You think you gonna get a wonderful Ghibli-style Ni No Kuni game because you played the 2nd Game before the first? WRONG!

This game is garbage. I mean it’s beautifully made, nice soundtrack and wonderful to look at. A beauty of a childrens game. But it would better ne off to be a movie or TV Series. Gameplay is 100% Garbage. The only way to play this game is play till you can move around the world, then farm Tokos or Tokotokos until you are strong enough to continue. No mechanics in this game - just loveless. Not worthy being a Ni No Kuni! Everyone who played the 2nd title as first game. Do not try this and spare yourself a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ game.

4/10 because it’s a Ghibly Beauty and would be an even better Anime that it is a game.

FUN, love the studio ghibli style of the character great story :)

I'm only giving this a down thumb because of the 2 word cutscenes. The story was meh, the combat was great apart from 1 particular side quest which can go suck an egg... Honestly the game is fine but it either needs to be fully voiced or not at all, the randomness of the voiced CS's took me out of the story when really i should of been invested into it. It felt like they forgot they paid voice actors then went WOOPS and stuck random voiced parts in where they could after everything had been completed. If you enjoy catching pokémon and endless grinding with monsters that have about 1% chance to be caught then this is the game for you.

I've tried playing this game 3 times since it came out on the Ps3 with several years in between to clear my head and try to tackle it with a clean slate, and I still have 0 patience for the abysmal party ai when it comes to boss battles.

Level 5 had better party ai back on the Ps2 with Rogue Galaxy.

I love everything about this game from the characters, story, familiar designs, the ost by the legend Jo Hisaishi, to the actual 400 page glossary with fun and creative art/writing. The world-building is immaculate.

Yet, every boss after getting the first party member is the same loop of watching my healer do melee attacks without her familiar (despite being set to "prioritize healing") until she dies, and strafing to pickup orbs to replenish my mana while I take potshots from across the room for an obscene amount of time.

I fight every familiar I come across, I go back to town after each story section to do all the side quests and bounties, I evolve my familiars and get their levels back up to snuff, and it's still not even close to enough to compensate for how utterly useless your party members are in this game.

Each time I've come back to this thinking that I have to be wrong about this game due to how outstanding every other aspect of this game is, and each time I'm firmly reminded that I was making the right call in bowing out. Level 5 has some of my favorite games period, but this one just isn't up to snuff with everything they put out a console generation earlier.

Flippin heck, mun. Great RPG with creature collecting elements. Neato!