Dragon’s Dogma 2 Without Pawns, How Hard Could it Be?

so recently I've been playing a ton of Dragon's Dogma 2o I honestly wasn't expecting to like this game but after playing it a ton I definitely fell in love with it it has some weird quirks some charm to it that you kind of got to get used to but once you do it is a ton of fun now if you know me and my content you know I love to do challenge runs and this game feels like a perfect formula for pulling off some challenge runs and I definitely want to do more in the future besides this one that I just did obviously you read the title this one we're going to be try to take on the entire game solo without pawns now if you don't know the way this game works is you are what is known as the Arisen you have a pawn that you create yourself and then you can go grab two more pawns which it's highly recommended by the game to grab those two other pawns that other players Andor Capcom has created so this game is built and balanced around you having a fourman party you as the main lead and you can give commands to the three pawns so taking a game that's balanced around there being four people in a party and suddenly running solo means that some combat encounters don't go so well I did experience a couple moments where I almost lost my cool which if you know me it takes a lot to push me over the edge if you enjoy this video and you want me to do more Dragon's Dogma 2 content make sure to throw a like and or a comment down below and if you aren't subscribed make sure to hit subscribe so anyways I hope you guys enjoy this one and let's jump into the video beginning our hero's journey we start off by creating our character to look like ke Reeves the legend himself we then get through the tutorial segment where we fight a Medusa to learn our basic skills and then proceed to escape this prison by flying on a griffin after crashing our Griffin we then meet up with some guards kill a couple Goos and then the game forces us to create a pond which is obviously an issue for me yeah that's fine fluffy Fang sure where is she fluffy come here do I disappoint you goodbye fluffy tutorial's like hey by the way uh you should go retrieve them he don't need help he's a solo with that issue solved I then begin to progress my way through these intro quests trying to get as much experience as possible because levels really matter in this game on my way to this neighboring Village I get a glimpse into the pain that will be this run okay okay man these goblins stop stop throwing stuff oh my gosh oh my gosh have the grass come on okay we need to go we need to go we need to go can you guys stop I think maybe we do story stuff and just try to level up real quick oh my gosh leave me alone [Music] Harpy I'm like so dead right now get up up oh my gosh this is why solo is going to be an issue okay okay I'm running I I'm done I don't care I need to go sleep oh my gosh that was weirdly stressful finally making it to the Village Mel we get a flashback where we fought the dragon and became the Arisen after which we wake up in this Village and begin to do some side quests and stuff here and some exploring to just grab some resources I really wish I had a pond to tell me where my ladders are might as well be invisible you know what I mean like I don't see anything do you guys see anything like you can be my pawns it's true you could be my pawns make sure to let me know if you see any ladders guys I I might miss them with that we're instructed by the guards to head for the city of vermund because as the Arisen we are known as the rightful ruler of the capital city of vermund however there is apparently another risen already taking that Throne so so we need to go and confront this other Arisen to find out if they're legit along this journey we take on some more fights that get a little spicy sometimes but honestly not too bad and we get our first open World style boss fight with this Cyclops Anthony chill dude oh is it not dead oh it's not dead no I tried to dash dude no come on dude don't don't get me stuck in this animation for that long come on oh see this is what's going to kill me sometimes it's just this thank you game thank you yes I already know this stuff get up you idiot oh okay it's falling good there you go my health is so low finally making it to the capital city of vermund we meet up with this man Captain Brandt who pretends like we're a traitor but then eventually tells us we're the true Arisen basically says that the Arison on the throne is a false one and that he wants to help us gain our recognition to become the real deal so after giving us a list of quests it was time to get grinding through them Especially since one of them takes me to a village called the nameless Village and gives me access to a lot of really solid gear for a thief and so we set off to start completing these quests man I just don't know how to get up there guys shoot how do I get on on the roof guys is there a ladder maybe Fairy Stone try to remember what's all up here oh the sexy pants okay shoot watch these are probably better stats which makes zero sense they are I'm not going to use I'm not going to be a major sorcerer ever I might do the quests involving just sneaking around first forget the cuz they're really easy keep your could it be that you have let's actually immediately go to the jail do that Quest this game stealth is a joke I suspected as much uh he should give us the quest to go to investigate the false Sovereign which means we go to the thief Village and so we could get some actually good gear there for some yeah the nameless Village we'll want to head there uh but let's finish off this one I love how unguarded this place is hey guys good to see you all don't mind me oh oh beside you I've actually never had them aggro to me I've done this a couple times now and every single time I've just