Ni No Kuni (PS3)

I finished this game in the past few days and yeah the handholding was very annoying. My main complaints were those unnecessary dialogues "Eh Oliver there's an ice stalagmite blocking the path, maybe you should find a spell that could help us do something with this ICE. You know, like maybe a hot spell, that does hot things, that could help use make a way through this cold ice thing". Fuck you I could tell that before you started talking asshole. Half the time you can't even use the spell right away you need to go into the dialogue which then opens the spell menu to use the correct spell. This gets into my 2nd issue, the fucking heart quests. Why are there so many of them and why are they so fucking retarded. Everytime you unlock a new heart piece, you go into every town and there is ALWAYS one to two heart quests where the heart giver is right next to the fucking NPC, what is the fucking point of these. Adjust stamp costs/stamp gains and remove ALL of these useless one. Keep a few where you have to grab a heart in a new town and go back to an older one to complete it. And then you have to talk to the heart giver, then use the spell, then talk to the quest giver, accept the quest, talk to him against, then use the spell. This was dumb as shit.

Final main complaint is the combat and the AI. Combat actually sounded pretty cool when I started, you're alone, you have a pet that can defend, you have to cancel your attack into defend, nice it's like action combat stuff I like it. The more you progress the shittier the system is because you get the other characters and you have very little control on them.

Why are there pets which can't defend when you don't have time to swap to your char and defend with him most of the time? Even when you do, why is it you need to use your main char stats to do so? Why can't the other guys do just that, they never defend even with all out defense unless they have defend on their fucking pets? I put the girl on healing duty but she'd rather spend her mana spamming random shit when people are low instead of healing, then when she goes into healing she'd rather unsummoner and not resummon a pet that can heal and instead stay in combat herself throwing all her fucking useless buffs around and trying to hit mobs with her 1dmg harp? Like what the fuck I specifically gave her a pet that has like twice her magic attack and aoe heals but she never uses it. Or sometimes she'll take a pet out for no fucking specific reason? I have 2 melee pets and one caster, she's on "do not use abilities", she summons the caster instead of the other melee? Like once every 100times or so, why?

Why do pets walk away from the target when they're "attacking" inbetween hits what the fuck is up with that? It's especially obvious when you play a 2star speed pet, like you hit once, then it sometimes walks away from the mob, then near the end of the attack you can attack again but since it's not in melee range it starts walking toward the target and fails to attack again. Yet other times, it'll fucking punch the shit out of the mob 4times in a row. And my other chars pets do that shit too, sometimes I'd notice one of the pets on another char didn't do a single fucking thing the entire fucking fight, just stood at max range, walked closer then back. Also I like that when you click attack, almost every pets invariably start their first attack TOO FAR from the mob you attacked and miss their first attack. Literally happens 80% of the time on 80% of the pets I used, unless I manually moved into melee range before attacking.

Luckily with the very strong powerleveling options, I just ignored most of that shit and crushed the game with overleveled OP pets. But really the combat is pretty terrible unless you setup your group exactly like intended to work around the quirks like Khane described.

Story was alright, I think they could have done some changes to but overall I liked it, not the best but definitely pretty good imo, at least with the setting and such. Music was insanely good and graphics were superb so artistically definitely what I expected. Pet evolution/capture and shit was pretty fun too.

Xarpolis_sl said:

Ni NoKunigoes on Amazon's Gold Box sale in 2 minutes.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/goldbox/ref=cs_top_nav_gb27

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Amazing news, I had not seen that in the post before yours. I hope you post again in 2mins after it's live so I'm sure of it.