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It's alright.

UPDATED:

TLDR: Just buy DD:DA. It is a better product in nearly every way.

My original review was thumbs up, and I kept it down below. Now that I have played I can not recommend this game to anyone for the following reasons.

1. This game is so heavily front loaded that it might as well be a scam. All the promotional material and interesting things you thought may happen? Nope. Not really a point to it. When you finally arrive at the next region of the game you may think that you're really about to pick up the story. Nope. You are basically at the end. The entire first 80 percent of the story just drops off/ doesn't matter. This is by far the worst RPG story I have ever seen. Somehow even worse than the first Dragons Dogma. Normally that would be okay to me. I really liked DD:DA despite its meh story, but that gets into point number 2.

2. There is ZERO endgame that matches what the previous game, DD:DA, offers. No global boss like the Ur-Dragon. No Everfall. No gear progression with end game bosses. You can get a single worldstate change (WHICH IS ON A TIME LIMIT FOR SOME REASON!?) and then you are forced into NG+. This NG+, btw, is not scaled. You can unequip your weapons and punch everything to death because its the exact same damage and health for enemies as the first run through the game. Combined with the no new game option on launch there is LITERALLY NO REASON TO KEEP PLAYING. AT ALL. EVEN IF YOU WANTED TO KEEP GOING.

Mechanically this game is sound, but the 2nd half of the game, the part where once you get there it is too far gone to refund the game, is so laughably bad I genuinely dont understand how they felt this was a quality product.

If the overall game was just bad it would be one thing, but they did SO MUCH RIGHT that the complete pile of s**t the later half of the game becomes is just that much worse.

This game has less unique monsters compared to the first. It has less armor combinations compared to the first. It has less of a main story compared to the first. Vocations have less weapon skills/spells compared to the first. It has no endgame whatsoever. It is a downgrade in nearly every category aside from graphical improvements.

Why explore at all when the literal best items in the game are just found at vendors? Why even buy the best items when the game becomes trivially easy by lvl 30?

When the honeymoon phase goes away I wouldn't be surprised if this game gets a 4/10 on average. It's a shame too because it would take maybe a week worth of effort by the devs to address the NG+ issues by just changing some config values and adding more of the unique one time bosses in the main world the same way you find a cyclops every 10 feet. That alone would make me want to continue. Instead this gets to sit in my game library and stare back at me with all its unrealized potential.

ORIGINAL REVIEW:

While the performance issues are a valid reason to give this a negative review for some, I personally have been having a blast on the following setup:

i5-12400
RTX 3060 12gb
32GB of ram

As for the micro-transactions? There is zero reason to look at them. Not only is everything found in game, but its not even particularly hard to find these things either. The character editor can be found in the first big city you are forced to go to for the main progression. The fast travel system does not require you to spend real money. Everything you need for fast travel can be found in game easily as well. It's just a CAPCOM thing to have pointless MTX for some reason. It may be annoying for them to include it anyway, but its a completely inconsequential addition. You can fully enjoy the game without paying another dime (assuming you have a newer PC).

If you don't like the lack of optimization, fine. That is a true issue that has no reason to be as bad as it is, but to blast the game over the MTX situation is either ignorance or intentionally misleading imo.

Good.