how is this game compared to ni no kuni 2?

[heime2003]

ive heard combat is slower and worse than NNK 2 but story is more engaging. i want to hear opinions from people who has played both games

[dustin1280]

Superior in pretty much every way.

Storyline is better
gameplay is better
world building is better

Honestly I can't think of a single thing that Ni No Kuni 2 did better, maybe graphics?

EDIT: It should be noted Ni No Kuni 2 was more of an action RPG combat system, this one is closer to JRPG ATB style combat system and DEFINITELY slower.

[Sarthalion]

kuni 2 is a live action fighting game, this is not.

[Dregora]

Combat is the biggest difference, I would say. I think Ni No Kuni 1 is superior in every other way, but combat, as always, is very debatable depending on what you prefer.

2 was straight up action RPG, whilst this is more of a weird mix between action and turn based. Do you know Final Fantasy 12? It's very similar to that. You fight with yourself or familiars, you can move around freely, but if you want to attack, you're locked to each others face, so to say.

It's very different. I would say it's overall the better game, though. Much more unique than 2.


And it even is pokemon in the sense that you can catch nearly all enemies you battle and level them up and make them fight for you.

[foofighter_ii]

story? 1 is better
graphics? both look great
combat? 1 is more focused on rpg combat combined with a little RTS. 2 is more focused on action combat and button mashing. I prefer the 1 because is more challenging and tactical.
characters? 1 have the most empathic system and makes you feel like you are changing the world and being a hero. 2 is like guiding a confused little child to become a king because of reasons.
1 has mechanics like pokemon games, and 2 is focused on the main characters fighting while getting help from pikmin kiind of pets. I like 1 more than the 2nd.

I choose the first!

[No' Name]

You could probably spend 100's of hours in the first game, due to the mechanic's of it being a "Pokemon-esc" game, in the manner you can capture, evolve, and learn skills with a variety of different monsters.

In the first game, combat is like again, Pokemon style kind of mixed with that of a Jrpg. It's all active time battled though, meaning regardless of whether you attack with your creature/character or not, the enemies won't stand still for you to choose.

It's also worth noting you get 3 playable party members, each who can have up to 3 creatures equipped at once. In this game, the creatures you summon have "Stamina", which in turn, relays how much time they can be out for at each given time before you're forced to swap to a different creature you have prepared. By "Force", I don't mean it's a bad thing, it's just one of the ways to vary up combat, and continously swap in, and out between your creatures. It basically allows you to have up to "X" amount of moves to use at a time during battles.

It's also worth noting, the battles weren't designed to be very long. The longest battle's you'll ever have to do, are boss battles, which at some times can't be tedious, but that also varies on the creatures you select. Battles in general in this game can easily be won, if you have the right Creature Comp.

Story wise, this game far succeeds that of Ni No Kuni II. I think the first time I've beat on the PS3, it took me around 40+ hours to beat the story, of course, that was me not skipping any cutscenes. That was the story alone, doing all the side quests, and bounties, could easily take a person another 20 hours or so.

Should you have a completionist within yourself, you're looking at 200+ hours easily trying to find every monster/evolve them all to their final forms. Some creatures even have multiple evolution forks. Meaning they can take two different paths of Evolution ways to go.

I will say this though, sometimes it doesn't feel like capturing early on monsters is worth it at points, because if you're just busy burning through the story, you'll eventually find further evolutions of monsters, so, having the previous forms of them seem pointless since you can just capture them in their final evolution forms.
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Ni NO Kuni II wasn't bad, I own it for the PS4 Pro. But the game's story from the very beginning makes no real sense. Guy from future teleports into kingdom, where some guy wants to usurp a king child, and you really have no idea why, the story is kinda just confusingly thrown together.

The combat in Ni No Kuni II is all action based. While I don't mind it, the game itself was a breeze, the enemy AI was insanely stupid, and you could literally just spam one attack, and beat the game.

The interesting mechanic in Ni No Kuni II though, at least in my opinion is the RTS battles on the open world map, and how you got to build your own Kingdom.

But, other than that, Ni No Kuni the first game, just does everything so much better.
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It is worth noting as well, both games do take place in the same universe, just diff time periods I believe.

