Hero-of-Time Posted April 10, 2013 Posted April 10, 2013 Would you say this game is worth £32ish? They have it at Tesco for £40, and they currently have this voucher thing where if you spend over £20 you get a fiver off the next £40 shop, with my added staff discount will take it down another notch. Absolutely. The game is stunning and one of my favs of the whole generation.
Happenstance Posted April 10, 2013 Posted April 10, 2013 I still need to get No No Kuni. The plan originally was to buy it at release but my interest in it dropped a bit so I decided to wait for a price drop. Shame there hasn't really been one yet.
EEVILMURRAY Posted April 10, 2013 Posted April 10, 2013 And also seen Atelier Ayesha for £30 too at Grainger Games. I can't stop being temptedings by these JRPG's.
Tales Posted April 18, 2013 Posted April 18, 2013 Deleted Ni No Kuni from the hard drive today. I got to the first island in the main story before I quit(a few weeks ago). I really didn't like the battle system and the monster system in this game. And when the difficulty picked up on the island I couldn't be bothered to grind for it. Those two systems makes up for 90% of the game and when the rest of it, the art, the story etc isn't interesting enough to make want to continue there was no point anymore. I'm sure it's a great game, I know it is, but personally I don't like it(and don't go blaming my taste or anything, I'm a big time RPG fan, I can give you a long list of niche rpg games you should play ) Too bad I fell for the hype, bought it digitally at full retail price because I couldn't find a physcial copy and now I can't resell it.
Ike Posted April 24, 2013 Posted April 24, 2013 OST for this finally arrived after they said it was due out in March. Don't think the game has an amazing soundtrack but figured I'd support it anyway.
Retro_Link Posted April 24, 2013 Posted April 24, 2013 Would you say this game is worth £32ish? They have it at Tesco for £40, and they currently have this voucher thing where if you spend over £20 you get a fiver off the next £40 shop, with my added staff discount will take it down another notch. I'll sell you my sealed copy for £31?... I just don't see myself getting round to playing it. I'm not a huge RPG fan and would probably rather buy various PSN games/Tomb Raider.
EEVILMURRAY Posted April 24, 2013 Posted April 24, 2013 I've already bought it. About 2ish weeks ago and still haven't started it yet.
EEVILMURRAY Posted May 23, 2013 Posted May 23, 2013 What do you think of the combat later-ish on? I've just got Esther and she's useless as fuck. It takes too long to select a leader and then fap around issuing tactics while the enemy approaches (I try to get her to "keep us healthy") but she gets knocked out in about 10 seconds. It's confusing as shit.
EEVILMURRAY Posted June 14, 2013 Posted June 14, 2013 pr0 bumpsalot. Completed this last night. A nice lil game, the combat was still a claw handed affair - running, camera and selecting options at the same time. Managed to keep the majority of my starter familars with me. Some had to be relegated to the Retreat whilst some shown untold promise. The Monolith being a prime example. Only during the regular battles did I actually use the familiars. For boss fights it was easier to have Oliver cast spells from across the battlefield.
Shorty Posted June 28, 2013 Posted June 28, 2013 I gave this my best shot, I tried to like it, but a few frustrating things held me back. Mostly, the combat mechanics. You could essentially survive any fight if you stayed right back and ran around a lot, but my teammates would always be face to face with the enemy, even if you set tactics to back you up. Meaning they got wiped out fast, although that wasn't a great loss because they were pretty useless at the best of times. Combat essentially requiring the use of "Defend", but simultaneously making it impossible on occasion, was my biggest gripe. You ran out of MP a lot, and below-par MP items cost 800g (!!), and when it came time to use one, you better hope the boss isn't about to whip out a super move (which he has three of, so you can't just wait until after). If you're caught using an item there's no way to cancel and defend, heck there's no way to quickly defend even for 4-5 seconds after using the item. Even then it depends on you being lucky enough to have someone out who can defend/evade in the first place. I wasn't a big fan on the English translations either. The voices grinded me right away so I switched to Japanese. But this came with its own annoyances, the characters' quips, exclamations and even their names had clearly been rewritten so it was jarring to have the Japanese audio so different to the English subtitles. Oliver was a little bit of an Enid Blyton character too, saying things like "neato" all the time, just made me cringe :/ That said, I did enjoy a lot about it too. The game had infinite amounts of heart and charm, and an old-school RPG with an overworld map was very welcome. Ghibli animations and a non-standard hero were refreshing, the visuals and audio on the whole were stunning. One of the best looking anime-style games ever, maybe a little behind the latest Naruto title. The story was decent enough and "Drippy" was great. In fact I would've loved to have seen where the story went, but in the end I just found it a bit too much of a grind.
