Ni No Kuni PS3

pippa81

pippa81

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Hi :)

I started this game a few days ago, I am really into it. Just wondered if anyone else on here is playing it.

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Got it last week Friday and have been playing it non stop! I am about 20 hours in and must honestly say it just gets better the further you go! The story, graphics and especially the soundtrack rival most other games. I sometimes just stand on the world map to listen to the song that plays on the world map :)
 
I'm about 24 hours is and I'm totally captivated by this game. Not since Dragon Quest VIII was I this absorbed into a JRPG.
 
I'm really keen to get this. I have been watching some gameplay videos and read the Polygon review. Huge Studio Ghibli fan.
 
Managed to get my hands on the Wizard's Edition. But I'm on holiday at the moment so I haven't started playing yet.
 
TheAvenged87 said:
How the hell did you manage that? Wasn't there some worldwide issue to get a copy of that?
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There was, but early pre-orders received theirs. Major congrats to Deceptor for bagging one.

I've been playing it since release (bought it digitally through PSN and suffered through the "forgetfulness" of Sony to actually upload the 16GB file until 16-hours after release).

It's a beautiful little game; worth every penny.
 
Lycanthrope said:
There was, but early pre-orders received theirs. Major congrats to Deceptor for bagging one.

I've been playing it since release (bought it digitally through PSN and suffered through the "forgetfulness" of Sony to actually upload the 16GB file until 16-hours after release).

It's a beautiful little game; worth every penny.
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Good to know. I am going to smash this game as soon as I am done with FFVII, VIII and IX. By then, it should be a bit cheaper. If I buy it now, it'll be on the shelf until I'm done with those.
 
I just finished the demo... and it just made me want the game more.
I have a ton of other games that I really need to finish... but... but... it's so tempting.
Will probably give in and buy the game soon. It's torture not being able to play it.
 
TheAvenged87 said:
Good to know. I am going to smash this game as soon as I am done with FFVII, VIII and IX. By then, it should be a bit cheaper. If I buy it now, it'll be on the shelf until I'm done with those.
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Hopefully it will still be on shelves by then. :)

As for me, I'm planning on losing myself to the game this weekend. :D
 
Damn, I'm about 34 hours in and the boss fights are becoming properly hard now.

My only gripe with the game so far is the lack of battle setting you can set the AI to ala Final Fantasy XII. Your team mates can be properly brain dead most times and you can't rapidly switch between them to make them do what you want. This causes you to become frustrated not at the difficulty of the boss fight (which can be bloody tough) but at the idiotic things the AI does, which ends up getting them killed.

The battle system could have greatly benefited from the Gambit system that FFXII used. As it stands you can only set them to very rudimentary (and undescriptive) tactics, that makes very little difference during fights.

Add to this the fact that the game doesn't pause when flipping through skills meaning you end up fumbling trough the list trying to hit "Defend" when the boss is about to perform a big move only to miss the opportunity because you took too long to find it, so you end up taking full damage.

All these little frustrations hurt the overall combat quite a bit IMHO and as much as I love the game, this is definitely my one major sore point. I'm having to grind levels so that I can brute force my way through fights, rather than win via smart tactics.

It's also annoying not being able to see your teammates mana levels while fighting, so you have to either switch to them or use an item in order to see it. Lots of little things that seem to have been overlooked when it comes to this aspect of the game.
 
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TheAvenged87 said:
Yarp. I think this is a PS3 exclusive release. There is a version for the Nintendo DS as well. But I don't think that it will go anywhere else in the near future.
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Fortunately I have a PS3 - problem is, it's in the lounge and I like playing games at my desk, hmm, PS4 on it's way.....hmm...PS3 in study...hmm....hmm
 
RandomGamer said:
Fortunately I have a PS3 - problem is, it's in the lounge and I like playing games at my desk, hmm, PS4 on it's way.....hmm...PS3 in study...hmm....hmm
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Put the PS3 on your desk underneath/behind/next to your monitor, plug it in and voilà, you need only ever change your monitor's input :p
 
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