No matter what vocation you pick, the story is obviously the same. Your character is known across the land of Gransys as The Arisen. This comes after having your heart literally ripped out of your body, and living to tell the tale, by a dragon whose arrival is believed to mean that the end of the world is nigh. According to legend, the Arisen is believed to be the chosen one to ultimately kill the dragon and save the world from the apocalypse. However this along with a couple of starter quests was the most I could properly follow in regards to the story.
around to try and find my next quest, my adventures when I’d a quest to embark on were enjoyable. Mainly when I was given only a marked location in a blank unexplored area. I was never sure what I would find or where I’d end up but there was always excitement and adrenalin running through me. But it wasn’t always smooth sailing, even when I stuck to the main path. Running into smaller enemies like wolves, rogues and goblins and sometimes even the bigger beasts like trolls and dragons kept me on my toes at all times.
Luckily I’m not alone on my journeys with the help This was mainly due to the poor execution of of 3 AI pawns who you can swap out and upgrade allowing players to find and follow Quest lines through out the game. This made combat a lot easily. The only place where I knew to find more enjoyable. However it didn’t feel very fluid to quests were from the notice boards found in begin with. It did have a bit of getting used to, esmain towns. However these mainly consisted of pecially not being able to fully lock onto enemies “kill X amount of these” and “escort this person when trying to melee attack. But after some practo X”. The rest of the quests worth doing were tice and acquiring a few abilities for myself and found on a whim half the time. Simply marking my party, the fights became easier and I started to new quest givers on the map along with the have a lot more fun with them. As a Strider every already marked notice boards would have made fight was different since I could choose either to a huge difference. I know that finding the quests melee or attack at range. Being able to change along your journey should be part of the adven- up my approach depending on what worked best ture but I was slowly getting tired of having to against enemies never made the fights boring for really search for them. my particular vocation. As previously mentioned, this is an enhanced version of an older title. In no This next part is going to sound very hypocritway is it a remaster meaning the graphics do look ical. But as much as I didn’t like adventuring like they came straight from last gen. But since it’s not heavy on HD graphics, the game does run extremely well on the Nintendo Switch, especially in handheld mode. There may have only been a small hand full of times it seemed like the frame rate had dropped but this happened only for a split second. But just because the graphics are aged doesn’t mean the game doesn’t look nice. It does feature some well designed environments and creatures, as well as some alright voice acting through out. There are areas where it could improve but I still found Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen to be an enjoyable adventure title. Even though it feels exactly like a game from last-gen, I’d still recommend it to any RPG fans who are yet to play.