‘Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen’ Comes With More Enemies [Video]

Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen gives you more enemies.

Dragon’s Dogma is getting an expansion in Dark Arisen next week for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, giving you more enemies and a new underground realm to explore. Owners of the original game can export their saved games into this one, most likely to give them the advantage of experience from the start.

Dragon’s Dogma is a dungeon crawler much like Diablo III, except it is much more in the perspective of the character, as environments rotate around you for a richer sense of immersion. It also gives battles a more epic feel, since you can look up at larger enemies, adding to the sense of menace.

In the first enemy showcase video for Dragon’s Dogma, we saw the pyrosaurians, basically flaming lizards that could breathe fire on you and give a whole new definition to the heat of battle. We also saw the eliminator, which was a minotaur with a giant hammer and a huge temper. Last of all in the first video, we saw Death, which should be pretty self-explanatory.

The second video for Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisenenemies shows us the strigoi, the living armor and the Gazer. The strigoi is a flying creature that grabs hold of you and your pawns, stinging like there’s no tomorrow. You will need to shake off the strigoi and help your team to avoid being slaughtered. The living armor carries a massive sword and uses the Stone Forest spell. Knocking off its armor will only make it tougher to take down, as it will be little more than a spirit, which conventional weapons may not harm. The Gazer is a giant, you guessed it, eye. You have to get in among what appears to be layers of eyelids and hack at it. Of course, its gaze can also be deadly, and it uses tentacles to attack from a distance, bursting from the ground. The Gazer will use its eyelids like lips to chant a spell, making this one tough cookie.

Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen is out April 23 in the US and April 26 in Europe.

What do you think of the new enemies in Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen?