Dragon´s Dogma Review

  POSTED June 01, 2012

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.

• Fantastic combat encounters against awesome monsters  
• One of the best boss fights in any role-playing game, ever  
• There is always a surprise around the corner  
• Atmospheric touches that make the world feel authentic  
• A series of striking choices leads to an unforgettable ending.

• Tedious backtracking through familiar territory  
• Exasperating pawn behavior  
• Bizarre quest-related and story events.

8.0

Dragon's Dogma takes chances, and it's that riskiness that makes this role-playing game so unique among its peers.

75

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.