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  1. Nov 19, 2021
    3
    Had to force myself to finish this game. Compared to the first one, which felt like a classic old school japanese RPG with a lot of charm and modern upgrades, this one just feels like a huge cash grab without any care for the gameplay or the story.
    Main character is crying after an important plot twist is revealed, character tells him "you have to be strong", main character instantly
    Had to force myself to finish this game. Compared to the first one, which felt like a classic old school japanese RPG with a lot of charm and modern upgrades, this one just feels like a huge cash grab without any care for the gameplay or the story.
    Main character is crying after an important plot twist is revealed, character tells him "you have to be strong", main character instantly stops crying and continues the game. Like what?
    Countless uninspired moments, obnoxious side quests, bad and boring gameplay that is too easy even on the highest difficulty, and you can see that the hack and slash aspect was badly thought out when enemies have no tells to their attacks and you're always swarmed.

    Awful game, very disappointing after the first one, was already fed up by the time I got to the base building part, which is probably the most fun but also the most waiting around you do.
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  2. Nov 30, 2018
    4
    Boring story, boring characters, boring combat and awful music. Seriously, one specific track was so horrible I had to mute the music. The game looks nice but that's pretty much it.
  3. Feb 14, 2019
    0
    Pros:
    - Beautiful art
    - Good Japanese voice acting - Smooth combat Cons: - Terribly thin and generic story. Early teens or kids might like it though - Games tries to do too many things and makes the entire game shallow - Shameless copying of sounds from Zelda Breath of the Wild - Turn based is still better. Might've been good to see X-Com style combat instead of the poorly
    Pros:
    - Beautiful art
    - Good Japanese voice acting
    - Smooth combat

    Cons:
    - Terribly thin and generic story. Early teens or kids might like it though
    - Games tries to do too many things and makes the entire game shallow
    - Shameless copying of sounds from Zelda Breath of the Wild
    - Turn based is still better. Might've been good to see X-Com style combat instead of the poorly executed warfare combat
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  4. Nov 5, 2019
    0
    This game is an absolute horror. There is no voice acting except few cinematics, you need to read texts. Musics are so horrible they game me a headache I had to turn it off. Gameplay is terribly easy and just button mashing.

    I truly just created an account just to write the truth about this piece of garbage so others wont spend their hard earned money on this. They obviously had no
    This game is an absolute horror. There is no voice acting except few cinematics, you need to read texts. Musics are so horrible they game me a headache I had to turn it off. Gameplay is terribly easy and just button mashing.

    I truly just created an account just to write the truth about this piece of garbage so others wont spend their hard earned money on this. They obviously had no budget making the game and wrapped it up quick and cheap.
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  5. Apr 3, 2021
    2
    Boring ,slowly ,boring! -1000 from the first game , I can t finish this game ,bad story and gameplay
  6. Jun 20, 2018
    3
    This was one of the biggest disappointments of my life. I loved the first Ni No Kuni, but this is pure GARBAGE. The story would make a 3 year-old fall to sleep, because it's so flat and stupid. When Evan gave his "speech" which was like "Let's make a kingdom where everyone gets happy! Hooray!" and the characters were like "wow, best speech ever, Evan", I just couldn't go further.

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    This was one of the biggest disappointments of my life. I loved the first Ni No Kuni, but this is pure GARBAGE. The story would make a 3 year-old fall to sleep, because it's so flat and stupid. When Evan gave his "speech" which was like "Let's make a kingdom where everyone gets happy! Hooray!" and the characters were like "wow, best speech ever, Evan", I just couldn't go further.

    Combat is TERRIBLE compared to the first Ni no Kuni, it's just button mashing. Instead of capturing pokemon-like monsters, we have these stupid higgledies with their stupid mechanics. We also have no tactics to give to our companions. We also have this "kingdom management", which is absolutely boring, as are these terribly done skirmishes. The game also puts music that don't combine with the environment. You're in a canyon and the soundtrack makes you look you're in a Hitchcock movie. Characters are flat, stupid, boring and voice acting just makes it worse.

