Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen

 PlayStation 4
User Score
8.3

Generally favorable reviews- based on 222 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 176 out of 222
  2. Mixed: 27 out of 222
  3. Negative: 19 out of 222
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  1. nksquall
    Jan 18, 2022
    1
    Absolutely boring game that is not worth invested time. Combat is inconsistent, some fights are boringly easy and then all of the sudden a foe that looks exactly the same oneshots you. Quest design is quite tedious, you can spend up to couple hours collecting herbs or 45 wolf tails. The way of telling the story is not immersive at all.
    Better play something else.
  2. Zeratex
    Dec 30, 2019
    3
    Dragon's Dogma gets a lot of praise for its Combat, however despite that praise I find the game to still be below average in terms of overall quality, the Combat is good sure, but its not very impressive and doesnt help push through a very generic and dull writing.

    Visuals wise the game is dull looking and boring, most of the landscape more of the same and its bland, the animations are    Dragon's Dogma gets a lot of praise for its Combat, however despite that praise I find the game to still be below average in terms of overall quality, the Combat is good sure, but its not very impressive and doesnt help push through a very generic and dull writing.

    Visuals wise the game is dull looking and boring, most of the landscape more of the same and its bland, the animations are fine but they get repititve quickly.
    Sounds wise, the pawns keep repeating the same lines which makes playing the game more annoying. Soundtracks are minimal and they are mediocre.
    The game has the major flaws in its writing, its Quests are fetch quests generic, Characters are bland one dimensional and uninteresting. Worldbuilding is shallow and lacks a lot of aspects.
    Another major flaw is the Pawn A.I how it behaves how it keeps saying the same lines.
    One more major flaw is no fast travel and you have to WALK all the time with stamina bar which makes traveling more boring.
    One last major flaw is that enemies keep respawning quickly and they are damage spoonges which makes a good combat boring, so overall even the strongest point about this game still manages to become boring

    As an RPG it needs some quality writing to keep me playing, it does not.

    Weak game.
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78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 24 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 24
  3. Negative: 0 out of 24
  1. Worth Playing
    Jan 2, 2018
    85
    All in all, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen is one of the best action-RPG titles out there, even though it's an upgraded port from the prior console generation.
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  2. ZTGD
    Nov 6, 2017
    70
    Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen is a game about moments. Encountering a brand new monster, obtaining a powerful weapon or when a Drake crashes your goblin slaying party with a storm of hellfire- all moments that are memorable and fun to experience. The issue is that getting to those moments are oftentimes an absolute slog of tedious stamina and weight management, battling the same group of wolves and bandits for the thirtieth time.
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  3. 4P.de
    Oct 18, 2017
    78
    Despite all the visual enhancements you can still see that the original is five years old. With that in mind, this is still a good and at times positively rough action role-playing game that is worth exploring.
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