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Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (PS3)
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Woofels 
13 March 2007
9401
13 March 2007
9401
Tebulot 
31 March 2007
6639
31 March 2007
6639
Posty 
06 March 2007
1687
06 March 2007
1687
SurrealTiggi 
09 February 2007
5927
09 February 2007
5927
...Plus we have a release this weekend so likely only playing next weekend 
Tebulot 31 March 2007
6639
31 March 2007
6639
GAME COMPLETE!
So here goes a mini-review
Overall I give the game an 8/10. Most of my problems stem from th fact that I expected a 9.5/10
The story is typical Ghibli, for better or worse. So most problems are solved by friendship and love. If you like Ghibli, you will love it. If you don't, well... this starts to grate after a while, but it might just be my age and general cynicism showing
Combat is interesting and involved to start of with, but unfortunately a few hours of grinding will allow you to slaughter everything first time. There are no tricks or clever tactics needed, just brute force. The game even put in specific grinding points in the game. Sometimes it feels that monster levels are just there to stop you from exploring, as opposed to giving you a challenge.
While characters are interesting, I find there is very little personal growth happening.
In many ways, it feels like a school production of a good play. Well acted, well scripted, but the depth and range is simply not there, and the target audience seems to lie somewhere in the 8-14 range.
In the end, it was a great game, and I am very glad I bought it, but I cannot see myself replaying it any time soon.
On the other hand, I am looking forward to replaying Tales of Vesperia, a game that, I Feel, was just a bit more mature and fleshed out.
The game also seems to lack the traditional 100-level post game dungeon. Some new quests do pop up, but I think I will blow through them tonight.
DLC NEEDED HERE. More to do, see and explore please!
If you want a good, family friendly romp across a stunningly beautiful world, grab Ni No Kuni. Just be aware that the sweetness of the whole package might trouble your diabetes in the long run.
So here goes a mini-review
Overall I give the game an 8/10. Most of my problems stem from th fact that I expected a 9.5/10
The story is typical Ghibli, for better or worse. So most problems are solved by friendship and love. If you like Ghibli, you will love it. If you don't, well... this starts to grate after a while, but it might just be my age and general cynicism showing
Combat is interesting and involved to start of with, but unfortunately a few hours of grinding will allow you to slaughter everything first time. There are no tricks or clever tactics needed, just brute force. The game even put in specific grinding points in the game. Sometimes it feels that monster levels are just there to stop you from exploring, as opposed to giving you a challenge.
While characters are interesting, I find there is very little personal growth happening.
In many ways, it feels like a school production of a good play. Well acted, well scripted, but the depth and range is simply not there, and the target audience seems to lie somewhere in the 8-14 range.
In the end, it was a great game, and I am very glad I bought it, but I cannot see myself replaying it any time soon.
On the other hand, I am looking forward to replaying Tales of Vesperia, a game that, I Feel, was just a bit more mature and fleshed out.
The game also seems to lack the traditional 100-level post game dungeon. Some new quests do pop up, but I think I will blow through them tonight.
DLC NEEDED HERE. More to do, see and explore please!
If you want a good, family friendly romp across a stunningly beautiful world, grab Ni No Kuni. Just be aware that the sweetness of the whole package might trouble your diabetes in the long run.
DEATHGIGAS 
10 March 2007
12680
10 March 2007
12680
Only managed to try out about an hour and a half, but so far, seems pretty awesome!
@Teb
Sequeal already been worked on I believe, so I don't think there'll be any DLC for this. I for one can't complain about that since I purchase DLC for very few games, almost none in fact and I never do the post game 100 lvl dungeons either. Like Bloody Palace mode in DMC, they bore me.
@Teb
Sequeal already been worked on I believe, so I don't think there'll be any DLC for this. I for one can't complain about that since I purchase DLC for very few games, almost none in fact and I never do the post game 100 lvl dungeons either. Like Bloody Palace mode in DMC, they bore me.
Posty 06 March 2007
1687
06 March 2007
1687
Got so much done this weekend,
Now at the point where we’ve completed the Clarion and now heading to the Marshes,
However I found where the Tokotoko’s are, was lucky I just bumped into them on my way to Perdida,
It’s amazing how my Tinman and Grave Stone just take no damage what so ever, Philips nightmare didn’t stand a chance with two familiars taking no damage and just using Yoo-hoo and my Purrlione hammering down.
My characters are around lvl60 and familiars are all between lvl50-60,
Finished up Class A of the Solloseum and now just S rank to do.
Still need to get into the Casino. Stayed away for now because I can see that its just gonna distracted from the game… and grinding
Really loving this game so much more now!!
Tebulot 31 March 2007
6639
31 March 2007
6639
DEATHGIGAS said ...
Only managed to try out about an hour and a half, but so far, seems pretty awesome!
