Barely qualifies as a game
The original Ni no Kuni was a beautifully made single player RPG with lovely Studio Ghibli created animated interludes, great gameplay, a touching story, and once you bought the game you could play it without interruption.
The sequel was in all honesty a big step backwards. Ghibli was gone and the great combat of the original had been dumbed down. And the touching story? The was gone too.
Now many years later we get this debacle. The story? There isn't much of it and it's typical modern anime garbage about a VR world in a video game or some such. Ghibli are of course long gone. The music is at least still lovely and composed again by the master Joe Hisaishi. The game itself is dumbed down to the point of absurdity. It plays itself. Seriously. You can just sit your iPad down and it does virtually everything for you. It runs to mission locations and fights all you button bashing battles. With some effort you can disable some of the auto player but it's so tediously basic I can see why Level 5 made it past itself. It's also an MMO so expect to see lots of other players presumably just as bored as you are wandering around wondering why they downloaded this trash.
Lucky perhaps the game is so terrible I didn't run into micro transactions, although there's no doubt they'll be everywhere in this mess.
Buy the original instead. It's 100x the game this is.
The sequel was in all honesty a big step backwards. Ghibli was gone and the great combat of the original had been dumbed down. And the touching story? The was gone too.
Now many years later we get this debacle. The story? There isn't much of it and it's typical modern anime garbage about a VR world in a video game or some such. Ghibli are of course long gone. The music is at least still lovely and composed again by the master Joe Hisaishi. The game itself is dumbed down to the point of absurdity. It plays itself. Seriously. You can just sit your iPad down and it does virtually everything for you. It runs to mission locations and fights all you button bashing battles. With some effort you can disable some of the auto player but it's so tediously basic I can see why Level 5 made it past itself. It's also an MMO so expect to see lots of other players presumably just as bored as you are wandering around wondering why they downloaded this trash.
Lucky perhaps the game is so terrible I didn't run into micro transactions, although there's no doubt they'll be everywhere in this mess.
Buy the original instead. It's 100x the game this is.
Show less
Older devices don’t bother
Unfortunately I have tried to persevere with this game but it is impossible. I get thrown off every 6 minutes. It was only every hour or so to begin with but with each update the issues get worse. The game play is completely auto and there are too many special materials that take time to acquire. The Territe being the worst, so many different things to do and items to upgrade straight away makes the game frankly overwhelming and not fun.
Show less
Fun Game but I am dropping it.
I liked Studio Ghibli’s movie “No ni Kuni” so I wanted to try this game. It’s a very imaginative world like the movie and fun to play. NetMarble made the game accessible for all ages by making an open world on training wheels. Yet, the training wheels are tightened with a torch wrench. NetMarble has not found a good balance of auto-play for new players and letting experienced players play on their own. While you can turn off the auto-fight function in settings, I noticed the game still wanted to fight for me on upgrade levels, like the labyrinth. It should not be that complicated.
NetMarble is very generous with upgrade materials for weapons and armor and makes the process fairly easy to understand. However, your items bag fills up very fast, so half your time on the game is spent clearing space for needed items and upgrade materials whether you buy more room in the bag with gems or not. I am dropping the game not because I had to wait in line to play which was bad enough. No, it’s because the game always shuts down when I am upgrading weapons and armor as if I’m not playing.
If this game came out a few years earlier, I would have absolutely loved it. However, after playing an open world game like Genshin Impact, Ni no Kuni feels antiquated. This would be a good console or PC game. It is not a good game for a phone/tablet. I played until level 49 and found little reason to spend any more time or money.
NetMarble is very generous with upgrade materials for weapons and armor and makes the process fairly easy to understand. However, your items bag fills up very fast, so half your time on the game is spent clearing space for needed items and upgrade materials whether you buy more room in the bag with gems or not. I am dropping the game not because I had to wait in line to play which was bad enough. No, it’s because the game always shuts down when I am upgrading weapons and armor as if I’m not playing.
If this game came out a few years earlier, I would have absolutely loved it. However, after playing an open world game like Genshin Impact, Ni no Kuni feels antiquated. This would be a good console or PC game. It is not a good game for a phone/tablet. I played until level 49 and found little reason to spend any more time or money.
Show less
Backbone control support
I have a backbone controller an would be great if the game supported this so I can play it, I think a lot of us would appreciate it this to be supported.
Auto over correct
Well I hope the computer had fun playing this. Every thing is on auto so I was literally just sitting watching it play in front of me.
Bots everywhere and NOT f2p friendly
I didn’t know that this game had Crypto, I just downloaded it because Ni No Kuni has always been such a fun series. Unfortunately, you can’t actually get into the game unless you want to wait 30 minutes to 2 hours just to log into the game. Thanks to unhinged cryptocurrency, bots have overrun the game and actual players can’t actually get into the game hardly anymore unless you play at late hours. Even then, it’s like a 700 person queue unless you pay them $8 to bypass? It’s sad because Ni No Kuni is an IP that could do fine on its own. The game is beautiful and seamless, it definitely gives Studio Ghlibi vibes and I was so excited for it. Sadly, I don’t have the time to wait for a two hour queue so unless the bots and cryptocurrency are reeled in, I wouldn’t recommend this game. Hopefully the devs listen and don’t allow their greed to kill such a beautiful game.
