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I think it's one of those games which you either love or hate, personally I am in the former category. I liked the combat a lot, the fact that you could switch classes, and some were hybrids which did change the way you would play the game. I liked how my pawn would learn from me how to fight. I liked the boss fights and how you could burn a griffon's wings or use a fire sword to stop the hydra from regenerating it's health after you cut it, or how you could attack a cyclop in the eye to stun him. The fact that you could climb the bosses or grab the enemies was also great, and I wish more games did this(and yes I played Shadow of the Colossus). I really enjoyed the music, it really pumped you up for those fights. Other things, like night being actually dark, entering water would turn off your lantern, were also good. Personally I think the underlining themes of the story, in that it becomes an essay
on free will was quite good, and not a lot of games do this type of thing as good as DD, though this is something that not a lot of people talk about.
Now I am not some rabid fan, I do acknowledge that it has a lot of flaws, such as repetitive combat, even if it's enjoyable at first, and the only way to sorta mitigate it, is by changing classes to "experience something new", the game is unfinished and rough, the Warrior has only 3 skills which sucks, the pacing of the story is horrible, most sidequests are just escorts or fetch quests, and I would just place those teleporting stones in key areas to reduce time. The map isn't all that interesting, as there isn't all that much variety in scenery, though the way it is structured, it is a bit ingenious, as it appears to be open world, but it's actually a series of cleverly put corridors, and I think a game like Elden Ring would have worked better with that kind of map.
All in all, I think that most people who are hyped for DD2, are those, like me, who hope that the sequel will fix most of the problems of the first game, and add most of the cut content like the Moon or the tower. As it is right now, Dragon's Dogma is a very, very rough gem.