I know nothing about it, but isn't such a stress level slowly killing my precious PS4?
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I don't think it's the padding that's an issue here. The padding , which is what I'm assuming you're referring to as all the side content, is actually the better part of the game. I wasn't feeling Ni no Kuni much at all until half way through chap 4. Once chap 5 happened, I was far more intrigued with game. The pacing you're referring to is probably the main story quest, when you're jumping back and forth from the casino town, to the forest, and back again. I think that portion feels weak because the story itself isn't interesting or captivating enough. Once you get into chap 5, the game really opens up and the town building aspect is a fun feature. The story content is always just going to be, go here, beat this boss, go talk to someone else ect. So depending on if you like the characters and story, that'll be enough for you. I personally don't care about any of it, but I do like the game surrounding it. The padding and side content is much more immersive for me because I can explore and level certain aspects to my characters and town that I see fit. I think the beginning chapters of the game are dreadful, and that's why people are getting burnt out, because they haven't gotten to the good parts yet.
You don't get a fragment if you do them again. You can check which fragments you have and which door they came from in your items tabs.
I didn't do any of them again, bar the last one which has materials you can only get in there.
Let's put it this way, I bought monster hunter world on launch, late January, and from day one of that game my fan was fast and loud. Much more so than the last game I was playing a lot on my ps4. I dumped 300 hours into that game with the fan on full blast. 20 more hours into Ni no Kuni 2 and the fan is still loud. My Ps4 seems like it's still fine after hundreds of hours of gaming while the fan sounds like it's working overtime. So...... Knock on wood..... Seems OK to me lol
Yeah, I just bought a brand new Pro last week, and NNK 2 is still making the fan turn into a jet engine.
Even on the Pro huh? I guess this game just likes to push it. Hopefully it doesn't kill all our systems lol
I think we'll be fine honestly. Fans putting in work but that's what it's there for.
I'm 27 hours in and I'm at the second to last chapter according to IGN's walkthrough. I need about 10 citizens to get the 50 for a level 3 kingdom and I have the level 3 weapon shop. I'm guessing I could beat the main story in 31 or 32 hours if I just focused on it.
You're required to do a fair amount of side quest to beat the game anyway. You can't beat the game without at least a level 3 kingdom which is needed for a level 4 weapon shop which the story forces you to get. For that you need to get 50 citizens and since about 10 or so citizens are required by the story that's still 40 or so you have to get on your own through side quest.
Thing is there's at least 150 citizens you can get and some of them have additional side quest so at 30 hours even doing a fair amount of side content more was left undone than done.
Played a few hours so far (just past the part with Pirates) and I have to say I'm a bit discouraged by how boring I'm finding this.
Can you fly in this? I see a tabletop mountain with a chest with no path up nor the cave underneath didn't lead up there.
Same here and same identical progression. For now is the definition of boredom and derivative... It plays and feels like a game from a decade or more ago :/ the pace also is so slowwwwww
Exactly, I'm not stressed about it, plus it's nowhere near as loud as my OG PS4.
I'm in the same situation but I'm in chapter 8. Getting destroyed by a mini boss which is 15 levels above me..
I'm really enjoying this so far, the plot line with the dice game
in chapter 3 was enjoyable and I'm enjoying the boss fights. The challenge hasn't been an issue for me so far as I've just been playing around with the systems and I've not played an RPG like this for a long time.
I'd be interested to know how many people complaining about the difficulty are those that play every RPG that comes out. For me this is my first since Mass Effect (if that even counts).
and the bogey wtf hah
I'd be interested to know how many people complaining about the difficulty are those that play every RPG that comes out. For me this is my first since Mass Effect (if that even counts).
This game... I really don't know what to think.
It's incredibly disappointing. The Story, even if you keep telling yourself it's a kid's game, is just incredibly shallow. At 30 minutes into the first game we had a LOT more character and world building than this one delivers at ten hours in.
It's still a fun game, the locales are beautiful... but I just can't get over the shoddy writing. :(
It's incredibly disappointing. The Story, even if you keep telling yourself it's a kid's game, is just incredibly shallow. At 30 minutes into the first game we had a LOT more character and world building than this one delivers at ten hours in.
It's still a fun game, the locales are beautiful... but I just can't get over the shoddy writing. :(
That's one of the weird things about this, is that the story we're getting here goes completely against what Hino said about it being made with an older audience in mind. The only thing I've seen like that 10 hours in was the scene with the bomb in the very beginning of the game, and the further I get in the more out of place that scene feels.
Maybe they thought having Roland be an actual adult would mean that older people would take to the game... Honestly if this game had Ni no Kuni 1's combat and wasn't so fast paced, I would have dropped it for the dreadful story.
I gotta say, coming into this game blind and craving for a solid JRPG experience, I am really pleased. Currently at Chapter 4.
