Ni no Kuni Wrath of the White Witch™ Remastered Reviews

Flippin heck, mun. Great RPG with creature collecting elements. Neato!

I've tried playing this game 3 times since it came out on the Ps3 with several years in between to clear my head and try to tackle it with a clean slate, and I still have 0 patience for the abysmal party ai when it comes to boss battles. Level 5 had better party ai back on the Ps2 with Rogue Galaxy. I love everything about this game from the characters, story, familiar designs, the ost by the legend Jo Hisaishi, to the actual 400 page glossary with fun and creative art/writing. The world-building is immaculate. Yet, every boss after getting the first party member is the same loop of watching my healer do melee attacks without her familiar (despite being set to "prioritize healing") until she dies, and strafing to pickup orbs to replenish my mana while I take potshots from across the room for an obscene amount of time. I fight every familiar I come across, I go back to town after each story section to do all the side quests and bounties, I evolve my familiars and get their levels back up to snuff, and it's still not even close to enough to compensate for how utterly useless your party members are in this game. Each time I've come back to this thinking that I have to be wrong about this game due to how outstanding every other aspect of this game is, and each time I'm firmly reminded that I was making the right call in bowing out. Level 5 has some of my favorite games period, but this one just isn't up to snuff with everything they put out a console generation earlier.

FUN, love the studio ghibli style of the character great story :)

Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch is, without a doubt, my favorite game of all time, and nothing will ever top it for me. I first played it as a child on the PS3, and ever since then, I’ve continued to revisit it, whether on the Switch or PC. No matter how many times I play it will never get old. I’ve even gone as far as learning to read and write the Naäzcan script from memory, and I constantly wish there was more to explore. Just hearing the World Map theme gets me nostalgic and emotional to this day. Can’t put a high enough rating, would recommend.

I finished the game last night and I found it a really mixed bag. I hesitate to recommend it unless you already like jrpgs, especially ones targeted at children, since it had so much more hand-holding than what I am used to in jrpgs/crpgs/etc. It must be said that the music is absolutely top notch and does a LOT of heavy lifting, but the English voice acting is really inconsistent with accents, way too quippy for my taste, and overall detracted so much from my experience. The combat had some fun ideas added into it, including adding familiars so you can collect monsters to add to your team, but the ally ai was also abysmal despite using tactics to change them up. If I played this game 20 years ago when I was a kid I would have loved it, but I found how much the game leads you along frustrating. It doesn't seem to trust the player to be able to figure things out. Overall, I wish I could say I loved it due to the involvement of Studio Ghibli and Joe Hisaishi but it was a miss for me. There are absolutely people who will love this game, and it might be more likely to be your younger relatives instead of whoever is reading this.

Creature catching game with Studio Ghibli art design? What more could you want?! Play this GAME!!!

Gameplay 10/10 Story 8/10 catch monsters fight them and lvl up great games for kids or adults

I'm only giving this a down thumb because of the 2 word cutscenes. The story was meh, the combat was great apart from 1 particular side quest which can go suck an egg... Honestly the game is fine but it either needs to be fully voiced or not at all, the randomness of the voiced CS's took me out of the story when really i should of been invested into it. It felt like they forgot they paid voice actors then went WOOPS and stuck random voiced parts in where they could after everything had been completed. If you enjoy catching pokémon and endless grinding with monsters that have about 1% chance to be caught then this is the game for you.

I am just blown away, the way the full feature anime cutscenes transition into game engine cutscenes, then again into gameplay itself is just amazing. When first loading up the game, I noticed "Studio Ghibli" and the quality of the artwork just clicked: I'm in for an fantastic story. I find it wild to be playing such a high quality anime game, I love the "Tales of ..." series but they don't hold a candle to this, but being put up against Studio Ghibli isn't fair.

My opinion on Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Remastered Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Remastered is a beautiful and enchanting JRPG that brings Studio Ghibli's magical animation style to life. The remastered version enhances the original game with improved visuals and smoother game play, making it more fun to play. The story follows young Oliver as he embarks on a heartfelt journey to save his mother, while encountering memorable characters and engaging in unique combat. What also adds to the games fun is the use of familiars, which are monsters you can combat and capture to use as party members in battle, kinda like Pokemon. Familiars can evolve into a stronger forms after meeting certain requirements which adds to the joy of finding and obtaining all them. The story is lighthearted and nothing insanely complex but it is enough to keep you engaged and interested to reach the end. The game's fantasy world, great soundtrack, and emotional depth make it a must play for fans of JRPGs and Studio Ghibli's works alike.