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Ni No Kuni 2 |OT| Welcome to Evermore
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How many times do we need someone shitting on the game in this thread? Just stop playing, goddamn. There are review sites for this stuff.
The purpose of an official topic is to discuss a game, not to shower it with praise.
Neither side gets to shut down discussion.
Who made you the mayor of OTs that an OT can only be discussed by people loving the game. If you're playing the game and discussing your thoughts on it, you are VERY much allowed to post on here.
Hmmm I did it in tandem with the crafting of 30 weapons trophy. Maybe it is a mistranslation and it means bring him 30 crafted melee weapons instead?
If you have the mats to do it I suggest saving first incase you don't, make 10 of the cheapest from each class (10 sword, 10 axe, 10 lance) NO DUPLICATES, then go check Tyger again.
This is a quality post. I suspect that I'm going to disagree with you, and enjoy mucking about with the systems and having fun without worrying about bashing my head against any annoying difficulty walls (I have very little patience for difficulty in linear narrative games ... roguelikes and such are a different matter).
I appreciate you taking the time to outline what you didn't like in detail, so that others have a good idea whether they'll have the same experience that you did or not. Hope that you find another game more suitable to your tastes :-)
you need to create 30 different melee weapons from you kingdom's weaponry
I'm still enjoying the game more than I expected now I'm chapter 6. Chapter 5 was mostly very good. I'd like to say that people should stick with it but I can't say that reading that post from Speevy doesn't resonate with my experience because it is quite right in many aspects. A lot of the game's problems still persist despite the fun I'm having.
I'm certainly not going to jump down anyone's throats for disliking this game, or heck any game. That is most definitely not on.
I'm certainly not going to jump down anyone's throats for disliking this game, or heck any game. That is most definitely not on.
I have a hard time playing this game. I fail to see what this game does well except for it's art and graphics. I'm only at the beginning with the sky pirates, but its just so ludicrous and braindead. They want to kill you and 10 minutes later I command them? Random girl gets captured and Evan tears up completely 5 minutes later? This is not ghibli style, this has nthonot on them.
Only one thing, those cute ghosts are great
Only one thing, those cute ghosts are great
this seems pretty accurate to my experience, just about to head to hydropolis and getting 2nd thoughts about continuing
Yeah, I don't even bother reading it. This game is so baffling in so many ways.
That seems a little unfair. I haven't started the game yet but I enjoy hearing impressions from people who are enjoying it and not enjoying it.
Anyway, just wrapped up Persona 5 the other night. I might palette cleanse with Resident Evil 7 and then I'll finally dive into this next weekend. Really excited to check it out.
Can't find her... Maybe I have to do some of the "normal" side quests first, I avoid them most of the time. Or wait...is there any post game I have to wait for? I'm in the last chapter, can I recruit everyone here?
The complaints are valid, but I am enjoying it for what it is. I'm about 16 hours in and am really enjoying the kingdom builder part.
Brianna is from sidequest #104. Should unlock around chapter 8 ish from the swift solutions token trade in.
There are a few recruitable people that only appear post game as well.
Weird, I recruited everyone available with tokens. Maybe it's random who is available when. I guess I have to wait. Thank you!
This is where I'm at, I absolutely love the simplicity/accessibility of this game. I haven't played a ton of JRPGs, so for me, this seems perfect.
Mind you, I have absolutely nothing against difficulty options for those that want them, but I'm glad this game was simple/easy enough for me to pick up & throughly enjoy.
Side note - all the NNK1 vs NNK2 posts has made me want to dust off the PS3 & see what NNK1 has to offer. If I'm enjoying 2 this much, I feel like 1 is a given.
Something can be simple, yet challenging and surprising. And something can be simple, as in braindead.
I really feel it's the last here. This isn't the simple to learn hard to master kind of thing. It's just button mashing with little thought or skill involved. But it looks beautiful.
I'm pretty dissapointed at this evolution in jRPGs. We used to only have one series like this: Tales of. But now pretty much every jRPG is taking that as a template. I guess Bandai Namco being the publisher for both has something to do with it.
I really feel it's the last here. This isn't the simple to learn hard to master kind of thing. It's just button mashing with little thought or skill involved. But it looks beautiful.
I'm pretty dissapointed at this evolution in jRPGs. We used to only have one series like this: Tales of. But now pretty much every jRPG is taking that as a template. I guess Bandai Namco being the publisher for both has something to do with it.
Don't sweat it too much, some recruits are main story "gated" by chapters and doing them here or there helps. You sometimes also need to do side quests that don't necessarily give you a citizen before they show up in the token recruit. Brianna is one of those you'll need to finish #89 before she shows up in token shop.
Its GAF where people like to create their own little echo chamber.
