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The story of Ni no Kuni revolves around thirteen-year-old Oliver, a resident of Motorville, whose mother, Arie, suddenly dies after rescuing him from drowning.



A doll, given to Oliver by his mother, is brought to life from his tears and reveals itself to be a male fairy named Drippy, who gives Oliver a book that allows him to use the power of magic and enter the world of "Ni no Kuni," a reality parallel to his own. In Ni no Kuni, Drippy says Oliver may be able to find his mother, Arie.



Using the newfound power of magic, Oliver and Drippy venture into Ni no Kuni. There, he befriends Maru, Gyro, and other alternate versions of people (and animals) he knows.






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Any news on the release date of the Studio Ghibli game?

Hold on, what? Studio Ghibli is making a game, I don't care take my money, I want this right now.

Oh, it has already been released, shows you how much I know

Need O_O

Looks like we are going to have to wait a year http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-02-15-ps3-exclusive-jrpg-ni-no-kuni-out-in-europe-q1-2013

FatalGlory said ...

Hold on, what? Studio Ghibli is making a game, I don't care take my money, I want this right now.

Level 5 is making the game. Studio Ghibli is just part of the art team.

The original DS game got released back in 2010.

Ah that explains the confusion, thought it was already released, but clearly that was the DS version.

Thanks anyhoo!

I finished this game on DS and half on PS3. I actually expected the two games to differ more, but the PS3 version pretty much just looked nicer, so I got bored replaying the game. ~_~

It was fun though, harder than you'd expect for an 'all ages' game. Very typical Ghibli storyline though. ^^

Wiki says the EU release is only scheduled for 2013 though. How does it take them so very long to localize a game, I'm not entirely certain. This one isn't even fully voiced, only partially.

@ cleophee - as with ALL ghibli english releases, it will take a year - This seems to be the case (sometimes 2 years) with nearly all the anime movies they release but could most likely be due to Disney having distribution Rights for the west on Ghibli product? Guess we will have to wait and see

The game releases this year in teh US..

People seem to forget that the EU region needs to cater for about 32 different countries and nearly as many languages. Localisation si always going to take longer for EU.

Updated header post with latest European Announcement Trailer!

Hey Guys Dont forget about the Limited edition of this game - We are almost sold out on our allocation:

http://www.awx.co.za/shop/product/t/Gaming/s/PlayStation+3+Games-76/p/82519-Ni+No+Kuni%3A+Wrath+Of+The+White+Witch+Wizard%27s+Edition.html

demo on PSN this week
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/12/02/the-drop-week-of-december-3rd-2012-new-releases/

now i can finally see if this is actually good or just another overhyped jrpg :/

Have you played the demo yet Ragna??

i played it ages ago

RagnaXBL said ...

i played it ages ago

well we have kind of been waiting to hear impressions...

ill hold out on the demo and get my first impressions on the actual full game

Well I played it a while ago so my memory might be a bit fuzzy but from what I can remember the game demo was split into two parts, in the first part your in a forest where you get thrown straight into a boss fight(which kicked my ass about 50 times might I add). the battles aren't as straightforward as i thought, you have to block boss attacks and stuff or you get OHKO'd. I really wish they did a bit of a tutorial before the boss fight lol, battle system reminds me a lot of The Last story or Xenoblade but a bit more cumbersome, it’s kind of turnbased and realtime, not sure how to explain it you’ll have to try it out yourself. One thing that bugged me, don’t like how they placed all the attacks on the same menu could be a annoying cycling through them all later in the game, feels really weird don’t know if the battles might become a bit tiresome after playing the game a couple of hours but for what it is seems to get the job done.

Graphics-wise the game looks [censored] amazing as expected, that’s all I have to say about that.

The second part they place you on a volcano, similar to the 1st part of the demo just with a much larger party. To tell you the truth I didn’t even finish this part, I kind of got bored and stopped playing, I;m not even gonna mince words here, the combat setup wasn’t quite what I was hoping for but hopefully it’ll work over the course of the entire game. The main strength of the game is in the art direction , Don’t get me wrong this is a [censored] good game, people are gonna enjoy this. you can see all the work that’s gone into it, I don’t know what it is about Level 5 games they just never agree with me, and I usually love playing games that go out of their way to look good, but I don’t think this game is gonna get me to run out to the shops on release day and spend all my money, I do want to pick it up at some point though.

Also the demo has time limit if you plan on playing it, just a heads up

*actually scrap what i said about the commands was thinking of xenoblades rofl*

@ Supa - Me too, will skip the demo - cant wait for this game!

Getting rreally excited for this!! ^_^ The trailers look amazing & I've been watching a lot of them ^_^

Still a lil bummed I missed out on the special edition though! Want to kick myself It was a really good deal too & such awesome extras!!! >.< & I totally saw it before & WANTED to pre-order it, but then life got in the way & ate all my money X)

How great is the Ghibli annimation looking? And the battle system looks like fun ^_^