Dragon's Dogma 2
Last updated: 2025-05-21
- Stunning graphics and immersive, beautiful world.
- Strategic, dynamic, weighty, and physical combat.
- Engaging and intelligent pawn companion system.
- Rewarding exploration and sense of adventure.
- Detailed character customization is enjoyable.
- Significant technical and optimization issues.
- Reviews
(sample size) - 2000
- Helpful reviews
- 80%
- Unhelpful reviews
- 18%
- Protest reviews
- 2%
- 73%Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
- 27%Helpful reviews with negative sentiment
- Positive points
- 4540
- Negative points
- 4642
- Gameplay points
- 1196
- Perf. points
- 728
- Rec. points
- 1729
- Misc points
- 354
| Point | Description | Importance |
|---|---|---|
| Stunning, immersive graphics and visuals | The game boasts impressive graphics, detailed environments, and fluid animations, creating a visually stunning and immersive world. The RE Engine enhances lighting, shadows, and textures, making exploration and combat visually appealing. This point is consistently praised throughout reviews. | 46% |
| Dynamic, strategic, and weighty combat | The combat system is dynamic, weighty, and strategic, offering a variety of tactical options and encouraging creative approaches. Players can climb on large enemies, exploit weak points, and utilize the environment to their advantage. The physics system and AI behavior add depth and variety to battles, making combat a standout feature. | 45% |
| Engaging, intelligent pawn companion system | The pawn system features intelligent AI companions that learn from player actions, provide helpful advice, and assist in combat and exploration. Pawns exhibit distinct personalities, share knowledge, and create a unique and engaging party dynamic. The improved AI and interactive nature of pawns make them feel like real companions, enhancing the overall gameplay experience. | 26% |
| Enjoyable and immersive adventure RPG | The game is enjoyable and provides a great adventure experience. The open world is interesting to explore, and the game is immersive. The game is a good RPG and is similar to Skyrim. | 20% |
| Detailed and enjoyable character customization | The game features a detailed and enjoyable character customization system, allowing players to create diverse and unique characters. The character editor offers extensive options for facial design, body proportions, and other features, enhancing the role-playing experience. The ability to create both a main character and a companion with such detail is a major highlight. | 20% |
| Rewarding exploration and sense adventure | The game creates a strong sense of adventure and exploration by rewarding curiosity and discovery. Limited fast travel encourages players to explore the world, leading to unexpected encounters, hidden quests, and valuable loot. The dynamic weather, day-night cycles, and detailed environments enhance the feeling of being an adventurer in a living world. | 19% |
| Varied, engaging, non-linear quest design | The game features well-designed quests that offer varied experiences, interesting stories, and meaningful choices. Side quests are often as engaging as the main story, providing insights into the world and its lore. The game avoids hand-holding, requiring players to explore, think for themselves, and discover solutions independently, enhancing the sense of accomplishment. | 11% |
| Beautiful and immersive world design | The game world is beautifully designed, with detailed locations, immersive environments, and a strong sense of atmosphere. Cities feel alive, and the landscapes are visually appealing, creating a captivating and enjoyable experience. The attention to detail in world design enhances exploration and immersion. | 9% |
| Diverse and customizable vocation system | The game offers a diverse range of vocations (classes) that significantly alter playstyle and add to replayability. The vocation system encourages experimentation, allowing players to switch between different combat styles and unlock new skills. New vocations like Mystic Spearhand and Warfarer bring fresh abilities and strategic depth to combat. | 9% |
| Appealing and well-crafted game design | The game's design, including armor, weapons, monsters, and environments, is visually appealing and well-crafted. The game effectively conveys a medieval fantasy setting with detailed armor sets, impressive landscapes, and a unique art style. The combination of traditional values with new elements creates a memorable and immersive experience. | 7% |
| Satisfying and physical combat feel | The game provides satisfying combat with impactful hits, fluid animations, and creative ways to defeat enemies. Climbing on giant monsters, throwing objects, and utilizing the environment add to the enjoyment and physicality of combat. The game makes the player feel strong and powerful, creating a rewarding and engaging experience. | 5% |
| Dynamic battles and emergent gameplay | The game generates memorable and humorous moments through dynamic battles and unexpected encounters. Random events, such as griffins attacking during other fights or ambushes by various enemies, add excitement and unpredictability to exploration. The game creates a living world where anything can happen, leading to unique and shareable experiences. | 5% |
| Non-linear quests, player-driven solutions | The game offers variability in how quests can be completed, with unmarked interactions and multiple solutions. The quest setup is hands-off, giving players a sense of independence in finding solutions and navigating the map. The game doesn't hold your hand, requiring you to read dialogues and think for yourself to find items or locations. | 5% |