Much like most anime with their own video game source material, Netflix's Dragon's Dogma is full of fan service. We're not just talking about the mature ones either -- the anime or show adaptation has ported over tons of stuff from the video game, Dragon's 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dogma: Dark Arisen. That very well means any fan who has played that video🎐 game will recognize plenty of homages and references.
These can certainly catch them off guard or at least elicit a reaction out of them fit for fanboying (or fangirling). At times, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Netflix's 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon's Dogma even starts to appear too accurate or devoted to its source material that it's hard to justify wanting to watch the same story instead of playing it in a video game. Still, these 10 recognizable homages to the game prove just how much the showrunners respect those who played Dragon's Dogma.
10 🍸 SPELLCASTING AND ATTACKS
True enough to its video game roots, Netflix's Dragon's Dogma uses the rules of the game when it comes to combat. Well, most of the time that's the case, especially with most of Hannaജh's attacks and moves which involve all sorts of ma💧gic.
She can heal Ethan with Anodyne, cast some light, and even has a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic Archer-esque charge attack against the griffin. Even som♌ething as minute as the elemental weapon infusions are present in the anime and across multiple characters.
9 💎 ꦬETHAN'S FIGHTING STYLE AGAINST BIG MONSTERS
Since Ethan is the Arisen in the anime, then it's perfectly fitting for him to best represent the typical player in Dragon's Dogma. That's probably why he picked the Fighter vocation𒁏 which is as bland as it gets even though he was already proficient at ranged weapons.
That is also so he could walk up to bigger enemies and cling to them in the hopes of doing attrition damage or taking them down with pure brainpower (or the lack thereof). This is a rather popular fighting style for any melee 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:class in the game.
8 ꦕ CHARACTER SIMILARITIES 🔯
Sadly, no character from the game can be 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:found in Netflix's Dragon's Dogma unless 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the dragon is the same one. T🍷he weird part is that they still made some characters in the anime similar to the ones in the show, notably Balthazar.
Balthazar is quit🐟e reminiscent of Julien in the game. Both have blond hair and are nobles. Both are also treacherous and would do anything for their family name or what they think is right for them. Tha♎t's a character likeness players of the game surely won't miss.
7 💝PAWN BEHAVIOR ꧑
How pawns think and act is also something that those who played the game will appreciate more than anyone. That's because pawns in the game are devoid of any personality and free will, just like how Hannah is in Netflix's Dragon's Dogma.
In✅ fact, she can even come across as an emotionless drifter. Only fans of the games will know why-- because she came from a different dimension called the Rift and only exists to serve th𒁃e Arisen across multiple realities... and because her kind is usually player-made.
6 THE SUCCUBUS TRANSFORMATION 🃏
The succubus💃 episode, aptly titled "Lust," was one of the more daring ones in the anime as it was explicit and seemed to be dedicated to the other fan service we're talking about. At first glance, it would seem that the anime abandoned what the succubus was lik♚e in the game, which is nothing more than a glorified harpy.
However, after Ethan started attacking her, she showed her true form which was rather deviant of the usual succubus in most fantasy universes. Any game fan can then easily recognize that the show still kept to the game's harpy-like succubus des💝ign.
5 🎶 THE HYDRA'S SWALLOW ATTACK💟
The hydra is one of the first big enemies that the players will encounter in Dragon's Dogma which was why it can't just be absent in the👍 anime. It's there alright, tucked mid-series and it even did a couple of its signatuꦬre moves.
One of them is annoying the Arisen 🦩constantly by regenerating and the other is swallowing someone whole. That person doesn't die right away after being swallowed since it turns out the hydra is just a mutated boa constrictor. That's why those who played the game would know immediately that the girl the hydra swallowed was still alive afterward.
4 TAINTED MOUNTAIN ౠ
The anime followed the game's plot and story so closely that anyone who has played Dragon's Dogma will likely know where⛎ the dragon went after destroying Cassardis and even before Ethan and📖 Hannah knew that information.
That's because one of the most memo🦹rable places in the game is Tainted Mountain where the dragon flew after taking the Arisen's heart. Hearing that location out loud in the anime definitely would have attracted any game fan's attention but shouldn't be a surprise to them.
3 𒁃 THE LANTERN HOMAGE
The lantern is an intimate device in the video game of Dragon's Dogma because the night is dark and full of terrors in the game. The lantern also follows the laws of physics and easily gets 🐼extinguished after getting soaked.
Somehow, the anime managed to squeeze in some lantern physics as a homage to the game's light and dark mechanics. Truth be told, they could have just given a torch to the Ethan and Hannah but the lantern was a nice touch and something that will make the fans recall some 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:distressing times in the game.
2 THE DRAGON 🎶
Before they even watched the show ༒and have only seen the trailers, viewers who have played the game alreadꦡy knew who the villain was going to be or how they're going to behave. That's because it's the very same dragon in the game, appearance-wise at least.
It's red, it's 🌺mean, and it's also inexplicably wise and philosophical. The difference is that the game's dragon has a name-- Grigori, while the show didn't think it necessary to convey the dragon's name lest it spoils the ending.
1 THE FINAL BATTLE WITH THE DRAGON ♏
In Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, the battle with the dragon was reserved near the ending and was the most epic of them all. It involved clinging onto the dragon's back for dear life while having a philosophical discussion with it about the ღnature of humans and existence.
Fans of the g🌌ame will be pleased to know that the show tried to recreate this exact same sequence. It did look a bit clunky in an anime but was nevertheless quite a spectacle. Some viewers might be puzz💙led but the game fans will surely appreciate it better.