@Teb
Sequeal already been worked on I believe, so I don't think there'll be any DLC for this. I for one can't complain about that since I purchase DLC for very few games, almost none in fact and I never do the post game 100 lvl dungeons either. Like Bloody Palace mode in DMC, they bore me.
Sequel is prefered by miles.
Decided to sell my White Wizard edition. Probably wont play the game again for a looong time, and by then there should be a follow-up. Can def use the money elsewhere
Woofels 13 March 2007
9401
13 March 2007
9401
Right for me the game was a 7/10, a-bit of a disappointment but overall a lot of fun.
Story & Characters
The story is cute, tugs at your heart strings a-little, never takes it's self to seriously and overall very good base for it. Typical good ghibli family stuff, however it does start to get old after 30 plus hours.
The characters were all clear cut and likeable, but lacking in any form of growth. Oliver is a good polite kid from start to finish, Esther bubbley teen girl and Swaine the cynical old guy. The support cast I often found to be more entertaining than these three and well Mr. Drippy made it imo
There is no real growth to the story, or the characters everything kinda just how it was laid out at the start. The plot twists that were there, were easy to see coming, but over all pleasant fun story that leaves you feeling warm and fuzzy, if not a-little sick.
Gameplay
The game is both a ton of fun, and stupidly frustrating at the same time. Combat & The World map exploration were excellent, this is a standing testimony to the fact that old school style world maps can translate to being amazing in this gen, and hopefully the next.
The way the clouds rolled over the land, and hues in the sky changed as you flew around were excellent, throwing in the quick travel as well was an excellencet idea as it did start to get tiring traveling when the side quests split up.
Combat was some of the best fun I have had in awhile, playing around with the familiars to find what fits best and swopping out a finely tuned team feels awesome. Most of the familiars were clones of each other but were was enough variation and styles to keep everyone happy.
I found the golden orbs a-little bit useless to be honest.
Outside of those two though the game becomes tedious. Side quests are all the same, even the same freaking people in every town, really got annoying, the capture rate on creatures killed the pokemon style meta game. It was so hard to catch creatures in this game I gave up trying to collect them all. Alchemy was practically useless and not needed unless you were wanting the awesome weapons which really arnt needed either everything dies so easy.
The overall problem with gameplays was the the fact is was to damn easy. I forgot about my familiars equipment half the time, i finished the game with Swaine and Esther on their vanilla weapons with no accessories, Swaines familairs only had weapons, it just felt utterly pointless wasting time beefing them out.
Grind for an hour kill everything in game.
But yea all the side game and meta games just felt entirely pointless.
Audio & Music
Some of the best and worst parts for this game, the sound track was stunning, sound effects were awesome and the voice acting was superb... for what there was of it. This game was horribley undervoice acted imo, and so broken as well it really marred the rest of the experience for me.
Graphics
Visually beautiful game, great vibrant colours, everything look so good, just a lot of the little touches for me like clouds rolling across the world map were awesome. The Ghibli animation was also just gorgeous though I wish there was more of it.
Closing Comments
Ni No Kuni did what it was promised and gave me a good 50+ hours of fun, still one of strongest jrpgs to come out in ages. I think i was expecting a bit much with all the hype surrounding it and massive review scores. Still throughly enjoyed it and will take a more paced play through again some time.
Story & Characters
The story is cute, tugs at your heart strings a-little, never takes it's self to seriously and overall very good base for it. Typical good ghibli family stuff, however it does start to get old after 30 plus hours.
The characters were all clear cut and likeable, but lacking in any form of growth. Oliver is a good polite kid from start to finish, Esther bubbley teen girl and Swaine the cynical old guy. The support cast I often found to be more entertaining than these three and well Mr. Drippy made it imo
There is no real growth to the story, or the characters everything kinda just how it was laid out at the start. The plot twists that were there, were easy to see coming, but over all pleasant fun story that leaves you feeling warm and fuzzy, if not a-little sick.
Gameplay
The game is both a ton of fun, and stupidly frustrating at the same time. Combat & The World map exploration were excellent, this is a standing testimony to the fact that old school style world maps can translate to being amazing in this gen, and hopefully the next.
The way the clouds rolled over the land, and hues in the sky changed as you flew around were excellent, throwing in the quick travel as well was an excellencet idea as it did start to get tiring traveling when the side quests split up.
Combat was some of the best fun I have had in awhile, playing around with the familiars to find what fits best and swopping out a finely tuned team feels awesome. Most of the familiars were clones of each other but were was enough variation and styles to keep everyone happy.
I found the golden orbs a-little bit useless to be honest.
Outside of those two though the game becomes tedious. Side quests are all the same, even the same freaking people in every town, really got annoying, the capture rate on creatures killed the pokemon style meta game. It was so hard to catch creatures in this game I gave up trying to collect them all. Alchemy was practically useless and not needed unless you were wanting the awesome weapons which really arnt needed either everything dies so easy.
