Dragon's Dogma 2 is a modern tribute to old-school RPGs

Right off the bat, it's crucial to establish that in my time with Dragon's Dogma 2, I didn't see anything that reinvents the wheel. This series has not suddenly followed in the footsteps of other fantasy RPG games where everyone's horny for a bit of action with the hero. Some developers have mastered that particular craft, so instead of trying to compete with that, Dragon's Dogma 2 opts to be a fun monster-slaying romp in a fantasy land filled with mythological beasties. We still have a while until the Dragon's Dogma 2 release date, but from what I've seen so far, there's a wonderfully simple fantasy charm from times when RPGs had more straightforward stakes. For a fan of the 2012 original, that's all I could ask for.

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