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outlawauron on 28 January 2013
SxyxS said:
haven't played ni no kuni so far,but blue dragon is imo a strong competitor.

the graphics are 2 levels below ninokuni but story and gameplay are great.

You and bonkers are very alone in that opinion. Gameplay is good, but the story and characters can't possible be considered good. Surely, no one thinks this.



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Kemsus on 28 January 2013
outlawauron said:
SxyxS said:
haven't played ni no kuni so far,but blue dragon is imo a strong competitor.

the graphics are 2 levels below ninokuni but story and gameplay are great.

You and bonkers are very alone in that opinion. Gameplay is good, but the story and characters can't possible be considered good. Surely, no one thinks this.


I liked Blue Dragon, and though the characters were not the the most fleshed out or developed characters in an RPG ever, i found them very likable, the story was decent in my opinion.



RenderMonk on 28 January 2013
Euphoria14 said:
RenderMonk said:
I have to agree that it is certainly the best JRPG the PlayStation has seen this generation. I didn't get the chance to play many JRPG's on the xbox or wii. But on the PS, this is the crowning jewel for JRPG fans! While it has ALMOST everything I look for in these type of games, one of the biggest things that would/could rank it higher in my book, is a more adult theme/situations. Sure this game has charm, and I love that about this game, but for my personal tastes, I like a bit of charm that's found in a more mature theme (as I'm a 30 year old father of 3 girls...I get almost all the "cute" I can handle and then some) Other than the them and game being a bit "youngish" for my tastes, it's easily digestible, when you have all this fantastic JRPG goodness to wallow in as you go.

Not sure how quickly some people progress through these types of games, but I've always been one to really take my time. Explore every nook and cranny, double back if necessary to ensure nothing was missed, or to make sure I'm as prepared as I can be for the battles to come. So I just now reach the ship that you get to sail the open seas on, and I've logged 17 hours. For me that wasn't rushed, or going unusually slow, just taking it all in, in a manner befitting a solid JRPG journey. How does that logged time, stack up with you guys? Have you beaten the game in 17 hours? Or just scratched the surface? Curious.

Im about 17-20 hours so far and I just finished up Old Smokey.


I believe your coming up on the ship part next. And actually I'm at 19 hours, 17 hours was from an old save file. Enjoying the game then I take it :) Gonna send you a friend request over PSN. It's always nice to have more RPG buddies on my list. I have so few as the RPG fans seem to be a dying breed.



Ghutto on 28 January 2013

Because the graphics? Sorry, but that doesn't help the boring battle system of this game.



Wagram on 28 January 2013

One thing I definitely do give Ni No Kuni a hand for is not holding your damn hand on bosses. It's not extremely hard, but it's not "mash X, and sleep for 10 minutes" easy either. However like I said based on the 30 hours i've experienced so far. I'm not seeing the magic, and it makes me wonder how many JRPGs people have actually played this gen.



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brendude13 on 28 January 2013

I still need to play this and Xenoblade, lots of JRPG goodness ahead!



Euphoria14 on 28 January 2013
RenderMonk said:
Euphoria14 said:
RenderMonk said:
I have to agree that it is certainly the best JRPG the PlayStation has seen this generation. I didn't get the chance to play many JRPG's on the xbox or wii. But on the PS, this is the crowning jewel for JRPG fans! While it has ALMOST everything I look for in these type of games, one of the biggest things that would/could rank it higher in my book, is a more adult theme/situations. Sure this game has charm, and I love that about this game, but for my personal tastes, I like a bit of charm that's found in a more mature theme (as I'm a 30 year old father of 3 girls...I get almost all the "cute" I can handle and then some) Other than the them and game being a bit "youngish" for my tastes, it's easily digestible, when you have all this fantastic JRPG goodness to wallow in as you go.

Not sure how quickly some people progress through these types of games, but I've always been one to really take my time. Explore every nook and cranny, double back if necessary to ensure nothing was missed, or to make sure I'm as prepared as I can be for the battles to come. So I just now reach the ship that you get to sail the open seas on, and I've logged 17 hours. For me that wasn't rushed, or going unusually slow, just taking it all in, in a manner befitting a solid JRPG journey. How does that logged time, stack up with you guys? Have you beaten the game in 17 hours? Or just scratched the surface? Curious.

Im about 17-20 hours so far and I just finished up Old Smokey.


I believe your coming up on the ship part next. And actually I'm at 19 hours, 17 hours was from an old save file. Enjoying the game then I take it :) Gonna send you a friend request over PSN. It's always nice to have more RPG buddies on my list. I have so few as the RPG fans seem to be a dying breed.

I am loving it, plus my daughter likes to watch me play, so I am taking it very slow.

Hard to get far though because I need to keep starting a new game so she can play the beginning over and over again, lol. She is 3-1/2, but she understands that portion of it because it isn't difficult.



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arcane_chaos on 28 January 2013

wad anyone else stumped on that last statue puzzle for the wizard trial? I sat their for like 30-40 min...I'm slow a processing information :(



cloud1161 on 28 January 2013

It only took...a whole generation.



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Conegamer on 28 January 2013

It's good, but it doesn't beat Xenoblade.



 

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