Engrossing and frustrating, Dragon's Dogma is a flawed and unique gem. Click on Read More to check out The Good, The Bad and the critic scores.
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Fantastic combat encounters against awesome monsters
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One of the best boss fights in any role-playing game, ever
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There is always a surprise around the corner
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Atmospheric touches that make the world feel authentic
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A series of striking choices leads to an unforgettable ending.
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Tedious backtracking through familiar territory
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Exasperating pawn behavior
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Bizarre quest-related and story events.
Dragon's Dogma takes chances, and it's that riskiness that makes this role-playing game so unique among its peers.
It deserves to be complemented by an absorbing fantasy world and an array of well-written quests and characters, but instead the quests get repetitive and the fiction is soporific.