Yes there are some faults with pacing and writing, but it can be forgiven if you enjoy just having a straightforward RPG with lots of things to enjoy. I don't know what the other people are expecting out of this LEVEL 5 game, but if you're expecting set pieces like Uncharted or God of War, then I think you're mistaken.
If you enjoy old school RPGs(Suikoden) and Anime (Studio Ghibli) films modernized into one gorgeous game --- which is a rarity this generation of videogames --- then absolutely get Ni no Kuni 2.
Yes there are some faults with pacing and writing, but it can be forgiven if you enjoy just having a straightforward RPG with lots of things to enjoy. I don't know what the other people are expecting out of this LEVEL 5 game, but if you're expecting set pieces like Uncharted or God of War, then I think you're mistaken.
If you enjoy old school RPGs(Suikoden) and Anime (Studio Ghibli) films modernized into one gorgeous game --- which is a rarity this generation of videogames --- then absolutely get Ni no Kuni 2.
I'm still really enjoying the game, and at Ch.5, holy crap the number of side quests has really opened up. I love doing that stuff, so I'm happy with it. I really enjoy the kingdom stuff, even if it is rather shallow. I love city building stuff, so I'm still having a real blast with it.
Guh... seriously. I really hope the plot picks up. I guess playing RPGs for the plot was a bad idea going into this. x-x
Anyone know how to defeat the tainted monster Sporespew? He's a lv 60 mushroom like boss that digs underground and then sprouts all these plants and then when he goes above ground again he's fully healed... Been fighting this guy for over 15 minutes and I can't kill him (at party lv 70). There has to be some strategy to it or something but I can't figure it out. Tried killing all the plants as quickly as possible before he comes up again but there's too many and they just keep eating damage :/.
Edit: ok finally got him. When he goes under the ground one of the plants is actually part of his head so if you find the right one you can keep clobbering him. He will still heal a lot of hp when he comes up so you need to find the right plant asap and deal enough damage so that you can trickle his hp down slowly. I have no idea if there is a trick to finding the right plant (couldn't find any) so it comes down to a bit of luck. Glad that's over with. I got a new costume for Evan for my trouble, so there's that, lol.
Edit: ok finally got him. When he goes under the ground one of the plants is actually part of his head so if you find the right one you can keep clobbering him. He will still heal a lot of hp when he comes up so you need to find the right plant asap and deal enough damage so that you can trickle his hp down slowly. I have no idea if there is a trick to finding the right plant (couldn't find any) so it comes down to a bit of luck. Glad that's over with. I got a new costume for Evan for my trouble, so there's that, lol.
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It's ok. I'm in the Chapter 6 Dungeon with the same Level and it works well. You actually have to play the game now and not just browse Era while mashing a button, so you shouldn't level at all.
I mean, I know they mean form a treaty between all nations but they way they phrased it as making the world one kingdom made it all sound pretty hilarious to me.
Yeah, bosses prove a challenge. The optional stuff can hit SUPER hard. Yeah the trash mobs go down quickly, but how is that a bad thing? Most turn based RPGS have countless hours of you throwing out a basic attack until you get to bosses. I mean 80 hours in Persona 5 and I killed almost everything in one turn with zero grinding. Most importantly, I find the NNK2 combat really fun!
I totally want a mobile version of it that synchronizes with my PS4 save so I can upgrade shit while I'm at work...
You barely get anything "organically". There will be like 10 sidequests and maybe 6-10 from Swift Solutions per city (before end game at least) in total. You'll also find some randomly in caves or forests.
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Lol yeah, the game even turn off the lightning attack because i kept failing and failing
I think I might be done with the game in Chapter 5. Hydropolis is a nice looking place with lovely music, but you get there and the first quest is "Talk to three people in the city", and then the next quest is "Deliver a thing to three people in the city in basically the same places". Now the Queen wants me to go and fight a monster, which I'd be fine with, but the characters have randomly decided that the only way to reach the monster is to Skirmish our way there. God I wish there weren't mandatory skirmishes. I just don't like this gameplay style, and I haven't done any but the two mandatory ones so far so I'm sure I'm way underleveled. Might give it a shot tomorrow and just see how I go, but if it turns out I need to go and grind some skirmishes I'm out.
It's not a bad game at all, but it's all just too light and breezy for me to get especially invested in. Without a good story, interesting characters or some meaty lore to sink my teeth into, there's no artifice to obscure the "complete these three tasks" game design. The further in I get the more convinced I am that they're never going to touch the fact that Roland is the goddamn US President teleported into Fantasyland by magic. How do you kick off the game with such a juicy plotline and then just sweep it under the rug like nothing?
