Hi guys, this week, I want to tell you about an action-RPG video game set in the medieval world, where we will have to overcome countless obstacles, missions in heaps, exploration in an open world with almost no restrictions, where we have to take into account many factors to start our epic adventures; As the time of departure in each town, supplies such as: Various healing herbs, Survival tools, since we will be ambushed at every moment by mythical and legendary creatures, where the type of displacement or path we take, has an impact on result of our mission, there is no exact way to follow, but sometimes we will be forced, to take a single path, and the correct choice of our fellow travelers can result in the success or failure of our goal in mind . This and much more can offer us this great video game that bears the name, dragon's dogma dark arisen; Developed by Capcom and distributed by herself, In the year, 2012; for ps3 and xbox360. Later in the year, 2016, its latest version, Dark Arisen, was released for PC, where it has important corrections, such as new missions, more enemies to discover, new objects and even new fps from 30 to 60.
Therefore, I want to highlight in this review, why Dragon's dogma dark arisen should be part of that great list of video games, that deserve to be played, and enjoy all its content that brings us.
In another place, in another life, another son of man goes your way ...
Dragon's Dogma begins with the fight of Arisen and his faithful companions of combats (The Peons), who go course to the final battle, against "The Dragon", called Grigori, this dragon will be the main reason of all our adventures. We must face mythical creatures to reach our goal and face our destiny, only those who are worthy can face this great dragon, countless obstacles we must overcome in order to end this story that seems to have no end.
Finally, the dragon is within reach of our hands, but this fight to us does not correspond to us. Everything seems to be a memory of the past and the history of this Arisen and Grigori is something that we must discover.
The true story of 'Dragon's Dogma', begins in Cassardis (the hometown of the Arisen), which is unexpectedly attacked by a great dragon, which destroys the coastal area, in which many villagers are involved and lose their lives, we in our role as protagonist, we are forced to face this great dragon, which logically defeats us without difficulty; then this great dragon takes our heart out causing a great herity in our chest, but that wound is healed by itself.
After these unfortunate outcomes, we wake up in bed, the intrigue invades our thoughts, how is it possible that we are alive without having a heart? and mysteriously, we can hear the voice of the dragon challenging us and prompting us to start this great journey in search of our heart. It is here when again the town is attacked by a Hydra, but we manage to cut one of its heads, and the hydra flees. In the end, we achieved a lot of reputation with this great feat and we embarked on our great adventure in search of the Dragon that has our heart; And this is when we start the missions and travel to the "Gran Soren", in search of answers.
One of the things that I call a lot of attention of "dragon's dogma", was its graphics section, since we are in the presence of an RPG video game, set in a medieval world where there are mythological creatures and are the main attraction of this video game. That is why and much more than "dragon's dogma", had to meet the expectations that entail a video game of this caliber. Being the first of its kind to offer this type of incredible graphics, where interaction with enemies and the environment was of utmost importance to achieve the objectives of the game.
Likewise, "dragon's dogma" offers us the possibility to customize our main character to our liking, by editing the easy features, height, weight, hair color, muscle mass, skin tone, scars, tattoos and finally our Type of voice
If customizations are not your thing and you want to move quickly to the game, you also have the possibility to choose your standard models, which are not bad from my point of view. By way of reflection, I find it incredible as every video game despite having virtually the same resources when editing our characters, each of them has physical features or designs that the differences of other video games, as in this case "dragon's dogma ".
The textures of our surroundings are almost always repetitive, such as areas of vegetation, puddles, villages, forts, lakes, etc ... However, it is something that can be overlooked, since the game adapts very well, its graphics are impressive and the designs of the enemies are very well worked out, like the rest of the npc of the game; we have a really good depth of field, which allows us a pleasant interaction with the environment and the enemies, the video game easily makes you feel part of it, since it offers us a great variety of possibilities, and its graphics section fulfills its objective final to offer us a great show with the effects of lights when using our spells or abilities.
