Ni no Kuni II is a more satisfying JRPG sequel

There were so many reasons why things were so much more inviting this time around. The Ni no Kuni II story, which is super anime by the way, pulls people in by kicking things off with a nuclear bomb going off over America Land USA and the gun-toting President Roland being caught up in the aftershock. He wakes up (much younger) in a fanciful other world just as a half-human, half-cat boy king is being usurped. He takes the lad under his wing and acts as an advisor as King Evan find a new kingdom, acquires citizens and even saves the world.

[Mr_Commander]

Great game.

[mikeslemonade]

Both are meh. RPGs aren’t ready to be action rpgs.

[pietro1212]

Wrong on so many levels. I can't speak for part 2, but the first Ni No Kuni was great. Also there are a lot of great action RPGs out in the market.

[KillZallthebeast]

It's mike he doesn't mean it he's just poor

[mikeslemonade]

The way describe the battle system for a tales game or ni no game is it’s a noisy cluster fuck. It’s just random spells and explosions.

[pietro1212]

@mikeslemonade
The way who describes these battle systems?
Btw there are so many rpgs that use real time battle systems (both jrpgs and wrpgs) not just the Tales games and Ni No Kuni 2.
Have you played any of the games you mentioned? They're quite simple to play like most action rpgs. I tried the Ni No Kuni 2 demo it's not hard to grasp or comprehend. Sounds like you just suck at playing those said games.

[mikeslemonade]

That’s the problem they’re too easy. So much that they had to patch hard mode in, months later. You commoners are so easily pleased.

[-Foxtrot]

I thought the game was good but had nothing on the first game...it was missing something

[InKnight7s]

Agree it would be far better if this game was released as new IP it would make sense and far better than a 100 years sequel. I mean this is the same mistake of Dark Cloud 2 which is so weird.

[-Foxtrot]

Probably would have been the best, the familiar capture system was great in the first game and could have been expanded on here.

My issue with the 100 year thing is I understood what they were trying to do, kind of like a "Final Fantasy" scenario where each game is brand new but this time keeping it within the same world

I mean I didn't understand how in 100 years the continents changed so much, they said something about a world event happening but never go into it. If you are going to change the map that much then please, by all means, go into it.

Not to mention they hardly referenced Oliver and friends, you had the temple trials where the puzzles told the story of Oliver but that was it. He saved the entire world twice over actually you'd think his legacy would have been greater.

I think one of the issues was their wasn't much voice acting this time, you had the odd sound effect of the character as you read a text box while in the first game everything almost was fully voiced.

I would have rather had Oliver grown up in the sequel with Mr Drippy making a return

[MoshA]

Haha Bandai Namco and new ip don't go together. Remember that they only published Dark Souls because it was a sequel to Sony's Demon's Souls. Ni No Kuni was just a remake of some DS game. Greediest company.

[goldwyncq]

@ Foxtrot

It doesn't take place a hundred years after the first -- at least more than 2000 years have passed since the events of the first game, which can be inferred from the backstory of the main villain, who's from the same kingdom as the White Witch in the first game.

The event that changed the landscape of the world is also tied with the final boss, though it wasn't stated directly. The story is actually brilliant from a writing standpoint -- a lot of details are subtle and hidden but once discovered, they make the narrative much richer and interesting.

I agree with the lack of voice acting though. That's one of the areas where the game could have done much better.

[-Foxtrot]

@goldwyncq

Some say 100 in the game others say "a dew hundred years have passed" I've never really saw it saying 1000 or 2000

Even still in that length of time and what the horned one did how does the map go from this

https://vignette.wikia.noco...

to this

https://assets.rpgsite.net/...

They were better off creating a new region and saying the place from the first game is one small place in an even bigger world. Fair enough continents moving but even Kingdoms like Ding Dong Dell seemed to have moved which doesn't make sense since the great sewage system underground is in the exact same place as the first game.

"which can be inferred from the backstory of the main villain, who's from the same kingdom as the White Witch in the first game"

Doloran wasn't from the Kingdom of Nazcaä like the White Witch his Kingdom was called Allegoria

[goldwyncq]

@ Foxtrot

Doloran was stated to be alive around 2000 years ago when Allegoria was destroyed. Allegoria was also located in the continent of Nazcaä, which the game shows in the world map during the final chapter. Since Nazcaä was sunk below the ocean when the Horned One started its rampage 2000 years ago, then we could infer that at least that amount of time has passed for the world map to have changed so drastically.

As for Ding Dong Dell's location, if you examine the first game map closely, you can see that that it's nestled near a mountain range, which is the case in the second game as well. It's more likely that the continent had rotated 90 degrees, seemingly putting the kingdom at a different position from where it was before.

