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To say the seventh console generation was a bit short on great home console JRPGs would be putting it lightly. While there were the occasional gem to be found (Resonance of Fate, Lost Odyssey), with Final Fantasy going through a bit of a slump, and several other prominent series either going mostly handheld, available only on a system I just didn't have, or in some cases even skipping the whole generation, for a long while it was hard to find more than a couple decent titles a year, if that. It was likely because of this that Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch felt like such a breath of fresh air at the time. An old-school JRPG with a good story and characters, great music, and a gorgeous visual style was something I didn't even realize how much I had wanted until it finally came out in 2013 in the west.
Wrath of the White Witch is also a game that I haven't actually played in almost a decade now, and I really need to go back and replay it at some point, if for nothing else, then just to see how well it holds up today. I remember absolutely loving it at the time, but part of that may have been simply because there weren't all that many games in its genre around on the PS3 at the time. Regardless, it is an excellent game, that much I'm certain of, but distance has a tendency to elevate the great points and hide the weaknesses, so who knows if it make my list after a replay. We'll just have to see when I do have the time to go back to it some day.
