Jumped from 7 to 8 bc of the 3rd part

User Rating: 8 | Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen XONE

The game starts very good and intriguing, but unfortunately falls asleep soon after. The fantastic combat is almost all that keeps the game alive until the third act, which is just awesome. Problem lies mainly in how the story is delivered and not in what is being told, imo. Overall a fun experience and I will definetely do at least one ng+. If it wasn't for the last epic part of the game, I would have still enjoyed it, but probably never touched it again.

+ Gameplay, especially fighting huge monsters

+ Great variety of char cutomization both looks and skills

+ Great atmosphere

/ Good story, but missed oppurtunity to be truly overall epic

/ Frustrating at times bc the game totally punishes you for not paying attention, being lazy in your preperations or not willing to change your strategy when approaching some monsters

- Menus not very user friendly

- Mostly boring NPCs that I couldn't care less about

- only one savepoint and therefore also only one character at the same time

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