Rummy Posted June 30, 2013 Posted June 30, 2013 Did you finish it? I don't think I ever came close before becoming somewhat tired. It's lovely, but there's just enough else out there to keep me occupied.
Happenstance Posted June 30, 2013 Posted June 30, 2013 I keep almost buying the game but I keep remembering how I just didnt really like the combat during the demo.
Babooo Posted July 4, 2013 Posted July 4, 2013 Having thought about this game again and my time with it, I must say it didn't exceed my expectations. It's a beautiful game, probably one of the most visually appealing I've seen this generation. This coupled with the fact that it was made by one of my fave developers (Level-5) made excitement levels go through the roof. Maybe I got over hyped for it, but I really thought it would deliver considering how good Dragon Quest 8 was on PS2. That was my favourite game ever but NNK didn't match that. Combat is really boring and the story wasn't amazing. Best things about the game? Visuals and Drippy.
Happenstance Posted August 11, 2013 Posted August 11, 2013 Ive just reached the Fairyground. Im enjoying most of the game and im getting used to the combat for the most part although I still dont think its great. My one real complaint with the game is the main character. I just dont like him. All the "Neatos!" and his Golly gee attitude is getting on my nerves. Im sticking with the game for now, we'll see for how long though.
Ike Posted August 23, 2013 Posted August 23, 2013 £15.99 on PSN (£14.39 with Plus). https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-gb/cid=EP0700-NPEB01158_00-NNKDLFULLGAMEPTA
Sheikah Posted August 23, 2013 Posted August 23, 2013 Bargain. People should pick this one up if they don't have it already!
RedShell Posted July 31, 2014 Posted July 31, 2014 This has been sitting on my PS3 for a few weeks after downloading it for the insane price of £3.99! Finally made a start on it last night though, and got stuck playing for hours. So beautiful. And dat Studio Ghibli vibe... Yeah, seems like this game is proper Tidy!
Hero-of-Time Posted July 31, 2014 Posted July 31, 2014 This has been sitting on my PS3 for a few weeks after downloading it for the insane price of £3.99! Finally made a start on it last night though, and got stuck playing for hours.So beautiful. And dat Studio Ghibli vibe... Yeah, seems like this game is proper Tidy! Good man! It was one of my favourite JRPGs last gen. Although I thought the story was pretty average, the gameplay, characters and music easily made up for that. Quality game.
Tales Posted July 31, 2014 Posted July 31, 2014 Despite several tries, I just couldn't get through this game. The battle system was absolutely horrible. Gave up after visiting that pig city on an island.
RedShell Posted August 1, 2014 Posted August 1, 2014 Good man! It was one of my favourite JRPGs last gen. Although I thought the story was pretty average, the gameplay, characters and music easily made up for that. Quality game. Yeah, and I just love the way it looks. There are times where if it wasn't for the controller in my hand I'd almost forget I was playing a videogame! Despite several tries, I just couldn't get through this game. The battle system was absolutely horrible. Gave up after visiting that pig city on an island.That's a shame. I'm OK with it so far, it kind of reminds me of Xenoblade slightly as you're a bit more involved during battles.
Hero-of-Time Posted August 3, 2014 Posted August 3, 2014 How goes your progress, @RedShell? I noticed you were on this the best part of yesterday.
RedShell Posted August 3, 2014 Posted August 3, 2014 How goes your progress, @RedShell? I noticed you were on this the best part of yesterday. Hehehe! Yeah man, I've been glued to the game this weekend. Think I'm up to the part where @Tales stopped playing. This area of the game has definitely seen the difficulty increase quite a bit, and also included a stealth section (which I hate ) but it's been providing so many laughs I can easily overlook anything I'm not too keen on. Drippy's disguise during the stealth part had me in stitches. There's just so much to love about this game. And the Pokémon err... I mean Familiars, are such a great feature, there's an incredible amount of depth to it as well. :awesome: So yeah, really enjoying my time with Ni no Kuni. I kind of feel bad for getting it so cheap now.
Dcubed Posted August 3, 2014 Posted August 3, 2014 Glad to see you're liking it Redshell. I didn't get that far into it myself, as I ended up getting bored of the battle system, but otherwise your thoughts generally echo mine. It's a really charming (and Tidy) little game If you like it, you'll probably enjoy the Dragon Quest games a lot. While the battle systems in those games might be super basic (too basic for my liking sadly - though DQ9's multiplayer made it awesome!), they have the same charming quality about them that you see in NNK.
Happenstance Posted August 3, 2014 Posted August 3, 2014 I didnt make it past Mr Drippy's hometown. I enjoyed the overall style of the game but as with a lot of people I wasnt a fan of the battle system. That and it was getting just a little too "twee" for my liking.
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