The ULTIMATE Recap of Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen (RECAPitation)
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- A complete story summary of Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen explaining everything that happened. This recap covers the base game Dragon's Dogma, as well as it's expansion Dark Arisen, and the prequel digital comic and light novel "The Beginning."
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More like the Arizzen with all the ladies he's rescuing. I love how even into the end the Arisen is shocked and surprised by the more and more incredulous things they do and see. Also, I really like how this story starts as a typical 'chosen one'/'hero's journey' but soon subverts that it becomes an exploration on the horrible fates of other 'chosen ones' as they all end up dead, insane, corrupted or miserable, and no Arisen really gets a happy ending or gets out of the cycle.
you going to do a summary of Chrono Trigger or Dragon Quest in honor of the death Akira Toriyama??
I was expecting this game to be as deep as a puddle, especially coming from Capcom. The complexity of the story and unique mechanics have me eagerly anticipating the sequel.
Great recapitation, OBM!!!
You can check out a recap of Chrono Trigger on this channel, yes
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Dragon's Dogma is more of a PS3/PS4/PS5/Xbox 360/Xbox One/Xbox Series X version of the typical RPG story telling. The kind where the hero saves the beautiful maidens, fight creatures of mythical legends, kill evil wizards and goblins and slay the Dragons.
"Stunlocked by blast arrows" got me hard. most pure lore. Ready for Dragon`s Dogma 2 are we?!
That line made me laugh my ass off. As someone who lives and dies by the magic archer class, barrage-blast arrowing the final boss in seconds made me believe in ranger.
Peak lore accuracy. (And I'm absolutely ready!)
Yes we are!
“As Julian takes off his mask to reveal that he’s Julian.” This is too funny. Thanks for the recap and making it entertaining as well
I know right? It's basically like a physical gag that Julien put on a fake mustache and then took it off to shock the Arisen. I laugh every time
“The Arisen leaps from the balcony, takes no fall damage, and flees”
I want everything narrated like this
All of the quotes was an insanely nice touch. I couldn’t stop giggling. They truly were masterworks all!
You can't go wrong!
Your incorporation of pawn quotes is fantastic. Awesome job man.
Came here to say this lol true fans know
This is what also stood out to me giving me some flashbacks... weither or not they are ptsd or other ill leave to yalls imaginations
I giggled so much 😂
First of all I want to thank you for this, I was unable to play the original game but now find myself somehow owning the new game. There's so many "The story in 10 minutes" videos which if I know ANYTHING about Dragon's Dogma I know it can't just be summed up like that. Really the video should be hours but, I truly appreciate your attention to detail, keeping things concise, and keeping it all humorous.
Second I really want to give a shout-out to "The Arisen leaps from the balcony, takes no fall damage, and flees." Fucking, HIGHLIGHT of my night. Thanks for that. I will be referencing that for years.
True story, being disatisfied with those "XYZ in 5 min/in a nutshell" videos that focus more on jokes than information, is why I first started making these videos. Glad to help!
Dragon's Dogma is an absolute tragedy. It's the definition of something "ahead of its time" much like the PSVita. This essentially being a hardcore rpg adventure like Skyrim with good combat, interesting character progression, cool mechanics and interactions that ground the game in reality. It's as if the creators looked at Dungeons and Dragons and said "let's turn that into action game", then took all the material, condensed what is relevant and delivered an incredibly respectful adaptation.
When I see games like Baldur's Gate 3 get this much praise, I can only hope people give the same love to DD2. I'd kill for Capcom to notice the potential it has with its RPG franchises and would absolutely love to see a continuation or even a FF7Re treatment to the Breath of Fire series.
It's inventory was awful. That probably killed it for 90% of gamers
@@lewisbenzie845 There's no way you looked at Skyrim's inventory and thought that was good design. Yet it didn't stop 90% of gamers from playing that overrated rpg.
Man, you definitely deserve your own pawn from Capcom for this perfect translation of the story with witty lines from the in game characters.
I have always interpreted the self stabbing to have been a failure at ending the cycle for two reasons:
1. When beating the game in ng+ offline your previus Arisen will be seen as the seneschal hinting that even after everything there was no escape.
2. When the seneschal gives the Arisen the godsbane blade, the weapon is pulled from the chest wich is also where the Arisen later would stab themself.
Which leads me to belive that a Arisen is given the blade to kill the previus seneschal, but attempting to do so on themself results in a completion of "seneschal hood" as the blade is united with the new seneschal makeing them all powerfull but also trapping them until the next Arisen shows up.
