell because that's what The Caged Magistrate had taught me to do. Yet by doing this, I made two jailers, one of whom is still relevant at a later point in this quest, permantently aggressive towards me. No warning, no chance to explain myself, just instant combat with two NPCs that I could now never talk to again in this playthrough. Turns out you're supposed to talk to the inmates in this jail through the bars. It's insane to me how the first quest taught me to do something which would be so detrimental when tried again in a later, similar quest.

[@HHTwice]

@@mrmaggot6699you failed to notice the fact that the magistrate was sitting away from the door, requiring you to open it up to get closer to him and also didint notice the criminal in Bakbatthal was up against the door making it completely unnecessary to unlock it?

[@mrmaggot6699]

@@HHTwice I assumed the Bakbattahl prisoner was supposed to be further from the door, like the magistrate. But I will concede that I failed to notice the prompt to speak with him before I opened the door.

[@Morcorco]

I fell like it's the issue (or the point) in both games. You're following questlines but you never get full closure. The dragon comes and you're leaving rest of the business unfinished. It's not perfect, it feels unsatisfying sometimes, but also makes the world more believable and when you get the true ending you can see that the story of all the people you've helped continues. I like that most of the quests you can miss or fail and see the consequences, some you can seemingly finish without realizing there's more to them. But also some are really buggy and unintuitive and that part was most frustrating to me.

[@Citizen1482608]

All dd2 needs now is BBI or better expansion. I played it for 160 hours and took a break to let my poor fingers rest. That was with only one vocation time to finish it with the rest. Also I only play with my own paen since the game is faceroll easy after 2500 hours of BBI in DDDA.

[@TheTenshi777]

Been watching reviews since the game came out and this is the first one that feels informative to me. Thanks for making this video.

[@philipmelaas317]

Getting harder and harder to find accurate and honest takes where 99% of "reviews" are knee-jerk emotionally-driven copypasta from people who are *not* the target audience and never had any intention of playing the game in the first place. It bears the stink of people arguing politics...but about video games. There's no hope for this species.

[@GrimGianni]

Smart move is to make your main pawn a Mage, that way you can play whatever you want, and always have the heals for the team.

[@praisetheoak]

I've just finished my 4th playthrough in about 3.5hr after 200hr of total play time and finally got all of the achievements. Still got lots of quests, dialogue and outcomes that I've been told I missed, but for now I will patiently wait until they do something to the performance, because it is rough on that department. Until the DLC comes out, I'd say the game needs: -Hard Mode or some sort of enemy balance, because it is too easy. Specially with End-game loot and max-rank vocations. -End-Game content. It needs to be more fleshed out and have more rare, better rewards in general. -Special events like the UR-Dragon from the first one. -They need to make Dragon-plague a more interesting mechanic. Maybe once after your pawn transforms, have it fly around the map and stalk the player until you take it down to make your pawn return to normal. -Performance improvements, performance improvements, performance improvements...

[@andrewgood7586]

Imagine this. 4 friends. Each friend plays as themselves and makes their main pawn one of the other friends. Then each friend hires the other friends pawns. 4 friends traveling and fighting together. lol

[@Garebeard38]

This is exactly how my friends and I played through the first game when it released, this comment was a blast from the past lol.

[@andrewgood7586]

@@Garebeard38 I just wish I had 3 friends. lol

[@TagRoss]

And then you realize that every one of your friends made a pawn of you

[@andrewgood7586]

@@TagRoss lmao I almost did that with one of my friends. Maybe on my third play through. lol

[@ViewtifulBeau]

I would've but my friend randy is an Xbox fan boy and Capcom didn't make the Rift cross platform

[@alexward1003]

The best way to prolon* endgame is to stock up allheal potions. It restores loss hp guage as well as hp. Obviously, clear the beacons to extend the ammount of times u can rest. Im able to do everything story wise with 3-4 allheal potions giving me 12 rests to wrap up exploration and stock up on rare enhancement materials in new game +(make sure to kill purple wisps for eldracite as its only available in unmoored world) there are also 9 unique armor items in the unmoored world so get those as well.

