I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect when stepping into Dragon’s Dogma 2‘s expansive world for a three-hour hands-on preview. With the cult classic 2012 original having landed a lifetime ago in videogame years, I wondered where this long-awaited sequel would sit among the modern greats like Elden Ring. Venturing into Vermund and Battahl, however, I was surprised and delighted to discover just how much Capcom’s latest bucks almost every trope and trend of the genre.

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