walked past them oh you can't find me now if you truly words may get out of here old man I like this game it's it's got a charm to it that's for sure appear okay wait till morning and then we'll go for the the name this Village it's so peaceful without a pond wow it's kind of nice actually Pond system is cool but man they don't ever shut up oh I guess I do have to do the monster calling thing here luckily there'll be a bunch of soldiers so hopefully it won't be too bad protect the shipment steal yourself C the fs down don't let them touch the shipment stupid Shield goblins they're so obnoxious sheesh you you the best go elsewhere friend you care to I take care oh thank you I didn't even do anything but appreciate it okay good you made it after all I love how you just have a bunch of people can like cheering in the background for you yeah you did it now thank you oh yeah 179 look at that jumping damage oh yeah looking cool now this is a thanks for paying me th000 experience for tackling a man to the ground I'll take that any day oh also we should go check our skills and discipline so sick yeah we'll replace that so I think with the monster calling we have yeah those two we'll try and do both back to back here no shot see this is dude haries are going to be the worst what a waste what an absolute waste okay well great yeah I'm feeling really good about this that's so busted what the heck o ogre I mean we do have two Mages here I guess huh let's give it a shot see how bad this is that guy's almost dead I hate the drop kick it's so dumb get up you dummy get up oh my gosh dude oh I double clicked formless faint I think oh no no no get up get up I hate that animation so [Music] much come on just die already thank you okay we lost most of our health there first boss that we kind of soloed I mean the little ads that come in but I mean we got it that wasn't too bad I'll not stop you if you wish to need help I don't want to fall [Music] here all right let's go dude come on hurry a couple more of these lizard dudes [Music] I'm starting to really dig theves dang like I said this is one of the few classes I really didn't dive to deep into let's head back to the capital we're going to focus all the capital quests back in the capital we take on the last couple quests investigating this false Sovereign we eventually find out that a dude from Bal is involved in this whole thing and know that we need to go there eventually but but before that we tried to go to the coronation where they crowning this false Sovereign as the main dude and we want to show up with our pawn and be like look at us we're cool and uh the game just decides to respawn my pond for me during this cut scene fluffy how did you get here I drown you oh she back dang it okay well come on fluffy lovely evening huh fluffy Ah that's better okay with that issue once again solved we get a permit from Brand to head into batal and begin to make our way to the capital city to further investigate this man now because I've been pretty much beining straight to this point I am very severely underleveled for this area and uh well things don't go so well oh these guys suck these guys suck a lot these guys suck a lot they suck a lot let me go let me go let me go let me go they're going to kill me gosh well met that took way too long to kill those things finally making it to the capital city I do decide to buy a better set of daggers and do a couple of the story side quests in this area but I've been going through this main quest and trying to get to batal as fast as possible because I really want to get the magic Archer vocation I think Thief is amazing for smaller enemy encounters but when it comes to the sheer DPS of a magic Archer I think that's going to be my best bet for boss fights so I want to get it as early as possible so I can level it up throughout my playthrough and so I decided to begin my journey by trying to make it to the volcanic island and again I am severely underleveled for this area so you can guess how things go dude the lunges stop stop stop let me get up let me get up game dude this oh okay this is why this game sucks so much sometimes this could be bad I have a lot of things on me oh gosh well that works no no no no no no no no sorry excuse [Music] me let me up let me up let me up let me up Run for the rock no please let me get away please just let me get away no no I ran out of stamina dude no no stop stun locking me this game stun locking is so brutal dude stop I'm so screwed ogre help me please please let me get away just let me just just don't just don't just don't just don't I don't even have that much gold on me I promise run no dude I'm so stressed out right now my Max health is so low oh I forgot about the ogre oh shoot is this the way out it is it is it is okay okay okay okay no no no this isn't the way out that's a lot of you I don't like this oh oh oh no no no just stand up Keanu I'm begging you stop being stunned is this it is this it this isn't it this isn't it this isn't it this isn't it is it is it is it it oh oh oh leave me alone you stupid lizards I hate this [Music] stop oh okay finally making it to the volcanic island we decided to make friends with this dwarf and in order to get the magic Archer vocation we have to take him to the Hot Spring located in the nearby town in trying to think of the easiest way to pull this off I decid I would go to the town first lay down a waypoint stone that I can fast travel to and then go back to the dwarf and use fast traveling to get him there but of course in order to do that I need to First make it there which ends up with another series of difficult situations but after some persistence I finally make it to the town I'm able to rest get all my health back so I don't immediately die whenever I get hit and then I'm able to go back to his house fast traveling back to the hotring and his