Even more troubling, the quest design is bland and uninteresting - almost everything is a matter of simply going to a place. (The exception is the game’s absolutely bonkers ending.) I love the game’s dialog, but it’s an ironic sort of love brought on by its ridiculous self-seriousness. The overarching story is forgettable, without any notable characters or exciting plot turns. While all the aspects at the core of Dragon’s Dogma are great, its weakness is in its overall structure. You’ll build your party from characters created by other players This makes for a weird, asynchronous feeling of community that can really only be compared to the Souls games. Not only does this allow you to create a party from tons of player-built options, it also means that as your own pawn is recruited in other games, they’ll gain knowledge to assist you in quests and aid in defeating enemies.
Two more party slots are open, however, for pawns created by other players, downloaded from a central server. You’ll always have a main pawn of your own creation, which you can customize in appearance and abilities just like your player character. Your party is made up of characters called “pawns,” not-quite-human entities sworn to serve and protect you. Any trip off the beaten path will require you to be well-provisioned, because getting caught unprepared in the woods - especially at night - will quickly spell death for you and your party. In most open-world games, the road is just a visual feature, but in Dragon’s Dogma, it’s a lifeline that shields you from truly dangerous encounters. Outside of a few scripted moments, most of these fights just happen as you’re exploring the world, creating a terrific sense of mystery and danger when you’re caught wandering in the wilderness. The creatures are huge, but the only truly massive creature is the game’s final boss, which provides a multi-stage, truly epic encounter that I would have loved to see more of. My only complaint is wishing there was more - more encounters, more variety, and more scale. These encounters are exciting every time they happen, and slowly scaling the back of a cyclops to plunge a dagger in its eye was just as satisfying 20 hours in as it was the first time. Grabbing onto a griffin’s feathers will give you an easy hold to strike its head, but the monster could easily take to the skies and shake you loose, causing you to plummet to your death. With obvious cues from Shadow of the Colossus, you can jump on and climb these creatures to get at their various weak points, while carefully avoiding their attempts to swat you away. The true highlight of Dragon’s Dogma are its encounters with big, mythical monsters: trolls, ogres, hydras, chimeras, griffins, and yes, dragons.
That’s going to be a bumpy rideĪnd that’s just when you’re fighting normal enemies.
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