    I just dropped it after 10 hours. Don't buy this crap.
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  7. Apr 30, 2018
    3
    I spent ten hours on this before bowing out. My main issue on this is the utter lack of difficulty. It’s mind numbingly easy. I was hoping the challenge may increase over time but 10 hours in and it doesn’t. The enemy AI is very simple, even the bosses, and it is barely a challenge to tackle enemies even about 5-8 levels higher than your party.

    The story is simple and uninteresting, the
    I spent ten hours on this before bowing out. My main issue on this is the utter lack of difficulty. It’s mind numbingly easy. I was hoping the challenge may increase over time but 10 hours in and it doesn’t. The enemy AI is very simple, even the bosses, and it is barely a challenge to tackle enemies even about 5-8 levels higher than your party.

    The story is simple and uninteresting, the side quests are tedious. All in all, as a fan of RPG’s and considering the high reviews, this was very disappointing.
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  8. Apr 9, 2018
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Too little. Too quick. And not enough depth.

    I find myself on the precipice of what feels like the final chapter and can't shake that nagging feeling. The feeling is that this game was too quick. Surely a game with so many side quests and complex (enough) kingdom building system would have several hours of time left so that I can actually utilize the boosts and improvements provided, right? I mean, I did invest countless hours in gathering/poaching citizens, from other kingdoms, researching spells, and the ability to build better gear (which I still haven't needed to take advantage of).

    So... Why does it seem like some joke is being played on me?

    I am one of those folks who played the first game. And while yes, it had it's faults (inconsistent plot pacing, grinding requirements, and a terribly heavy menu system for supporting your... "pokemon"), but in the end it at least held my interest. More-so it compelled me to continue. It's cut-scenes and voice acting were incredibly robust. Certainly it still took some shortcuts, but this new story is so childish it's a wonder there wasn't a Little Golden Book that came along with the game.

    As for things I've appreciated, I did mostly like the more straight forward battle system, when compared to the constant shuffle that existed in the first game. Even if it did err on the side of "make sure your stick has higher numbers and just keep hitting the bad guys. Oh look a higher numbered stick!" Some tactics would have been appreciated. Also, the Higgledee's are really one of the best things in a game, like ever... Cute + Powerful + Support equals a win in my book.

    I'd made peace long before playing the game that this wasn't going to be exactly the same world as the previous entry, and even adjusted to the less colorful visuals... But in the end, this world feels less populated, less functional, and less immersive than the previous title. 2 towns, an old woman's cottage, 5 kingdoms/cities make up the whole world, and a billion caves. And if I ignore the non-mandatory quests... I only ever have to visit them once or twice. I'm really tempted to replay the game and see how much more difficult it is with only doing the main story.