[Kados]

Thought i was the only one who prefered the first. II was a great game in its own way, but i missed the Familiar system (sans the broken capture mechanics). Higs just weren't the same imo. Hopefully if they make a 3rd game, they will bring back familiars, with an improved capture mechanic, and still keep the player combat from II.

[-Foxtrot]

I would like to see the familiar system return since it could easily be expanded upon but if they do that I hope they bring Oliver back grown up.

*Spoilers*

Only issue with that is with the sequel being 100 years later it means Oliver is dead and buried, unless they ignore this game and say it's an alternative world (a parallel world of the fantasy world if that makes sense) which would happen since we had this

http://ninokuni.wikia.com/w...

The Nintendo DS version featured an alternative version of Oliver where Alicia didn't travel to his world and that version became a lost soul. So they could bring in other worlds and the like, I mean it even features an alternative version of Motorville

However they could also say because Oliver wasn't an everyday normal boy and was in fact one of the many reincarnations of Shadar that the Great Sage Alicia absorbed when the soul appeared, then got pregnant by, that he dosen't age like a normal human being. It's a JRPG they could bring in any excuse to be honest and it would work.

[Relientk77]

Familars, that's what it was missing, also the monster raising aspects, the undeniable charm, great characters, and great story that the first game had.

[pietro1212]

MoshA
Namco Bandai is a publisher of course they would go after a developer who established a popular I.P i.e From Software. As for the first Ni No Kuni what is your point? The remake was a huge improvement of the original in every way especially considering Studio Ghibli's involvement

[PhoenixUp]

I enjoyed the combat of this title

[Relientk77]

The first game was absolutely fantastic. Ni no Kuni 2 was just good, enjoyed it, but nowhere near as much as the first game. Definitely missed the familars in the sequel, and monster raising aspects.

[Sm00thNinja]

Definitely was a massive disappointment for me due to difficulty and no capture mechanic. The story was also weak though I did like the kingdom building and war mechanic. Was DEFINITELY A weaker sequel than the original still all those being negatives it was a solid game and the difficulty has apparently been patched. I got to the final battle and stopped so maybe I should pick it back up

[goldwyncq]

I was beginning to think that i was the only one who found it much better than the first game.

[Lynx0207]

It is ok, but it lacks of that special Ghibli magic that NNK1 had. The story could be so much better. One of the games I stopped playing and probably will never finish it. From this year games Forgotton Anne gave me much more ghibli-esque tune.

[Segata]

The game sucked. A massive step down. It's more of a straight to home video sequel of a blockbuster film. Losing Studio Ghibli hurt this game. No animated vids. Visuals took a massive step back esp in the overworld. The story is lame. VA is lame. Characters are lame. They improved the combat but that was it.

[lio_convoy]

I tried it for two days and then traded it back in for a full refund. I just didn't like the story and the fighting was super crazy easy. Way too easy of a game. It looked good, but that was all it had going for it imo.

[FallenAngel1984]

It’s interesting to see how the gameplay went from purely turned based in Ni no Kuni: Dominion of the Dark Djinn then to a sort of hybrid in its remake Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch and finally settle on pure action based in its sequel Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom

[Xaevi]

Have yet to play it, but I'm a tad disappointed they didn't think to make Pokemon like spin-off with all and even more familiars from the first game. First game even had a familiar tournament.

[AK91]

I loved the game much more than the first but it drags on WAY too long, the last 1/4 especially was a tiring.

[kevnb]

It was good but way too easy.

[spartan112g]

Ni No Kuni 1 was better.

[That_Guy244]

I absolutely loved the first game easly becam one of my favourite games ever. The second game just didnt do it for me couldnt even finish it found the story boring what I played of it about 25hours and the combat was meh felt typical jrpg really missed the familiar system from the first should have built apon it and expanded it.

[Teflon02]

2 was better than 1 for me. The only problem with 2 for me was how easy it was at first. Now that I got Expert difficulty, the game is incredible fantastic and honestly despite an amazing year for games is probably my favourite game this year. I'll say though, the world in 2 really didn't feel big compared to 1 because the way they made map travel feel like it was suppose to be on the level of normal sized travel. Only thing I hated was that early game as you were small 80% until like the second half. But despite the story feeling more "complete" in the first game, I enjoyed the seconds story more. The first felt like a Ghibli Film for sure. The second felt like a Ghibli take on something like Lion King. Also I don't know, but it essentially being a story about a prince becoming a king and trying to demolish racism in the world to be done the way it was in this was so great when you got to chapters 6 and up. I thought the game was going to end 1 chapter before it did was amazed it still had more story lol

[Discobastrd]

Bollocks

[Imalwaysright]

The 1st one was better. A true gem and extremely underrated. The second one doesn't even come close.