Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen is an action-RPG. And never was a genre name aptly.
The battle system is full of action, fun and varied. In short: pure fun.
On a scale of Skyrim (Aquarium simulator) to Dark Souls (almost perfect game) this game moved very far on the right side.
In Dark Souls atmosphere and tactical battles dominate. In Dragon's Dogma is about looting, leveling and effective struggles.
Story-technically it is not particularly carved from the socks. One gets presents the typical Japanese transfigured Castle Neuschwanstein flair.
But that's totally OK, because the story is not the focus.
There are 9 classes:
Fighter - shield and sword
Strider - short arc and Daggers
Mage - wand (only class that can heal others)
Warrior - Two-Handed Sword / two-handed hammer
Ranger - Longbow and Daggers
Sorcerer - Battle Wand
Mystic Knight - Magic shield and sword / mace or wand
Assassin - shield or bow and daggers or swords
Magick Archer - Magic shear bow and daggers or magic wand
Except for the Mage and Warrior all classes can play very well. This fall here out of the ordinary.
The Mage can only "simple" spells, but can it cure and is therefore essential in the group. Therefore, either the own vassal a Mage, or you look at a rented it. But play itself is extremely boring. Who has desire to heal the AI controlled vassal ?!
The Warrior, however, has only a measly 3 attack slots available. That too will very quickly become very boring. The attacks themselves but make fun. Here the developers have given away what.
Basically you have per hand attack 3 slots available which can be equipped freely with skills that you unlock itself.
Equipping the skills you can do in the game and not while one is traveling, but only in certain individuals. This is a bit limited at first glance. Therefore, the Warrior is only with maximum 3 equippable skills not edible for a long time.
Opponents bring experience and allow materials are which can be used to upgrade weapons and armor. Capcom has therefore installed some Monster Hunter here.
The level limit is 200. Each Level of different height values you get, depending on the current class, on his account, eg life energy, stamina, physical damage, magical damage etc. A Warrior thus gets eg per Level much life energy and physical attack, but very little perseverance. Stamina is very important, you need them to work (very important in this game) and of course for skills. Even the magicians need stamina, because there is no own mana bar. Mage spells with perseverance! So get pretty often change the class, so you will not become a professional idiot.
Capcom encourages a more just switch to this class because you "Augments" can unlock special in each class. And this can take in its class changes. So you picked up gradually the raisins from the cake.
A big plus of the game:
One can not be verskillen.
Even those who have ever played a Mage of classes and therefore causes little physical damage can later switch easily to another class as long as he enchanted weapons used, eg fire dagger, lightning sword, Eisbogen etc.
Through my constant change, I received a balanced character at the end. Even so I was able to defeat the most difficult opponent to Bitter Black Isle less than 1 minute. It is therefore not necessary heranzuzüchten an absolute specialists. On the contrary, it looses its versatility.
The expansion of the game (Bitter Black Isle) is very good.
Here you can show what you have learned anything previously ;-) You get a lot of new enemy types presented, where I have to say "WOW" here has been given to real trouble. The "island" should be seen as a cherry on the cream cake. Anyone who goes here before it has completed the main world, in my opinion spoils for something the feel. If you were there, you would not actually zurük. The opponent there are there also more many times, but there are much better items to grab. Equipment of Bitter Black Isle is increasingly like everything you find in the main game, and only on the island you can improve your equipment to two more stages. So who immediately stormed the island, will be very disappointed with the reward of the main game.
I'm always very happy and in great detail on the negative points one, because these are often the most interesting.
NEGATIVE:
The game does a poor job explaining essential game mechanics!
- Character weight
You already have to decide how big and heavy you want to be at the beginning of the game. But you will not be notified that this has a huge impact on the game. Light people are more agile way, but can not contribute much. Easier persons regenerate stamina faster. Heavier consume for less endurance. Small have to achieve certain difficult places greater have therefore exploring a clear advantage. I've seen plenty of 1.40m wide Warrior with 2 m long swords. Clear it looks funny. But not working. As Warrior equipment is very heavy, a slight person thus already have problems to get dressed. Yes, you can 'transform' later, but that's not at all times cheap and the person who sold a this, you have to find first. Most will therefore start after some time again, after you have informed yourself on the Internet, or not at first play on.
