| reggin_bolas said: I never claimed to be good, perhaps I'm bad I don't know. I used to be put in many hours on the 360 getting 1000's on games. I don't have time for that anymore so any serious investment in time is not something I appreciate nowadays. I want to be able to breeze through a game because I have a backlog. That's what the easy setting is for, is it not? Why bother having it otherwise? It's for people who want to enjoy the story. I wanted to enjoy the story but I couldn't because I was forced to grind. What I am really criticizing are two design choices: 1. Easy should be easy, it shouldn't force you to grind or even die that early in a game. Games that escalate in difficulty are the best designed games. No game should start out by being ball-breaking hard. Game design should focus on easing the playing into the world by raising the difficulty as the game goes along. 2. Resource system. This should NEVER have been tied to main progression. Never. Period. This is inexcusably bad. design. The fact that you need mana to proceed and the fact that you can run out of mana without an easy way to replenish it is just downright wrong. So, all and all, Ni Nu Kuni is a terribly unbalanced game with some downright broken mechanics. |
Do you expect anyone to take you seriously when you call a game bad without having spent a single hour playing it? Also, as pretty much everyone said on this thread (and mentioned in every nino kuni related thread), the game is extremely easy. Most people who played it never died at all. I played for 140 hours (you can beat it in less than 40 without grinding) and died only a few times (about 5 not counting the coliseum fights).
I'm not saying, playing it again. What I am saying is that you have no real argument here. I respect people's opinions even when they say they hated it, because they played it. You can't just call a game unbalanced or broken just cause it doesn't fit your needs. If it was any easier, it would have been bashed by critics. The general consensus of people who played it is that the game is VERY VERY easy.
