I was pre-registered for the game and played a few days after release - this game is amazing. Leveling up your rank and stats is very easy and the story is super interesting so far. I love all of the side quests and missions - not to mention the amazing game design, beautiful scenery and intruiging npcs as well as adorable familiars / mounts. Although the selection of clothes and accesories you can customize your character with are confined to a handful of different outfits and hats, etc, right now (which was expected since the game just released), I really like all of them and dying stuff different colors to match is really pleasing. The gacha aspect of the game is enjoyable and I like how clothing was included. The only subject that I was a little dissapointed by was the combat. Dont get me wrong its fun and I like the animations and skills - as well as the different weapon types/ starter characters you can choose from, But I wish we could dodge and move around a little more instead of just normaly standing in one spot (unless your fighting a boss.) I wasn't supperr bothered by this as I am a final fantasy xiv player. At At first I was also a little annoyed by the auto running / fighting feature but once I got used to it I came to actually really like it. When I dont want to sit back and relax while I ride my cat mount to a main story quest, I just turn off the auto run feature and explore on my way there. When fighting I can still push the attack skills to ignore the auto feature and there might even be a way to turn it off during fighting which I havent discovered yet. I am only level 21 which I got to with ease in only a few days. I played for three hours straight the first day I began playing because I was so glued to the story!! 100% recommend downloding.

I liked Studio Ghibli’s movie “No ni Kuni” so I wanted to try this game. It’s a very imaginative world like the movie and fun to play. NetMarble made the game accessible for all ages by making an open world on training wheels. Yet, the training wheels are tightened with a torch wrench. NetMarble has not found a good balance of auto-play for new players and letting experienced players play on their own. While you can turn off the auto-fight function in settings, I noticed the game still wanted to fight for me on upgrade levels, like the labyrinth. It should not be that complicated.NetMarble is very generous with upgrade materials for weapons and armor and makes the process fairly easy to understand. However, your items bag fills up very fast, so half your time on the game is spent clearing space for needed items and upgrade materials whether you buy more room in the bag with gems or not. I am dropping the game not because I had to wait in line to play which was bad enough. No, it’s because the game always shuts down when I am upgrading weapons and armor as if I’m not playing. If this game came out a few years earlier, I would have absolutely loved it. However, after playing an open world game like Genshin Impact, Ni no Kuni feels antiquated. This would be a good console or PC game. It is not a good game for a phone/tablet. I played until level 49 and found little reason to spend any more time or money.

This game is beautiful and has sooo much potential. Character design, style and fighting animation are a few of the things this game exceeds at.However, there is a lot of room for improvement. First, the game is filled with bots. It doesn’t matter which server you’re on, you’ll see them everywhere. While the bots do not necessarily ruin gameplay experience (you can avoid them and there is no competition for monsters), they affect the server. Queues can be 100s of people long with no other option than to wait or pay IRL money to fast pass. Which leads me to my next item: this is a game where if you have the money, you will be atop the Rankings. Skill and time do not necessarily matter in this game. It is entirely computer led and, if you wanted, you could probably do every quest without even having to touch the screen more than a few times. It comes off as a money ploy to make profit with a total disregard for dedicated players. You can buy weapons, armor, buffs, pets, etc etc… I definitely see the point of introducing money as there needs to be a profit. It’s a business, duh. But I think that if Netmarble wants a player base with longevity, they should look into over avenues to gain money. Some people love being whales (ppl who spend a ton of irl money in games) and that’s great. But most people do not have the money to spend. And you can easily spend 100s of dollars on this. I definitely recommend this game as it is addictive. But be warned, there are definite roadblocks once you get past the early game. And it requires grinding to keep up with those who can dish out a lot of money.

If you want a better “open world” game, then download genshin impact. This game is almost a exact copy of it, the opening, the mechanics.. any of you genshin impact players know what im talking about. I literally pre ordered the game expecting something way better, but as i was playing way too many things remind me of genshin. Maybe this game was inspired by it, just like genshin impact was inspired by the game Zelda breath of the wild but its just way too similar to me. Not only this, the game is really confusing, i think theres way too many buttons and things to upgrade im just lost in the game. If you have auto on, you can legitimately just leave the game running and it will do story quests FOR you. It even has auto combat. I don't really understand the point of this and theres no clear way to turn off auto. Also, the gems that you need to summon for familiars and weapons and stuff are way to expensive and I don't even know how to get them for free. How am i supposed to collect new stuff? Im only level 19-20 right now and the only thing that’s remotely interesting that i got as a reward is a giant cat mount. Its extremely easy to level up in the game as you can just auto do everything without even touching your device. And the story isnt all that interesting either. The game will most likely improve over time, though, this is what i think about it right now.