White Knight Chronicles II Review | Brutal Gamer

Brutal Gamer writes: -

"The original White Knight Chronicles took a while to get outside of Japan, and while it was a good, enjoyable 30 hours or so or RPG, it was formulaic and had a few annoyances. The gap between the sequel coming out in Japan and the rest of the world has been slightly shorter. However, it seems as though developers Level 5 haven't really fixed the majority of the problems with the original game, instead keeping the same engine and gameplay with a few minor tweaks here and there."

[firemassacre]

never got into this game, but alot of people have

[MoDyDo]

yea and a lot of people like it, but then look at the reviews, I'm just confused but most likely I'll buy it

[firemassacre]

if you enjoy it, buy it screw what people say

[ChronoJoe]

Well these reviews really should review it as 1+2 rather than just WKC2. WKC2 doesn't make any sense stand-alone, and you lose much of the experience by not importing your characters.

I very much doubt this particular reviewer even played the first game. Otherwise he would have imported his save rather than being a the default level, 35 when starting the new.

He also says it doesn't address any concerns of the first, when it actually does. It does a great job improving from the first, the gameplay in particular is much faster paced.

Either way I'm having allot of fun with it.

[MoDyDo]

yup you 100% right :)

[DA_SHREDDER]

I bought it day one and was disappointed by the final product. The enemies didn't have really any statistical boundaries when it game to differentiation of character models, weakness to certain magic and attacks. There was no benefit to the class/weapon/ability options just plain sucked. I understand it being a great online game to go out in quest with your friends, and understand the White Knight lore, I just feel the main characters lacked too much and it just needed more guts to be a good rpg. The online stuff is great though, they just need to expand it more on the single player side of things.

[the_kutaragi_baka]

white knight 2 is something of a failure on two levels. It doesn't do anything to address the shortcomings of the first game.

anyway,there are far better JRPGs out there.

[ShoryukenII]

It comes with the first game so I'll probably buy it when it gets cheaper next year. Pushing back to September was a bad idea, that part of the year is just too crowded.

[FamilyGuy]

Why would this game have a second tutorial half way through the storyline?

In WHKs2, when you start you new game+ it starts you at wkcs1 and you run through both wkcs1&2 in their entirety. Wouldn't it be odd if you suddenly, mid-story, had to go through a tutorial mode all over again?

They really should have just left it like it was in the Japanese version where you HAD to play part 1 to play part two. Or thrown in some optional redirect that sent you to the tutorial of WKCs1. OR, made you at least play the first hour of two of WKCs1.

All reviews under 6 are focused on that 1 issue that shouldn't even be an issue with part 1 on the same disc...

[Rage_S90]

Skv007 will be very displeased........

[sdtarm]

he probably saw it coming

[-Alpha]

He's probably too busy playing it

[WildArmed]

Haha, Thanks for caring guys.

I saw it.
I accepted it.
I'll still get it.

Unf. I woulda already gotten it if D3 didn't delay it :(

No worries, I still play WKC every week ^^

[ThanatosDMC]

I hope they added more missions by default because grinding the same missions online is very boring.

[Kamikaze135]

Looks like it's just as bad as the first game. I invested well over 50 hours in it, but it felt like a horribly put together game the entire time. I only played that long because I was in denial of how bad it was since I've been waiting for it for so long.

[Jazz4108]

Hated this game. I'm a huge rpg guy bu this games just never drew I'm in and played quite child like to me.

[Shinro]

Maybe It's because it is a game targeted at a younger audience? :P

[Krysifix]

Part 1 was a terribly made game. Almost all aspects of it are badly executed (character progression, battle system). I dont want to go into detail on the many more things that are wrong with the game because it would be quite a list. But like others said it was surprisingly liked by handfuls of people. So either you love it or hate it. One thing though if anyones a trophy addict. White Knight 1 which comes with part 2 it takes about 1000hrs. Yes 3 zeros. So who knows if they eased up on them.

[PsERSONA]

800 binds trophy. That is all.

[WildArmed]

Only thing in my Opinion that was lacking in WKC was the combat speed.
They fixed that, and I'm happy.

Character progression and combat system was neat!
My other gripe was that everything took AC!
Now, most skills take MP in WKC2!

They pretty much covered both my issues w/ the game.

[InfiniteJustice]

I totally agree. Since it comes with WKC on the same disc it's good value, but the point is this enhanced version has the new, faster battle system. I couldn't believe how slowly characters took their turns after watching some gameplay videos.

It really is a love it or hate it game though, and there are a few aspects of the game that will flat out turn people off.

Nevertheless I just started the second game, and I'm really enjoying it

[ElementX]

Crap game is crap.

[Godmars290]

Crap - or no - story is crap.

As far as I can tell, people like it for it for being a Phansaty Star clone.

Edit:
Poor clone, lame knock off or whatever, the story is as anemic as it is generic.

[Kenshin_BATT0USAI]

Being a fan of this game, and phantasy Star online, I'll tell you this; they are nothing alike.