The overall problem with gameplays was the the fact is was to damn easy. I forgot about my familiars equipment half the time, i finished the game with Swaine and Esther on their vanilla weapons with no accessories, Swaines familairs only had weapons, it just felt utterly pointless wasting time beefing them out.
Grind for an hour kill everything in game.
But yea all the side game and meta games just felt entirely pointless.
Audio & Music
Some of the best and worst parts for this game, the sound track was stunning, sound effects were awesome and the voice acting was superb... for what there was of it. This game was horribley undervoice acted imo, and so broken as well it really marred the rest of the experience for me.
Graphics
Visually beautiful game, great vibrant colours, everything look so good, just a lot of the little touches for me like clouds rolling across the world map were awesome. The Ghibli animation was also just gorgeous though I wish there was more of it.
Closing Comments
Ni No Kuni did what it was promised and gave me a good 50+ hours of fun, still one of strongest jrpgs to come out in ages. I think i was expecting a bit much with all the hype surrounding it and massive review scores. Still throughly enjoyed it and will take a more paced play through again some time.
Posty 06 March 2007
1687
06 March 2007
1687
Posty 06 March 2007
1687
06 March 2007
1687
Got my platinum trophy last night
Coming from someone who didn't know who Ghibli was nor do i watch any anime at all I can say that the animation and art is amazing.. one truely beautiful game.
Sound is fantastic and the orchestrial pieces are AAA!!!
Can;t say i felt attached to the story or characters, Oliver came across incredibly stupid from the outset and never grew, felt little emotion but was entertaining enough to see what eventually happens.
Game is for one thing far too easy, the combat can be experimented with but on the other hand can be put down to pure levels. Higher you are the easier the fights will be which is all down to how much time you wish to spend grinding levels.
Overall an 8/10 for me, Level 5 still know how to make an insanely entertaining RPG and they haven't failed me yet.
Highly recommended to all begginners and RPG veterians!!
Coming from someone who didn't know who Ghibli was nor do i watch any anime at all I can say that the animation and art is amazing.. one truely beautiful game.
Sound is fantastic and the orchestrial pieces are AAA!!!
Can;t say i felt attached to the story or characters, Oliver came across incredibly stupid from the outset and never grew, felt little emotion but was entertaining enough to see what eventually happens.
Game is for one thing far too easy, the combat can be experimented with but on the other hand can be put down to pure levels. Higher you are the easier the fights will be which is all down to how much time you wish to spend grinding levels.
Overall an 8/10 for me, Level 5 still know how to make an insanely entertaining RPG and they haven't failed me yet.
Highly recommended to all begginners and RPG veterians!!
Tebulot 31 March 2007
6639
31 March 2007
6639
Some feeding tips for your familiars. Basically lifted from the Wizards companion:
Favorite foods:
Milites - chocolate
Beast - Ice Cream
Aqua - pie
Aves - ice cream
Minima - pie
Automa - flan
Flora - flan
Vern - Sundae
Nymph - cake
Dragons - chocolate
Arcana - Cake
Demon - Sundaes
Try to feed them the best possible treats, so get mixing!
Keep in mind some familiars bloom late and some bloom early
Oliver's first familiar is good to start, but quickly falls behind, stat wise.
Check here:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/998014-ni-no-kuni-wrath-of-the-white-witch/65295773
Favorite foods:
Milites - chocolate
Beast - Ice Cream
Aqua - pie
Aves - ice cream
Minima - pie
Automa - flan
Flora - flan
Vern - Sundae
Nymph - cake
Dragons - chocolate
Arcana - Cake
Demon - Sundaes
Try to feed them the best possible treats, so get mixing!
Keep in mind some familiars bloom late and some bloom early
Oliver's first familiar is good to start, but quickly falls behind, stat wise.
Check here:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/998014-ni-no-kuni-wrath-of-the-white-witch/65295773
Lulu Bahamut 
09 February 2007
2255
09 February 2007
2255
Posty 06 March 2007
1687
06 March 2007
1687
Lulu Bahamut 09 February 2007
2255
09 February 2007
2255
Tebulot said ...DEATHGIGAS said ...
Only managed to try out about an hour and a half, but so far, seems pretty awesome!
@Teb
Sequeal already been worked on I believe, so I don't think there'll be any DLC for this. I for one can't complain about that since I purchase DLC for very few games, almost none in fact and I never do the post game 100 lvl dungeons either. Like Bloody Palace mode in DMC, they bore me.
Sequel is prefered by miles.
Decided to sell my White Wizard edition. Probably wont play the game again for a looong time, and by then there should be a follow-up. Can def use the money elsewhere
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa I missed this!! Wait what you're selling your wizards edition!? Have you sold it already? How much? Possibly interested in a trade of other stuff? I have stuff! !love
