Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom Backlog Review – Good, But Just Barely, Just Barely

NOTE: Reviewed and captured on Steam Deck.

Jason says, "This is yet another example of “two steps forward, two steps back”. I know that’s not the actual saying, but it’s what’s happening here: they did, indeed, expand from the first game in a number of areas, and then slipped up in overcorrecting from it. Where you have more gameplay variety, you have little in the way of challenge. Where you have more to do, you have less reason to do it. Where you have more story to listen to, you have story holes where it counts. Where you have a good-looking game, you have budget animations for most dialogues. And this all summarizes everything in quite a neat way: this is still a good game just like its predecessor, but it really just does more and does less at the same time. This causes it to simply be “good”, but just barely. Just barely."