He even quoted Into Free! He can't keep getting away with this!
19:29 for your replay convenience.
Great summary , especialy since you've included the 2 optionnal story quests that can lead toward a mistaken interpretation of the ending if you miss them.
This is a job well done.
yooo im 8 mins in i just had to pause.. DUDE i love that you are using all the Pawn quotes as you tell the story!
I internally hear a vine boom every time you quote a pawn or npc. You did a good job keeping me on my toes. I never knew when the next quote would pop up lol
I just finished the game for the first time, and had barely half a clue what was going on. This cleared up a lot (and showed me that I missed quite a few quests)! Thanks!
The pawn quotes show you're a true fan. They're masterworks all, you can't go wrong
Lmao the pawn quotes made me love this video
Can't go wrong with these videos. Masterworks all!
Thanks so much for doing this games story justice. I always hear people bash this games story and say it’s only worth playing for the gameplay and I always have to argue against that mentality.
While the presentation of the games story wasn’t always done in the best ways, if you take the time to experience it (specifically, making it to the very end of the game with the everfall and all that) it’s an absolutely phenomenal story and one of my personal favorites of all time.
I agree, there is a very thought-provoking and fascinating story to the world and its character that is Completely missed by most poeple. I get it though, it's rough when so much of the story is hidden behind highly missable, unprompted sidequest chains (true story, this was the first time I got the Gold Idol first try). I hope putting it all together like this really shows a lot of new and veteran players a whole new side of the game. I know I learned a few new things.
I never understood the criticism about the game's story especially coming from people who rave and rant about the dark souls series story that you literally have to go out your way to interpret and find out through items. At least this game tells its story if you are willing to actually explore and do the quests. Is it perfect? no but its at least there more-so than any souls story.
The problem dragons dogma had in my opinion is that its an exploration based game that almost requires you to do all the quests if you want some semblance of story in an age of gaming where people expect cutscenes and heavy exposition dumps to tell you everything. Then there are those players which are more common these days that only care about killing things and rushing to get the best loot and rapidly skipping any and all NPC dialogue and THEN complaining there is no narrative.
@@OniBlackMageoh definitely man, consider that mission accomplished. Been playing this game since it first came out back in 2012 and I’ve played through it countless times. While the overarching story is one I always understood and new like the back of my hand, there were quite a few smaller details you pointed out here that I had never discovered. Some of the details of the windbluff tower incident, parts of Madeline’s story and Fournivnal’s as well.
I also never picked up on the fact that Samson was affiliated with the Church. Thats one branch of the story that I was always upset was essentially dropped. Like you get that one big quest with him and then nothing. Honestly, I always assumed that it was just something I missed like so much of this other stuff.
@@Sol-D81oh man, I’m right there with you. Me and Souls games just don’t mesh. On top of the gameplay just not being my thing, I can’t stand that approach for story telling. I play games pretty strictly for the story, and I don’t have enough free time to go looking for it through a bunch of item descriptions.
Only souls-like games I can play (and thoroughly enjoy) are the Star Wars Jedi games. Great story in those games.
I Hard Agree with you on all points. I can tell you from comments across my recaps that there is a vocal portion that ONLY wants their story to be spoonfed with them in its entirety, preferably in a cutscene exposition dump. If the story is off the beaten path, or locked behind optional endings, gear or sidequests, they call it 'bad' when its just a preference issue about presentation. Its fine to like certain narrative frameworks, but the world is a big place and just because something is different does not make it bad if it does a good job at what it's designed to do. It does make it hard to discuss said story with people who maybe did not stick around to get all of it though, but those are the pros and cons to the design choice.
The injokes in this are like are masterworks all, you can't go wrong.
Best recap on TH-cam
I love this channel so much. It is quite possibly my favourite channel on all of TH-cam. Thank you for all that you've done, and I wish the best for all that you may do in the future.
I needed this just in time for the sequel
It would be so awesome if Dragon’s Dogma 2 have a multiplayer mode. And when you enter the rift and to your friend’s game, you play as your Pawn in their game. While in their game, your Pawn gain experience but cannot level up or change their skills just like an AI controlled Pawn.
This should be mandatory viewing before starting Dragon's dogma 2. Even i forgot some stuff that happned in DD1
I played DD1 donkey years ago.. DD2 releasing really soon.. So glad there is a recap video.
