darkjedi187
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Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch |OT|
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Square Triangle
Member
For each of these boss battles
I've used Oliver by just running around and casting spells.
What am I doing wrong? Or am I?
Up to the Nightmare
What am I doing wrong? Or am I?
thanks!
Raven77
Member
About 2 hours in, here are some first impression:
Story - Dialogue:
- Voice acting ranges from terrible (some of Olivers lines) to not so bad (Drippy, at first he was hard to understand, but I like it).
- The dialogue, at times, is absolutely TERRIBLE.
When his friend unveils the car Oliver - "Wow that's neat. That's SO neat. That's really NEAT!"
YEAH I GET IT YOU THINK ITS NEAT, lololol
- Right before going to "nother-world" I'll call it for now, Drippy basically drops 10-tons of story onto you. A classic example of what not to do in story telling, "show, don't tell".
- On the positive side, the main enemy seems cool, i absolutely love the idea of a Djinn bad guy. I also like that the story took a sad twist in the beggining, wasn't expecting it out of a game like this.
Graphics and Gameplay:
- The graphics are gorgeous, however, some of the blocky character and environment models ruin the effect a bit.
- Monster design is awesome, classic Ghibli
- Animated cut scenes are a wonderful addition.
- On the gameplay side, i'm finding it a bit hard to get into the combat. It seems like a mix of real time and turn based that I just haven't wrapped my head around.
- I like how encounters are NOT random. I hate that.
- Using the dpad to switch what you want to do, all while trying to move your character (also with the left stick, note to game-designer, I ONLY have 1 left thumb...)
Overall...I'm liking it, but not loving it as much as I had anticipated. The graphics are a treat, the story seems to be setting up decently well, but I really hope the gameplay improves a bit. I'm going to invest some time into figuring out the nuances of the battle system.
ALSO FOR ANY NEW (or even current players)!!!!!!! PLEASE READ THE BELOW
The game automatically has a "helper star" thing that basically tells you exactly where to go in the menu. You can disable this for a less "guided" experience.
ALSO the game disabled vibration by default, enable from options same as star helper. You can also increase the text speed. I played for 1.5 hours before accidentally finding the above options. My friend josh played for 10 hours before realizing this stuff was in the options menu.
Story - Dialogue:
- Voice acting ranges from terrible (some of Olivers lines) to not so bad (Drippy, at first he was hard to understand, but I like it).
- The dialogue, at times, is absolutely TERRIBLE.
When his friend unveils the car Oliver - "Wow that's neat. That's SO neat. That's really NEAT!"
YEAH I GET IT YOU THINK ITS NEAT, lololol
- Right before going to "nother-world" I'll call it for now, Drippy basically drops 10-tons of story onto you. A classic example of what not to do in story telling, "show, don't tell".
- On the positive side, the main enemy seems cool, i absolutely love the idea of a Djinn bad guy. I also like that the story took a sad twist in the beggining, wasn't expecting it out of a game like this.
Graphics and Gameplay:
- The graphics are gorgeous, however, some of the blocky character and environment models ruin the effect a bit.
- Monster design is awesome, classic Ghibli
- Animated cut scenes are a wonderful addition.
- On the gameplay side, i'm finding it a bit hard to get into the combat. It seems like a mix of real time and turn based that I just haven't wrapped my head around.
- I like how encounters are NOT random. I hate that.
- Using the dpad to switch what you want to do, all while trying to move your character (also with the left stick, note to game-designer, I ONLY have 1 left thumb...)
Overall...I'm liking it, but not loving it as much as I had anticipated. The graphics are a treat, the story seems to be setting up decently well, but I really hope the gameplay improves a bit. I'm going to invest some time into figuring out the nuances of the battle system.
ALSO FOR ANY NEW (or even current players)!!!!!!! PLEASE READ THE BELOW
The game automatically has a "helper star" thing that basically tells you exactly where to go in the menu. You can disable this for a less "guided" experience.
ALSO the game disabled vibration by default, enable from options same as star helper. You can also increase the text speed. I played for 1.5 hours before accidentally finding the above options. My friend josh played for 10 hours before realizing this stuff was in the options menu.
Die Squirrel Die
Member
You can use L2/R2 for menu selection in battle as well.
Use L2 and R2 to switch the attack,defend,provisons etc etc...I find it goes much better...
