"... Once you enter the “dungeon mode” of WKCII, however, it becomes a boring, repetitive and relentless grind-fest which quickly makes you forget the pleasant things about the game. Unfortunately a lot of modern Japanese RPGs share these unfortunate characteristics, and I’ll admit that there are plenty of gamers out there who like this type of drawn-out, extreme challenge. However, I’m not one of them and I feel the developers could have at least added an easy difficulty setting to make the game more accessible and quicker to “breeze through” than it is in its current state."
Gameplane: "Many games can astonish players with creative gameplay or emotional stories. Others are remarkable due to the fun we had with them, while some are simply beautiful. These are nine JRPGs, which made us fall in love with virtual places."
On November 26th Sony Japan will host a livestream on Nico Nico focusing on White Knight Chronicles II.
The livestream will be hosted by Producer Kentaro Motomura and Promoter Yasuhiro Kitao, and will come with an exceptional guest: Level-5 President Akihiro Hino.
This is turning out to be Sony's very own E3 show for the holidays!
Merry Christmas!
@pedrof93
Most likely, yes. WKC was a PS3 exclusive.
i hope for a localized Yokai Watch for Vita it seems very interesting and 3 milion Japan consumers are not idiots that bought the game instantly
@pedro
WKC2 came out on PS3 as well.
The servers for both games are down now unf. I really wish we see a HD collection of the game. It was one of my most memorable gaming experience from last gen.
I had about 1000 hours into WKC, and 600 hours when they took the servers down in WKC2.
I had these games in a backlog for a while, I was very sad to learn that one of the biggest draws to me (MP/online component) had been cancelled.
Fun games, but you need to be careful of how long they expect to support their titles, it seems....not...long.
Yeah, Im lucky cuz got the platinum of both WKC before that (too many hours lol )
@jspsc123
Im with you bro ! MAG!
I would take a White Knight Collection for the PS4 and a new game from Level 5 in the chute. As long as they keep servers up for awhile. I think they prematurely shut down servers for WKC on PS3. I know everyone is gonna be crying "Dark Cloud", but I'd prefer a new IP... WKC was originally supposed to be a trilogy, so there is no telling.
I understand why they shut off WKC, but I was still playing WKC2 weekly when they shut of fWKC2.
I'm hoping we do see a PS4 HD collection.
These games didn't get high ratings but for some reason I always found the series intriguing? And both games sold well. Maybe they'll make a new game in the series with an updated part 1 and 2
I still have my copy of WKC2. One of the most frustrating games I have ever played. Great though.
White Knight Chronicles was not the best game and got ripped apart by the critics.
Level-5 should make a sequel to the excellent Rogue Galaxy game for PS2. I loved that game!
Wow people disagreed with that statement.
Man I miss rogue galaxy :-(. It was such a amazing games, all those fantastic characters. I loved all my time with it.
It didn't help that it was one of the first high-prifile bullshot games last gen.
And what was weird about it was not only were those pre-release visuals much better than the final game, so was the UI and combat. And then there was all the DLC-whoring--like charging players to edit their avatars.
Digitally Downloaded writes: "There's only a few RPGs left to release on the PS3 now. The majority of development for those scale projects is moving to the PS4... but it is worth noting that quality over quantity and those RPGs left to release on the PS3 include Dark Souls II and Drakengard III.
With that said, I thought we could look back at the PS3 RPGs - both western and Japanese, and which I personally felt were the finest the console could offer. I'm very keen to hear what your thoughts are and which RPGs are your favourite on the console, so be sure to sound out in the comments below!"
I really hate when people put Skyrim on such lists. It might have improved, but what shipped on disc- which is what gamers bought- was crap Bethesda knew they could get away with releasing.
Skyrim gets no vote from me.
Then the author says people who like Valkyria Chronicles didn't play many JRPGs on PS3. Which is an observation I don't believe for a second.
I see Valkyria Chronicles as more strategy than RPG but it really does blur the lines. I think it is in a class of its own and I find it to be a true masterpiece which is a term I don't throw around lightly. (I don't even consider any game in the SOCOM series I love so much to be a masterpiece. The same goes for the Souls games which I believe fall just short.)
I really would love the series to continue onto next gen and perhaps add even more RPG elements into it. I don't have much faith in that happening though since SEGA always sends their games out to die with little to no advertising... then they turn around and kill off good series because of poor sales.
[I'm sorry about all the edits- it is hard to compose my words being this tired.]
Valkeria is my favorite...No No Kuni is a close 2nd. After that it gets muddled. Dragon Age is good. Skyrim is a good open world game but I dont love the world leveling w/ you.
Oh...and Kingdoms of Amalur is very good too.
Fallout 3 should be on there,it's the game that got me into RPG's. Still play it and always will,Awesome.
There are a nice mix of RPG's to chose from on the PS3. Hopefully, Persona 5 will end up being a game that exceeds expectations and is the best of the bunch.
Persona 4 Golden (Vita) is simply amazing.
Shouldn't allow RPG scrubs to write reviews about RPG's...this guy claims its too hard for him, therefore score gets lowered. Waste of a review.
Poor baby found it too hard. The first one wasn't so I don't reckon 2 will be. It isn't Demons Souls.
The reviewer should try playing that.
Is this what game criticism has come too? It's too hard for me so it clearly isn't good. FFS.
This reviewer just seems like a noob. From everything I read Im pretty interested in getting this game. Especially since it includes the first game. Besides the difficulty he complains about it sounds like a traditional jrpg.
If you read the full text, you'll see that Tom's request for an 'easy' setting has to do with decreasing the repetition and grind of White Knight Chronicles II, rather than outright ease of play.
Tom played and devoured Demon's Souls and has finished that game multiple times - he thinks it's a high watermark for games in general and loved every second of its difficulty because of the resultant rewarding gameplay. It sounds as though White Knight Chronicles II includes little to no reward for overcoming challenges.