{"id":1080104,"date":"2026-01-23T09:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T09:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/JCpwvZGL4N42D2x4tYjJR9"},"modified":"2026-01-23T09:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T09:05:07","slug":"dragons-dogma-2-understands-that-fantasys-at-its-best-when-it-knows-how-to-revel-in-the-mundane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/dragons-dogma-2-understands-that-fantasys-at-its-best-when-it-knows-how-to-revel-in-the-mundane\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragon&#8217;s Dogma 2 understands that fantasy&#8217;s at its best when it knows how to revel in the mundane"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div class=\"fancy-box\">\n<div class=\"fancy_box-title\">Personal Pick<\/div>\n<div class=\"fancy_box_body\">\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' >\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"xGzY82nEUovchNEoUB4Dmi\" name=\"1920x1080 Banner\" caption=\"\" alt=\"Game of the Year\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/dragons-dogma-2-understands-that-fantasys-at-its-best-when-it-knows-how-to-revel-in-the-mundane.jpg\" mos=\"\" link=\"\" align=\"\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"pinterest-pin-exclude\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\"\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Future)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"fancy-box__body-text\">In addition to our main <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/game-of-the-year-awards-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\">Game of the Year Awards 2024<\/a>, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We&#8217;ll post new personal picks, alongside our main awards, throughout the rest of the month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As the protagonist of Dragon&#8217;s Dogma 2, I&#8217;m equal parts mythic hero, destined monarch, and fledgling demigod, but the most important thing I can do during my adventures is make sure I&#8217;m not left with a backpack full of rotten meat. My Arisen can fire a hail of magic darts from an enchanted bow; he can enlist a legion of soulbonded companions drawn from countless parallel worlds in a metaphysical conflict spanning the infinite strata of reality.<\/p>\n<p>That only counts for so much if I&#8217;m not keeping track of my camping supplies.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t pretend like it&#8217;s not obnoxious when me and my party of pawns are awoken after our campfire meal of beast scrags by a midnight assault from a redwolf pack, leaving us stranded in the wilderness with ruined tents and only a spoiling stock of harspuds to fuel our trek back to civilization. Dragon&#8217;s Dogma 2 makes sure that no hero&#8217;s quest goes too long without contending with daily tediums and mundanities\u2014and I love it.<\/p>\n<p>Other fantasies can feel paranoid about the times between your moments of high adventure. Take Blizzard&#8217;s, for example. I&#8217;ve spent a few dozen hours with Diablo 4 this year, and there&#8217;s an almost anxious tension during the long stretches of riding overland between dungeons and world events\u2014like the game&#8217;s self-conscious about whether I&#8217;ll notice that the downtime conveniently gives me plenty of time to ponder all the spots on my horse and hero that I haven&#8217;t draped in premium cosmetics.<\/p>\n<p>World of Warcraft, meanwhile, feels like it&#8217;s waking from a fugue state spanning multiple expansions, where its mad sprint to endgame content meant blazing through regions and villains at such a blistering pace that everything smeared together into an undifferentiated blur of magic and huge pauldrons.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"hp278ggMHvZUxqG8UiwmbU\" name=\"20241220113314_1\" alt=\"An Arisen charges a pair of goblins in Dragon's Dogma 2, sending them toppling.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/dragons-dogma-2-understands-that-fantasys-at-its-best-when-it-knows-how-to-revel-in-the-mundane-1.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Capcom)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dragon&#8217;s Dogma 2 is unapologetic about slowing down. It gets just as high fantasy as your Azeroths and Faeruns; by the end of the game, you&#8217;ll watch a dragon get incinerated by a second, cooler dragon. But here, that high fantasy is tempered by an understanding that the magical often works best when it&#8217;s firmly planted in the material. Dragon&#8217;s Dogma 2 isn&#8217;t just comfortable with the mundane. It revels in it, and that only makes the fantasy stronger.