[@ToliG123]

Both Garm and Wargs are in the game. However I haven't found any of either that respawn. They're basically identical. So I def didn't notice a difference until NG+.

[@Jodiwho22]

All enemies respawn some just take longer. Medusa for example takes like 12-14 days

[@LeonserGT]

@@Jodiwho22 Wargs dont, they're weird, as if they never meant to be properly implemented, but still did, there's like 3 of them total and the only way to make them respawn in NG+ This matters for pointy fang resource, cuz 2 of these 3 wargs spawn fighting with cyclops so you gotta rush and finish them off to get their fangs before they die and decay, because that 3rd one may never drop it

[@SirS3mt3x]

I see the "Trickster without Pawns" challenge run already 👀

[@henrikaugustsson4041]

About the Microtransactions: The things you buy in as mtx in this game are basically not affecting the gameplay at all, except for one item which you can EASILY find if you try the thief class. Wakestone shards can be stolen from mob enemies, and that's the only thing that really has any boon in the game, because it serves as extra lives, but you also don't need them unless you messed up and don't want to grind for them or track them down. It's not really pay to win, because there's nothing you can buy with the Rift Crystals you can buy that affects power level, it's just cosmetic stuff that don't really look good anyway, and maybe a dye or two and the book that transforms your entire character, but you can get those easily, too. Nothing here is anything you really need, or can't get in the game, except for the golden weapons that do marginally more damage than the beginner weapons of all classes, and let's face it, if you use them, you're a loser.

[@Chris-sm2uj]

bootlicker

[@highmonkeyfilmz77]

I really hope they add a multiplayer for players to join their friends make more expansions bring back bitter black isle and make more dlc. They can do a lot and if done right. Also does Dragons dogma 2 take place In a different country or what. Is it a continuation of 1 or what?

[@suffer8318]

I never played DD1, but having seen videos and having platinumed and spent 100+ hours on a single playthrough DD1 from the outside looks like a way better game from clips from this channel. The GFX may be outdated but they aren't everything.. The only thing that looks better is the QoL updates.

[@Zero-Descent]

I played both, 2 is better.

[@reikoruffneck4613]

Dragons plague can be avoided by simply checking pawns eyes, if they start glowing red change them for different ones, if it's your pawn just throw them into water or off a cliff then respawn by touching a riftstone, 3 playthrough so far with 200 hours and no one went psycho. Try listen for them being argumentative when you tell them to attack using up on the d pad too

[@gioeleronchi5210]

I remember DD1 having alot of mods fixing some unecessary and tedious Dev things... you think the community can fix the issues you mentioned with mods?

[@overwatchafterhours3936]

Love the game only complaint i got so far is not having something like a horse. Sure the Oxcart was useful but without ferrystone your pretty much running constantly.

[@elizabethandeldinkamberovi1929]

Eternal Wakestones wake up whole towns you don't have to wait or be screwed, you can dup them at the forger in checkpoint gate too and they still work. So far I only know of the one Sphinx gives you, but like I said just make a forgry but ecept it wont be fake it'll be another real Eternal wakestone. Pretty sure the rarest item in the game?

[@dimitrisuricato]

Trading the Hydra for the Medusa 😢 i want hydra back, way cooler

[@Savon_the_gallent_knight]

Ah yes the enemy you fight only twice

[@dimitrisuricato]

@@Savon_the_gallent_knight incorrect. Used to love fighting it at the Everfall constantly. I kept respawning it to fight again

[@PKDeviluke25]

Why? The Hydra sucks compared to the medusa.

[@Savon_the_gallent_knight]

@@dimitrisuricato wish it was in the world though

[@OtakuBenny2210]

There be in the dlc ,or the actual cut content because they rushed the game out ,games good but the original is better in every way .

