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tl;dr: it's great if you have a good CPU.

The good: The game itself is very good. I'd say it's in the same vein as Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom with the exploration and feeling of freedom it gives you. The combat is very fun and responsive, and the pawn system is cool. It's got a bit of that "early 2000s game isn't telling me exactly what to do" feeling to it, but that's not necessarily a bad thing if you pay attention. The best part of the game is the lack of scripted fights. You go out on a simple quest to pick flowers for someone, and then you end up on a 2-hour-long adventure because you got attacked by a griffin and hopped on its back, and it flew away with you, and now you have to find your way back to the village you started the quest at, or because you needed to cross a bridge over a canyon, but the bridge was broken, so you had to detour around it, and end up fighting a cyclops. The gameplay is very emergent, and no two trips from point A to point B will be the same because of it, which I suppose could be seen as a bad thing if you're just trying to quickly do something, but that's half the fun of Dragon's Dogma.

The bad: I get why it's being review-bombed because of the microtransactions, but I personally don't care about it. They don't shove it in your face, and you can get every item for free just by playing the game. It's no different than Devil May Cry 5. Just ignore the DLC page on Steam, and you're good to go.

The ugly: Performance is... not great. I don't have the newest and most powerful PC, but it's certainly not weak either. I'm playing on a 27-inch 1440p monitor with an RTX 3080, Ryzen 7 5800x, and 32GB of memory, and I get dips down to ~25 FPS in Vernworth on high settings (med shadows). That's just not acceptable with this computer. I'm playing with no supersampling because I find both DLSS and FSR make my performance and visuals worse. I set my shader cache to unlimited in my Nvidia Control Panel global settings, and I also set the CPU priority of the game to high in the task manager. I find doing those two things cuts down on a lot of stuttering I get. Supposedly Capcom is aware of these performance issues in highly populated areas and is working on making the game less CPU-bound, but I wouldn't hold my breath for some magical fix to happen, but we'll see. I personally would recommend Dragon's Dogma 2 if you have a beefy enough computer; otherwise, I'd avoid the PC release and get it for PS5 or XSX, but they also suffer from the same performance problems as the PC version. I wouldn't even think about trying this on a Steam Deck unless you're willing to put up with a 10 FPS slideshow.

8/10 (9/10 if performance is fixed and 9.25/10 if performance is fixed + Denuvo is removed)

My friends and I had to meet a 1000 space dollar quota and had to go to a woodland mansion from Minecraft and get everything we could to meet the quota, and we were doing pretty good, but on the final day, as we were about to leave, we got backed into a corner by not one, but two SCP-173s. We did not survive.

You can be a bard and embrace the ceremorphosis and let the worm in your brain complete your transition into Squidward. Worth it, I'd say.

Feels more like Battlefield than 2042 does

You can remove people's eyes, ears, and limbs, then make them feel constant pain and if they ever die, you can keep reviving them, making them live an endless cycle of hell.

10/10 game

This review has no story spoilers!

The game is great. It's everything I wanted from an RPG game set in the Harry Potter universe.

Hogwarts Legacy features what is probably the best interior ever created for a game. It is recognisable to movie-watchers, and also stays true to the description the books gave. Hogwarts Castle is massive and labyrinthine with incredible attention to detail. I'd highly recommend turning off quest markers and just taking everything in. The world outside of the castle is beautifully designed and looks absolutely stunning. A lot of love and passion went into this.

The combat is fun and intuitive (with a controller), but it's nothing to write home about. The combat is very familiar if you’ve played any other Warner Bros. open-world game with Arkham-like combat. Linking spells to combo enemies is incredibly fun. The animations are far better than what I was expecting and look pretty nice and flow naturally, so the combat looks really nice too.

The voice acting across the board isn’t too bad, at least from what I’ve experienced so far. Some voices are great, and some are just alright, but none are Watch Dogs: Legion level bad. Not even close. I’d recommend keeping the voice pitch for your character right in the middle, as changing it sounds quite tinny.

The cloth physics in the game are a nice touch and I really appreciate it in a game where 90% of the characters are wearing cloaks or robes. Of course, this has some drawbacks and causes some unavoidable clipping and what I can only describe as a ‘pitched tent’ bug where the robes will spike up randomly, but I’ve only noticed this happening three or four times. I haven’t experienced any crashes, and my framerate is perfect (averaging 100 FPS), but the stuttering was absolutely horrid and unplayable until I upgraded to 32GB of RAM from 16GB. Even now, with 32GB, the game consistently uses about 23GB of it. Nobody with 16GB should have to upgrade their memory to play this game at 1440p or lower, but I did. If you don't have at least 32GB of memory, I would highly suggest buying the Playstation 5 or Xbox Series S/X version of the game at this time. This game has a serious memory leak and it needs to be fixed. Performance-wise, this is the only problem I've had with the game. You’ve got your standard pop-in issues, minor problems like the subtitles occasionally saying ‘Hufflepuff Student’ when it’s a Gryffindor student speaking, and the aforementioned physics bug, but otherwise, at least from what I've experienced thus far, the game is relatively bug-free.

I am ashamed to say that I bought this, but 2200 CoD Points for $13.49 CAD? I wasn't going to pass that up.

Absolutely recommend. Feels great. I've been lucky enough to not experience crashes.

Guns sound and feel punchy. The new attachment and camo unlock system is great. A lot less grindy.

There are some really great maps and some decent maps, but not really any bad maps, in my opinion. The ground war maps are phenomenal.

The game has some bugs, but nothing game-breaking.

The UI is pretty bad, to be honest. Feels like it was designed to be maneuvered with a Roku remote. Why they have horizontal menus in a game is beyond me.

I average 180 FPS with dips down to 130 in some instances on the highest settings with DLSS on 'balanced'. The game looks amazing. I'm running the game on an RTX 3080 and a Ryzen 7 5800x at 1440p.

Great (but short) campaign too.

Not much to say. It's Uncharted 4 on PC. Very good game.
Averaging 130 FPS on an RTX 3080 and a Ryzen 7 5800x at 1440p.

mw 2019 but even better
hud flickers and is a bit wonky and ragdolls are wack but it feels even better than mw 2019
DON'T MAKE DEAD SILENCE A PERK. IT'S FAR MORE BALANCED AS A FIELD UPGRADE!