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Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

A linear slog of sameness

I bought this in the advice of others who played it and swore up and down it was better than Skyrim. While the game plays smoothly as far as performance, it's got a lot of bugs in the controls and in some of the quests as well. Plus it's basically a giant copypasta world of the same stuff everywhere with no terrain variety, no weather systems, no environmental changes. Just a day/night cycle who's only purpose is to let out the tougher monsters at night. None of the side quests were interesting at all. The main quest chain was far too short, and the game controls are unfortunately broken so badly that the boss fight with the dragon can't be completed because it feels like your'e trying to run away through a swimming pool. Then there's the integrated DLC that seems to serve no purpose at all and didn't even have a story line attached to it. The pawn system seemed like it could have been pretty cool but unfortunately trying to use the online features for them causes the game to crash regularly. With the forced single-save system it sucks to have that happen cause you'll just lose your progress. IMO, save your money for something better. Or get this when it's on an 80% off sale if you're really bored.

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