On the other hand, like forgetting the first hunt of our first Griffin, really a whole show, that offers us this graphics section, where we must have an air combat with this mythological creature, there is even a main mission where we must make a long trip to the Tower Bluemoon, and we must break through and fight with many enemies to reach our goal. In my personal opinion, "dragon's dogma" is not a video game that should be underestimated, but on the contrary, its various scenarios, unlimited explorations, and fights full of action and strategy will give us many hours of entertainment.
Finally, I would like to highlight the DLC area "Dark Arisen", Bitterblack Isle, it is an island that seems to have a life of its own, the most epic challenges of the game will have them here, creatures, like giants, unimaginable abominations; Even death itself will find you here. It is the area that tests you to the fullest, it even has a continuation of the main story really amazing, therefore, this DLC is highly recommended.
As for the final enemy, I find his graphics section, his design, textures, and spells incredible, he is the most versatile enemy of all, his AI seems to be very well worked, only those who face this enemy will understand me completely.
I still remember as if it were yesterday, the first time I saw the trailer for "Dragon's dogma" on TV, my first impression was that it was really amazing, for all those possibilities offered by this great video game, with a wide map that we can explore as we want, we will have really incredible battles against mythological creatures and above all with a great variety of classes for all types of players, with a very versatile gameplay, which personally I think is one of the strengths of this video game.
Dragon's dogma, has a wide map that catches any player and makes it part of it, and is something that few games can do, we must complete countless missions, and these missions can get them in the villages, either secondary or principal missions, that in any way both complement each other, since for certain enemies we must have the adequate level to overcome the challenge, therefore the secondary missions are mostly necessary to level our main character and pawns.
During our missions we must travel the entire map, but here there are no means of transport as such, all we have at our disposal is the use of an item that looks like a crystal and allows us to teleport, which we have a limited number of it, that we must strategically place certain areas of the map of our interest or that are closer to our goal. That is, we must walk the entire map on foot but shorten that path with the use of crystals.
With reference to the above, during our trip, it is very important that we collect all the resources that we find on the road, since we are constantly ambushed by creatures, bandits, wolves, giants, etc ... Which we will be forced to make use of the resource that we have at that moment in the inventory, and we must arrive with the necessary supplies to surpass the current mission.
Something I really love about "Dragon's dogma" is that we must be careful of time, that is, the night can reach us, and during that time the enemies are more aggressive and we can only have a very limited vision of the environment.
we have a "lamp" that we have hanging around our waist and we can have some vision, said lamp requires oil to be able to light it, the risk of being in total darkness is a possibility and reaching a safe area is a total challenge, something that never I saw in another video game, so it is important to collect resources and buy supplies in the villages.
In fact, the collection of resources is important but thanks to our fellow travelers, we can use cures, even purify any altered state that we have suffered from some enemy during the exploration or combat, however when we receive constant damage we can only regenerate our bar health in its entirety with the use of healing herbs or magical sources that regenerates not only the health bar but also remove any altered state, there are few healing sources of this type.
One of the most outstanding features of Dragon's dogma is its item cloning system, that is, during the game we will find unique items, where we will see the need to clone the item to reach the desired numbers of it, either for make new objects and finish a mission that requires several of those unique objects, that's why the "black cat" store is important. In addition, said seller can sell us unique weapons and armor. It should be noted that we can not clone or falsify such weapons or armor.
In the same sense, jewelry plays a very important role in the game, because depending on the type of jewelry we use changes a lot for good or bad performance of our main character and even our pawns. There is jewelry that can significantly increase our basic attributes, as well as to repower our preferences skills, such as potentiation of elemental attacks, magic resistance, stamina regeneration etc ...
With reference to the above, highlight that we can move around the map with a limited number of crystals, what do I mean by this? In the game there are Dragons that will be a challenge, and the difficulty that comes with it will depend on the class we are playing at that moment, I must say that the magicians are very strong. Therefore each time we defeat a Dragon we have the possibility to raise the defenses or characteristics of our armor and weapons with the description "FORGED BY THE DRAGON". With the correct use of crystals, we can kill these dragons as many times as we like, resting several days at the village inn.