[@ialphasoul2460]

i feel like the ferrystones were meant to be Hoarded for the Endgame since u dont have much time and u have to venture long distance

[@ButterscotchPenguin]

You get a lot of them from enemies in post game

[@heqitao]

Great job brother. Thanks for sharing your opinion and experience.

[@paulstones1451]

If you don't destroy all red beacons in the end game does it not let you get into the new game plus as every time I hit the last beacon the cut scene is me on the dragons back then it burns me, but can't really be bothered to do all the end game over again

[@MuraCasardis]

Hide behind the horns on the wing to protect yourself from the fire.

[@maharaja101]

I died to that too a couple of times. It's not really telegraphed but you need to be in cover when it does that fire thing.

[@paulstones1451]

@maharaja101 yeah i finally did it after doing a bit research a was thinking I did something wrong

[@mykindofgaming7345]

Great review lad. Cheers🎉🎉🎉

[@Meme_dad1]

DD was flawed but was sooooooo good. And the sequel is just what I needed to scratch my dragons dogma itch. I love it!!

[@declanmorden]

My biggest issue is honestly the fcat that you can only equip 4 skills rather than 6 like the first game, especially s someone who mains sorcerer. Honestly I think the reason that has really gotten to me is simply due to the fact that they very easily could have allowed for 8 skills, at least that's how it feels when playing on controller.

[@TheMrTC3]

They could have done skill assignments per weapon like the first game with giving us 4 this time instead of 3. In case of only having on weapon like mages, sorcerers and warriors they get double, like the first game, however they did screw warriors over in first game by not giving 6 like other aforementioned.

[@ynglock289]

Yo SheenShots i am kinda new to outward and have under 70 hours in the game, I loved watching your 2022 COOP series it was very enjoyable to watch and see u complete the holy mission faction quest which was one of the main reasons i purchased the game. I would like to ask if you could do a new 2024 COOP series as you are genuinely the most entertaining outward youtuber out there. It would be incredible and super fun, I dont mean to create the image that ur only good content is Outward u are a great youtuber with so many amazing videos i would just love and outward series as u are the best.

[@don2nd650]

Is outward worth a play through?

[@ynglock289]

@@don2nd650 i got it around 2 weeks ago maybe a bit more i now have 97 hours the game is incredible and unique CooP is amazing and the game is great fun. If you want a recommendation convince a friend to play coop with you it’s an experience you don’t get in any other open world RPG

[@justpostedagain]

​@@don2nd650 From one internet stranger to another: absolutely. One of my favourite games. It is definitely best enjoyed with a friend, if you can persuade one to join you. It is somewhat janky and often punishing, but if you understand that going in and settle into it, you'll find many many happy hours with it. I enjoyed it from the off, personally.

[@SagaRaamenman]

Problem with fighting the enemies and counterproposing to fighting different enemies to kill boredom is that they all die within 10-30sec. There is really no purpose to explore anything else in the secret ending because NG+ is just the same stuff.

[@Wilbor70]

What I find nice these days is when AA titles end up worth more playtime and inherent value than triple A, overhyped flashbangs that act more like big budget movies that just suck overall. Dragons Dogma to me feels like a D&D style throwback to exploring and encounters. Just my opinion.

[@mofix11]

This is not AA lmao this is AAA

[@elliottryan13]

It took me around 500 hours to beat DD2 bc I didn't know I had to meet Brandt because he was dead.

[@JRand927]

Hahaha

[@byrichlife]

The end game can stay open once you close the red beams

[@stonaraptor8196]

story is so confusing and just... ends? What happened did I black out and miss half the story? No, seems like I was fully present during playing and that's just how the story is written.

