Dragon's Dogma is a fantastic game. Your character isn't set to one play style, being able to change classes at just about every town. You originally start with 3 base classes, covering the standard archtypes of warrior, mage, and archer. These each have their own playstyle, focusing on either ranged or melee combat. Yet each of these classes can be mixed with another when you pick an advanced class. These are things like Mystic Knight or Assassin. Of course you can also just choose to upgrade your current class into an advanced form. A Mage can become a Sorcerer, or a Fighter to a Warrior.

But you aren't in this alone. You create not just your own character, but a pawn as well. A pawn's class is set when created, but you can have up to 3 pawns with you at a time. Have friends that play this? Well you can summon their pawns to your world to help you out. Create a merry band of warriors to fight back massive beast and creatures of the night.

Climb up the back of a cyclops or hydra. Climbing has many uses in combat, and this game gets some great moments from climbing atop different monsters.

This version of the game has a neat dlc dungeon that is way harder than the base game, and will really be a challenge to most players. I highly recommend that you try it out once you've beaten the base game. Of course, you can just enter New Game +, keeping your gear and levels. New Game + adds more challenges, and gives you a better chance to do storylines that you missed previously.

An important note is that you CAN FAIL QUEST by not doing them in a timely manner. Certain quest are time sensitive, and require you to go to areas you might not be leveled for. These usually lead to how your ending will occur. Completing certain quest will raise your affinity with other npcs, which will change your ending. Theres a total of 3 or so endings involving different people you meet.

All in all, I highly recommend Dragon's Dogma. It's a fun game with a ton of replayablility. In total, between the PS3, Steam, and PS4 release I've put in well over 80 hours.