Thanks for the great recapitation, i never understood that the arisen is basically the battery of the world. They go through so much hardship as a test of how much WILL they can generate for everyone in their world. It really is an essential function. It's a real "End's justify the means" type situation. If there was ever a person with limitless willpower, there might be no need for the cycle
But the end proofs that this battery is not needed. Theres no seneschall sitting on the throne anymore, no arisen that will be turned into a dragon. The eternal ring was shattered and the world has to go on without a seneschal. Wich in turn means the Seneschal was actually not needed to begin with and the whole system was a self fullfilling prophesy because no one ever questioned the Dragons Dogma XD
@@riptors9777I choose to believe that each ng+ is the Arisen going into parallel worlds and freeing them one by one from the cycle, and that's why it's the same story but different seneschal at the end
That is one way to think about it. However, we do not see what happens to the world after the ending in the long run... After all, there are dragonkin that still retain their will and are knowledgeable of the throne.. .Savan had to get a new dragon after killing and not replacing the other ... perhaps one of them ascends ... perhaps the world stagnates and dies with no new Arisen to conjure a strong will ... perhaps the awakened will of our own pawn, or those who have enjoyed a bestowal rise up. ... perhaps the Ur-Dragon crawls out of the Everfall and makes a new Arisen (so they can feed on new hearts) ... a lot of possibilities to continue the cycle
@@OniBlackMageAnd we'll never know so it's up to your imagination really. But I trust my pawn, I trained them well lol. The real question is how will DD2 reimagine this story and lore
@@OniBlackMage Counter argument: The world apeared to be normal and "healed" after the fall of the seneschall. Your pawn turned "you" is even welcomed back by your former love at the beach and the world seems to be in order. The sky is blue and the world looks healthy and your partner is happy to see you.
The dragons dogma is clearly a test of willpower. However i believe that it was not the will to rule as the seneschall that was being tested. It was the necesary will to let it all go, to break the chain and proof that the world can now continue without a shephard. Afterall it takes ALOT of willpower to jab yourselfe with a dagger when you are basically god and throw all established conventions to the wind. And mind you: The lore about there needing to be a seneschall to shephard the world and giving it the will to go on was relayed from seneschall to seneschall who knows how many times. Its basically a game of telephone at this point so who knows what the dogma was originally.
Lesser Dragons are suposedly Arisen that failed before even meeting their dragon. What their failure entails no one knows since its clearly not death. Perhaps its the ones that ran away from the dragon, not even making it to the bargaining stage.
The issue with a lacking candidate to become a new dragon is in my opinion a plothole that the creators havent covered since theres nothing in the game that explains where exactly grigori came from after the last seneschall slew his dragon.
YOU CAN KICK THE OX TO SPEED IT UP?! brother ive played through the game like 6 times, ive lost so much time to that escort T_T
Great recap , I love and hate you for all the in game quotes thrown in there 😂😂😂
I would love to see a recap for Dragon Quest 11 in honor of Akira Toriyama.
my fav RPG of all time lol i bought it on all systems
Same. I think the only system I don't have it on is switch
@@Sol-D81 pc is the only one I missing it in
Love to hear it... I bought every version too.
5:26 oh it’s Palpatine !
Thank you for the chronological recap. This took quite an effort. It's quite professional.
I hope you'd do one for Dragon's Dogma 2. I was really confused with the 2nd installment.
I find myself liking the 1st installment more.
Thank you very much! For sure, once all the DLC is out for 2 I will recap it
@@OniBlackMage My pleasure. I appreciate hard work like this. It is thanks to your recap that I realized I missed a lot of the content! Dutchess quest, Witch quest, etc.
Thank you for your service.
Good to have you back, friend.
Fisher knight with a goofy hat 👌🏻
Pog, right in time for dragon's dogma 2
Got my default character already loaded in the character builder, ready for recording!
Damn i love all the inside jokes 😂
love the video. question, will you do a recap on dragons dogma 2? i hope so.
Live for these vids
I'm on DD2 and they won't stop recruiting my pawn gonna have to lock her in a tower. Protected by a dragon knew she looked to much like yennifer lmao
Incredible.. im watching through this and realized i missed over 60% of the story!
I.e, the duchess quest and the witch quest! Amazing.
Despite the expansion, digital comic, MMO RPG, and sequel game (AND ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ELSE WAS EVER CREATED WITH THE IP) I still can't get enough Dragon's Dogma on the run-up to the 22nd.
