Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom - PlayStation 4 Premium Edition

The games great so far, but I am a little disappointed by the 'Premium Edition'Here's what it offers over the base game:- Dragon tooth Blade.+one extra DLC sword,-Steel Book:--(see photos)+The front looks pretty cool, but the back is fairly lack luster,+Has space for 2 discs, so you can store the game and the soundtrack together-Soundtack---+ Only 4 songs...01 Theme from Ni no Kuni II02 The Boundless Skies03 Evan's Kingdom04 There is Hope(that's worse than some pre-order bonuses, was expecting at least 6-7..)--Paper craft set:-a small little '3d' diorama.Quite a few small paper parts, with a few steps,can be a little frustrating,---Images:imgur.com/a/ujhNo(amazon won't let me attach them for some reason)-----Overall It looks like most of the money for this 'Premium Edition' goes towards the steel book.The soundtrack is not even enough to be considered a teaser,and the paper craft set, feels a bit to small and flimsy to even be much of a display item.So if you just want the game with a steel book, I think you'll be happy with this, but the rest is just 'extra'

I never had a chance to play the first Ni No Kuni, and i regret it since i heard great things about it. I wasn't going to miss out again so I made sure to get Ni No Kuni 2. I'm 20 hrs into the game and here's what I can tell you!Story: (7/10) Ni No Kuni 2's story isn't something you haven't heard before. A young king, Evan, is betrayed, his kingdom and nearly his life taken from him if it weren't for his protector Roland, a man pulled from his world, one that seems very similar to ours, and dropped into this whimsical fantasy land. Throughout the game, you'll work on building a new kingdom, new relationships, while trying to deal with an ancient evil hellbent on ending the world.  It's a charming, cliche fairy tale, however it's one that you can't help but to long for the same happy ending King Evan himself is trying to achieve. Luckily for me, I love this kind of thing x)Characters: (6/10) The characters feel like they have been made from a checklist. There's the innocent, optimisic Evan with a huge heart; Mentor, protector, and fatherly figure Roland, calm, cool, and, collected, he is bound to everyone's favorite character; Rough and tough big, bad Batu and his brave yet mischievous daughter Tani; Magical little mascot character with a over-the-top personality, Lofty; and lastly: A hopelessly dedicated and loyal assistant, Leander. These characters never stray out of their trope, which leads to predictable reactions and conversations. But hey, if it ain't broke, why fix it? I feel as though these character types are necessary to the story. I do personally enjoy all of them, and on the occasion when things do get emotional or dive into their backgrounds, it can be quite intriguing to learn more about them.Gameplay Pt 1: Combat- (9/10) As you can see, I broke gameplay into parts. Part 1 will be the combat. And I love the combat. It's swift, fluent, and flashy. You have your standard dodge, block, light attack, heavy attack controls, with a little twist of managing MP, weapon switching, and special skills. It all works as it should: fast and fun! The A.I. partners are smart and actually helpful. The adorable higgledies spirits that you assign to your party have their own skills as well as ones you have to activate yourself.The battle system is designed to keep eyes going across the whole screen, whether it's open world or dungeon crawling, and ties everything together with beautiful visuals. I'm still not tired of any of the skills I spam xD I'd give it a 10/10 if it weren't so easy. I never felt in any actually dangerous without purposely putting myself there. Overall, the combat is so fun you may find yourself triggering battles more often than not. I hate boring, ridiculously long grinding, but it's nothing like that. Ni No Kuni 2's combat is super fun and it doesn't feel like a chore at all.Gameplay Pt 2: Kingdom Building (6/10)- Ah yes, the kingdom building. This is the most time consuming part of the game. Evan and friends are trying to build a brand new kingdom, and that requires people, resources, and money. You do quests and progress story to find people to join you, they assist you with gathering mats or researching, all the while collecting currency called King Guilders, which is different from your own money you hold onto. Everything in the kingdom requires people and king-guilders, so you will spend time waiting for that to pile up. Then you will spend time doing research and upgrades, and it's all in real time. If they says it will take an hour to complete, that's a literal 60 mins in real life. Not cool if you ask me.You can spend king guilders to make it go faster, but ultimately you will have to wait for king guidlers to build up again for other projects and buildings, so why even bother? See where I'm going with this? It's REALLY time consuming and really annoying, but they all have very helpful results, so I often look forward to reap my rewards. At the very least, the game should allow money to accumulate and research time to go by even when you log out, but no sadly you have to be playing for this to go by. Luckily, you can start a bunch of projects at once and then go out and explore to kill time.Gameplay Pt 3: Skirmishes: (7/10)- Ok so Skirmishes are not as bad a people are making them out to be. You control your little chibi army and go toe to toe with others, until one team is wiped out. That sounds fun to me on paper, but ultimately it just running your unit into anothers and hoping to win. You rotate them, use their special skills, and match strengths and weaknesses. It's like a game within a game, and i do enjoy trying to finish it the most efficient way possible.Gameplay Overall: They took a bunch of different play styles and made it into Ni No Kuni 2's style. I like it when it works, and even where it doesn't, it's still not that bad. (But the time on building the kingdom is seriously atrocious... Hopefully an update will fix that 1 day.)Graphics: (10/10) The art style works so well for this game, it's amazing. This game is very beautiful, I cannot stress that enough! It reminds me of Pixar level animation, it pops with colors, lighting, environment, it's gorgeous through and through! The characters, the locations, the fighting, it all looks very polished and attractive. I have two little sisters who loves watching me play this game because it looks like a fairy tale brought to life! I give it 10/10, my eyes were very happy, but I'm sure quite a few ppl aren't fond of the cutesy art style it displays.Sound: (7/10)- The music is good enough to set a tone, but nothing (with the exception of 1 or 2 songs) really stands out. It's background music, but that's it, not really memorable. The voice acting isn't too bad bad, I just wish there was more of it. Battle effects sound really cool, you can definitely tell the difference between a normal hit and a hit at 100% max weapon.Overall: (8/10)- Ni No Kuni 2 is a great game, but It's not for everyone. It's smooth sailing, treating its players with stunning visuals and a familiar tale that can appeal to anyone of any age. If you have a love for classic fantasy tales and rpgs, definitely look into Ni No Kuni 2! I recommend the Easy Allies review for an even more informative review!PS: I got the Premium Edition. It came with a steelbook, dlc swords (5 if them), papercraft display, and a cd with 4 songs on it. It's not too impressive, but i really love the steelbook!

