My allies also die very quickly, which is easily fixed by me just going over to them and pressing B, so the whole battle made me feel uncomfortably invincible. It kinda looked like I was stabbing the beast, but because many of the melee animations look like pieces of paper crunching up against each other, I couldn’t really tell. I resorted to climbing on its back like an overly friendly toddler and moving my body around. It didn’t start off so bad since I was using a sword, shield and there weren’t many enemies, but the Chimera takes a huge amount of damage and I was never really sure if I was even hurting it at all. After six hours I’m kicking myself for not just quitting then and there.Ĭombat in Dragon’s Dogma is monotonous and messy. The Chimera battle was more of a sign that this game was bad than I first thought. I’m getting sick of games that just have dragons being the size of big cars. So far I’m not as hooked as I expected, but that dragon is pretty cool I guess. I see a dragon, it talks (which was pretty cool actually) and then we fight some goblins and a Chimera. The game starts surprisingly abruptly as I play as some random man walking around in some ruins to apparently fight a dragon, for some reason. Don’t think of this as a review, more like a gaming journal…written in blood. And yes I know that those are some very popular games I just branded, so I guess that makes my opinion automatically wrong, right?Īnyway, allow me to recount my 6 hour trudge through Dragon’s Dogma. Dragon’s Dogma is the worst game I have ever played.Įven my most hated of games like BioShock, Prototype, Red Dead Redemption and Might and Magic: Dark Messiah at least have some semblance of charm and character. So yes, this remains essential reading provided you don’t mind that it’s got the Emperor and his many consorts, or that the heroine (not one of the consorts) can kill a man with her sharp tongue at 500 yards.I’m just going to go ahead and say it. Even if she does go gaga when he gives her the right present. Maomao herself seems more determined than ever to avoid going anywhere near this – she’s very aware of how Jinshi feels, what it would mean for her future, and how she really does NOT want to deal with it. Somethign we had long suspected is finally straight up admitted, and you will never be able to see the words “decently sized amphibian” again without laughing. On the lighter side, for those who ARE reading the book for the relationship between Maomao and Jinshi, the last quarter of the book is pure gold. There are several pregnancies in this book, and several chapters dealing with people who are trying their hardest to make sure that those pregnancies are unsuccessful… or are they? It *could* just all be a coincidence.
#How to unequip gear in tiger knight empire war series#
When Maomao is not busy snarking at Jinshi or “the quack doctor”, she is helping Jinshi to try to educate the people min the rear palace, discovers a cat that is quickly named after her (sort of), deals with a caravan that is selling all the ladies fragrant perfumes… some of which are potentially dangerous trying to solve a recent disappearance that turns into a not-so-recent murder figures out how a sheltered young woman snuck past her guards and got pregnant discovers that the issues surrounding Consort Lihua, which is what started this series off, have not vanished and ends up going on a hunting trip with a disguised Jinshi, which ends up turning far more dangerous than either of them had anticipated.Īs I said last time, the series rewards close reading, and having prior volumes on hand. It’s tough to be so eccentric that Maomao is mistaken for you, but this girl can pull it off. And then there’s Shisui, who is my new Best Girl, and is basically to bugs what Maomao is to poisons. And there’s an increasingly fun cast, including the amusingly carefree Xiaolan, who spends most of the novel learning to read – and unlike what most books of this sort would do, she proves to be pretty good at it once given proper education. There is Maomao herself, who has an idea of what social niceties and graces are and has decided to tell them “no thank you”. There are the mysteries, of course, as everyone and their brother wants Maomao to apply her cunning and figure out Who’s Killin’ Who. One of the enjoyable things about the Apothecary Diaries is that, while it will always bee about the relationship between Maomao and Jinshi to a degree, if you’re completely uninterested in that sort of thing there’s still a whole lot to get out of every volume. Released in North America by J-Novel Club. Released in Japan as “Kusuriya no Hitorigoto” by Hero Bunko.