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Ni no Kuni PS3 trailer
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-Pyromaniac-
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The player assumes the role of a 13 year-old boy named Oliver, a resident of Hotroit City, whose mother, Arie, dies suddenly. A doll, previously given to Oliver by his mother, reveals itself to be a male fairy named Shizuku, who gives Oliver a magic book that allows him to go to the world of "Ninokuni," a reality parallel to his own, where the fairy states the boy may be able to revive his mother. There, he encounters alternate versions of people he knows.Callibretto said:
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I think the concept of a spell book is genius. In something like Sony's game Sorcery, if you could play just with Move, and you could hold a spell book open in your left hand while making spells with the Move. That'd be very compelling for a younger audience I think.
In the DS case it was a nice anti-piracy measure if nothing else.
In the DS case it was a nice anti-piracy measure if nothing else.
-Pyromaniac-
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you underestimate book scanners.StuBurns said:
Die Squirrel Die
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StuBurns said:
More like an anti-sales measure.
I think at that point you're really hurting the experience for yourself though. Typically pirates get a perfect version of a game. If you're meant to be thumbing thru this beautiful book, and you're actually searching a PDF or random sheets of paper, you're getting a sub-par experience.-Pyromaniac- said:
SolidSnakex
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zoner said:
This isn't Sony's game. L5 is developing and publishing it in Japan.
-Pyromaniac-
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yes but can you ctrl+f a book, who is getting the superior experience now!StuBurns said:
Die Squirrel Die
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zoner said:
This ain't a Sony game. It's Level 5 self-published, in Japan at least.
hydrophilic attack
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I swore never to play a Level5 game again after Rouge Galaxy. But after this trailer, I may have to break my oath. Looks really charming and fun. But I will wait for impressions before buying.
MichaelEM3
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Fucking gorgeous!
SolidSnakex
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zoner said:
Yep, I think that most of us expect it to be released in the US. I guess some recent events have made people worried though.
Lactose_Intolerant
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Basically the story is somewhat like Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 1 and 2. Lets hope its a better storyline than those 2.
-Pyromaniac-
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it's basically like pokemon, you are on the sideline and you just send out commands to the monsters you've captured.Aeana said:
IdreamofHIME
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StuBurns said:
The ad campaign must start with the sentence:
"From the developers of the Award winning Professor Layton games and the Oscar winning minds of Studio Ghibli"
Suddenly you have people interested.
Hazelhurst
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This and Vita. I'm jelly of Japan.
Because I can read what the bubbles say. In the trailer, most of the bubbles say "attack" in the imperative form. In other battle screenshots, there are other "commands" that basically amount to things like "go all out!" and "defend yourself." If you notice in the trailer, once a command is chosen, the white/blue circle starts spinning on the left side and it says "cancel" below it, which seems to indicate that these commands are looped until you cancel or choose a new one. There are a few interesting commands, though, like カミナリ (雷StuBurns said:
, thunder, which seems to have the guy cast a thunder spell, so perhaps there is an amount of direct command. I'm just not optimistic based on what I've seen so far.BoilersFan23
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It would have to have English VA so SCEA could approve it (sometimes they let it slide, sometimes they don't).Augemitbutter said:
Trailer was beyond awesome. I'm tempted to import this, but hope for a stateside release.
IcyBlueStrawberry
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So. Damn. Pretty.
Time to learn Japanese.
Time to learn Japanese.
hydrophilic attack
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Sinoox said:
The story and characters were terribad. The plot was one of the worst I have ever had the displeasure of playing. But that's alright. I can tolerate a bad story if the gameplay is good. Unfortunately, the terribleness of the story pales in comparison to that of the gameplay. The gameplay was atrocious.
The level design was really bland. The endless dungeons just when on and on, with almost no change in scenery. They could have mixed it up throwing in some platforming or whatnot, but nooooooo. I was very surprised to learn that the levels were not randomly generated.
