Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

Or Risen. Or Elex. Or- Well, you get the idea. It's an open-world sandbox action-RPG about a very unimaginative girl/guy from a coastal village who picks a fight with a dragon. The writing is an endearing mixture of odd and solid made largely irrelevant by the fact that just running around, discovering and picking fights is fun enough to stand on its own. It is fully voice-acted, has upgrade and crafting mechanics, a lite party system and will gobble up countless hours of your time if unchecked. I've supported Piranha Bytes since the first Gothic came out and remain their lifelong fan. But however great their idea was, their execution does not hold a candle to Capcom's. This is Gothic refined. Or distilled. Or perfected.

I was promised something similar to Skyrim and I got weird hair characters and metal music while fighting... a JRPG. Classic Capcom. If you like that kind of stuff, by all means, go ahead. But for me, coming from Skyrim, this is totally off-putting. It takes all the immersion away immediately.

this game is amazing wish they added the newer version of this game

it's just a good rpg, it's not bad but it's also not an amazing game like The witcher or dragon age inquisition

Your character is automatic level up, you can not control what to put into your stats. The only decision is to buy skills you earn from fight. Only your pawns is interesting about this game. You got some customable pawn which levelp up with you and you can hire another two to go with you. And sometimes they are extremly stupid and dont do what I tell them (only Go, Come Back, Help are actions for pawns). Mage is extremely poor on beginning although it is fun later in the game (allegedly), but who wants suffer until the fun begin? Lot of information is missing and you dont know what to do, how to prepare yourself or how to care about your character. You are thrown into deep sea without know swimming. You will be lot of trial and error. You can save game only on some points (or saved automaticaly) and if you die, you lost progress to saved point. And in first steps you can die easily if you overlook enemy strength (which you have no chance to find out without fight). Even worse if your pawns start attac without your will. Another bad thing is UI and mouse action. Some actions have to be done by keyboard and some with mouse. You have to click on certain area to interact with items, etc... Manage things with this terrible behaviour is not good to play longer this game. In the end, game can be interesting, but there are too negative things. If you are bored and dont know what to play try, maybe you like it if you forgive it what I wrote.