P.S there is a quest you get around level 50 that locks the progression of the game until you beat a boss with almost 400k power… while you’ll have about 275k as a f2p person. Unless you want to do weeks and weeks of grinding - or shell out hundreds to this company - you can’t progress the story.
P.S there is a quest you get around level 50 that locks the progression of the game until you beat a boss with almost 400k power… while you’ll have about 275k as a f2p person. Unless you want to do weeks and weeks of grinding - or shell out hundreds to this company - you can’t progress the story.
Show less
great art but really frustrating
the art is great (obviously) but the game play and all out experience is boring and extremely automated even if don’t click anything I’ll still move or fight bosses which is really frustrating and annoying as i would like to look around but idk
fjdbdvgw for instagramDropped the game…
I was a F2P player as I don’t earn a lot of money. I personally love the feeling of hard work and grinding to get stronger in games. I don’t mind being behind those who pay because that’s just how I am. However there are some issues… 1. Bots. Bots are literally everywhere and real people who just want to have fun and play the game are being punished for it. It’s very frustrating to wait a long long time just to even hatch an egg or something. It got to a point where I decided to drop the game altogether for another MMO. 2. Money. Yes I know I just said I don’t mind not paying but there are many people who do mind. It’s really unfair for most people to have such huge paywalls. From my understanding most MMOs are not NEARLY as expensive. I have to give this game 1 star because this is a really big issue for those who love to immerse themselves in a Ghibli type world. The problem just kept getting worse so I decided to drop the game for good and spend my time (and possible money) somewhere else. And for any players out there, I am sorry and I feel for you. To new players, you might want to spend your time and money elsewhere.
Show less
Unfortunate
When I first downloaded this game, it was super fun. The story is cool, I love the swift reputation quests, and the characters are interesting and it’s very canon to the first game. One of the few mobile games where I would actually sit there and watch the cutscenes.
The sad part is, when I first downloaded the game - there were no queues. No crypto. It was MOSTLY fair to f2p working players. The only thing that was an issue were the timed events, especially when it came to Kingdom events (only a certain day & time where players could complete them, and not everyone can do these events due to their schedules).
Now, not only is it unfair to f2p, its even unfair to the people who HAVE spent money on this game. I logged in 4 days ago to a queue of 200 on the server I play. It took about 5 ish minutes to get in. The next day, 600. The next, 1,000. Today it was over 5,000. AI mode with Territe crypto farming has ruined this game. It’s become a cash grab in NA servers. Do not waste your time downloading, because you will not even be able to play the game. I’ve spent around ~80usd on the game for some stuff and it was a waste. Until crypto or Ai Mode is removed, do NOT download; or at least use VPN to change server to JP/TW since they don’t have crypto/territe on their servers.
I uninstalled today after lots of wasted time. NM needs to fix these issues or all of their REAL players will leave the game.
The sad part is, when I first downloaded the game - there were no queues. No crypto. It was MOSTLY fair to f2p working players. The only thing that was an issue were the timed events, especially when it came to Kingdom events (only a certain day & time where players could complete them, and not everyone can do these events due to their schedules).
Now, not only is it unfair to f2p, its even unfair to the people who HAVE spent money on this game. I logged in 4 days ago to a queue of 200 on the server I play. It took about 5 ish minutes to get in. The next day, 600. The next, 1,000. Today it was over 5,000. AI mode with Territe crypto farming has ruined this game. It’s become a cash grab in NA servers. Do not waste your time downloading, because you will not even be able to play the game. I’ve spent around ~80usd on the game for some stuff and it was a waste. Until crypto or Ai Mode is removed, do NOT download; or at least use VPN to change server to JP/TW since they don’t have crypto/territe on their servers.
I uninstalled today after lots of wasted time. NM needs to fix these issues or all of their REAL players will leave the game.
Show less
Popping! But…
So far love this game , has amazing graphics and the gameplay and storyline keeps you captivated. The ability to hold 3 different elemental weapons is a perfect without the hassle of going to your inventory to switch. There is a downside … first is logging in… when I first played and seen that there was a waitlist to login into the server it didn’t bother me at all until overtime that waitlist that went no more over 400 eventually went to higher 700s and now the waitlist is 4,000+ ! I understand this is a new game and still working out the kinks but that is ridiculous. I haven’t played for a few days cause that number just gets higher and higher and my patience is to thin to wait 10+ mins just to login. Next is customization since this is still fairly new I’m hoping a patch will come along with more options to customization, with there being only a little there is very little diversity in the game.
Show less