    In the end, I'm left wondering...
    Why some reference to the first game at the beginning (the trial), and then abandon it from there on? I mean... Where are the faeries!?!
    Why is Ding Dong Dell the only city that spans the two titles...? Are they hoping to pull a Cid-style thing from the FF series, where in each title there's a Ding Dong Dell?
    Where's Evan's mom in all of this? She's mentioned briefly at the start of the game, then forgotten like cheap hummus.
    And why are there only 10 creatures that you have to fight over and over in the game? Sure they're reskinned, renamed, but it's the same creature with basically the same skill set.
    And finally, am I the only one who never purchased gear/food/items from any of the shops... ever?
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  9. Apr 20, 2018
    2
    I am so freaking mad that after I preordered this game and paid the full price of 65$ that this game gives me no sense of reward or accomplishment. I am just destroying every enemy in under five seconds. It is super annoying, and I'm not a super high level. No reason to use magic, or upgrade anything. I am 30 hrs in and at level 25 and the easy difficulty with no option to change it hasI am so freaking mad that after I preordered this game and paid the full price of 65$ that this game gives me no sense of reward or accomplishment. I am just destroying every enemy in under five seconds. It is super annoying, and I'm not a super high level. No reason to use magic, or upgrade anything. I am 30 hrs in and at level 25 and the easy difficulty with no option to change it has absolutely ruined what could be a masterpiece. Ok the music is not great but I just turn on Spotify. No voice acting really, and I hate that. if CDProjekt Red can make actualy voiced dialogue to every single word In the game, and they did it for every country the game was released in. This game cant even do .0010% of the dialogue in witcher3. U read non stop, and I hate reading. I would be ok with it, but the amazing glorious looking combat I can never enjoy, cuz the fights r over in seconds. Iam so furious that they wont respond to the emails I'm sending them and messages on facebook asking if they plan to add a difficulty option or balance the gameplay. I feel like I have wasted my time unless they fix this. its the easiest game iveever played, and I feel robbed. They have until Friday to address the issue and say they will release a patch or I am done with this company. Ill never play level 5 games again. this is total crap to be honest. they have ruined their game that could have made them a ton and I mean a ton of more cash, but everyone is trading it in, or telling their friends do not buy this. I can understand if ur 10 yrs old or younger. but I was so excited for this game, and no I don't want dark souls either. I hate how hard that game is, but I want atleast normal difficulty like the witcher 3 and kingdom hearts 3...even final fantasy 15 on its hardest difficulty was actualy really easy, but nowhere near as easy as this game. I pray that they release some words to us gamers that they are well aware of our issue, and that they r working on a fix, or like I said, I'm done...they will also not get my money on any other game in the future. because if they don't respond, then they obviously do not care about the fans, so I will never put my trust into their company again. I'm serious guys I have never even wrote a review for a game, and I'm 30 yrs old, been playing since the Nintendo .I have played almost every major game title released, especially on ps4 and xbox one, and this game has got me so mad. its like super super super super just ridiculous that they would make it this easy. I hate it and I'm just freaking so mad over it. I hope they fix it, because if they just do that one thing, they would have so many more people buying it. and they would have possible game of the year. but if not, itll be one of the biggest let downs in video game history. I'm not joking at all on this. until they fix this issue, I'm telling u. do not buy this game. it is literally so dull when u cant even enjoy a single battle. and even boss fights are over in seconds. why would they screw it up this bad? when clearly much time was spent doing everything else(minus voice acting). I really hope someone over there will see this, Expand
  10. Apr 5, 2018
    0
    This game sucks. The only pro here is the art style of Ghibli studio. If you are a big fan of Ghibli movie, you will feel like playing a game in the animated movie. However, if you are expected a good story like a Ghibli movie, you will be extremely disappointed. To say the story is childish will be a compliment. The character is one dimensional and the plot is really stupid. It feels likeThis game sucks. The only pro here is the art style of Ghibli studio. If you are a big fan of Ghibli movie, you will feel like playing a game in the animated movie. However, if you are expected a good story like a Ghibli movie, you will be extremely disappointed. To say the story is childish will be a compliment. The character is one dimensional and the plot is really stupid. It feels like the writer doesn't bother to come up with a good reason behind characters' motivations. For example, the kingdom Hydropolis is a kingdom where love is forbidden. Sounds interesting, right? Now guess the reason behind it. It is because the spell that protects the kingdom requires the population to stay the same. Therefore, the queen banned love.

