Ni no Kuni User Reviews

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Not F2P friendly. Great PVE but too many P2W Mechanics

Where to begin..so the good. If you’re in a simi competitive guild, you may find a nice balance of challenge and rewards. There’s ample content to keep you going as well as a 10 hr offline ai mode to let you gather materials without having the game on. The worst part about this game is that many of the gatcha mechanics are locked behind paywalls. Want diamonds? Gotta pay. Want cosmetics? Gotta pay. Want end game skills? Gonna pay. This game features the most amount of battle passes I’ve seen. You’ve got one for bosses, events. $80 cosmetic mount, $40 costumes, $20 battle pass, $8 bi weekely pass..you get the idea. A lot of the PVP modes are also littered with hackers that will win making your actual progress and time spent null. The developer refuses to patch or get sone decent engineers to balance and make this a much more enjoyable game. If none of the cons matter to you (your the pvp/competative machanics), then give it shot but tapper your expectations.
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Funny and interesting

I play the game on my pc semi-auto (we can choose) cause it refuses to download on my ipad. I actually enjoy reading the dialog and interested with what will happen with the story. Not sure how the end game is like but is not my main mmo so wouldn’t try to beat everyone or anything so as long as I can do fun things then I’ll stick around. I’m surprised though that they don’t advertise it more or share more things about since it is an mmo, you need to keep many ppl interested. The familiars system is interesting and I like the costumes they have and the things we can craft etc. It has potential cause the world and the graphics are unique. I hope to see the ppl behind the game more active though in what they do and the feedback they get.
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Alright

The game is a solid alright. I enjoy games that will largely play themselves. I do wish you were allowed to be a cat person though.

iOS, Great. Mac, not so...

I play this game on my iPhone and on my Mac. Unfortuntely, on my Mac it is constaly crashing. It crashes 5-10 times before I can get it to open. Then it still occasionally crashes. Not a great experience.
This game is a lot of fun and when i play it on iOS it is runs great. I wish the MAc version was as stable
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Love it!

Missed these titles. Loving the graphics and gameplay so far! Can’t wait for more :)

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man what? 😭
when the game first came out in my country, I was the first person to get the Water hunter title and I joined the game recently again just to find out that I don’t have the title anymore.
where is it bro??

Extreme Monitization

I have whaled in many, many mobile games and I spend disposable income for fun, but this game is monetized to the extreme. I’ve heard others say that it is the most pay to win game on the market and that seems very possible from what I saw when I was playing. This game is a sad story of wasted potential. In other regions, it is a pretty fun casual MMO with cool graphics and a world based on the Ni No Kuni games. However, global did not get the same experience. We are treated with disrespect by Netmarble, who monetized our version more heavily, replaced some of our free available currency with crypto-nonsense that adds an extra barrier to upgrades and limits the amount of pulls we can do for characters, and encourages bots to flood the servers. The game had potential, but it was diminished by Netmarble’s extreme greed. Like many in the mobile/gacha community, I will probably avoid Netmarble games from now on even if they have good graphics and decent looking gameplay.
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5 star game gets 4

First let me start by saying THIS GAME IS AWESOME. I used to keep three or four games going so that when one became boring I would switch to another. But since I’ve been playing Ni no Kuni, I only play this one game. The title says it all; this is a 5 star game but sadly I can only give it 4 stars because there are tweaks that are not in this game, that I feel like should be there. Before I get to that I’ll tell something about myself, I drive for a living. So the auto quest and path finding is -like the kids say- the most awesomest thing ever! But here’s the problem as small as it may be. Why isn’t there an auto harvest function in familiar forest? Why is there no lock feature so I can’t accidentally move something? Why is there no fishing in the game or a boat that I can catch and ride or a house that’s can build? Easier said than done right…I know but all those items are on my wishlist, but neither will stop me from playing this game.

P.S. I d also like for my idle characters to be somewhere in the game that I can visit them. Not just in the title or character selection screen.
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Great Game!

I’ve been playing since release, level 62 now. I really enjoy playing this game. There’s so much to do between the main storyline, the reputation quests, field bosses, world bosses, duel yards and arenas, familiar activities, kingdom activities, etc. I can play for a good long while without getting bored. The auto-play makes grinding so much easier. I also enjoy how many achievements there are, the reward system is great.

The two things I wish were different, and hopefully will get updated, is that after you get the island, there’s not much incentive to keep farming, and farming takes forever. I’d really like a “harvest all” option, and maybe the option to get diamonds through farming.
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3.5* game

I rate this game a solid 3.5*. While the art and animation and all the little details are so great, there are so many content gaps in this game where you just have to let your character attack monsters for literal hours to move forward. I’ve played other netmarble games like Dragons Nest and I stopped playing that one for similar reasons. I believe Seven Knights 2 is also by them and i stopped playing that game for a similar reason. What I mean by content gaps is that you can follow the storyline of missions for a while, but then they suddenly run out. I propose 1 of 2 solutions: get rid of these content gaps by adding more content or 2 make the other content give more exp. I think you could really make this game shine if you had a certain daily exp allotment or something instead of having to AI mode for a certain amount of time. All in all I was really disappointed that a game with Studio Ghibli could be this much of a downfall. I was really looking forward to this one and even spent money on it. Hopefully the devs can add more content to this game to make it more interesting and less empty and grind-y. P.s. please also make this game have more manual modes.
Autoing everything is not always fun.
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