- Disciple Points and other in-game currencies
Within a class there are 9 levels. Only when you reach this stage you can buy better skills (with Disciple points)
Even I have not until very late found out that one disciple points obtained by defeating enemies. I think any normal player will think the more experience points I get, the faster I get on in class rank. But no, it's exactly the opposite is true. Who runs many small opponents rises very quickly in class rank on, though who does big bosses get experience and rises to the player level, occurs in its class but on the spot.
GOOD TO KNOW! Thanks for the info nonexistent.
Summary:
Experience -> Level; Gold - Buy> Objects and improve to Level3; Disciple points - Buy> class advancement and skills
Rift Crystals -> vassals hire, buy character-editing, improved objects Level 5 and 6, clean cursed items on the island.
- Travel System
The travel system is practically not explained. There are port-crystals that you can pick up and drop off, so they serve as Beam stations. To travel you need Ferry Stones. Is in principle not really complicated. Yes a pity that the game does not even remotely thinks of the convey. Relatively early in the game, one encounters the first port-crystal in the game in the capital in a basement. But if you do not accidentally skip over a threshold to get the thing very well regarded in the middle, you will not realize that you can pick up this. So it was with me, and I've only got it when I had a second found that was clearly intended as a reward. Until then, I was therefore always on foot.
- Intentionally difficulty in looting
A great point :-) opponents have known fall items. Problem is, once an opponent exceeds the own height, it falls to his death almost always exactly on its objects. And you can not fucking ran at them! So you have to always watch the big carcasses verroten, until one finally comes to the materials. Real jetz! Must that be ?! Who can come up with something ..
- Carrying Weight
The issue of weight is in my opinion not really well designed. You'll find much, and you have to carry a lot, but very quickly reaches the threshold where the fun goes flutes. So you have to unload many times, but this is not easy, especially in this game. As mentioned before, players can carry more severe.
The Souls series has the much better resolved. Namely, there is one only the weight of what I wear currently to the body equipment. The remaining weight does not matter, there is not even an item chest. And I also can not think of a reason which has a chest playfully for benefits.
- Vassal commands
The commanding the troops is only possible ridimentär, and even that has weaknesses. There are only go / Comm / Help. The personal vassal has a slope that you teach him, eg "cross the small opponent at first". But these inclinations are changing during the game.
Example: My personal vassal is Warrior and is a whirlwind, and small cut everything. Now, when I need healing and to "help" call, so me to heal the hired magician, my warrior is with time for "protector" because the true "help" for all in the group. That makes no sense!
WHO thinks a thing like that ?! OFF If this tendency is first "botched", this is yet to be bent only on a very circuitous route back straight.
It would be much better if I could create a list of priorities for my vassals themselves, as in many other games also possible. example
Priorität1: If energy - switch weapons cumbersome
That my abilities I can not change during my trips so I can still live. But I must always only in the menu, so I switch from my fire dagger on Ice Dagger that is extremely annoying and disrupts the flow of the game. This is exactly what you could have used the four analog stick buttons that are wasted moment of the silly vassal Come Anda. In the end, this is also the right place dissolved in the Souls game series.
- Depending on side missions
I now say simply times, nobody in the world can live in this game all the side missions to play through the first find.
Certain missions are only available at certain points of the main story and also some missions have other missions as a prerequisite, but have no discernible connection. This is for 98% of the players do not care. However, I am someone who wants a role play by play only once, and yet everything to have seen.
Therefore, "only" 4 stars.
Although there are a few design weaknesses, I have long had no longer so much fun with the struggles in a RPG.
Who games not so broken like me, and always wants to understand everything immediately and who can ignore the negatives safely. The game flow is extremely good.
Dragon's Dogma has actually done that again, I suppose in a video game a bow in his hand and abfeier as if Sylvester.
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