It's not a bad game at all, but it's all just too light and breezy for me to get especially invested in. Without a good story, interesting characters or some meaty lore to sink my teeth into, there's no artifice to obscure the "complete these three tasks" game design. The further in I get the more convinced I am that they're never going to touch the fact that Roland is the goddamn US President teleported into Fantasyland by magic. How do you kick off the game with such a juicy plotline and then just sweep it under the rug like nothing?
The Roland part is the biggest disappointment ever.
How do you give a little boy who lost his mother a deeper and more intricate storyline than the fucking president who just watched a city getting nuked?
The game was announced in 2015, delayed alot then released in 2018. I think a lot was changed. Look at wikipedia, this quote is eh:
Well, they got improved visuals, at least. Although I will say I don't like the chibi look on the world map AT ALL. The first game wins in that regard.
So I switched to playing as Evan and I think I'm seeing the AI Roland use this laser blast move that looks like a Kamehameha? What is that? It's not a skill because he only has his first two, is it the charged range attack? I thought it said to hold down the ranged attack button for a charged attack but I tried and Roland never did what the AI seemingly does.
So I switched to playing as Evan and I think I'm seeing the AI Roland use this laser blast move that looks like a Kamehameha? What is that? It's not a skill because he only has his first two, is it the charged range attack? I thought it said to hold down the ranged attack button for a charged attack but I tried and Roland never did what the AI seemingly does.
Bunch of posts about relating it to a kids game. The way I see this is like harry potter and the sorcerers stone movie. It's a 100% for kids but I can still enjoy it.
Sweat Dream Truffle. Flourishing Lumberyard or Forest of Niall (according to the item).
Which makes me wonder... Do different buildings of the same type give different items?
Given that the first Kids Game (and dozens of others, really) had a LOT deeper storyline than this one, it's an absolutely valid complaint. No one's saying "This is a kid's game, that's why the story is bad", people are saying "This story is really, really shallow, even for a kid's game".
Yeah, the decission to make the overworld look like a different game baffles me.
It is indeed the charged range attack. I just hold down X (I play with control scheme B) and wait for the gun to charge, same as with Evan's wand.
It's for kids but... like, boring kids. Kids who grew up watching Caillou. It's all so vanilla and lifeless, from the story to the gameplay to the dead silent textbox cutscenes.
Harry Potter had an actual plot, though. Sorcerer's Stone wasn't that deep, yeah, but the characters actually had agency, their own thoughts and feelings. In this one... They're just... Stuff. I honestly haven't seen a JRPG with this little character depth since the days of the first Final Fantasy. :/
Breaks my heart since I shelled out 150 bucks for the Limited Edition.
I reached the sea town.
Great atmosphere, but more FedEx quests...
The kingdom build thing is getting frustrating, it needs lot of time and doing a bunch of boring sidequests to advance.
And I'm kind of hating the world map of this game, there is only 3 cities and a few small dungeons by chapter 5, and you spend a lot of time walking in the world map that feels subpar compared to the places you find in it.
Great atmosphere, but more FedEx quests...
The kingdom build thing is getting frustrating, it needs lot of time and doing a bunch of boring sidequests to advance.
And I'm kind of hating the world map of this game, there is only 3 cities and a few small dungeons by chapter 5, and you spend a lot of time walking in the world map that feels subpar compared to the places you find in it.
Thank you both! I managed to make a good bit of progress after I found this guy last night.
Got to play for about 20 minutes last night --- loved the 1st game. For me, the first 20 minutes of this game seemed very choppy and B-team grade........
The cutscenes were all very abrupt and the music just awkwardly ended mid-phrase for most of them. Took away from the cinematic nature of the game. It was also very strange to see a character wield a
--- kind of took me out of the setting.
Also, the transition to dialogue that was text-only, with the characters just grunting 1-2 word expressions was very strange. Could they really not provide voiceover for those?
The fighting was very easy and without much strategy other than button mashing --- hoping it gets better (I'm sure it will).
The tiny dialogue that appears on the screen for only a few seconds before disappearing was also very awkward.
All in all, it just felt very amateur ---- like put together by a mod team that wasn't too concerned about polishing their results. I hope this gets better and I expect that it will once we get past the intro section.
The cutscenes were all very abrupt and the music just awkwardly ended mid-phrase for most of them. Took away from the cinematic nature of the game. It was also very strange to see a character wield a
gun
Also, the transition to dialogue that was text-only, with the characters just grunting 1-2 word expressions was very strange. Could they really not provide voiceover for those?
The fighting was very easy and without much strategy other than button mashing --- hoping it gets better (I'm sure it will).
The tiny dialogue that appears on the screen for only a few seconds before disappearing was also very awkward.
All in all, it just felt very amateur ---- like put together by a mod team that wasn't too concerned about polishing their results. I hope this gets better and I expect that it will once we get past the intro section.