[@Nyx_Eos]

I mean, you didn't miss much, the summary is basically You get tossed like a salad by homie Grigori and he steals your heart while recovering you get cursed to lose memories and sent to mining outpost which pathfinder uses sv_cheats 1 to bust you out then you get to Melve and get memories back then go to Vernworth and do quests to take throne back then a spicy rock makes pawn take cringe damage at coronation so you dip and head to Bakbattahl to snoop around and find Dragon Forged then he tells you to find Oracle who tell you to find Hermit Gamer in Harve who magically makes grand soren appear from ocean which you explore and find a dead furry who refuses to fully die who then gives you his soul as a sword which you take to science man who repairs it with dragon soul parts then you go to moon tower and catch up with Homie Grigori and either murder the McFuck outta him or murder the McFuck outta yourself in which you get into a spicy world and yeet pathfinder and save the world. TL:DR You call fake god a cringe ass nae nae baby and murder him for being a bitch after getting Alzheimers

[@revolver2750]

9:25 it's for 1 quest to safe husband his wife asks you to help her after you get talked to by a guy at the fountain in the noble quaters of vermund.

[@rsALEX]

Oh man i was waiting for dd2 content

[@MenrvaS]

If you destroyed all the red beacons, you completely stop the mist from advancing. Still, monsters that drop end-game armor will not respawn, including all 4 lesser dragons.

[@darkultra9605]

I love the game to death and am currently having a blast in ng+ but one of the biggest critiques from me (aside from the framerate, is that the enemies are braindead easy to kill. Even most bosses take minimal effort to decimate. If you guys want at least somewhat of an actual challenge, I'd suggest only having your main pawn and no others.

[@matzekr5003]

Up to level 999 is the max level of pawns in the rift you could potentially summon for a couple of millions of rift crystals. ‚Potentially‘ because there are non (yet)

[@daisyjohnson4837]

i think they should have committed harder on the fast travel by just not having portcrystals and ferrystones untill the unmoored world. i enjoyed how deliberate having limited fast travel was and its not terribly pressing to have to teleport until the endgame. this being said if they didnt have the time limit you could actually take your time in the unmoored world which is kind of the best part.

[@JeannieLove]

Trickster is great for farming gold though. Most of the time you get 10 per hit, but sometimes you get 100 and even more rarely, 1000. And I just found out it's 1 particular incense burner that has this perk. I forget where I found it.

[@atomicfurball]

or a even rare occasion getting 50k

[@intjustice8978]

I will say the fetch quest and escort quest are annoying which is why i haven't really done them lol. I just enjoy going around hunting monsters selling thier parts and exploring. I am still at the very beginning of the story and im a level 60 with all the vocations maxed out lol.

[@Jodiwho22]

I just wish I knew where they wanted to go before I accept lol sometimes they want to go in the opposite direction and I just have to ignore them till it fails

[@byrichlife]

The all wake stone can fix dragon's plague get one from the sphinx and it can be duplicated for 30k gold at the checkpoint town vendor, by now u should be rolling in gold look for pawns giving gold and jewels for ONE ARROW... Make at least one or two copies, check ur pawns eyes b4 u sleep at the inn

[@Tenchu122]

Imo magick Archer got buffed and is now a jack of all trade. Damage, healing, shields, even a broken revive and has all elements skills. Best to run as end game with two sorcerers for maximum damage. My squad is Magick Archer, 2 sorcerers and a thief with the steal skill (so useful) but you and just pick any Frontline.

[@noctusvolpes]

One of my few complaints about the game is the exclusion of Hydra's. That was my favorite enemy in the first Dragon's Dogma

[@728kaos]

I was really hoping for the eternal ferry from the sphinx. I really don't see a use for the eternal wake.

[@Savon_the_gallent_knight]

Oh you will

[@Citizen1482608]

​@@Savon_the_gallent_knightNever did in over 160hours. I think there was one time when my pawn showed symptoms of the thing we are apparently not naming... so I killed her and it was done.

[@Elixrfy]

​@@Savon_the_gallent_knighteven then it's bugged and lots of people have proven not every quest NPC respawns after sleeping they are just gone not even showing up in morgue wakestone is useless af

[@OtakuBenny2210]

The eternal wakestone is to revive multiple people and for a trophy if you care for that pointless shit , trophies I mean .

