5.1.  
 
5 point freaking 1. 
 
I thought this game looked interesting at least, but after seeing Gamespot's 6 and IGN's 5.1, is this even worth it? What the hell did they spend over a year doing to this game... It makes me wonder what type of score the original Japanese version would have got if they reviewed that instead..  
 
If anyone here has the imported game, can you tell me the redeeming factors? I was going to get this, but after so many bad reviews... I dunno. 
 
I mean, I never usually listen to reviews, but when a game gets a 5.1 these days there must be some major problems with it. (Everytime I say 5.1 I think of surround sound)

If you want a JRPG, get Tales of Vesperia, (English version on 360, Jpn on PS3). Good voice acting, awesome characters, and real time combat (in a JRPG, i know eh!). White Night Chronicles is your typical JRPG, but it's easy and the dub voice acting sucks. It's average, not great even among JRPGS. But it LOOKS fking awesome.

damn if ign gives it a low score...then...uh oh...

Oh crap, this was going to be the game that spurred me into buying a PS3.  Looks like I can just hang out for the next price cut and get FFXIII.  I am really disappointed to hear that. 
 
It did get as high as an 80 (Gamezone) but they don't exactly glow with compliments.  With an average of 61 so far, it is looking like I will still buy it, but only at a real budget price.

Ouch. That's in the do-not-buy range for me.

Ouch!  This is not a reaction that I anticipated.  It's disappointing, too.

I bought the game today and I have played it for about 3 hours. i just beat the PROLOGUE part of the game. My verdict so far is the game is very solid JRPG. The visual is breathtaking on my TV (i know this sounds stupid, but the grass areas in the early part of the game reminds me of Uncharted 1). The battle in the beginning kinda sucks because you can only slash people. However, as soon as you are able to create your own combos and spend some skills...the game became much more compelling. 
 
I highly recommend this game to anybody. Unlike the reviewers from GS and IGN, I don't have to rush playing this game, therefore I play the game on my own pace. And I love the game. Trust me, this game is good!

Well, Reviewer's also dug quite a bit into Last Remnant, which....isn't altogether a very good game, it's still alright, and if you play it at your own pace (and maybe have it installed on your 360 or play it on PC so you don't suffer all that loading and texture pop-in), it's an alright game (but don't pay anything over 25$ for it :P ).
  
Look at it this way i guess, Shenmue got like 7.7 on GS didn't it? And yet alot of people still like that game (for their own reasons i'm sure), so don't exactly lose hope yet, just know that all your friends won't exactly be begging to go get a copy of WKC.

Doesn't Ryan Clements hate JRPG's specifically though? Can't remember, it's been awhile since I've listened to Beyond or any of IGN's podcasts. 
 
Wait, nevermind, he's the guy who loves them.

" Well, Reviewer's also dug quite a bit into Last Remnant, which....isn't altogether a very good game, it's still alright, and if you play it at your own pace (and maybe have it installed on your 360 or play it on PC so you don't suffer all that loading and texture pop-in), it's an alright game (but don't pay anything over 25$ for it :P ).    Look at it this way i guess, Shenmue got like 7.7 on GS didn't it? And yet alot of people still like that game (for their own reasons i'm sure), so don't exactly lose hope yet, just know that all your friends won't exactly be begging to go get a copy of WKC. "

This is a shame, I thought the multiplayer aspects of the game seemed very enjoyable.  I'm rather puzzled why they attempted a big single player story at all, seems it would have faired better as more of a Monster Hunter/Phantasy Star Online style of game where the multiplayer and random quests are the main focus, with only a very brief story to tie it together.
 
The story elements here do seem rather embarassingly poor and the fact it's another case of the developers being cocky and so sure their game will be a sucess as to turn it into a trilogy right off the bat really puts me off..  Not even Bioware with Dragon Age and Mass Effect ended those first parts with "to be continued", instead they finished everything off nicely, with room to expand in future games.
 
Still, might buy this when it's cheaper to play through with some friends, depending on what I hear of the multiplayer.

