Most Recent Review:
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
2016
Mid. Mid. Mid. Mid.
2/4 – For people who like the combat and the fantasy world.
TO BE CLEAR; I DID NOT BEAT THIS. I got to the griffin fight at Bluemoon Tower. But the leadup to that and the fight itself ruined me. This game is just. It has bizarre enemy scaling.
The music is good.
The combat is interesting. It has a lot of interesting ideas and a lot going for it. But also kind of sucks? There are really fun bits, and bits that just suck. Like, why are there four archers that deal absurd damage and can interrupt everything I can do???? I’m fine. Also using up stamina running places sucks.
The story is shit. The side quests are not doing much. The sidequest with the duchess made me question my life.
I really hope the second game does more with everything. Because there are a *ton* of interesting ideas at play here. None of them executed like, well. There are games that deserve sequels specifically for this reason. But this game just, wore me down. Here’s the problem though. I kind of want to go back to it. Because here’s the thing, it is just… fun to do fights. They can be simple and the bigger monsters are fun to fight and climb around on. But the quests...the story...ughhhhh.
The music is good.
The combat is interesting. It has a lot of interesting ideas and a lot going for it. But also kind of sucks? There are really fun bits, and bits that just suck. Like, why are there four archers that deal absurd damage and can interrupt everything I can do???? I’m fine. Also using up stamina running places sucks.
The story is shit. The side quests are not doing much. The sidequest with the duchess made me question my life.
I really hope the second game does more with everything. Because there are a *ton* of interesting ideas at play here. None of them executed like, well. There are games that deserve sequels specifically for this reason. But this game just, wore me down. Here’s the problem though. I kind of want to go back to it. Because here’s the thing, it is just… fun to do fights. They can be simple and the bigger monsters are fun to fight and climb around on. But the quests...the story...ughhhhh.