    The gameplay is fine but the difficult is really **** up. It is either extremely easy or frustratedly hard. No middle ground in between. For instance, there is a skirmish mission where you control an army to defeat enemy's army. The mission is called "Criminal Capture: Bandit Gang" and I stuck at this ****er for an hour. It required you to kill enemy boss. The problem is, the enemy boss ran towards the exit like a mad man. You have to sprint to catch him but your stamina is limited. No to mention there are dozens of enemy in the road trying to stop you. If you made a bad decision to buy and play this stupid game, good luck on this mission because you have to beat it to get a trophy.
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  11. Apr 10, 2018
    3
    It's an overrated game. The art style is cute but that is all here. But it doesn't help a weak gameplay and story. Basic game design. A mix of underdeveloped/boring action, puzzle and strategy games in one. I am 10 hours in but I see no point to continue.
  12. Apr 11, 2018
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. How does one go from such a fantastic and beloved game like Ni No Kuni to THIS?
    I'll list my positives right off the bat, because there's less of that than negatives. The graphics and music are top notch, done. Now, this game heavily relies on its Facebook-tier mechanic known as Kingdom Building. I was hoping that this **** mode would not get in the way of story progression but BOY OH BOY WAS I WRONG. Right when you get to Chapter 9 they force you to level up your Kingdom to stage 3, sounds simple, right? Except it's extremely tedious. You have to get 50 Villagers in total, now how do you do that? You do side quests, a **** ton of them. They vary from fetch quests to fighting monsters. This was annoying and it took me up to 10-15 hours to get the amount of villagers needed to progress. So I get to the final boss right? A nice plot twist happened right before it, a call back to the original game, I was impressed. But soon after I was put in the battle against the final boss, after all the boss rushes which were manageable despite me being very under-leveled, which is another Issue I will tackle in a moment. I did a total of 14 damage to the final boss, there was a 20 level difference between us. I tried killing him and got his Hp down to about 1/10 after about an hour of fighting, and then he gained another HP Bar and killed off my entire party, I gave up because I thought it wasn't worth it, so I looked up the ending on YouTube and as expected it was predictable, but satisfying; although I don't think it would've been worth the grind. So, back to the level Issue, I was under-leveled ever since Chapter 5, although I didn't mind as much back then because I blamed myself for not doing any side stuff. But after doing the amount of side quests they seemingly expect you to do, I was still under-leveled and look what happened versus the final boss. Therefore, I think the pacing of the game is utter **** I usually enjoy grinding in JRPGs but the enemys give you a ridiculously low amount of EXP, even with the booster turned on. There's another mode called Skirmish, i'm just gonna say it's not as irritating as the kingdom building but still un-fun. Now for the Story, it's alright I guess, definitely a step down from the first game and very predictable. Chapter 1 starts off promising but then it turns into a routine until chapter 7. The cast goes to a kingdom, an Issue occurs, you solve it and then fight the king of said kingdom. Nothing more, nothing less. The best character in the whole game was without a doubt, Roland. Everyone else seemed shallow and un-interesting and were cast to the side after their debut.
    I think my review is very subjective, I think someone that enjoys side content and loves pouring hundreds of hours into a game would enjoy this game thoroughly.
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  13. Nov 13, 2018
    4
    Horrible shallow version of the first game. A big disappointment as a fan of the first.
  14. Aug 26, 2018
    1
    The game looks great but that’s about the only positive, it’s the ultimate fan boy trash, from a dialogue written for 5 year olds to the most typical generic quests. Just your average over hyped open world rpg. With the most boring, unimaginative main characters in gaming history, make this, 2018’s biggest piece of overrated trash.
  15. Mar 27, 2018
    0
    O que mais me deixou triste com essa "continuação" é que não é uma continuação... é um novo jogo em um cenário familiar, com estrutura totalmente diferente da original (infelizmente). O sistema de familiares que era a base do jogo foi extinto, a luta ficou uma mistura de "Hack and slash" e pikimin... deprimente e entediante. Todos os sistemas implementados perderam a graça quando meO que mais me deixou triste com essa "continuação" é que não é uma continuação... é um novo jogo em um cenário familiar, com estrutura totalmente diferente da original (infelizmente). O sistema de familiares que era a base do jogo foi extinto, a luta ficou uma mistura de "Hack and slash" e pikimin... deprimente e entediante. Todos os sistemas implementados perderam a graça quando me deparei com um jogo novo intitulado de "2", simplesmente não consigo dar uma nova chance e continuar a jogar... Fiquei encantado com o primeiro jogo da série e totalmente desencantado com o segundo. Expand
  16. Mar 23, 2018
    0
    Text Text Text Text... then 5-10 seconds of actual Gameplay then again Text Text Text Text... is this a book or a game? put some fkin voice in your stupid game! instant regret for buying this ****
    This could've been amazing if it was just a 10-20 hour story driven cartoon style game without all this **** text that we have to read!
  17. Oct 8, 2018
    0
    I pretty much bought my PS4 to play this game. I can't rate it any higher, as I couldn't play it long enough. I love Joe Hisaishi's music, I love Ghibli but this doesn't feel anything like it. There was terrible voice acting but even so it was better than when they just stop the voices to accompany the text with grunts of one word, the boy king was highly irritating. I play many games atI pretty much bought my PS4 to play this game. I can't rate it any higher, as I couldn't play it long enough. I love Joe Hisaishi's music, I love Ghibli but this doesn't feel anything like it. There was terrible voice acting but even so it was better than when they just stop the voices to accompany the text with grunts of one word, the boy king was highly irritating. I play many games at once and this was so boring compared to others I was playing at the same time that I got rid of it because it gave me nothing to make me chose it over the others. I know this isn't Studio Ghibli but it tries to be and fails. Miyazaki is a legend for a reason, he cannot be replicated. Expand
  18. Mar 25, 2018
    0
    Bad game with poor graphics and slow loadings.

