To give you a sense of the gameplay, let me again tell a brief story from my playthrough, which I'm confident will give a sense of what's in store with Dragon's Dogma. While preparation and pacing is great in its own right, nothing would be worth the challenge if the actual gameplay wasn't compelling and, more importantly, entertaining. While in other games night might just be a visual change, in Dragon's Dogma that change goes beyond into gameplay. Instead of adventuring further I actually decided to wait through the night to avoid more danger. In one instance, I discovered a rundown fort during the middle of the night. The game will continually punish you while adventuring at night with more difficult groups of enemies that can become relentless in their attacks and ambushes. Night in Dragon's Dogma is your worst enemy. The most difficult element about the gameplay might be adventuring at night. That preparation truly pays off in later game sections in which the enemies become larger and greater in number. The last game I truly remember having to prepare before embarking on adventures and quests was The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. These elements range from the major, such as sleeping at an inn to fully heal your party, to the more minor, like filling your lantern with oil to sustain its light in darkness. That pacing becomes essential to one's survival as an array of elements come into play. But, despite my fears, I fell in love with nearly every aspect of Dragon's Dogma.ĭragon's Dogma is one of the few games recently in which I embraced the increased challenge, slowing my pace to take time for additional leveling and completing all of the side quests. I admit, easy mode felt right at home for me. It's not anywhere close to, say, the difficulty of the Dark Souls series especially in the fact that there is a easy mode for those weary of challenge. First and foremost, Dragon's Dogma is a difficult game in the sense it requires players to prepare themselves for quests and lengthy adventures and learn the tactics of various enemies for defeating them. While the game could easily be classified into the role-playing genre, it would be ignoring much of the unique gameplay elements that set it apart from other titles.

Originally released in 2012, Dragon's Dogma has finally made its way to the PC.

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