User blog comment:Wolkanooo/Cheat Code? Maybe!/@comment-3498155-20140304052515

I recently deliberately selected New Game, because I wanted to start afresh. The menu made me go through two warnings that previous Save data would be lost.

To be fair, it doesn't explicitly tell you that "If you want New Game +, select Load Game from a finished save". So those two warnings weren't really clear.

Frankly though I would've liked the option to select a New Game+ where I actually started from level 1 again. NG+ at high levels gets real boring and is basically "farm BBI". More importantly, if you were on a Dragon's Dogma -> Dark Arisen upgrade save, you will LOSE the bonus eternal ferrystone (or whatever the name is), not to mention iirc the DLC bonus items also disappear.

That was really freaking stupid of Capcom. The "Tales" RPG series actually has a fantastic New Game+ concept: the grade shop. You get to select what options you want to transfer over to a New Game+, whether levels, items, skills, etc. I mean literally a whole load of options, just search for yourself and see. The Tales games are from Namco though iirc.