wife then says hey you're a nice dude and gives me the magic Archer vocation also while I'm here I decide to go through the hassle of getting this guy the three new liquor he wants in order to get the Wayfair vocation just so I have the versatility in case I need it after then switching to the magic Archer vocation I decide to use a Fairy Stone and make it back to the capital city of vermund where I would continue to level up because if anything this taught me I still have a lot of levels to go in order to just be able to survive basically so this goes as you'd expect I run around I take on some quests decide to kill a lot of enemies I even at one point come across a dragon and decide to try out this ultimate skill that she gave us with the magic Archer and I think the level difference is just too great and it doesn't One-Shot the dragon like I think it's supposed to so I quickly give up on that heading back into har Village I make sure to have a conversation with sigard and get the Mystic spear hand vocation and then continue with my level grind hey guys we got M exper I just had a brief conversation with a guy and I understood all of his tactics and skills immediately if that isn't Kean Reeves I don't know what it is through the Matrix yeah Keanu he's he's he's just plugged in you know oh gosh oh you guys suck there's a lot of you too hey you random Pond help me out dude these guys got no chill stop oh this game drives me crazy sometimes jeez these guys suck I hate facing those guys that's better that's what I need to be doing shooting those volleys on them and just let them take damage while I focus on other ones too no let me go let me go let me go let me go let me go I'm so close to the Village I'm so close to the Village please don't please don't do this dude stop stop please just let me go just let me go I literally see the end stop just let me go please I'm begging you oh thank you lizard holy that's stressful I need sleep I need sleep I need sleep re trade so I think we're going to go here and talk to this lady and then right beside there is where one of these bows is that's half decent it's free I like free while running around I make my way all the way back up to batal and decide to try and hunt down where I thought a magic Archer bow was that would be free and I thought had decent stats uh it turns out I was completely wrong this entire time and I just spent a ton of time in my live stream hunting down this bow for no reason I died so many times I lost so many of my resources wake Stones it was one of the stupidest rabbit TRS I think I've ever been on even though I'd never found what I was looking for because I was looking in the wrong area the entire time I did end up leveling up all the way to vocation level four with the magic Archer giving me access to some pretty spicy skills and so after equipping those skills I did some research in between streams and found that one of the best magic Archer bows you can get in the game is actually in the Elven Village and so I begin to make my way there uh I think that's going to be a minitar yeah you know what let's take on a minitar let's see how bad this is oh oh I got helpers oh gosh sh okay cool all right okay okay thank you yes keep stun locking me why are goblins worse than bosses that's done loocking I'll not [Music] take oh took a risk there let's go no no no no no move move move most games goblins aren't that terrifying with this game for some reason goblins are always crazy that's what I want give me the levels stats-wise I think this is either the second or the third best in the game enhance now let's switch to Archer real quick we'll go do that Quest or I can switch to Warfare and just bring a bow who you have my in fact oh wow what a goofy dude why am I just like generally healing is that this bow steadily restores Health when standing still wait even if I'm like targeting no but if I just stop okay wait this Bow's cracked I didn't see that before so I wouldn't need recovery Arrow then because if I just get out of combat I can just stand still taking extra damage takes more damage from attacks got it I think I'm okay with that oh oh oh oh no no no no no no no no can you guys stop jeez whoa that Health recovery is quick that's way faster than I expected you could actually like Implement that in the middle of combat that's wild ow ow oh hello [Music] yeah this is this is definitely why we need to Magic Archer right here like look at this ridiculous yep all right we're starting to solo these guys I think we'll uh we'll progress the main story here yeah and he also wants us to help with that dude we can do that first cuz with magic Archer and Ricochet Hunter caves aren't an issue you've come in we go then oh I love it so much [Laughter] water Rel okay you want us to go back out we can do that aren't I supposed to go in here what's happening oh I need to talk to the fisherman first duh about time you came I've told you about the told you whoa Castle coming from the sea that's a good chunk of experience and gold 25k jeez thank thanks crazy old man I was so upset when I couldn't wield this thing yes Keanu it's your destiny you're the one getting back into the main story I finished exploring the rest of this Castle getting all the loot inside and then make my way back to the capital city of batal double check all my gear and everything and then begin following up on the main quests where basically all we have to do is get 15 worms life which you get from dragons in order to repair that sword that I just got from the fancy glowing Lion Man now because the next goal is basically to fight a dragon and because this stage of the main quest is pretty close to the end I decid to do a majority of my level grinding here because I now have the Ricochet Hunter and this bow that heals me I decide to just run along the outside of battal basically