Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch

carsend's Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (PlayStation 3) review

One of the best JRPGs in a long time

Great game, a nice fresh breathe of air in the glum looking JRPG world these days. Honestly the best JRPG of last generation bar none.

• The story has somewhat of a typical JRPG structure to it (young boy needs to save the world with some super weapon!) but also has some really dark and very real to life themes to it in the background that I rather not spoil.
• Characters and voice acting is great for the most part. Drippy will make up for any bad characters or voice acting though!
• Gameplay is Pokemon style of capturing familiars. It isn't as in depth as Pokemon is, in fact the combat is pretty easy once you get the hang of it. Never the less, its still fun. If you're looking for an in depth gameplay like Souls or what not, this is not it.
• The world is AMAZING. Brad even said in the Quicklook that it was definitely in the running for best visuals in 2013. I think it had the best visuals personally, but being released in January it was overlooked.
• Flaws are that the world does gets smaller as you go along, Ding Dong Dell seems so big at first. Never the less it still manages to stay unique. Errands become a little repetitive after a while, you do have some unique ones but other than that a lot are mostly the same thing.
• The game took me about 50 or so hours to beat the main story, 110 hours to platinum.

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