@19:30 OG game intro song reference?
I only played this 4 years ago, and I remember almost none of the story. I'm glad you made this video.
Good timing on this one.
THANK YOU
Just started a fresh playthrough yesterday : )
Going to binge it and try to beat the DLC which I've never actually played through!
Bitterblack is very worth doing, good luck with your drops!
Please do a recap for Blue Stinger, Illbleed and Yu-No.
I wonder how the Dragon-forged still live after Savan killed the dragon ?
"Stun locked by blast arrows" lol.
Was my game bugged or something? I missed half the quests in this video and wondered why the main story made zero sense 😭
It's not just you. DD has a very unforgiving quest structure where if you miss or fail one quest, you will miss every single later quest in the same chain and have to try again in NG+. DD2 is cut from the same cloth.
Never having played DD, I didn't expect more than dragonslaying the quest. Holy shit that's good
Damn that's deep.
TOPICAL!!
Yessss let's go
Hope we get a banger title theme like flying into free
The worst thing about Dark Arisen was replacing one of the best title screen songs for any videogame
@@OniBlackMage agreed.
THE WIND IS PUSHING MEEEEE
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This game was good. Ima get the second one some time this year cause it looks good. Does anyone know if the second one has anything like the Bitter black location?
Bitterblack Isle was part of the Dark Arisen expansion and early data mining of DD2 suggests a similar area being worked on. I am positive we will get an endgame expansion like Dark Arisen in time.
Hey could you do baten kaitos 1 and 2 and summoner 1 and 2 there are literally no videos about their stories
In time, absolutely
@OniBlackMage awesome I absolutely love your channel I'm glad you came back
Good
I played the first Dragon’s Dogma game 2. My first walkthrough was a female Elven Arisen Magic Archer and a Female Elven Pawn Fighter. She romanced Fournival mainly because I completed all of his side quests just so I can get the teleport stones because backtracking is a pain in the ass. My second walkthrough was a male Human Arisen Warrior and male Human Pawn Sorcerer. He romanced Madeleine mainly because she was kinda hot and has an interesting side quest.
I can’t wait to play the sequel. I don’t know if I should start as an Elven Arisen and Pawn, a Human Arisen and Pawn or a Beastren Arisen and Pawn, either both males, both female or male and female. And the classes, should I be a thief, an archer, a mage or a fighter?
I believe they are going to surprise us with more advanced vocations than the ones they have shown, but I am personally looking forward to being an Archer or Mage again... the magic spearman looks interesting.
@@OniBlackMage When Dragon's Dogma 2 comes out, what race and class will your Arisen and Pawn be?
I'm probably going to be a human, but I expect I am going to try maxing out every vocation. I am sure they rebalanced the returning ones, and wonder how the new ones drive. I loved Magick Archer in the first game, so I will likely go there first
@@OniBlackMage I played Dragon's Dogma 2 three times by playing the three races. First Walkthrough: Male Human Warrior (Arisen) and Female Human Sorcerer (Main Pawn). Second Walkthrough: Male Elven Archer (Arisen) and Female Elf Fighter (Main Pawn). Third Walkthrough: Male Beastren Mystic Spearhand (Arisen) and Female Beastren Thief (Main Pawn).
Julien did nothing wrong.
After going through this recap, the allusions to Berserk are more on the nose than I realized back in 2012 going through DD1.
RECAPitation of Grim Dawn? I have not seen the lore anywhere
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Who was the duke's pawn?
No one knows... Some ppl think it was his wife Lenore. It's not but I think it would be funny if it was Feste
@@OniBlackMage It cannot be Feste, because on the official book Feste is merely mentioned as a Jester from Meloire. It is possible that not only did Meloire send Aelinore for political marriage, but also send Feste as a gift for the Duke, someone that makes him laugh.
Kinda like if I give u a life time subscription on Netflix as a wedding gift.
Very funny
I like the game's premise but... I'm not the biggest fan of the game's ending. I do really like the Pawn aspect of the lore... but I like making Pawns for my own party.
I'm hoping I like DD2 and see what they'll do with the Pawn system.
If you buy it and don't like it, you can pawn your game!
I still doesn't understand the whole pawns, arisens, senechal, and dragon thingy...
Dragon's are arisen who beat the dragon's that stole their hearts but didn't beat the seneschal pawns are made by the seneschal to help the arisen's and the seneschal is basically an arisen who defeated the dragon and previous seneschal and holds the world together with their willpower.