finding every cave I can and just shooting a couple volleys of Ricochet Hunter inside I get a ton of levels make as much progress as possible at cheese bosses and finally decide it's time to go face the dragon up on the hill in order to continue the main quest now on my way up this hill I felt I couldn't just ignore the fact that there's a Medusa along the way and so we decided to make a pit stop I'm tempted to go face the Medusa with the [Laughter] Ricochet I'm so tempted what's the worst that could happen true gaming right here oh look at it she's on the last health [Music] bar hey I did it well that went a lot better than I thought finally with the Medusa down we make our way up to the top of this mountain fighting our way through a bunch of enemies eventually breaking level 30 and then cigar and I take on this Dragon oh it's one of the puking ones I hate these ones a let's try Ricochet see if we can bounce it between these like pillars and stuff ooh okay yep that's good damage oh come on thank you gosh sheesh that took forever with the dragon down and the worm's life in hand we head back to Bal to get this blade fixed and start to make our way to the final Gauntlet of the main quest okay let's see if we can get this early I did it early in my new game plus but obviously we don't have near the same damage that I did in my New Game Plus grab on you dummy whatever I think I get one more chance here good good good okay there's two oh shoot I didn't see it I didn't see his hand oh no I'm dead wak Stone okay we got rid of all the high ones I think we can get the rest from the ground okay that one's gone okay okay that should be all of them there we go yeah yeah yeah we're good okay uh I kind of want to try and go see if I can level up any of my gear with the dwarf real quick oh might I be of service fell Lord's bone don't have that dang it okay well let's upgrade this only cost gold good many thanks the fight before the dragon with the fake Arison and stuff is actually going to be kind of a pain I feel like oo very good very good I'm pretty stacked on resources like healing and stuff I think we should be good Dragon he my call Will is mine I think I think we're just going to skip this oh you didn't do what I wanted you to do yeah see this is this is the fear I had right here right here excuse me excuse me can you guys let me get up wait does that skip the fight this worldes oh no big dragon it's actually such an epic like unveiling of the Dragon okay I'm going to skip oh and thou sh live TOA you can skip that fight by running well fight and by life poke must fulf our let's just go let's just go dude we must decide a Victor and in so doing form a link in the chain that bind at this wheel tell me Arisen what is th desire is it SL Theon was he going to fly around dang it I wanted to get on him okay you want to get down here can we continue our fight bro I wanted to ride him while he was doing this whole segment and just be shooting him repeatedly but lost my chance rude oh finally jeez there is no oh I tried to get the finisher I shouldn't have gone for all those extra shots now will winess my true strength okay ow did you back up just just smidge in dude has trained well Lis see it struggle I I don't really feel like I'm struggling I'm going to be honest dude is this the son of thy fight dude you're almost dead how oh yeah you're screwed I am slain heck yeah you are all we don't need to watch the cut scene come out I mean technically we beat the game one way but there's the harder way that I think you all agree we have to take on like we can't just end this here yeah oh look at Keanu oh so deserving of a [Music] throne back on the dragon hey you know shut up this cut scene's so sick okay that's all the cool Parts done find my Pawn are they alive they shouldn't be can I just leave my pawn and continue on oh Fluffy's in the party oh no she is a level one I could just feed her to the Dragon we're going to get fluffy and we'll deal with this cuz this this can't be you know okay thank you yes please don't stop it game what are you talking Pawn commands you're telling me pawn commands when I'm in the unmourned world you serious right now I'm going to lose my mind at these stupid harpies get up a I'm literally going to die I'm literally about to die I hate this game sometimes I hate it so much sometimes this is just so stupid I can't and dude there's no way I can't believe that this is like the this is worse than the dragon 100% worse than the dragon stop it leave me alone I'm begging you I just wanted to go see my Pawn I just wanted to find fluffy oh my gosh I have to kill them there's there's no other way I have to kill them how in the world am I going to kill them okay no not you two okay I'm running I'm going to try to run again dude I oh these are worse than bosses these are literally worse than bosses in groups I can't do anything I'm so annoyed I'm so annoyed right now I can't even go I can't even use my abilities because of the stupid spam it just Spam it just Spam it they're already here they're already here yeah sick love this I wish this game had an invincibility I frame anything please please please please please please please please yes carry me further in please yep we use another one I'm going to lose my mind oh thank you help me help me about me help me help me this is outrageous I agree this is insane F I just killed the dragon that L like I don't get mad easy right like I'm sure if you guys have watched a lot of my content you'll know I don't get mad but that's testing that's that's a whole another level of justo just breathe I was very much reaching a limit there welcome back fluffy nice knowing you fluffy now that that stupidity is done we're finally in the unmourned world and it's time to take on the final three bosses of this game now I'm going to be real the first encounter I decide to