At TGS 2023, Capcom launched a nine-minute deep dive into the gameplay of Dragon’s Dogma 2. Instantly I remembered the sentiments I had when enjoying the unique Dragon’s Dogma over a decade in the past. I bear in mind exploring the large open world and scaling colossal beasts for the primary time in an try and spam assault their head and drop them rapidly. For essentially the most half, Dragon’s Dogma 2 appears like an enhanced trendy model of Dragon’s Dogma. And to be trustworthy, that’s precisely what I would like. Right here’s the total nine-minute deep dive in its entirety:

A Story of an Arisen and its Pawns

Within the video, we get a have a look at a number of of the vocations—primarily lessons—in Dragon’s Dogma 2. Fighter, Archer, Thief, and Mage are all choosable vocations for each your Arisen and your Pawn. Magick Archer and Mystic Spearhand nonetheless are solely obtainable for on your player-controller Arisen. After all, every vocation has its strengths and weaknesses, and a part of the technique in Dragon’s Dogma 2 can be bringing the right Pawns to make sure you can face any battle effectively.

The journey in Dragon’s Dogma 2 options two completely different nations, Vermund, the dominion of humanoids, and Battahl, the dominion of beastmen. Like its predecessor, DD2 will characteristic huge open-world areas during which you encounter settlements, vacationers, and retailers. Whereas Vermund seems to be a sunny lush space of inexperienced grass and foliage, Battahl is an arid land of canyons and rocky formations.

Within the earlier a part of the video we see the Arisen and its pawns tackle an ogre, a formidable beast you encounter very early within the authentic recreation. The video does an important job displaying off how participant creativity and technique provide you with a number of methods of taking up an encounter successfully.

The video ends displaying off the 2 introduced Arisen-specific vocations as they battled a Griffin. The majestic beast returns from the unique recreation, half lion and half eagle. Similar to within the authentic, it appears like Griffin’s can be a difficult beast to tackle. Additionally, it appears like scaling the beast continues to be as essential as earlier than, the place you possibly can give attention to particular components.

As I stated, I’m hoping Dragon’s Dogma 2 is simply an improved model of the unique from over a decade in the past. And, based mostly on this deep dive, it appears like we’re getting that and a lot extra!