Talk:Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen/@comment-94.140.84.108-20131023121729/@comment-5166842-20131023164632

Personally, I don't think this is a great game for full playthrough challenges unless you like to go in and out of your menu to throw items, take an hour to kill a single enemy, or simply run away a lot.

Sound like that's all you're considering though. My favorite challenges have been mini ones. Like aggro all the enemies in a room and, without killing any of them, stack all the room's breakable objects in a designated spot without letting one of them break. Spur of the moment, creative things like that can be pretty fun.

Gravity-only kills can be fun, if frustrating, in areas with terminal falls.

You can do things like, as a Fighter with only your shield equipped, aggro a roomful of Skeleton Brutes or Garms or whatever, and kill them with Perfect Blocks (no Prescience or anything, of course). You'd want to do that on an advanced character though, otherwise it'd take forever.

If you're deadset on full playthrough challenges then my best suggestion is to check out/go back to Dark Souls.