take on is the one in batal and this one is really easy and really straightforward especially with magic Archer you basically just have to run a small Gauntlet of enemies that are actually way easier to kill than normal and eventually just take out the dragon at the end that's I is it a dragon or is it just a pot I don't know it's weird anyways with that one done there's only two left one of them definitely felt like the harder boss so I decided to save it for last and decided to go for the one located in the Elven Village ew okay we got one of them this is going to be a minute I think just stay right there that's great just keep doing that yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I love this don't change please don't change uh-oh I think we broke it guys yeah okay this might not be as bad as I thought you know maybe the lack of other allies is forcing his AI to not know who to attack all the time I don't know it's weird this this ain't that bad wow this is really chill I I was expecting a lot worse like it would actually be chasing me down but this feels like I have all my pawns with me it's just not even attacking me I'm just hoping I don't get hit to be real I'm just kind of betting on I'm not going to get hit okay next phase run we need our pillar get back to our pillar he does melt me very fast though I got it final Crystal I'd rather fight that thing than a group of harpies any day so epic though God honestly magic Archer once again showing why it is definitely the most powerful class here being able to Target lock onto all of its weak points and just let the frost ability go through the enemy and just hit those weak points is way too good but with all those enemies down it's now time to face the final boss of the unmourned world now I'm going to cut this fight down quite a bit for you guys because this fight ended up lasting 45 minutes straight this boss had so much health and it was so difficult to destroy the weak points and just managing its attacks which actually weren't that hard to dodge but I just had to be conscious of them and not get greedy for extra attacks but this fight took absolutely forever but I'll try to go through and show you the highlights and kind of how the encounter went yeah do that do that like a lot what's with your chicken neck bro we're only one health bar down I think a long fight no okay I was like maybe I switch to spear hand and try to get on it but I think I'm good I'll be honest this is tedious okay hello oh that was an insta kill rude okay we're down to six health total I shouldn't have gone for that take what you said about the big pad fight back yeah this it's I mean this is Chill they make this thing have its like Regal moments where it walks around and looks all fancy and cool with its wings all out and stuff but it's it's really chill thing definitely looks scarier than it feels how is there still ones left on its like butt I've shot so many volleys of this Frost Arrow there that's insane hey hey hey get up get up get up get up get up you idiot we need to heal we need to heal okay we're good we're not good we're not good [Music] I should have done that I got greedy no need to get greedy what am I doing jeez okay okay you really don't want to get in that stuff got it good to know oh that's the wrong skill uh let's give it a shot let's see what happens you know yeah not worth it we're down to 4 health bars we've been at this for about 30 minutes okay sounds good I think once I get to the ones on its neck it's actually going to be easier to like Target them potentially I don't know yet yeah I think I could say without a doubt I prefer Elden ring bosses the style of like and what I mean by that is like I prefer bosses that you can kill in five minutes that take incredible skill over uh easy bosses that take an hour to kill I still love this game don't get me wrong but man this is it's taking a minute three health bars oh okay this is when uh things might get a little spicy oh is not doing like the full tornadoes again I mean I'm cool with that is that only a one time thing oh let's go two health bars oh no uh I'm going to use an all heal I have four of them I'm at half Health oh here we go onto the head yeah that's what I'm talking about that was so long my hand hurts from holding the from like constantly repressing the bumper to to shoot my bow and there you have it all the bosses done we're basically done with the game but of course the game decided that we're not done yet because we have to save everyone and so after running around trying to save all the villages and towns people I had the big brain idea which was to sleep a lot to let the clouds roll in and just kill some of those towns off so I didn't have to go to them anymore and finally the end of the game unlocked we have the final conversation and start the final cut scene fluffy you're back I I knew I was right throwing her away yo dearest friend Brent Sven was number two okay apparently I was really close to that [Music] guy no allies no one my main Pawn fluffy oh that's so funny I hope you guys enjoyed this one I had a ton of fun playing this game but man I the this game needs a way to avoid damage better than just hope and and dreams because I've never been so Furious playing a game than when I was solo playing this one I think still I did enjoy a majority of my time playing this and would love to do more content around this game in the future so make sure to throw any ideas that you think I should do I know some people have been throwing around letting my Pawn solo the game I I don't even want to think what that would be like anyways thanks for watching and I'll catch you guys in the next one

Channel: AbraHamSandwich

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Id: FjfW0n9vPqQ

Length: 51min 41sec (3101 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 17 2024