Dragon's Dogma 2 has some funny moments | Asmongold

The first time a player in Dragon’s Dogma 2 falls off a cliff, it is funny. The tenth time a pawn—the game’s AI-controlled companion—walks off the same cliff, it becomes a running joke. Watching a streamer’s character get picked up by a griffin, carried into the sky, and then dropped to their death is a specific kind of comedy that only this game seems to deliver. As Asmongold puts it while reviewing a compilation of clips, “I do think this game has a lot of really funny moments. And the best thing is like you can hear it.”

The Comedy of Systemic Failure

The humor in Dragon’s Dogma 2 is not scripted. It emerges from the game’s systems interacting in unexpected ways. Pawns, the AI allies who follow the player, are notoriously unreliable. They walk off ledges, fail to notice they are falling, and die in absurd ways. One clip shows a pawn using the same attack repeatedly while its companion vanishes off-screen. “I like how he didn’t even notice the fact that his pawn is just like gone,” Asmongold says. Another clip shows a pawn being killed by a pigeon. “You’re not about to lose your main pawn to a pigeon,” he says, before the pawn dies. “This game’s fucking shit, dude.”