Its fair enough to dislike a game and you have every right to express that. Some people think OT means Only Talkpositiveorfuckoff.
Tales games have better gameplay and battle systems with more challenge than this game across all their games. At the very least, they have difficulty systems, so they can be braindead like this game or actually be challenging and require effort, unlike this game ever will.
Seems a lot of the games biggest problems could be a fixed in a patch (difficulty options, text increase, click to proceed text)
Kind of a shame that such minor things detract from the game so greatly. Still thinking about getting the game regardless of some of the negativity here.
Kind of a shame that such minor things detract from the game so greatly. Still thinking about getting the game regardless of some of the negativity here.
I agree 100% with you, the game is good-looking and nothing else. And I'm midways chapter 8, so I've seen quite a bit from it.
I would add:
-Characters have no progression during story.
-Invisible walls. Really. In chapter 8 there's some puzzle (an easy one) that will make all of you hate invisible walls.
-The combat feels poor, from the bad camera, the unresponsive block/roll and the enemies that hit you from out of view. If the game was harder, lots of people would be complaining a lot about it, but being easy masks lots of bad decisions.
Tbh, these are some minor concerns that are not the really problems from the game.
If you read the text by Speevy you have there an accurate list of the real problems.
And if you like your games to have more than 1% of voice acting, add this to the list.
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The only time I found the game harder is because I've skipped battles during 2 hours and found me surrounded by enemies 10-15 levels above me.
The fun thing is that I killed them without any problem. The battles were 10 seconds long instead of 3...
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There is a sudden difficulty spike around chapter 6, where you'll find the enemies in the new story area being around 10 levels above you if you didn't grind excessively. The game became much more engaging around that part and after that it only gets more challenging. The difficulty curve is really off in this game, as well as the balance (enemies only posing a threat if they're 10-15 levels higher).
Anyway, just came here to chime in that I finally beat the last dreamer's maze! I tackled it at lvl 85 which was fine imo. I had to rush for the doors though. Final boss was easier than expected, but that's because all the online guides say that the boss there is the exact same as the final final tainted boss. That's incorrect, as I keep getting my ass whooped by that tainted monster (which is lvl 90) but the one in the dreamer's maze (lvl 95) went down much easier and could not ohko my party. Apart from them having the same enemy model, they're different fights.
I only need to finish 50 different skirmishes now for the platinum. And i want to finish sidequest 117, which seems to be broken. I need to get smelly shoes for Morgan but if you've upgraded your kingdom enough such low quality items will not drop anymore. On reddit someone pointed out that they were able to get a set of smelly boots from a chest or vendor in one of the dreamer's mazes, but you gotta be reallllyyy lucky I guess. So protip for those going for 100% run: DONT SELL YOUR SMELLY SHOES.
One question, you're talking about the 9 mazes for the 2nd side quest right?
Aside from the platinum there's a real reason to recruit the investigator tied to the quest?
9 mazes give you the recruit, which then in turn unlocks the final tenth maze. The tenth maze completion gives a trophy, not much other reason to do it other than using it to farm for the rarest of materials. Likewise with recruiting, there's not much reason to unless you want completion, trophies.
It depends what you want out of the game. More people in town means more people to eventually put into material farming for you. The skill she has is already attained from another recruit that you can get anyway, if that's what you're worried about.
Does seem odd considering her perk helps out with the dreamers door shop haha.
Edit: ah, I see. Unlocks the 10th.
As someone who is playing No No Kuni 1 right now and having a hard time at 30 hours because its reeeaally booooringggg, should I skip to the sequel?
The sequel isn't nearly as good as the first game, so I dunno. Maybe you should just avoid the sequel altogether.
In my opinion, Wrath of the White Witch is about a million times better than this game.
Thank's a lot!
I'm giving up on the kingdwom building tbh, I don't know if I will even evolve town to level 4 because it's tons of waiting and sidequesting, and by then I suppose I'd be killing the last boss and wrapping up the game.
Well, I should have said "so far". I'm not really that far into it yet.
Tales combat is way deeper. There's also plenty of challenge in the games if you bump up the difficulty to max.
I mean it's entirely up to you on what you want to get out of the game, are you a completionist or just in it for the experience. If it is the latter then upgrading the kingdom and collecting the citizens isn't needed at all and you can just ignore it.
I enjoyed the game, not as much as the first but I also didn't go into this expecting it to be better or anything like that. I paid for this expecting a decent JRPG to tide me over for a while until God of War in April. It's by no means a bad game, but I'm not going to stand on a hill and fight that it's a masterpiece, cause it's not.
I'm at chapter 6 and don't have any smelly shoes. I already did the better loot research so goodbye platinum.