    I do not recommend anyone to buy this game.
  19. Nov 6, 2018
    3
    This game is too easy. Even on hard difficulty you can easily defeat monsters that are higher level than you by randomly pushing buttons.
    Most of the story is being told in subtitles, as there is very little voice acting in the game. Either way, the story and characters are cringy.
    The cel-shaded graphics look great, but the overworld has a different art style and looks pretty bad.
  20. Jan 28, 2019
    4
    Beyond the pretty graphics and legitimately good music lies a shell of a game with uninspiring cliche story, shallow characters and boring gameplay (yes even for jrpg). This would be a perfect game for a 6 year old kids, but pass on it if you like original stories with deep and complex character development - it simply does not exist here.
  21. Jan 9, 2020
    0
    If exist one thing that for me makes a game got grade zero is when have bugs.

    And this game has many, simply inadmissible.
  22. Aug 16, 2022
    2
    I guess this is only for jrpg lovers, just as with nearly all jRPGs.. Looks beautiful as ads with all those anime cutscenes videos, but everything changes once you reveal the actual gameplay - which is very boring and repetitive, with cheap mechanics. Mostly remind some kind of low budget online rpg from 15-18 years ago.
  23. Jul 30, 2020
    0
    Ni No Kuni is overall a very good JRPG. If you liked the first iteration, you'll probably enjoy this one as well. The graphics aren't quite as great, since Studio Ghibli wasn't involved in this one, but they're in the same vein as the first game for the most part. At first, I found the 3D world map models really weird, but after a while you get used to it and kind of enjoy it. TheNi No Kuni is overall a very good JRPG. If you liked the first iteration, you'll probably enjoy this one as well. The graphics aren't quite as great, since Studio Ghibli wasn't involved in this one, but they're in the same vein as the first game for the most part. At first, I found the 3D world map models really weird, but after a while you get used to it and kind of enjoy it. The soundtrack isn't quite as delightful and memorable as the first, but it has its moments.

    Trading out hundreds of collectible familiars, ala Pokemon, with familiars that act as support only works really well for the way this game was developed. One of the things that got really nerve-racking about the first iteration was just how many different familiars there were, and how you ultimately had to collect two of every base familiar if you wanted to pop the proper trophy and do a full completion. The battle mechanics overall are very nice, easy to grasp, and it's nice that in dungeons it's full action-RPG without having to always go into separate battle segments.

