Time for another dev blog from Dragon’s Dogma Director Hideaki Itsuno. Enjoy!

There was never any intent for DD to be Monster Hunter for the West. This game was made with a completely different approach. The most prominent similarity is the ability for up to 4 characters to cooperate together, but the way it is played and the world it takes place in are completely different.

Also, this game is an RPG through and through. It’s a single-player action RPG played in parties that are obtained online.

This game has been made by staff with a long list of action games to their credit, but we’ve put our blood, sweat and tears and have challenged ourselves over and over in order to make this a solid RPG.

It also includes a deep story that the player has lots of freedom in building on their own. The player can solve the problems and quests in front of them according to what best interests them. And the story moves forward based on that. So there is this large story arc, but it doesn’t only play out one way. So we look forward to having the players enjoy how they choose to end the quests that they have chosen, what choices they’ve made and what characters they’ve chosen to get involved with. The decisions that you make have a large impact on changing the history of the world. And your own history within the world massively changes as well. More >