[@LeonserGT]

>called "eternal" wakestone >single-use item 😐 Yeah, it would be so much better to get eternal ferry as sphinx' final reward and for eternal wakestone - make it be given to you by, for example, Rothias in a miniquest of "you fucked up, a city is wiped out, seek guidance from Oracle, who direct you then to just emerging seafloor shrine with Rothias being a bit more helpful than providing godsbane"

[@anthonyplaysbass]

Yeah....i agree with everything. The gameplay mechanics and open world are phenomenal and an improvement over the first in every way. But once my first escort quest came up i knew it was much the same outdated quest design. Same with the endless fetch/speak-to-npc quests. I basically skip all dialogue of main and aide quests and just run to the objective. The fact that captain Brandt's quests are part of the main story and are basically glorified fetch/kill quests, is a real shame for what it a wonderful game when you are *actually playing*

[@soulmaster8637]

I just think it’s stupid that every time I die in endgame it respawns you from the beginning like you cant just keep halting the players progression with so many gameplay mechanics and I feel they have a lot of that in this game I love it but it’s really annoying how many things mechanics they put in

[@platinumbproductions8108]

Even though you can rest at an inn each day to save your progress, you’re right, you still have to start that day over if you die and have no wakestones. It is annoying

[@pwysocki1]

@soulmaster8637 There's one very simple solution to your problem. Just buy a wakestone for a dollar and not die.

[@philipmelaas317]

@@pwysocki1 Or *don't* because normal play pretty much dumps wakestones into your inventory and as long as you aren't trying *super* hard to punch above your weight, you should have plenty stocked up by the endgame.

[@revolver2750]

The nicest side quest to me is the sculptor one.

[@italianspiderman5012]

I don’t agree that dragon plague somehow holds up your progress, just pay attention, and if you have any suspicion throw the pawn into water and re summon it using nearby stone, because they literally are around every corner, idk, I like the mechanic, it forces you to pay attention, and having a quick look at your pawns really isn’t that hard. As to questing I agree, the whole quest structure and the way they tell the story is just outdated, like two decades, dd1 was like that too, I don’t think it’s a “style” of storytelling or “uniqueness” I believe it’s just very inexperienced people are in charge of quest design and story, people working on dd are action games experts, and that’s the thing that works, but let’s be honest, storytelling and quests largely are embarrassingly bad.

[@cartoonvideos5]

Yes they are terrible as is enemy variety

[@Dynamus21]

The fast travel mechanics are by design. It's pretty clear they want you yo plan out your routes and actually explore the world.

[@glencunningham552]

You can almost create any first game class with the warfarer

[@BruceAlmighty1]

I'm putting money that we get something similar to bbi but way bigger in dd2 that gives you an eternal ferrystone

[@brucenbrooklyn]

Any game with a cooking mini game or cutscene and I’m fuckin in. Take my money

[@bellissimo4520]

The time limit in the end game phase is the dumbest idea they ever had.

[@TheGamingGranddad]

Trickster is meant to be a pacifist type vocation. It is designed to be challenging. Rather than magically destroying, physically pummeling or slicing enemies, you get to think outside the box and support your team members and your Arisen with cunning and deceptive tactics

[@zachary007]

Needs to be a DLC with more monsters. There's like 4 different large monsters.

[@morsalo123]

Haha I ended up making the same mistake with the ending as well. I battled Grigori, sat on the throne and then hopped on NG+, feeling disappointed by the ending and final boss fight overall. No wonder the Grigori fight felt so easy... xD

[@thienphong123]

I spent 100h+ wandering around the map -- collect all chest, find all seeker token and doing side quest. And omg I forgot how bad the performance is..this game is just massive and I think this is just the beginning, vocation and pawn is great but there's more to come since I think in the future pawn should have all the mystic vocation and arisen can have something unique than mystic -- mythic vocation maybe 😂 This game is world class, but not deserve a GOTY at least right now, but it has so much potential to unlock.