    I dig the simplicity of the story. JRPGs in the 90s have long had a horrible track record of getting more and more convoluted, and this series has done pretty well to stay away from that - though it has its moments of adding in bits that don't heighten the story all that much. No major twists, but when they happen they usually sort themselves out pretty quickly. But it's the story of a boy who fell victim to a coup de'tat, and now he has to build a new kingdom up from the ground and seek out new alliances. It doesn't get overlaid with major "ultimate evil" stuff until the end game, and it's otherwise very subtle throughout. It's a breath of fresh air in this genre.

    The kingdom building reminds me slightly of games like Dark Cloud 2, and the wide cast of recruitable citizens, as well as the army skirmishes, were both reminiscent of Suikoden - both of these things made the experience of Ni No Kuni 2 that much more awesome, it was a real throwback and now I want to go back and replay both of those titles.

    So all of that said, here's the bad:

    There's way too much for completionists to do. There are SO MANY fetch quests. If you're wanting to just focus on the main story, and do a few extra fun things, this game is probably about 20-30 hours of playtime. But if you're going full completionists, you're talking 80+ hours, and that's before you consider jumping into DLC. The kingdom building has almost way too much going on and it takes way too long to expand, build-up funds, etc, and a lot of the citizens were hard to find. There were a lot of quests, familiars, and other things that required ultra-rare items that you can only get on the last 10 floors of the last Dreamer Maze, and take way too long to get. The wild goose chases get so tedious sometimes.

    Speaking of which, there's a quest in this game where you have to find "smelly shoes". This was one of the first/few things I sourced the internet to figure out where the hell, because I hadn't found any smelly shoes, and it required hours of grinding to eventually get them. I shouldn't have to spend hours just to complete one quest because the devs didn't think to make an easier workaround and just list them for sale in a single item shop in a single town. There are way too many iterations of things like this in this game.

    There's not a lot of grinding to be had in this game, and honestly, I was always ahead of the curve when I'd enter new dungeons - until you get to the end game. The last Dreamer Maze had me facing enemies at level 90 and higher, and the additional endgame tainted monsters were ridiculously hard. The difficulty really ramps up on those 10 battles, and the only way you're going to beat them is if you finally spend way too much time grinding away for days. The level 150 cap is also not necessary, it's way too high.

    One of the non-completionist gripes I have is the lack of voice acting. They really skimped on this here. A game like this, on a system like PS4 and PC that can hold tons of data, should have almost all voice acting when it plays to the main story. So many situations where important dialogue would be going on via text, and then suddenly it switched to voice acting. Also, there's a certain charm to the writing of the first game that's just not captured in this one. Try as they might, Lofty was no replacement for Drippy, but you might find him in just the same loving company if they had more voice acting.

    Also, the rich, beautiful Studio Ghibli cutscenes being gone is just such a shame. But it is what it is.

