I have a love-hate relationship with Dragon's Dogma 2. It was one of the first new games of 2024 that fully caught my attention – for a solid 9 days, anyway, over which I invested just shy of 100 hours into Capcom's sweeping monster-infested lands between Vermund and Battahl. I initially loved the combat-focused slant on the genre that the game angles for, putting it more in line with action-RPGs rather than honing in on the roleplaying or super involved storytelling I'd been experiencing elsewhere.
But no sooner had I made my peace with the fact that Baldur's Gate 3 might have spoiled RPGs for me forever, any and all intrigue I'd had driving me toward the end of Dragon's Dogma 2 suddenly drained away. Ultimately, upon unlocking the point-of-no-return quest The Guardian Gigantus, I gave up completely – but not before attempting to nuke my whole playthrough by way of the notorious Dragon's Dogma 2 Dragonsplague. Turns out that devious dreams of a serial killer-creating disease still couldn't entertain me long enough to see them to fruition, even after recruiting all manner of over-leveled Pawns in the vain hope of seeing burning red eyes staring out at me from the Rift. So what's left to do but grit my teeth and bear it one final time? It's time to conquer Dragon's Dogma 2 once and for all. As soon as I remember how to play it, of course.