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Dragon&#8217;s Dogma 2 is unapologetic about slowing down.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Traveling long distances is more feasible by ox cart than by arcane portcrystal. Incriminating letters vanquish more of the kingdom&#8217;s villains than heroic combat. When you&#8217;re tasked with protecting an empress during a sacred rite, you&#8217;re not defending her from some kind of rude necromancer&#8217;s terrible spell; her greatest threat in the crowd of onlookers is a guy with a knife. And if you&#8217;re going to fight monsters, the best way to prepare yourself is finding a place for a hearty meal and a full night&#8217;s sleep.<\/p>\n<p>When I&#8217;m eventually conjuring a pillar of ice so I can leap from it to kill a medusa with a plunging greatsword slash, the excitement is only heightened by the fact that\u2014hours beforehand\u2014I was doing the more humble task of helping an aging dissident secure a pair of glasses so he can do historical research while hiding in a library. Other games will have you fighting an escalating parade of fantastic beasts until you&#8217;re barely blinking an eye at the gnarliest freaks a Monster Manual could muster. Dragon&#8217;s Dogma 2 is confident enough to leave you fighting hordes of generic goblins, wolves, and harpies so that whenever a griffon <em>does <\/em>thunder down out of the clouds while you&#8217;re trying to navigate a narrow cliffside path, it feels like a moment worth savoring.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"FJL2SevqLYArCMHBifj3tn\" name=\"20241220114033_1\" alt=\"An Arisen and their party of pawns battle a drake.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/dragons-dogma-2-understands-that-fantasys-at-its-best-when-it-knows-how-to-revel-in-the-mundane-2.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Capcom)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I won&#8217;t minimize it: It&#8217;s an odd game. But it&#8217;s an honest oddness. It&#8217;s weird without pretension. It&#8217;s so dense with charming design idiosyncracies\u2014like mechanics letting you clamber all over an ogre like a horrid little bug, or grab a panicked stag as it sprints past and casually lob it at an enemy\u2014that it feels like it never occurred to anyone that it could play any other way.<\/p>\n<p>Of those idiosyncrasies, the player-made pawns are the highlight. I&#8217;m ensuring I won&#8217;t beat any sicko allegations by saying so, but I love the pawn chatter, no matter how many hundreds of times I&#8217;ve been warned about the Dragonsplague.<\/p>\n<p>When another player&#8217;s pawn points out a chest it knows is in the area, there&#8217;s a good chance it&#8217;ll contain a cloak I&#8217;ve seen in a few vendors&#8217; inventories. But all those bits of advice and strategic suggestions\u2014pleasantly and repeatedly shared\u2014came from discoveries made alongside other players. Whatever brief disappointment I might&#8217;ve felt finding that cloak in that chest could&#8217;ve been shared by that pawn&#8217;s Arisen in their own world.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"eNoMGDfzzAmBUcxq3EArm9\" name=\"20241220112503_1\" alt=\"An Arisen stands on a hilltop with their accompanying pawns nearby. A mountain looms in the background.\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/dragons-dogma-2-understands-that-fantasys-at-its-best-when-it-knows-how-to-revel-in-the-mundane-3.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Capcom)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It might&#8217;ve been after their own camp was ambushed by redwolves\u2014after their own harrowing midnight journey, where their own meager provisions might&#8217;ve been made more dire by a minotaur charging out of the darkness. When the latest pawn I&#8217;d passed on the road or pulled from a riftstone offers its insights, it&#8217;s sketching the outline of its own history: of other adventurers&#8217; battles with titanic monsters and all the quiet ox cart rides, inn stays, and campfire-grilled beast-steaks shared along the way.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/rpg\/dragons-dogma-2-understands-that-fantasys-at-its-best-when-it-knows-how-to-revel-in-the-mundane\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personal Pick (Image credit: Future) In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2024, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We&#8217;ll post new personal picks, alongside our main awards, throughout the rest of the month. 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