    I definitely recommend JRPG fans, especially fans of the first game, to give this a go if they haven't already. But if you're a completionist, godspeed.
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  24. Sep 21, 2020
    4
    Um razoável Hack and slash, um mediocre NI NO KUNI, o jogo tentou inovar a série, seu gameplay é drasticamente diferente do wrath of the white witch, que era baseado em captura de monstros que por sinal foi muito divertido.
    - A história é rasa e fracamente desenvolvida, tem potencial mas não chega a ser imersiva, é branda com uma personagem principal sem graça que é quase secundária...
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    Um razoável Hack and slash, um mediocre NI NO KUNI, o jogo tentou inovar a série, seu gameplay é drasticamente diferente do wrath of the white witch, que era baseado em captura de monstros que por sinal foi muito divertido.
    - A história é rasa e fracamente desenvolvida, tem potencial mas não chega a ser imersiva, é branda com uma personagem principal sem graça que é quase secundária...
    - Mudaram tanto a jogabilidade enquanto a trilha sonora permaneceu, em grande parte do jogo, a mesma de seu antecessor.... Para piorar as adições são em grande sua grande maioria estranhas, para não dizer feia...
    - A dificuldade do jogo me incomodou muito, mesmo com os patchs que inseriram novas dificuldades, o expert até metade do jogo é facil depois fica quase impossível a IA é muito burra também....
    - Graficamente razoável, não chega a ser uma obra prima
    -Os combates no início achei muito bacana, mas ficam extremamente monótonos, os elementos (fogo, ar, vento, luz...) são pobremente desenvolvidos pouquíssimos inimigos tem uma maior resistência ou fraqueza contra determinado elemento... ou seja smash button na maior parte do jogo em lutas curtas ou bastante demoradas no expert
    - Outra coisa que me incomodou muuuito foi que o jogo não tem absolutamente nada a ver com seu antecessor, minto, tem uma cidade e a trilha sonora que foi quase um copia e cola.... De resto não tem nada nada a ver, me deu a impressão que fizeram o jogo depois o encaixaram no universo de NI NO KUNI.
    - O final também é bem ruinzinho, não chega a ser decepcionante porque a história do jogo já não é boa. Até os créditos são inferiores ao wrath of the white witch.
    + construção do reino
    - Pode construir mas é um avanço fixo que só tem um um ponto final e as moedas do reino ficam inúteis bem rápido

    A mecânica do jogo se difere tanto, a história não tem nada a ver com wrath of the white witch então por que chama-lo de 2, podiam ter criado um novo IP para este jogo. Decepcionado com a Bandai
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  25. Apr 15, 2023
    2
    This game is ridiculous the characters are unlikable, and when traveling the character skins turn into crappy boardgame pieces, the game looks like a ps3 game but for some reason my ps4 has a hard time with overheating, and they overpriced this game a ridiculous amount, also who honestly wants to mash the same button dozens of times for each battle its boring and my thumb gets tired beforeThis game is ridiculous the characters are unlikable, and when traveling the character skins turn into crappy boardgame pieces, the game looks like a ps3 game but for some reason my ps4 has a hard time with overheating, and they overpriced this game a ridiculous amount, also who honestly wants to mash the same button dozens of times for each battle its boring and my thumb gets tired before a single normal battle is over, and they seem to think i want to grind a .ot to make progress i kept running into monsters 5 levels higher than me which made all the battles take longer meaning sore thumb. Expand
  26. Oct 24, 2021
    0
    Отсутствует полная русская локализация. Нет озвучки!
  27. Jun 30, 2022
    3
    I have never used so much Google to complete simple quests. It's annoying how you need items in quests that have small chance of appearing and its also unclear where you can acquire such needed things. The storyline is mostly boring with boring characters and the combat is repetitive.
    100% completion is almost impossible to obtain and takes over 70 hours depending on how your luck in
    I have never used so much Google to complete simple quests. It's annoying how you need items in quests that have small chance of appearing and its also unclear where you can acquire such needed things. The storyline is mostly boring with boring characters and the combat is repetitive.
    100% completion is almost impossible to obtain and takes over 70 hours depending on how your luck in getting an item to spawn is. I would never recommend this game to enyone.
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Metascore
84

Generally favorable reviews - based on 84 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 76 out of 84
  2. Negative: 0 out of 84
  1. CD-Action
    Jul 6, 2018
    80
    Part an RPG, part a strategy game, part a city builder, as a whole a fairy tale that makes Studio Ghibli and Dragon Quest spring to mind. [06/2018, p.56]
  2. Jun 6, 2018
    80
    Ni No Kuni II is truly a tale, deliberately naïve and full of colorful characters. The combination of different genres, JRPG, management and RTS, works well, as each style is interwoven with the others.
  3. 80
    It's all fantastic and layered and balanced.