Likewise, "Dragon's dogma" has several classes, which really gives the game many ways to play generating different game mechanics.
The basic classes we have are Wizard, Strider, and Wrestler.
Then we have the advanced ones: Sorcerer, Explorer, and Warrior.
Finally, the hybrid or combined: Mystic Knight, Magic Archer, and Assassin.
Wizard:
This type of class specializes in assistance by supporting allies, providing life cures and altered states, however, you can also use attack spells but less powerful than the sorcerer.
Fighter:
Its main weapons are a sword and shield, it has a great magical and physical defense, similarly it has useful abilities like call attract the attention of its enemies and make combined attacks with its allies.
Strider:
this class specializes in the use of double daggers and short bow, is an expert in stealth, acrobatics, and looting, also makes use of explosive objects such as; incendiary bombs or mowers, it is also very efficient to climb your enemies.
After advancing a bit in history and getting some experience with our preferred class, we can advance to the next phase, that is:
Sorcerers:
this class specializes in massive magical attacks, such as: invoking whirlwinds, earthquakes, meteor showers, among other elemental spells. It should be noted that the sorcerers focus on the damage and their casting is very slow, therefore the positioning with the magician is fundamental.
The Warrior:
this class is the strongest in brute power with respect to physical damage, is specialized in the use of the sword or two-handed deck, with the ability to make attacks loaded with a really powerful damage capable of knocking down their enemies and stun them.
The Explorer:
this class specializes in daggers and longbow, with the ability to damage several enemies at once, but its strongest point is when we attack from a distance to do as much damage as possible with our bow.
The mystical knight:
this is a mix between wrestler and magician, that is, we can use a sword or mallet with a shield, and we can enchant our weapons and those of our allies with elemental damage, in turn we can make magical spells on a small scale, like explosive magical mines and invoke an orb of magical energy that by beating them with our weapons we can direct magical projectiles.
The Magic Archer:
I must say this is one of my favorite classes, this class uses a magic bow, capable of causing physical and magical damage at the same time, it has a great control and precision of its attacks, with the ability to detect weak points of the enemies.
Assassin:
we could say this class is very versatile, it can use sword, shield, daggers, and bow, it is par excellence the best class to shoot down enemies, either in air or on land, with a considerable amount of damage producing hemorrhages in the enemies, it is a mix between wrestler and strider.
Note, there are many different skills for each class to suit each player, therefore the gameplay and difficulty of each enemy will change considerably, adding a variety of game style that is not seen in other games. The altered states (debuff) provided by the enemies or ourselves play a very important role by adding that extra boost to "Dragon's dogma".
I must say that after final fantasy, I personally think that the soundtrack of dragon dogma is undoubtedly a work of art and full of many melodies of action, drama and suspense, fits perfectly in every aspect of the game, intensifying the gameplay and the experience of each player. making it part of that little moment of fantasy that video games represent. All composed and organized by Tadayoshi Makino among other collaborators.
With respect to Sound FX, I do not have any complaints in general, everything is very well worked the effects of the skills, the voice dubbing and even the dragons are more representative than the rest.
Soundtrack
As a final summary, "dragon's dogma dark arisen" guarantees many hours of entertainment and fun, has everything that a medieval RPG can offer, exploration, spectacular environments, final enemies that are a challenge.
My experience with this game was really good, it's those kinds of games that catch you and you want to play it at all times, I was able to spend the whole game in about a month, since at the time I had responsibilities with the studios, so every opportunity I had enough for me to disconnect from problems and have fun with this great video game. It should be noted that this publication only mentions some of the most important aspects of the game. Dragon's dogma, has so much content that it is difficult for me to touch them all, so I invite you to discover them for yourself and enjoy this great video game.
