The Ni No Kuni series is easily one of my favorites in the history of gaming. Both Wrath of the White Witch and Revenant Kingdom are some of the most beautiful games the world has to offer with stunning visuals, exciting gameplay, and engaging narratives that tackle loss in extremely respectful ways. Ni No Kuni II is one of my favorite video games of all time and I will never forget my memories of traveling through Ding Dong Dell, opening chests in the overworld, fighting ginormous bosses, all to end a play session with a bit of castle management simulation. To say that Cross Worlds' spits in the face of me and everyone else who has fallen in love with this series is the understatement of the century.
I don't like taking my time writing out serious analysis where I go in depth on anything because most high effort reviews are cookie cutter (Yeah, I know, giving people who can barely write their own name the ability to write 'reviews' will either lead to awful in depth case studies or the lowest effort shitposts, go figure), so I'm just gonna skip the fluff and just talk about why this game is so insulting to me and the few friends who I've made through the magnificent Ni No Kuni series.
I don't think I have to state that microtransactions ruin a lot of good games, yeah? It's one of the few things all gamers can agree upon and this game is no different because of that. I understand mobile games need a way to thrive, but microtransactions aren't necessary to make an amazing free to play game. Just look at Overwatch 2 and Fortnite. Yeah, they exist, but they aren't essential to the experience. It just turns Cross Worlds into a slog. That alone wouldn't get the game a 0.5 rating, but then you have to throw in NFTs to a series like Ni No Kuni.
The Ni No Kuni games are animated by Studio Ghibli, so to add something as crude in comparison is genuinely infuriating. I've never seen good NFT are and I never will. There's cases to be made about good AI art (Look at Everything Everything's Raw Data Feel if you need an example on how to properly utilize AI art), but when I envision NFT art, I envision people who can afford sports cars but still pick their nose bragging in Discord servers about their monkey avatar they paid $1.3 million dollars for and them completely glossing over the fact that in order to make that avatar, more pollution was put into our atmosphere than a week of rush hour exhaust in Los Angeles. NFTs are fucking lame and everyone who purchases one is a retard who likes Rick and Morty and smells like cheese.
I have no idea how to end this as I'm writing this on the cuff, so I'll just end this by saying that do not play this game. I do recommend you check out Wrath of the White Witch and Revenant Kingdom, though. WotWW is a Pokémon esque real time JPRG and Revenant Kingdom is an action JRPG with life sim elements. Both have amazing visual, great music, and heartfelt stories.
Rating: Z
Genre(s): JRPG, mobile game
I don't like taking my time writing out serious analysis where I go in depth on anything because most high effort reviews are cookie cutter (Yeah, I know, giving people who can barely write their own name the ability to write 'reviews' will either lead to awful in depth case studies or the lowest effort shitposts, go figure), so I'm just gonna skip the fluff and just talk about why this game is so insulting to me and the few friends who I've made through the magnificent Ni No Kuni series.
I don't think I have to state that microtransactions ruin a lot of good games, yeah? It's one of the few things all gamers can agree upon and this game is no different because of that. I understand mobile games need a way to thrive, but microtransactions aren't necessary to make an amazing free to play game. Just look at Overwatch 2 and Fortnite. Yeah, they exist, but they aren't essential to the experience. It just turns Cross Worlds into a slog. That alone wouldn't get the game a 0.5 rating, but then you have to throw in NFTs to a series like Ni No Kuni.
The Ni No Kuni games are animated by Studio Ghibli, so to add something as crude in comparison is genuinely infuriating. I've never seen good NFT are and I never will. There's cases to be made about good AI art (Look at Everything Everything's Raw Data Feel if you need an example on how to properly utilize AI art), but when I envision NFT art, I envision people who can afford sports cars but still pick their nose bragging in Discord servers about their monkey avatar they paid $1.3 million dollars for and them completely glossing over the fact that in order to make that avatar, more pollution was put into our atmosphere than a week of rush hour exhaust in Los Angeles. NFTs are fucking lame and everyone who purchases one is a retard who likes Rick and Morty and smells like cheese.
I have no idea how to end this as I'm writing this on the cuff, so I'll just end this by saying that do not play this game. I do recommend you check out Wrath of the White Witch and Revenant Kingdom, though. WotWW is a Pokémon esque real time JPRG and Revenant Kingdom is an action JRPG with life sim elements. Both have amazing visual, great music, and heartfelt stories.
Rating: Z
Genre(s): JRPG, mobile game
TevhoBend
10 months ago