Here be spoilers. Dragons Dogma is one of the better RPGs produced in recent years. However as a game that can easily last over 100 hours a 7episode series didnt even stand a chance at adapting the story. This anime instead took the basic setup and elements of the ending along with monsters spells and aesthetics and did something different. As an adaptation its definitely worth tempering your expectations if you wanted an anime covering everything from the game though I do think the show works slightly better if you have experienced the source material as certain things arent given much or any context in the show and rely on outside knowledge. The anime is very squarely focused on the worst parts of humanity. Its interested in telling stories of sin and selfish desire rather than simple heroism and that alone sets it apart from most fantasy anime produced. A hero that gradually loses his humanity and a blank pawn that gradually gains hers hunt down a dragon running into several more individual encounters on the way all focused around one of the seven sins. The shows writing is inconsistent in quality and thats really its biggest failing. There are a couple of real gems that do something interesting with the sin the episode is titled after but a couple of others are incredibly simple and bring the show down especially Gluttony and its simple Corrupt leaders are bad message though that particularly weak episode is placed early on and at least serves as a simple introduction to the style of adventure and action present in the show. Most concerningly of all the subtlety of the better episodes has clearly been lost on some people based on other reviews Ive read. Sloth for example focuses on a town that produces drugs but deftly avoids being a simple drugs are bad message by showing that the real sloth is the inability people have to make meaningful change in their lives out of fear and of course laziness and is ultimately unrelated to the drug operation. Other episodes rely on audiences to make their own decisions and judgements rather than shoving everything in your face something I personally appreciate. The shows full CGI but very smooth and expressive. Only real rough area is a few of the monster models but its made up for by the sheer smoothness of it all. In addition there are tons of creative and beautiful shots owing to great direction and some really nice action scenes. With a little more use of heavy lighting and slightly better monster models thisd be some of the better recent CGI in anime series. All of the voice acting and music is solid but unremarkable. Those in the market for something edgy fun gory and decently original will have a good time with this series.