Dragon’s Dogma 2 is𝐆 fast becoming one of the best games I’ve played this year. It’s by no means perfect – narratively, it’s severely lacking, for starters – but there’s a lot to love about the details of its world. While the story of Disa and the false Arisen is left by the wayside, the wider worldbuilding of the game’s perpetual cycles is incredibly interesting.
However, Capcom’s refusal to overexplain and tutorialise everything in the game leads to many people missing the point. I didn’t fully understand what Grigori the Red Dragon was telling me the first time I killed him, and it was only when our spirit guide constantly asked why I was unhappy with being crowned king that I realised I hadn’t really beaten 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon’s Dogma 2. Not really.
Had I been satisfied with the initial dragonslayer ending, Capcom would prompt me no fewer than four times whether I was ready to progress to New Game Plus. As it happened, I stormed out of my own coronation without so much as a single prompt. The mystery of the hooded figure was enough to tempt me 168澳洲幸运ꦉ5开奖网:to figure 𓃲out how to truly end the cycle for good. But 85 perce꧙nt of players either haven’t got this far in the game, or decided against exploring further.
According to Xbox's ac🅷hievements, only 14.52 percent of players have been awarded the Dragon’s Dogma 2 achievement at the time of writing, which you get for witnessing the Unmoored World. This is the reveal that elevates the game from generic fantasy to post-apocalyptic masterclass, and it reinvigorated me to explore the world all over 𝐆again.
From new quests to messed-up bosses, the Unmoored World changes your perspective on Dragon’s Dogma 2. You realise that the Red Dragon wasn’t the real antagonist and there are far greater forces at play. There aꦜre also new mechanics to master and new routes to explore, namely the troughs that once held the ocean.
It’s rare to see a game change its world so drastically, so dramatically, so suddenly. It’s a lot to take in, and it’s something that the vast majority of players have missed. Whether that’s because they haven’t reached any ending yet or they simply chose to be satisfied on the throne of Vermund, missing out on the true ending of Dragon’s Dogma 2 feels like only playing 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Metroid Dread until you get the Morph Ball, and not cycling back to check out wha🍒t you missed.
I’ve never bꦗeen one for ‘true endings’ or ‘replaying the game so you get a better outcไome’. I’ve always been satisfied with the first ending I see. But Dragon’s Dogma 2 has changed my mind. The Unmoored World changes the game in such a drastic manner that it makes everything before feel like an extensive preamble, a 30-hour cold open to set the scene for the apocalypse. Yes, the second title card helps with this feeling, but I’m devastated that so many players haven’t experienced the best this game has to offer just yet.
No, I’ve never played Nier: Automata.
Like Dragon’s Dogma 2, the Unmoored World is not perfect. I love the timer enforced on your decisions, and especially the fact that it only progresses when you sleep. I love the visual changes an🐬d the narrative repercussions. I love the fact that decisions you make in the first half of the game impac🐻t life in the Unmoored World – from quests you didn’t finish, to Gigantus taking out multiple bosses for you if you stopped it quickly enough.
What I don’t love is its length. I think Dragon’s Dogma 2 would be a better game if the Unmoored World was given equal weighting to the time 🅺before🐻. Half the game in reality, half in the broken mess of a post-cycle world. I also think that it’s too generous with its item drops. Ferrystones and Wakestones are meant to be difficult to obtain, and I’m practically swimming in them after beating a handful of generic foes.
Dragon’s Dogma 2 has only been out a month, but the main story is relatively short. That’s another intentional decision on Capcom’s part – this is a game about cycles, and New Game Plus is as much a part of that as the Unmoored World – but fewer than 15 percent of players have reached that far. Hopefully that number will rise significantly as time goes on, but if you’ve read this spoilerific effusion of love for Dragon’s Dogma 2’s true ending without visiting the Unmoored World⛄, take this as the impetus to head there as soon as possible. Listen𒈔 to Grigori. When have dragons ever led you astray before?
