When I heard that the creator of Howl’s moving castle, Spirited away, other great Anime films
Hayao Miyazaki was making a PlayStation 3 exclusive called Ni No Kuni I was more than a little excited.
Now while this game’s beginning cut scenes is a beautiful anime art style that will make your jaw drop it leaves just as quickly as it comes for a more computerized style which after the hand crafted anime leaves a lot to be desired.
However, I am happy to say that that is really my only complaint and while the game is not a technical and graphical masterpiece like Uncharted, but it makes you feel like you are
playing in an anime and the characters that you will meet as Oliver along the way are beautifully fleshed out. Now the main protagonist Oliver will be who you will mainly be using the entire game now while the combat allows you to switch around which charter you want to control Oliver and his starting familiar which I will go into more detail later will be your go to guy.
Now for the combat imagine Final Fantasy meets Pokémon. If that sounds as fun and as
addicting to you as it does to me then this game will very quickly captivate you as you try and capture
the perfect familiar team. When you get into either a boss battle or even a fight with just the local
wildlife looking for more familiars to catch the whole battle field opens up and allows you to move and run around dodging attacks and getting behind monsters to land your own attacks, and while the
combat is fast paced and exciting you will find yourself fumbling with the controls sometimes trying to run away from your enemy and get to your special attack or spell ability.
Luckily the game pauses
whenever you push the L1 button meaning you can take a break from the action and plan your next
attack. Another interesting aspect is that there are two parallel worlds, Oliver’s world and the magical
familiar roaming world that Oliver is trying to save.
Now each person has a soul mate in the other world
that can be a spitting image of that person or could even be a completely different gender or species.
There was one quest where you had to help a Dragon get there confidence back up to fly in the magical world, while in Oliver’s world they are a human boy. These kinds of twists are refreshing and always make you have to pay attention to the clues to find the right person or animal.
However, while the combat may be intuitive and addicting make no mistake this game was
made for little kids. It will hold your hand and tell you how to do things numerous times. In fact it will hold your hand and tell you how to solve puzzles about 20hrs in and even then Drippy who is your loveable fair companion will still treat you like and idiot and tell you how to do things over and over again.
Now my only other complaint is that exploration is rather fickle in this game. While this is a
big open world to explore and once you have the tools necessary to explore the ocean and the sky you
will never know if you are traveling into a brutally high leveled area where the familiars will make you wish you have never even thought of going to this area, or they are the perfect level to grind and level up for a bit.
Also another important thing to learn is to diversify your party of familiars in fact this is the
best advice I can give you, while the game may hold your hand and treat you like a child on story
missions it leaves all your combat and party options up to you so always have a diversified party for in situation or you will find yourself running around the battlefield scoffing down bread and coffee trying to cast one last spell. Though again not like dying is any real travesty you only lose 10% of your total amount of money so while it may emasculate you when you get destroyed by an opposing team you can very quickly get back into the action an plan accordingly.
Now while this game may treat you like a toddler and not inform you on if the area you are
trying to explore is a beautiful land full of death or just the right level this game is truly remarkable and the story and characters will captivate you.
Greatest Review's gives "Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch" (2013) 5 stars out of 5. Oliver is a very grounded kid and you will enjoy his enthusiasm has he embarks on quests to save those who may not even deserve it and also for being an excellent experience and really worth the 40 plus hours you will be putting into it playing it again and again.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>By:Tyler Comp
Replay value: Moderately High!
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