Are dungeons better this time?

[Holonaut]

I remember having fun with Like A Dragon, but the dungeons made me quit.

I remember having to go through the sewers for 45 minutes or so, in a completely linear fashion where every room looked like the last, and enemies were also the same for the 20 or so encounters. And god forbid your game crashed towards the end because there was no way to save in between and you had to run the whole thing all over again.

Are the dungeons better this time? i.e. shorter, more varied, more pleasing to look at, with ability to exit &save, or hopefully a combination of all of those?

[HoneyDrake]

it's similar if not even the same, after all half the game plays in the same area you played in LaD. Hell: you will enter certain places you have in the "first" game again here, with the same layout and design/interiors.

You will land in sewers, again, in the new area, too, on top of having many areas being similar to each other, once again...

So no: Dungeons stay the same.

[Ethan Hunt]

I enjoyed them, even the DLC one. The amount of time you spend depends on what level you enter. There is no penalty for failing/dying in there; you just get kicked back to the entrance. They are the best sources of materials, money & leveling up, so that should be more than enough reason to visit them. None of them are aesthetically pleasing. All of them have this dark/creepy tone to them, same goes for their OST.

Each dungeon is split into multiple floors and have a mid-way checkpoint to make your exit to the entrance and you can resume from that point later on. They have a "super-boss" towards their finale (you get a save point before it) & smaller mini-boss encounters scattered in between. Once you're done with the base dungeon run, an EX version unlocks which gives even harder enemies that give higher loot, XP & money. You'll also need to run them to get class specific ultimate gear, which is definitely worth the effort. I found it to be much easier than Like a Dragon. There is absolutely nothing in here that even remotely rivals the likes of that crazy True Final Millennium Tower dungeon from Like a Dragon.

[Oni-Lyrics]

They're not bad. Pretty simple. The first "dungeon" you ever do has a bunch of different terrain like upper levels with ladders and water. Then the actual dungeons are just halls on halls. They're find but I kinda wish it was more like the gauntlet in 7. It'd save time.