I'm not surprised. I got the game yesterday and sunk over 2 hours into it last night and am pretty disappointed with it. The biggest thing going against White Knight is it's been done before and done better. At least from what I've seen so far and that is the vibe I instantly got playing it.

*Shrug I guess?  I've enjoyed my time with it so far and "he who enjoys, wins" is a pretty golden rule.

 "White Knight Chronicles is, in the end, a surprisingly mediocre game from one of the world's greatest RPG developers."

Even on the 7-10 scale?

"Look at it this way i guess, Shenmue got like 7.7 on GS didn't it?"

Wait, people criticize IGN for using the "7-10" scale, but also get mad when they use the entire scale? 5 is average. The equivalent of what people "think" a 7 is. 

Not sure how anyone who played the mindnumbingly tedious Rogue Galaxy could be surprised by this.

" Although I should say that I don't care about White Knight (and honestly think it looks terrible) the reviewer's complaints about the core gameplay can also be applied verbatim to FFXII. So take that as you will. "

if you actually read the entire review you will see a bad review and why game critics should just stop reviewing JRPG, WKC is a very typical and clichéd JRPG the battle system is entirely turn based with the difference you just  can move you character around the battle thats all, i mean it's so turn based that enemies even far away just will hit you with a melee attack, the graphics are beautiful, the story is not very good told , and the online quest system are just mini quest where you and other 3 partners can go and slash some monster and a boss, no plot there, the enemy design i think it's lacking on variety, so yeah the game have it's flaws but also it's a very solid a entertaining JRPG, sorry but i'm just mad  at the entire review that the ign guy wrote is very poor even my little cousin can do something better to describe a regular game.
 
game reviewers want for a JRPG to have  a WRPG transform to gave it all the good scores, not even FF13 have been transformed into a WRPG,  is just a classic JRPG, so plz stop reviewing JRPG if you want  to find a  WRPG.
 
 
 
ps:don't get me wrong i LOVE WRPG's a lot too.

" Wait, people criticize IGN for using the "7-10" scale, but also get mad when they use the entire scale? 5 is average. The equivalent of what people "think" a 7 is.  "

Anyone who's played Enchanted Arms can attest to reviewers grasp of JRPG's.
 
I have only sunk a couple hours into WKC so far, but it's a quality Level5 product as far as I can tell.
 
So far I wouldn't agree with the "easy" assessment either, but maybe I have just run into to many giant wasp nests blindly :)

What did the review say?

Also - what the hell is a 5.1? I can understand a straight up 5, but what the hell is the .1 supposed to signify. Do they just pull that out of their ass?
 
This game isn't really my "cup of tea" so there's nothing for me to be disappointed about to be honest.

I don't really understand how anyone looked at this game and thought it would be good...
 
I mean no offense to people who play alot of JRPGs but this just looked like shovelware JRPG since it was announced.

" Also - what the hell is a 5.1? I can understand a straight up 5, but what the hell is the .1 supposed to signify. Do they just pull that out of their ass?  This game isn't really my "cup of tea" so there's nothing for me to be disappointed about to be honest. "

" I bought the game today and I have played it for about 3 hours. i just beat the PROLOGUE part of the game. My verdict so far is the game is very solid JRPG. The visual is breathtaking on my TV (i know this sounds stupid, but the grass areas in the early part of the game reminds me of Uncharted 1). The battle in the beginning kinda sucks because you can only slash people. However, as soon as you are able to create your own combos and spend some skills...the game became much more compelling.   I highly recommend this game to anybody. Unlike the reviewers from GS and IGN, I don't have to rush playing this game, therefore I play the game on my own pace. And I love the game. Trust me, this game is good! "

I remember listening to the IGN PS3 podcast a year and a half ago, and they were jerking off to this game every other episode, even though nobody knew anything about it.

Oh dear.  If IGN gives a score lower than seven, your game is fucked.

" Not sure how anyone who played the mindnumbingly tedious Rogue Galaxy could be surprised by this. "