I hate the Dragons Dogma opening theme music. I miss the random JRock out of place theme music. It made the game stand out in an odd way.
…I missed about 80% of the story during my playthrough and was hilariously lost. This recap only makes the story more confusing and nonsensical
Your scripts are always amazing, but i've been saying for years, you should really work on how you read them. I love the information presented but your diction is so awkward. You're already good, and if you improved the way you read your scripts, you'd be one of the best
Thank you for the feedback, I appreciate constructive criticism. I know I'm pretty amateur when it comes to narration, so do you have some guidance on where specifically I can improve?
The mmo had nothing to do with the world of dragons dogma.. and dragons dogma 2 also seems to be its own setting. The netflix adaptation had barely anything to do with the game either. At this point i would say that dragons dogma is more akin to final fantasy... the series shares some elements like creaturs and concepts.. but otherwise are completly seperate entities
I never said they were all directly connected to this game, I said this game spawned other media that expanded the universe. Considering the world of DD is multiversal by design, it is all connected yet separate in a way. DD is more than just THIS game
I mean, they say that its infinite worlds with infinite arisens and dragons so they are connected. even for DD2 the creators say that its a different dimension which leads back to the what the seneschal said about those worlds.
@@OniBlackMage Counter argument: I would say that the netflix adaption does not really fit in the universe because of the lack of a seneschall figure. Infact the netflix series is more of a dantes inferno adaption with dragons dogma Skin ontop of it then an honest adaption of the source material. The dragon is a curse, not a challange to overcome to find the next candidate for god, its a force of nature more then anything. You are not send to challenge the Seneschall but instead turn into the next dragon after you kill it. The whole "beware not to become what you hate" plot, wich personally i think Dark arisen did alot better. (I did enjoyed it for what it was however on its own merits).
It does completly miss the point of the original game though. But what else is new for netflix adaptions playing quick and loose with the source material?
The MMO too has nothing to do with dragons dogma except for shared monsters, pawns and the excellent combat system. Infact you are just one arisen amongst several hundret selected by a white dragon to fight an evil black dragon that is out to destroy the world. This rather generic "good vs. evil" plot couldnt be any father from what dragons dogma is about. That said: Its a shame that we never got it in the west since it was a pretty decent MMO gameplay wise thanks to the engaging combat system.
So i see both as "inspired by" but not actually part of the same universe. Since the seneschall made it clear that in those other worlds theres allways a dragon, allways a arisen and allways a seneschall and that the eternal ring repeats endlessly.
So while they are entertaining, my original point stands: They dont really "expand" the universe since they dont add anything to it really. There are no more relevations or interesting lore tidbits to gain that shine a new light on the original game. Both of them just use the aesthetics of the game to do their own completly seperate thing.
Its like saying Final fantasy 7 expands the universe of Final fantasy 6... even thought there is absolutely nothing connecting the two besides some shared visuals. Now if you had said "expands the franchise" i would have agreed with you 100%
Might sound pedantic.. but nerdstuff allways is XD
@@riptors9777 This is not an argument. I am unclear why you are focused on narrowly interpreting the universe of this game when I already said DD is a broad IP.
Counter to your Counter, you are operating under the assumption every infinite world works under the same rules and order (there is no in game evidence that supports this). The only confirmed thing in every world is a Dragon and Pawns. Not all of the other details.
By the way, you keep wanting to reference FF, but you seem to not know that mainline FF itself is also a connected universe in the context of some games (Ex: Dissidia, FF Origins, FF4 TAY, or Record Keeper). Spoilers for FF7 Remake but even FF7 is a multiverse.
@@OniBlackMage Why? Because as i said: both the netflix adaption and the mmo are only surface level dragons dogma.
They share looks.. but thats all they share. The resemblance is only skin deep so to speak and both do nothing to expand the universe depicted in DD1
Someone took 2 entirely different projects, put a dragons dogma coat on it, and thats it.
I repeat: If you had said franchise i would have totaly agreed with you, but you said universe wich is factually simply not correct since both of the adaptions are their own closed of thing that do not interact in any way or form with DD1
Infact you could take the name and shared monsters away and both would have absolutely nothing to do with DD1
seems very rushed, you also talk quite too fast at the cost of the atmosphere, I know we could slow down the video but thats not the same, well thanks for the attempt tho
I speak at my nornal pace, perhaps you think too slow? Thanks for trying to watch tho
🫡🫡🫡 just in time for dragons dogma 2