I beat this game last week, I am at the post game with new hunts and dealing with derwin requests.
Did you ever play this game? what are your thoughts on this game? and its characters:
What are your pros and cons about this game?
I would like to know about you experience anons
Did you like its gameplay that pokemon stuff?
I wish we got the fast travel spell earlier. It was a SLOG till I got it. Enjoyed the game though.
>It was a SLOG till I got it. Enjoyed the game though.
I agree until you get 3 creatures or at least get 3 character is TOO slow
Also I agree on the fast travel stuff, boat and that dragon.
I think will let this game as finished
I managed to complet 95% of all task
screw last two derwin task
and last two bosses
I destroy all orbs except shaddar and cassandra ones
also screw last alchesmist task, scrolls of truth
but overall really good game, nice setting, it's no original through the last part of the game is really enjoyable
Very mid game. Dragged on too long. If Ghibli had no involvement no one would care.
>If Ghibli had no involvement no one would care.
true.
Now I will try the second one.
I hope you're ready for an isekai kingmaker story starring the president of the united states who gets nuked into fantasy land 30 years younger with his presidential handgun.
I played it years ago when it came out but don't remember much. Remember dropping it mid-game but not why. One thing that annoyed me iirc were the monsters going back to lvl one after evolving or something like that. Might give grab it on sale one day to give it another chance
Got it on sale a few years back because my friend has been a huge fan of it since the original launch. Sadly, I came to the conclusion that there are only two reasons this game got any degree of recognition:
1.) Ghibli visuals
2.) 2013 had no fricking JRPGs
I wanted to like it and there were a few things I actually did enjoy, particularly the entire fricking Wizard's handbook you get full of lore and art and all kinds of shit. I must have spent hours flipping through it. Super comfy and immersive. Unfortunately, the actual gameplay is rubbish. The battle system is basically everything I hate about action JRPGs; everything is a clusterfrick of animations and voice samples, your AI partners are dumb as rocks and waste your resources, and the menus just feel clunky and distracting. Yet despite the hectic nature of it all, the battles drag out forever because enemies are basically HP sponges. I ended up switching the difficulty to easy not because I was struggling, but just because I wanted the damn battles to be over faster.
The general feel of the game is similarly tedious. While everything looks great and has tons of character thanks to Ghibli's involvement, the actual process of "adventuring" suffers from modern JRPG syndrome; everything is just slow and treats you like an idiot. You have to jog around to 3 or 4 different cutscenes in every town before you get an objective, and it really just deflates the experience. You can tell this game came out right around the time that game developers were deathly afraid of letting the player have any amount of agency because the average gamer is a fricking moron.
So yeah, apart from the Wizard's handbook, just a big fat "meh" all around. As others have said, if it weren't for the Ghibli involvement, nobody would remember this game at all.
Bought it a while ago to experience a JRPG after not having experienced it since the GBA days. I wish I played it more I played maybe the first few chapters. Its gorgeous and was even in the ps3 days and I love the score.
played both, liked them a lot. first one was the best. the kingdom-management in the second game was refreshing but became a meme mechanic.
I thought it was great. I'm always surprised to hear people complain so much about its combat. Even if I didn't like the combat, there's so much other stuff in the game that I'd be hard pressed to call it bad. I was pretty shocked by the twist that it was all for fricking naught, mom's fricking DEAD kiddo. Appreciated that a lot.
I think its only real misstep was not giving the player the "everyone defend!" command immediately.
>there's so much other stuff in the game that I'd be hard pressed to call it bad.
Like what? I'm just genuinely curious. I thought the graphics were excellent, and the ridiculous Wizard's handbook was absolutely inspired, but other than that it was all extremely forgettable to me.
it's been a frickin decade since i played it, but i just remember it having a lot of sidequests, mini-games, stuff to find with the fps mode, secrets, alchemy book, etc. that throwing the whole thing in the trash because "but the combat is a little bland!!!" is ridiculous.
i dunno man, there's a lot to do in it and i remember really enjoying it while playing.
any games similar to ni no kuni 1 or 2? I mean similar gameplay?
Thanks in advance.
I played the second one and it was terrible. Super shallow game in nearly every aspect, and the end game content was one grind after another with the labyrinth & colosseum areas.
I played this up until the Volcano (I think it was) and then just got filtered out by it. I don't think I ever truly grasped the actual combat systems by any means, especially when it came to having multiple Party Members. But it's been years, I should give it another shot at some point.
It's got a good style, and I have the second game too (I hear it's not as good, but still worth a try), so I really should power through it.
>I don't think I ever truly grasped the actual combat systems by any means
The problem with the combat system is that you never HAVE to grasp it. The only strategy anyone ever needs for the entire game is to set your AI party to never use MP, and then just attack with your strongest monster until everything is dead. The types, the daycare sim, and the entire concept of evolution are all pointless, as you do better simply replacing old monsters with new ones. Eventually you will find some monsters that are so OP you'll never have to swap them out, and really once Ollie gets access to certain spells, you'll have little reason to use the monsters at all, anyway.
Man this and YW and somewhat Inazuma really shows how hard Level 5 were going for the Pokémon money.
Then some literally who Pokémon with guns frick does what they were trying to do for decades with their first copycat
It would have been nice if they had either committed to full turn based like the original NDS release, or full action like the sequel.
This. My biggest peeve is when they mix mindless button-mashing with tedious menu shit. Pick one and commit.
Also the original DS version of the game had some kind of grid-based strategy aspect to the battles, I think? I've heard from a lot of people who played both that the DS version is better overall, in terms of pacing, plot, and character development as well. Apparently it also forces you to actually read the wizard's compendium in order to figure shit out, which is kinda cool. The compendium was my favorite part of the console version, but it seemed incredibly underused for how much time they must have spent on creating it. Apparently for the DS version, it was an actual physical book, which is fricking awesome.
Currently playing the sequel after finishing the first one, this guy is right.
That game was like 95% tutorial every town would drip feed you another essential mechanic that the game should have had the whole time (10 hours in: you just unlocked the block command, now you can block enemy attacks!) and I felt that by the end it had finally become a somewhat decent game, its just by that point you were already in the final dungeon and the game was nearly over.
I liked it but it was kinda easy and pretty fricking tedious due to multiple gameplay decisions (fast travel, resetting monsters, backtracking). It had a bit of spirit though. Ultimately despite some of it's themes it felt like an RPG for children and that was most predominant in it's pacing.
The sequel I enjoyed too but that game was also criminally too easy until they updated the game and improved, the loot, mid game, and late game as well as added two additional difficulty options and now it's one of my favorite games.
Seriously it was very easy. The game had multiple mechanics, one of which existed to make you more or less offensive against particular enemy types with food items that bestowed time buffs and healing item restrictions and literally none of that mattered because the game could be mashed through on the hardest difficulty on launch.
>The sequel I enjoyed too but that game was also criminally too easy
Totally agree with you, it is really easy, the first ni no kuni is harder than the sequel.