Dragon’s Dogma 2 Has Just One Save File To Encourage Exploration

Dragon’s Dogma 2 hits PlayStation 5, Xbox Sequence X/S, and PC on March 22, and in the event you boot it up for the first time, you may be taught it solely has one save file. TheGamer reported on that data after an IGN Japan preview from earlier this yr revealed console avid gamers is likely to be caught with just one single save file, making points like reverting to outdated saves all nonetheless inconceivable. 

After having fun with the game myself for about three hours – read Game Informer’s Dragon’s Dogma 2 preview impressions here – I could undoubtedly actually really feel a friction with just one save file, nonetheless it’s one I acquired right here to know. Certain, Dragon’s Dogma 2 is hard, terribly so in some strategies. Dying can set you once more some, and I might be lying if I acknowledged I didn’t want for the facility to revert saves (after saving correct in entrance of a difficult monster, as an example). However it’s clear Capcom has a imaginative and prescient with its drawback and single save file; it makes your every movement that reasonably extra impactful. 

However, when IGN Japan’s preview revealed Dragon’s Dogma 2 would have just one save file, some avid gamers began to stress how which can affect their playthrough. After having fun with the game myself, I was able to debate to director Hideaki Itsuno about this, and I noticed it was intentional to encourage exploration. 

“It’s actually one save file,” Itsuno tells me by the use of a translator. “However, the game affords you further selections. [It] affords you the selection to load from the ultimate inn you rested at, so in that regard, it isn’t a sport the place you’ll not have any potential means to return. 

“Regarding what the contemplating was behind that, it’s really straightforward: we want to encourage exploration, and that’s pretty the choice of what you get in the event you allow an extreme quantity of freedom on this regard.” 

Itsuno gave me an occasion involving a cliff. In case you might be at a cliff of a discernible prime, with numerous save selections (like the facility to save lots of a lot of correct there and quickly revert once more to it), you may merely bounce to see in the event you might make it. “That has pretty the choice impression of encouraging that exploration actually really feel,” Itsuno says. 

However, with just one save file, your contemplating must shift. Leaping may result in demise or undesirable harm, and which will very nicely be a setback. In reality, you’ll be capable to reload on the ultimate inn you saved at nonetheless given how giant Dragon’s Dogma 2’s world is (and the way in which exhausting it could be to fast journey at cases), it’s possible you’ll not want to retrace your steps. So, in its place of leaping with out thought, you may analyze the cliff’s prime further fastidiously and even resolve to find a safer means down. 

“In order that’s the foremost motive: I really wanted to encourage the enjoyable of exploration, and that was the contemplating behind the limit,” he says. 

Dragon’s Dogma 2 hits PlayStation 5, Xbox Sequence X/S, and PC on March 22. 

For further, check out the latest Dragon’s Dogma 2 gameplay trailer, after which uncover out why it’s one of our most anticipated games of the year. After that, study how Dragon’s Dogma 2’s main story campaign is about as long as the first game’s after which study how Dragon’s Dogma 2 has an uncapped framerate on consoles. 

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