After showing “Dragon Cult 2” at the Tokyo Game Show, game director Hideaki Itsuno and producer Yoshiaki Hirabayashi accepted an interview with foreign media VGC and revealed some details of the game.
They stated that they hope to achieve “content that cannot be expressed in the previous game” in “Dragon Doctrine 2”. To this end, they got a lot of inspiration from games such as “GTA” and eventually applied it to all aspects of the game.
As for NPCs, they are currently using artificial intelligence to allow game NPCs to “live their own lives independently of players.” The official stated that this is the goal that “Dragon Doctrine 2” strives to achieve.
The followers in the previous game often said some repetitive words. This is a common phenomenon in almost all RPG games and is also related to technical limitations. In “Dragon Doctrine 2”, the frequency of communication between followers and players will be increased, and the content of the dialogue will also be changed. It will be more interesting and minimize repetitive dialogue.
In addition, players can also see other players’ followers and friends’ followers when playing in multiplayer online mode.
As an open world game, this game uses the RE engine (the engine of games such as “Castle of Evil 8”). Officials stated that they work closely with RE engine engineers and will not frequently encounter loading problems when exploring. The game The roads in the game are just a reminder of the player’s direction, and players can “move freely” in the game world.
In addition, Itsuno Hideaki claimed that “Dragon Doctrine” is a very valuable IP. The developers spent a long time to gather the required resources, so it was separated from the previous work by more than ten years. However, from the beginning of the project, the developers It has been decided that “Dragon Doctrine 2” will not have a Switch version, so that it can bring the “best experience” to players.
When asked to compare with recently released games, Itsuno Hideaki said that “Dragon’s Doctrine 2” and “Baldur’s Gate 3” are completely different types of games and cannot be simply compared. Because he was too busy, he only downloaded “Starry Sky”. ”, but I played it for less than an hour.