Deified Data
Banned
I'm certainly not as far as you - I just made it to Old Smoky - but I'm just now realizing that grinding is a fairly important aspect of the game. Vital? No. But if you want to continually evolve or switch to new familiars, you're going to have to spend a bit of time grinding to get your familiars to the level that the current area's monsters demand. This doesn't particularly bother me, but I can imagine how it might bother others.
Otherwise yes, the game has exceeded my expectations. From the reviews I expected it to be more grindy than it is, really.
I always check the options in any RPG right before playing (if it lets you on the title screen) or immediately when I can. I don't understand why people don't check it out for that long personally.
L2/R2.
Edit: Well, 7 minutes late, that's embarrassing. But anyway, using L2/R2 to select options greatly improved my experience with the battle system.
Raven77
Member
Thanks for that about the l2 r2 thing, didn't know that.
Can anyone post some tips for getting more out of the battle system? I'm still not sure how defending works or how to get a good of the timing aspects of combat.
The enemies seem to just get in my face and bash me relentlessly...
Can anyone post some tips for getting more out of the battle system? I'm still not sure how defending works or how to get a good of the timing aspects of combat.
The enemies seem to just get in my face and bash me relentlessly...
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
As I was saying to a few other people, I'm kind of holding back on hitting some of the issues I have, especially in a thread as positive as this. So... I think I might need to preface this with, "None of the things below mean I hate it or anything. Because I don't hate the game, man. I think it's alright."
They need to tell the player that R2/L2 is essential for battle, omg. It makes it flow way better.
I don't like how pulled back the camera is on the world map because I can barely see some of the enemies whenever they come at me or whenever I want to PE-strike them (well, this is a matter of my vision being rather poor). It's also problematic when I'm looking for invisible items, weapons, food, etc. on the world map, and I can't see anything. I don't like how close the camera is in some of the towns or dungeons and I feel like it should be pulled back a little. But I do like that I can look for stuff in pots and whatnot, though they make them really obvious in this game (ie: some of them glow, and I would've preferred it if they were hidden from the player).
I wish the game had more AI options in battle (on that note, I don't really like the battle music as I think it should've been more bombastic). I feel like the game is a little on the easy side on Normal at the moment (because I hear that there might be a difficulty spike?), just because it's mostly a matter of choosing the right elementals and types for things. But if you're familiar with how I feel with regards to difficulty, you can see why this is an issue for me. It may not be an issue for everyone else at all. I'm still iffy about the battle system. If I'm still feeling this way about it after the demo and time spent with the game in general, I don't think I'm going to overall warm up to it. Like... I do like that you have to watch the enemy animation to cancel attack and go into defense and time it correctly because free run will get you nowhere (and Namco really has to start doing this for Tales), but outside of that... I kind of get bored with it? I sort of wish it were more tactical than a free-for-all (and added AI options would certainly help), especially with the system they chose. What I mean is that it feels really repetitive. Much like other L-5 games, I guess.
I disliked that the game took its sweet time opening up menu options for me (ex: I could've used the stats menu much earlier than I got it because I ended up getting into fights when I got to the world map when I didn't intend to and levelled up relatively quickly enough to want to know where I was at).
I dunno. I still feel rather lukewarm towards it. On the other hand, the presentation and the rest of the soundtrack are outstanding and incredibly charming. My boyfriend was making fun of the dialogue earlier and then he asked me whether or not it was the dude who did FFIX, DQ8, and Chrono Cross because it sounded a lot like stuff he'd write. And sure enough, when I looked it up... aha, I'm surprised he caught that before I did. So... Richard Honeywood doesn't work for Square anymore? That's a crying shame.
Deified Data
Banned
Just worry about defending when you can see an enemy charging a trick. They'll almost always give you a long enough window to stop whatever you're doing and defend.
I'm at Hamelin during the whole
manna/ash thing, Hamelin is the final kingdom I've yet to rescue
Shadar was defeated, what I'm doing now feels like filler.
having Marcassin as a party member <3. But I feel like he joins the party too late and he's basically a worse Oliver, but I still like him better than Swaine.
For what it's worth, this is more along the lines of where the DS version goes.
The DLC voucher was in the game case in the unboxing video, btw, so I expect there.
WAR recon zero
Banned
4 hours in, 3 hour marathon
D: THIS GAME.
D: THIS GAME.
I now set up an us psn account to get this game. Is this account bound to the new OS user I created? So do I have to switch users when I want to play my eu psn games?
