Dragons Dogma 2s Sphinx Poses Compelling Gameplay Riddles on PS5
Riddles in the dark.
Dragon's Dogma 2 is looking like a fairly radical departure from standard single-player RPG fare. One such example is a nightmarish quest giver, Capcom's depiction of the classical Sphinx, which will require the player to solve riddles with their actions rather than words.
As part of IGN's ongoing First coverage of the game, director Hideaki Itsuno and lead game designer Kento Kinoshita discuss what makes the Medusa tick. It sounds like players will need to delve into dungeons, looking for chests containing an item that will solve a particular riddle amongst all the other chests normally found there. Given one shot, if you give the Sphix the wrong reward, you'll be locked out of receiving that specific riddle's reward. The Riddle of Eyes was given as an example: "Our eyes are our allies, yet oft do they betray, for eyes tell lies, so I advise, and thence do lead astray."
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