[Nico]

Originally posted by foofighter_ii:

2 is like guiding a confused little child to become a king because of reasons.

Actually, the very motivation of the main character to go on an adventure is pretty much the same in NNK1 and NNK2. NNK1 is about trying to save your mother who dies in front of you, NNK2 is about fulfilling a promise you made to someone who is like your mother who dies in front of you (as well as embracing your destiny). And you pretty much run after the villain(s) across the world for a long time in both cases.

Originally posted by Humor:

where some guy wants to usurp a king child, and you really have no idea why

This point is made clear in the game, early enough. That's a coup d'etat because of oppression.

I'm not pointing anyone in particular, just saying this on a side note, but you'll for sure get a lot of biased opinions as a many played this game back from late 2011, and you can't really forget the magic of the first discovery. And playing it for the first time in 2019 is definitely not the same.

[Caprontos]

So far for me (only to just after Hamelin) this game has been very disappointing. I really liked the second game and enjoyed it straight through, so I expected to like this as well, but already debating if I even want to keep playing.

The game is in general fine, It's not a bad game (as far as RPG's go) - but I am very bored with it. The story is doing nothing to make me interested and feels kinda random (It's actually just getting more and more annoying with how much is overlooked and ignored).

Then for the monsters, if you want to catch them all it takes way to long (some of the %'s are so low and no way to change it). So advancing the plot takes longer. But the way items are priced in shops, it feels like they expect you to spend a lot of time between plot points muddling around. An the grinding isn't really fun either because of monsters running away from you and they can see you from miles and doesn't help you move so slow.

Currently imo the first one isn't as fun as the second is most ways. Maybe it gets better, maybe it's great for some people, certainly not doing it for me so far.

[No' Name]

Originally posted by Caprontos:

So far for me (only to just after Hamelin) this game has been very disappointing. I really liked the second game and enjoyed it straight through, so I expected to like this as well, but already debating if I even want to keep playing.

The game is in general fine, It's not a bad game (as far as RPG's go) - but I am very bored with it. The story is doing nothing to make me interested and feels kinda random (It's actually just getting more and more annoying with how much is overlooked and ignored).

Then for the monsters, if you want to catch them all it takes way to long (some of the %'s are so low and no way to change it). So advancing the plot takes longer. But the way items are priced in shops, it feels like they expect you to spend a lot of time between plot points muddling around. An the grinding isn't really fun either because of monsters running away from you and they can see you from miles and doesn't help you move so slow.

Currently imo the first one isn't as fun as the second is most ways. Maybe it gets better, maybe it's great for some people, certainly not doing it for me so far.

That is what the Merit shop is for. Spend your Merit points from completing quests/challenges/Bounties, and you can upgrade the hell out of your speed, and other passive stats.

[Caprontos]

Originally posted by Humor:

That is what the Merit shop is for. Spend your Merit points from completing quests/challenges/Bounties, and you can upgrade the hell out of your speed, and other passive stats.

That's with all the merit rewards you can have to that point, I didn't slack on the side stuff.. or anything really, which is part of the problem probably.

[[NGNS-SWE] ⚡ Quezkatolen ⚡]

I say: better characters,better world, better story, better music but less enjoyable combat.

[B l u e b e r r y P o p t a r t]

Characters are more in depth and you feel like you get to know them more and more as the journey continues, the world feels more alive (towns, people you interact with, ect.) The story is great even if a cliche story, there is an evil that wants to take over the world, good guy from an alternate world has to come and save it with a few people that join you along the way to help, ect. music is decent and enjoyable to listen to and the combat is a bit slower than two and you use monsters (like Pokemon) most the time but can still use player characters too if you want.

Overall most people enjoy 1 more than two but two is still a great game.

[[NGNS-SWE] ⚡ Quezkatolen ⚡]

Sure but the "twist" in Ni No Kuni 1 about X took me by suprise, and yet its a charming story about how love could change and lead anyone to become a hero for good!

[[NGNS-SWE] ⚡ Quezkatolen ⚡]

Originally posted by jqtaxpayer:

The first game is excellent. I kind of hated the second one.

2nd was fine, but 1 is the real deal, the true and epic journey! and not some RTS and lesser events connected to make some bigger story in the end-