Ni no Kuni™ II: Revenant Kingdom

Just an amazing game. Great storytelling and characters. I specifically love how each one have their own narrative voice, even without it saying who says what you would know who it was. The character of this game is amazing, and something about the art and music make it feel so nostalgic. Seriously, every place, character, title card is stunning. Additionally, the optimism and hopefullness of our characters, specifically Evan, feels so genuine, you can't help but have your heart warmed. Especially in this era we're in, Evan's mission and unwavering belief in a better and more peaceful world is an amazing story of hope. Mechanics wise, they abundent and decently complex, however none feel shallow to me, and work well with the genre of game. I think they are integrated really well and i think for this kind of game the difficulty is great. I would love to see more puzzles, I loved the one with the story and falling platforms, but I am still early on. I also think that so far the kingdom building aspect is really cool. I got this game during one of the steam sales, and while the price tag is a little steep, I think even at it;s normal price its completly worth every penny.

This game is awesome although end game can be a bit tedious. i love the exploring and building the little kingdom. Great story also.

The [i]superficial[/i] elements of this game have a lot of charm. The entire art style is excellent and the game is great to just look at, and the corny Ye Olde Englishe accents everyone except Roland speaks in are downright funny. That's it for the positives. The actual GAME is painfully mid, and way too long about it, owing in part to the lack of a Sprint function and the player stuck bumbling through every town and dungeon and even fight at a slow jog. The normal combat is probably the strongest part, and after you've played an hour you've basically seen all it has to offer. Instead of polishing and deeping that, it appears Level-5 just went down the Standard Japan Corpo Checkbox For Standard Game Standard and marked the boxes as they went. Gotta have PARTY MEMBERS (even though any three that aren't Roland or Evan are pointless). Gotta slap some BASEBUILDING MECHANICS on there. Gotta have MAP BATTLES. Protag gotta be a middle schooler for some reason. And because it's Level-5, gotta have piss boring procedurally generated hallways of trash mobs that are about as engaging as the dentist's waiting room (fortunately optional for the main plot, but required to recruit every citizen). Dropping all of these mechanics in out of an apparent sense of obligation meant none of them could be honed to actually being [i]good,[/i] so each is pretty shallow. All of that is still serviceable enough to be carried by a good story. But the story is garbopoopy, easily the worst part of the game. It's godawful by even the already abysmal standards of JRPG stories. After the prologue, a 13 year old literal child sets out to get every nation to join his ghey little Fantasy United Nations because "WAAAAHHH WAR BAD" in a plot only the most midwit of leftist Japanese office drone that has never touched a weight heavier than 10 lbs in his life could think is interesting or deep. After everyone tells him that doing so will be super hard and epic and blah blah blah it is very easily achieved by just going up to their respective leaders and asking twice if they'd like to join globohomo. Then everyone does and there's no downside after the fact at all. Actual communist propaganda is less shameless in its complete disregard for how things actually work. While that's going on, the most obvious super villain of all time (he is green and wears some ridiculous gold cobra helmet google Doloran if you want a chuckle whoever designed him is a madlad) is popping up to steal wacky eldtirch power and Evil Laugh about it. In response to this, the heroes, our idiot babyfaces, just kinda go "oh wow that sucks we should look into doing something about that" and then they don't do anything about it for forty bloody hours. This clownitude directly allows to the Obligatory End Of The World Crisis (which [i]does[/i] have a few spectacular cutscenes, the game does LOOK good the entire time) to happen. Those are just the huge plot points that are idiotic. Many smaller details are also sheer clowniun. It's a tale told by an ADHD buffoon that can't hold one thought in their head for more than two scenes, full of colors and fury, signifying terrible leftist hippy kumbayah globalist bullhonky propaganda. And I got this game for $3 on the Winter Sale. If I paid full price for such dreck, I'd be LIVID

Hacía tiempo que no me enganchaba a un juego como este. Buena historia, una animación muy buena y un sistema de combate y magias que a mi en lo personal me ha gustado mucho. La parte de gestión del reino ha sido una de las sorpresas para mi porque no me hubiese imaginado que me gustase tanto. Juego recomendado 100%. Además con los DLCs te proporciona muchas más horas de juego después de completar la historia principal.

É um jogo que me deixou dividido, as vezes ele parece maçante demais pela quantidade enorme de quests e na maioria delas quests bobas do tipo: pega X item em X lugar e leve até X npc, mate X inimigo e tudo com uma seta orientando no mapa. Então é bem fácil, o sistema de fast travel ajuda demais, vc pode ir para qualquer lugar de forma fácil e rápida então isso me motivou a fazer mais de 150 quests secundárias, pq apesar de fácil e repetitivo pelo menos é rápido e isso foi o que me motivou a continuar. O jogo tem um sistema onde vc precisa gerenciar um reino, vc precisa construir edificações especificas, recrutar trabalhadores, e fazer pesquisas, pois cada edificação do seu reino tem um propósito, tem o prédio de melhoria de armas, melhoria de armaduras, melhoria de magias e etc.. e com as pesquisas feitas pelos npcs trabalhadores vc consegue desenvolver itens, magias e ganhar habilidades especiais que deixam o jogo ainda mais fácil para vc concluir seus objetivos.. então isso foi o que me prendeu nele pois eu achei esse sistema legal e acabei upando o meu reino até o nível máximo kk

공식 한글화했다면 진짜 인기좋았을 게임. 아쉽다 레벨5야

Overall, it’s a fantastic game. I originally finished it on PS4 back in 2018, and when I spotted it on the Steam Store recently, I decided to dive back in. The game offers excellent replayability, though I had forgotten just how grindy it gets after the main story. I didn’t learn my lesson the first time, but I enjoyed the challenge enough to complete it again. It was definitely worth it.

I love this game, I have always loved this game, and I will never not love this game.