Dragon’s Dogma 2, after a span of more than ten years since the first release, is finally on schedule for this month, and this time around it’s taking the Arisen onto another adventure to confront the dragon that starts by ripping out one’s heart. This new RPG by Capcom follows them and their Pawns as they traverse the fantasy world of the game to end up being the rightful ruler. Screen Rant recently spent three hours with a forthcoming game, which showcased just how many things players will have to explore and experiment with.
One thing that Dragon's Dogma 2 almost does is turn itself into a simulator rather than your typical RPG – there are main threads that can be followed but there isn’t much limitation either. In contrast to the previous Dragon's Dogma 2 preview featuring basic vocations such as Archer, Thief and Fighter, this session was centered on two advanced classes: Mystic Spearhand and Magick Archer each taking half of it. The completely different fighting styles greatly illustrated some of the various ways in which players could approach their long journey through a large in-game world.
The World Of Dragon's Dogma
At the preview’s commencement, numerous side quests were already within reach of the Arisen including one where you had to track a man’s grandson who had been kidnapped by wolves. Like this example, there are many time-sensitive quests in the game world that proceed with or without player input; hence, coming too late would mean the child was dead. It is just one way in which Dragon’s Dogma 2 feels alive and dynamic among others. It also encourages players to explore more and shows them how much freedom they have through various additional quest options.
Between quest points, while moving through wilderness separating cities and towns, creatures become more diverse with weather changes and a day-night cycle that makes everything different. The world is simply full of enemies so different from each other both visually and in fighting styles starting with scary amphibious lizards dwelling in waterways up to large griffins soaring through skies above mountaintops. There are secrets everywhere like caves tombs treasures scattered along side of map that can easily make you get lost as you wander aimlessly around for hours on end because there is always something more interesting just around the corner.
Playing As Mystic Spearhand
The Mystic Spearhand is a class that primarily focuses on both melee and magic skills, where the player uses spells to disrupt and knock opponents before laying down heavy attacks. Performing combos with this job gives one a great deal of satisfaction because it involves striking something off balance and drawing the Arisen towards it so as to hit a weak enemy hard. Moreover, there is also some telekinesis elements in place that allow for picking up of objects nearby and can lift small foes or even throw them at other enemies.
On this part of the preview, Battahl was introduced by having the Arisen disguise themselves if they were to be allowed into it; an exclusively Beastren city. Players had to visit their nearest junk-yard where they would make fakes instead of honest copies and gather such dirty things like those. After purchasing one of these masks, the Arisen goes inside and receives information about Rockmouse's Burrow in Bakbattahl. Even though our arrival never happened in this section, our journey still provided us with a range of opponents and places alongside few sidequests – most being transport duties.
Playing As Magick Archer
Mystic Spearhand is the very opposite of Magick Archer, who is fond of causing damage to enemies from a long range. The magick archer’s varied techniques are achieved by shooting different kinds of arrows such as the fiery flame fang arrow that explodes when it touches the target and the remedy arrow that heals teammates. To not make it look one-sided, we also have some types on how you could shoot them i.e. firing many at once or allowing you take direct control over the arrow. This is particularly enjoyable – manipulating an arrow through tight mazes and still managing a hit upon an adversary’s body feels so damn good.
The Dragon's Dogma 2 preview for Magick Archer took place in Digger's Ruins mine shaft where Glimmercoal was being hunted by The Arisen and his/her party for repairing an important sword. In order to better see the glowing resource, players had to turn off lanterns, which added a nice eerie atmosphere with funny surprises resulting from enemy ambushes in pitch darkness at times. While fighting against pig-like creatures in the cave, the Ricochet Seeker arrows were displayed perfectly on its walls that made it easier for them to be defeated - they were bouncing around between obstacles.
Pawns In Dragon's Dogma 2
The pawns in the first Dragon’s Dogma have really improved, with imaginative AI that enable them to take smart initiatives on combat. Moreover, pawns can be quite useful when not in battle; they follow commands such as leading to a quest location or identify ladders and secret passages depending on its origins. They always made choices that assisted the group to win in those various monster slayings during the demo and there are several diverse wandering among the many landscapes waiting for you to recruit them so it won’t be hard to change your party members.
Final Thoughts On Dragon's Dogma 2
Really, this preview showed a big range of different enemies and how to deal with them, in many different ways depending on what you are playing and who else is in your party – scaling giant rock monsters, throwing lizards at each other. There’s a lot of scope for fun combinations and experimenting within the game’s advanced classes, and even three hours barely scratched the surface of what the world had to offer. Forthcoming Dragon's Dogma 2 will have much for players to explore because it is a fully open world where one has almost no limitations as regards movement, it comes out later in March.