[@mosiahmendoza6846]

Fun cooking animation? My boi that’s stock footage 🧍🏽‍♂️

[@mitchkupietz]

This is the only game in at least 10 years where I’m at work and all I’m thinking about is going home to smash some Mountain Dew and play some DD2! ❤

[@matthewblankenship7968]

I wanted this game a launch so bad beacause I loved the first ..I beat it several times ..I never get a game at launch ..picking up a copy today I hope it’s good as the first and I’ll be happy with it ..✌🏻

[@KaentukiTheFuki]

There really shouldve been a magic DAGGER class. Those magic archer skills were elite with the dagger. Way better than the bow itself

[@revolver2750]

I liked the stamina system it's not perfect but infinite stamina out of combat is broken. So many times i wanted to get somewhere quicker and got into a fight with almost no stamina risk and reward.

[@reeper5044]

What is best to play dd2 pc ps2

[@gabrielolsen2648]

Definitely not PS2

[@MrBoriqua2000]

If you can only buy one game, dragon dogma dark arisen for $20 or dragon dogma 2 for $70, which would you buy?

[@jonnyvelocity]

2

[@andrewgood7586]

Lol I see that guy got you with his fake ferristone as well.

[@StealthyDead]

This feels like a $40 game, and I would buy it for that price. I had 50 hours in the first game and enjoyed it quite a bit. But $70 for not really an upgrade so much as a side-grade is pretty lousy

[@golfRgod]

Such a good game but wish it was harder and I'm lvl 74 on NG+. Idk how they didn't up difficulty in NG+

[@Zero-Descent]

My biggest issue is lackluster loot, whats the point of buying any armor if you can literally just find it in the world? And there are way too many chests that give you pointless crap like an apple, you walk 2 feet away and find sn apple tree, absolutely ridiculous imo. They give you way too many wake stone shards in chests too. Ive used a total of 1 wake stone the whole game and im 62 hours in and it was on accident. My second biggest issue is the fact that buying a "better" house is actually worse than keeping the free one. First of all the price doesn't justify the house at all imo. You have to walk more to go to sleep and organize your loot, why would i want to walk more in the game where im already walking for hours? Also why tf can't i cook meals at my house? If not in the free house at least add it to the 20k one. There's literally no incentive at all to buy a bigger house and you lose it in ng+ it's dumb af. My third complaint is the slow ass attacks of the warrior class, it's so slow ive literally started using fists only because i hate how long it takes to attack and how slow movement is while attacking, i get it big sword = slow but it doesn't have to be to be like that, hasn't anyone seen berzerk the way guts fights? Forth complaint is the trickster class, a class that can only be support for AI teammates is an absolutely terrible idea unless the AI is actually smart but they're not that smart it's like im trying to win fights by buffing 3 seven year old kids the way they play.

[@reagenlionel]

I agree with majority of ths. One I don't is the enemy variety argument. He same tactic against one, mostly works with the others. They're behaviors are not different enough and literally are just all reskins. And most of the enemies mentioned that are unique, are static monsters that appear in like one place or at the end of the game. You do not encounter medusa or dallahan on the roads or randomly while traveling ( dallahan starts appearing by bridges in unmoored) I honestly can't tell you the difference between a monitor and gore minotaur or ogre and grim ogre. The Saurian variants behaviors are the same. Ones with spear and ones without it pretty much boils down to. They behave the same. The same tactic you use to beat a rock Surian is the same for all the other rock type surian. Goblins literally fight them same was as all the others. There's no real need to switch up tactics or is thier behavior the same. You are going though the game fighting barely different variations of the same 5 enemies.

[@MrBSHAW333]

No cockatrice ??