And does the us version of ni no kuni have German subtitles? I've read this somewhere but I want that confirmed.
Last question: my credit card is not accepted by the us store. Can I simply buy the download psn codes on the us amazon site?
And does the us version of ni no kuni have German subtitles? I've read this somewhere but I want that confirmed.
Last question: my credit card is not accepted by the us store. Can I simply buy the download psn codes on the us amazon site?
Once you buy the game on your PS3, it'll be playable on all of the accounts on your PS3.
Yes, it has German.
Yes, I believe Amazon is a common place for international people to buy US PSN codes.
Fake Charlemagne
Member
Just bought this off the PSN and it's downloading now. Can't wait for it to get done so I can dig in and join the discussion. Not sure if anything was mentioned on it, but I'm also really hoping that there are plans to bring over the 3DS version as well.
lunchtoast
Member
Why won't the AI defend themselves. All she does is die at every boss.
A little later in the game, you get the ability to make everyone defend just by pressing square. But yeah, before that it's pretty annoying.
zeopower6
Member
DS version, and it's highly unlikely unless they can figure out a way to make that book cheaper and make the game take up less space.
Just curious, but is the L2/R2 thing mentioned in the digital manual/instruction manual that comes with the game?
Dead Prince
Banned
Set her to do nothing. She makes a good decoy lol
lunchtoast
Member
Cool. Does anything come later to make capturing familiars easier or increase the chance?
My Wizards Edition arrived at my house yesterday but I had to wait until I got off of work this morning to check it out. Fortunately, it was in perfect condition and had all the bits that were supposed to be included.
I played for only an hour before I have to run some errands but I really love the setup of everything. Trippy is a pretty great character.
I played for only an hour before I have to run some errands but I really love the setup of everything. Trippy is a pretty great character.
There's a merit stamp reward, but I think that's all.
Yikes, both of you had pretty high levels for that part! My Oliver is level 24 right now and I'm a good 10 hours after that in the game.An ok lvl i would say, i was around lvl 20 and was pretty easy, but as long as yer familiars/chars are well equipped/feed you will be fine i believe
If I recall correctly, I was around level 13 for that part.
I took the Naiad. Her magic is much higher than any other familiar I have, but she has only healing spells.
Gintoki313
Banned
So I just got my first freeze/glitch on this game.
I was in the ice cave when I was fighting 2 sasquatches and used max slash dance with my now final formed mitey. First of all the slash animation didn't work and instead I just got the screen rocking back and forth. Then the slashes didn't appear when the enemies appeared, and the game just froze and the animation didn't finish.
I hope this doesn't happen to anyone else because this happened while I was grinding and leveled up 4 levels without saving. I'm so mad right now that I might just play a little bit later.
I was in the ice cave when I was fighting 2 sasquatches and used max slash dance with my now final formed mitey. First of all the slash animation didn't work and instead I just got the screen rocking back and forth. Then the slashes didn't appear when the enemies appeared, and the game just froze and the animation didn't finish.
I hope this doesn't happen to anyone else because this happened while I was grinding and leveled up 4 levels without saving. I'm so mad right now that I might just play a little bit later.
demosthenes
Member
Installed, ready to go!
Maybe you missed someone on the 1st town
Jive Turkey
Unconfirmed Member
Oh thank God. Every boss fight since picking up the AI has been:
-Attack a bit
-Boss winds up
-I defend, AI does not
-Heal the stupid AI because it has already blown its entire mana pool
-Get a hit or two in on the boss beofe it starts to wind up for another massive hit
-Repeat
I didnt. No one is glowing green there and the guy outside Swift Solutions doesnt give it anymore. I'm trying to finish the curry recipe quest. This is some untidy shit right here.
Jive Turkey
Unconfirmed Member
You really did.
Ok well where are they? In the guide it shows the mother of the hide n seek quest has it but she doesnt give it and the "take heart" spell does nothing.
Jive Turkey
Unconfirmed Member
Most likely you're missing the blue cat sitting on a wall by the fountain near the palace. He's the one enthusiastically talking about preparing for a Tug-O-Tails competition.
zeopower6
Member
I have read that there is a killer post-game boss. :x There's also some hunts that involve fighting powered up bosses.
Thank you. I'm an idiot.
InternHertz
Member
I only know up to the end of the DS game. How is the part dealing with the
White Witch
Just the big lines is enough though, but I'd like to know why you think it's a filler part.