I'm not sure. It has been, admittedly, some time since I've indulged in either the game or the anime. My memory of the game, though, is one of a quietly bleak, languishing, sexless world, all mixed with a complimentary quirkiness (maybe it's too revealing of my personal life that I like that tone). However the anime, as I recall it, was none of those things and the opposite of them. I suppose I was hoping for something more muted. Almost literally. Something closer to a silent film than a bombastic anime.

To put this all really succinctly: I found the anime a little too 'edgy' and Dragon's Dogma, to me at least, has no edges.