[Redempteur]

the only thing both game have in common are the style of the missions .. but everything else , ( pacing , battles , community , ect ) is really different

[HelghastKid]

oh, but still day one. The online is amazing. Still, it is disheartening that no one else will be purchasing it because of all the low scores it is receiving.

[Xof]

lol, anyone actually read the review? It's shit. Here are some highlights:

"fter a rather long and dull opening cinematic, you are thrown right into a battle with no tutorial or explanation of how to control your character."

"Once you’re through that, you get your party of four, all starting at level 35, and having a massive pool of ability points to use in order to set up your skills list, picking from a selection of 8 different abilitiy sets, consisting of different weapons and magic types. Again, this is pretty daunting to the newcomer, and really should have been built up to, as there’s a huge number of skills to choose from."

It's basically just this guy whining about not understanding the game's storyline or gameplay because he didn't bother playing the first game, included on the disc. "Wah, they never told me I had to use the analog sticks to move! Boo! hiss!"

[rdgneoz3]

Yah, no kidding. He obviously never played the first game originally, nor did he feel like playing it when it has been remastered and included with the 2nd game. The first game gives you all the tutorials and teaches you how to do everything. Why would you want to sit through hours of tutorials in the 2nd game after having gone through them in the original?

And the massive pool of ability points? You could level to 35 in the original game, so why would you want to start off at lvl 1 at the beginning of the 2nd game?

Also, I love how they talk about online mode for like 2 or 3 sentences, which is a large part of the game. Hell, the first game had a ton of trophies you could only complete in online play that would take hundreds of hours to complete. And they never even commented on Geonet / Georama.

[WildArmed]

If anyone bothered playing WKC1 that COMES on the disc, they'd know how to play the damn game.

I swear people are soo un-dedicated to their work these days.

They shoulda just made WKC1 mandatory for these nuts.

[Drab]

NoOooOoo! First two worlds II now WKC II, anyone other rpgs coming this year with co-op or online mode? Don't think Skyrim will.

[PsERSONA]

There's Dark souls which supports co-op and PvP except it isn't your typical RPG I think you're looking for. Disgaea 4 is coming out late this year with Co-op and PvP (Invasions)if you're into strategy RPGs.

Also if you have a Wii and live in Europe, you'll find Xenoblade Chronicles (now named Monado: Beginning of the world) will be arriving in August.

If you're interested in WKC2 I'd suggest trying it out, it is much more enjoyable than the first game I'd say. I've clocked almost 130 hours in it now.

[Drab]

Yea I liked the first one, just was hard getting into groups after awhile...add "Drabent" btw bro and thks^^

[Redempteur]

WKC has a huge online .

there is really lot of quests and things to explore / get build.

the real problem is that these reviewers just don't gave online a chance .. ( and they suck at reviewing )

[maniacmayhem]

Wow, rpg's have been taking a beating on these new systems.
I should say eastern rpg's that is.

The only good ones ive played from the rising sun is Vesperia and Lost Odyssey.

[Kenshin_BATT0USAI]

Try Star Ocean 4, the game is amazing.

[maniacmayhem]

You know...i really did try star ocean and i wanted to like it but i couldnt get past that little girls annoying voice. She said the same thing over and over again after a fight.

I wish there was a language option for the game.

I know i know, that shouldnt stop me from playing the game. Perhaps ill go back to it.

[HelghastKid]

@maniac
I believe that if you buy the ps3 version, it comes with the original voices.

[Kenshin_BATT0USAI]

That's fair enough. I can understand your dislike.

and yes the ps3 ver. has voice and art options.

[TheDivine]

Resonance of Fate was pretty dope, great battle system. I like magna carta 2 also, kinda generic story but it had one of the best battle systems and art. WKC did suck imo. I had high hopes for 2, might try it out for 15 bucks eventually.

[maniacmayhem]

Damn, i really need to think more .... Yes Valkyria Chronicles was excellent as for Resonance of Fate i did love the battle system it was fresh and a good change from all the swords and wizardry. But that story was confusing and boring as hell. I mean it wasn't until the last two chapters that the heroes truly got involved with whatever the hell was taking place.

[Inception]

@maniacmayhem
You miss a lot of great game. Try Valkyria Chronicles and The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky.

[DarkSpawnClone]

i might pick this up i really enjoyed the first it was fun but then again i might just forget about this and stick with dark souls and skyrim even tho imo the first WKC was really underrated imo jrpg's arent as fun as they use to be but demon souls was really fun i spent literally allday yesterday playing and even got to NG+ in 1 day lmao.

[user1337]

Review is pretty bad in general. Heck the very first bit tells me he didn't play WKC1......which kinda is the whole point of then going on to play the sequel. All the tutorials are there (and quite well done this time) when you actually start from the beginning.

[WildArmed]

I've played WKC1 intensively.
And I still plan on playing WKC1 b4 jumping into WKC2.
I don't get how people expect to get the game w/o playing the part 1 which is on the disc....