[@JustJeff777]

Idk man, I actually loved the quests. Jank and all. I loved the endgame quests even more

[@ItsArtyTheFox]

Great review, I also have nearly gotten through everything in the game and I'm right here with ya; probably an 8/10 for me as well. However, it's a 10/10 in my heart for being so damn fun to play lol I disagree about the ferrystones. I think they did well tbh, it incentivizes you to go out and explore the world throughout the first part of the game. Then when you get overpowered and just want to get to things, it starts giving you a ton of them. I have 50 just sitting in my storage right now lol. Quests are indeed pretty awful; there's a few good moments, but buy and large it's pretty unsatisfying. And pretty much everything else I agreed with :P

[@MadCisco]

Good review 8-9 out of 10 is I think proper score 😊

[@danielcope7492]

Okay but majority of the enemy variety are reskins or enemies from the first game, and there's less big enemy types then the first game as well. The 4 skills feel VERY bad, especially on magic classes that rely on element variety and less access to combos and grappling attacks. I love the game, but there's a lot of niche things that need addressed that really hamper the fun factors of the game.

[@jprec5174]

4 skills ruined fighter too.

[@danielcope7492]

@@jprec5174 I know right?! It feels SO damn limiting. Not even mentioning the fact there's less skills overall and leveling your vocation is way to quick so by the time you max your favorite it doesn't even feel like there's a point to play it anymore

[@MrXerep]

Exactly, stopped watching the video as soon as this guy started saying the gameplay was perfect and that every encounter felt different … another fanboy with low standards straight up lying to us

[@cartoonvideos5]

​@@MrXerepI'm not sure if Capcom is paying these reviews ridiculous amounts of money, these are fanboys, or reviewers are just going along on the bandwagon.

[@PrimalDirective]

Core skills integrated a lot of what used to be skills you'd slot in before Sorc is already strong enough as is with 4 skills and Galvanize Fighter is fine with 4 skills, a lot of the shield skills from DD1 were redundant

[@alexblades5218]

Great review 👏 I feel like this game is a side grade to the first entry. While playing I was comparing to Dragon Age Inquisition and Dark Arisen. I think Im equally happy playing each of those games

[@alandab]

I gave it an 8.5 out of 10! This video was so awesome! Thank you for producing it.

[@maxmeier3374]

This probably has already been clarified in the comments but still: NPCs killed by Dragonsplague will respawn after around 7 nights, even before the recent updated. Also, I don't understand why people had issues recognizing the Dragons Plague even pre-update for it. Just give commands to your pawns from time to time or check if they grab their head when standing around. They will start talking shit to you pretty fast after getting it.

[@SheenShots]

It is possible for Dragon's Plague to develop out of nowhere. As in you just rested. Leave for one cave come back and it has developed. It has occurred to me so I know this is possible. Yes, it is not all the prevalent in the game. But once it happens even a single time you are now paranoid. Also, main quest NPCs do not respawn. They must be revived by wakestons at a morgue. This was the case for me when I needed to progress the game but at least 5 NPC's needed revived. The main issue, is that unless this has actually happened to you at least twice, people really don't know how it works. Good idea for sure, but the implementation adds nothing and bogs down the gameplay in certain areas for no real reason.

[@maxmeier3374]

​@@SheenShots tbh I never experienced it out of nowhere. Sure my main pawn got infected multiple times by other pawns or when being used by another player. And yes I agree there is a lot of different information around it. But still, there are a lot of people confirming their main quest NPCs respawned after the 7 days. Maybe the respawning is not consistent/buggy.