The battle system was completely unbalanced. Once you could afford to fill up your inventory, it was impossible to die as the game just paused when you entered the inventory. You could beat all bosses by just hitting attack attack attack and then enter the inventory to heal up fully with no penalty and then go back to attack attack attack again. The inventory was sufficiently large that you wouldn't even get close to running out of items.
There was too little enemy variety in the endless dungeons. You got bored really quickly. You know something is wrong when you just want to use the nuke attacks (Desert Wind and the like) that almost instantly kills all enemies in every battle just so you don't have to go through another one of the boring battles. This also ties into my previous point of unbalanced battle system. These nukes were far too powerful for their MP cost. But if they weren't, I probably wouldn't have been able to get through the game, so maybe this was for the best.
There were some good ideas that just failed due to flawed execution. The insectron stuff would have been pretty rad if it weren't such a pain to level your insects to at least decent strength and the weapon crafting could have been good if it wasn't such a grind.
I liked the factory minigame, though. And the graphics were nice for the time
Fortunately, Ni No Kuni looks a lot better. The story actually sounds alright (shocker for a Level5 game), the world and level design look quite charming, the battle system looks fun (although so did Rouge Galaxy's, at a glance) and the platforming stuff intriguing.
That sounds very different to the TGS demo last year that was 'guided' by a translator in the videos that came out.Aeana said:Because I can read what the bubbles say. In the trailer, most of the bubbles say "attack" in the imperative form. In other battle screenshots, there are other "commands" that basically amount to things like "go all out!" and "defend yourself." If you notice in the trailer, once a command is chosen, the white/blue circle starts spinning on the left side and it says "cancel" below it, which seems to indicate that these commands are looped until you cancel or choose a new one. There are a few interesting commands, though, like カミナリ (雷
But if you're choosing AI commands akin to FFXIII, while doing direct magic with the guy himself, that sounds kind of fun to me. I have very low expectations of the game mechanically because it's L5, but it doesn't seem shallow. My concern would probably be the difficulty, but that's just based on my idea of the target market, which could be way off.
DangerousDave
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Aeana said:Because I can read what the bubbles say. In the trailer, most of the bubbles say "attack" in the imperative form. In other battle screenshots, there are other "commands" that basically amount to things like "go all out!" and "defend yourself." If you notice in the trailer, once a command is chosen, the white/blue circle starts spinning on the left side and it says "cancel" below it, which seems to indicate that these commands are looped until you cancel or choose a new one. There are a few interesting commands, though, like カミナリ (雷
This seems interesting. Now the orange circles in the "faeries" faces has more sense. Is probably the countdown until the command loop ends, and then you have to mark a new command.
So probably you will be looping through your "faeries", giving them some AI commands, with L1 (the button that appears at the left of the faeries faces), and assigning them targets with R1 (the button appears on top of the enemies faces).
It may work. I prefer this (modificate the behaviour of each of your characters) instead of giving direct command to a single character and let the other ones works with preset ais. It seems that you can still cast spells, like that thunder that cost 15 mana, so probably the control degree is big enough to control the flow of the combat.
SolidSnakex
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BoilersFan23 said:
They've let that stuff slide recently. Sega releases the Yakuza games with subs only and Aksys recently released RoAWZ with subs only. That seems like one of those requirements that has slowly faded away.
PigSpeakers
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I keep forgetting this is a game and not a movie.
I think this is already winning the award for the best looking world map ever. Not that there are many of those anymore.
If this gets released in the states, they will probably pick a really bad voice actor for the little guy with the lamp on his nose.
I think this is already winning the award for the best looking world map ever. Not that there are many of those anymore.
If this gets released in the states, they will probably pick a really bad voice actor for the little guy with the lamp on his nose.
lunchwithyuzo
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3DGH isn't even an RPG. WKC would probably make for a more apt comparison, how did that sell in the west?SolidSnakex said:
Flakster99
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Looks good, but does nothing for me. I suppose it's the look of the player characters. /shrug