[@b7ray32]

People are so quick to critique whatever machine the game is running on but never hold the developers accountable for making an shitty unoptimized game... There is nothing wrong with anyone's console or PC this is just an terribly made game that would struggle to run on an NASA super computer

[@don2nd650]

Damn😂

[@MrAjking808]

That’s the most bullshit I’ve ever heard lmao 😂 whatever you’re playing on matters too

[@OD91MJ]

I was at a 8.8 or so after I finished the false ending. After it just sort of rug pulled the ending for me I think it is 7.5. It is worth the money spent. A few mechanics I just don’t get other than to make it in convenient to annoy the player. Stamina. Ok I get it you have to run a lot in this game. Why do I have to watch my stamina out of combat. Just allow me to holster the weapon and give me infinite stamina. Or even just in and out of combat. Blacksmithing. So I don’t need to go gather the necessary upgrades and it can pull from stash. Weight is important again. See stamina. So you make me hold a lot of useless stuff that can’t be pulled from stash and given? You can grab gold from some felony pocket? I thought weight matters? Enemy variety. So we have hairier and red eyes chimeras with no snake tail? Chimera was so weak in DD2. I am sick of fighting goblins, knacks, the same bandits and the same skeletons. It just got boring and cumbersome. Density was annoying and I would prefer like a cleanse mechanic. You clean out an area and don’t need to be annoyed by it. Story made me feel like there is a DLC. Which you get that with a lot of games. DLC is coming but you don’t feel like after you are done wishing you had the DLC so you don’t have to come back and relearn mechanics. Just give us the complete game.

[@SunBunz]

26:03 I’ve seen 3 “monthly pawns” who HAVE reached level 999. I was shocked people have already gotten that high, considering how new this game is. 😳 Currently, I’m level 100, I’ve played about 295 hours.

[@Voltomess]

Wghat? people have 999lvl? and you got only 100 after 300h? wtf

[@SunBunz]

@@Voltomess they must be grinding daily killing large bosses for hours with those rings that quicken leveling up.

[@SlimKognito11]

Having only 4 abilities equipped and no hard mode is a real shame I wanna play this but I know ill be disappointed

[@bananesalee7086]

your point of view is pretty much on point. though I really need to hit the nail here about the quests, it's so disgustingly bad

[@kniviz510]

How can something be flawed, and a masterpiece at the same time?

[@godofwar0851]

Games that are masterpieces can be flawed thats why they're known as masterpieces rather then perfect because no game is but the games can still be amazing despite having problems with it

[@Clintdaddy412]

You've obviously never played metal gear solid the original.😂😂

[@theobell2002]

Go play: Fallout: New Vegas Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines Knights of the Old Republic 2 And you'll understand.

[@MenrvaS]

That is the Dogma of Dragon 😂

[@OD91MJ]

Just wait for DLC is my cope. It is so close to being perfect. Still a good game.

[@hakuna5778]

Doing Quests is the worst I think from my 40h in game I only did 6 quest I just get lost there’s not mark or more specific :/

[@stephanwalz5108]

Three things: first: the trickster is NOT a support-classe. it's a TANK!. the trickster only has one single support-skill. The whole purpose of the trickster is to take the mobs away from your party, including you and have attacking them your Illusion. Second: Nearly ALL Quests in ALL RPGs are either Fetch- , escort or kill-quests somehow. Not WHAT you need to do matters in Quests, but WHY. E. G. the STORY behind those fetch-quests. Also: they can chain extremly long. Starting realy with just fetching different things for a girl 3-5 time turns into an interesting stroy about a secret twin sister of a noble-boy... But there is another intersting detective-story at the same are. Of course, there are also some realy simple escort quests. But of the fetch-quest no single one is JUST a fetch quest. All those quests turn out in a big stroy-chain. Third: You have PAWNS for yor quests. Most pawns will guide you, if they have the knowledge. You can search for pawns, who have knowledge about the quest marked as priority. If they can't guide you, listen to them. Technically, they need the quest items being in your inventory, before they can guide you to the receiver. If you already have the quest item, but in your storge, the pawns say so. So instead of a magical drawn way on your map, you have a real leader.

[@pockystyx4087]

Vanilla DD1 is the best 7/10 I have ever played; love it, and DDDA pushed it up to an 8.5. Vanilla DD2 is the second best 7/10 I have ever played. Here's hoping for a great expansion.