This is a fantastic game. The combat is light and fun, which comes with the tradeoff of it not being too complex or challenging. Everything is real time the go around and it feels pretty good, but I did end up finding myself using the same handful of moves every fight slowly chipping away at the enemies health. I missed the monster catching from the first entry.The story is a far cry from the original in terms of overall quality and it really seems very disconnected from the first game. The settings are great though and the characters you do grow to love.The city building is very addictive and beneficial in many ways, unlocking new abilities, weapons, armor, items and even quality of life improvements as well as being a hub for quests with unique rewards.The game is beautiful and it took me ~70 hours to do everything. I wish I could go back and pay less and not get the stupid 3d picture. I couldn't get that thing together and I'm embarrassed at how angry it made me. But oh well. Worth the trip. Great music and graphics. Not as good as the first. Coulda been cool extrathat's too hard to put together.

Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom is an excellent Japanese RPG in the vein of the Kingdom Hearts series. In fact, when I first became Roland- one of the characters- and engaged in a fight, I had some serious flashbacks to being Sora fighting the heartless. That being said, if you’ve ever wanted to play a video game, or become more immersed, in a Studio Ghibli-like setting with beautiful art, great (albeit lighthearted) stories, and solid musical elements, this is that game. The plot of the game isn’t entirely unheard of, but you’ll feel engaged the whole way through if you are a fan of RPGs.I got this game as a story-game break from action titles like Rocket League, Battlefield1, and others like those. This fits that role perfectly. It’s not the most challenging to win fights- though to be fair you can increase the difficulty on the fly for bigger rewards. However, if you’re looking for a break from your routine or really like story-driven games, this will hit the spot. As a bonus, this is one of the few games I’ve played where friendly AI are actually helpful in a fight.Final Verdict: 9.5/10+Beautiful art+Solid story with engaging characters+Fluid battle mechanics for real-time battles+City-builder adds purpose-Somewhat heavy on the “everything will turn out just rosy” side. Not necessarily bad if you enjoy lighthearted games for what they are.-Combat can be a bit too easy on Normal mode.

El juego muy bien, muy bueno.Pero la edición no vale el gasto; el cd solo trae 4 canciones,el dioramita que incluye es imposible de armar, lo unico que vale la pena es el steelbook.Ahorren lana y compren la edición normal que el juego lo vale, la edición ¨Premium¨ no.

Hadn't played the first installment, am thirteen hours in to the second and have got to say this is a great game. I think this is considered a jrpg,I don't know a lot about them but this a terrific game. You might be hesitant to like the story at first, I didn't want to the first little bit but the characters really grow on you, they really develop them well which I for some reason didn't think would happen. Story is so unexpected so far, just where, when and why a story goes where it goes. Not sure where the detractors are, some of the stuff seems like I don't need to do it but I can easily forget or overlook it. Just will end with I'm very glad I get to play this game and would but it again knowing what I would be in for.

El juego está muy bonito y entretenido. Al juego como tal sí le daría cinco estrellas, pero más adelante explico por qué quité una. Muchos se quejan del diorama. Sí, está algo complicado de armar, pero con un poco de paciencia se puede. Eso si, no es nada espectacular y es como para tenerlo en vitrina porque se desarma fácilmente.Al momento de escribir esto, la diferencia con el Day One Edition es como de unos 270 pesos. Tal vez para algunos valga la pena la diferencia de precio por el steelbook, y el CD de música, que dicho sea de paso, únicamente tiene 4 pistas. Y es por esa única razón, que sólo son cuatro pistas, que le doy cuatro estrellas, en lugar de cinco.

Si te gusto el primero, este ta va a encantar (no es necesario jugar el primero para entender este). La presentación que hacen del juego tipo anime te hace creer que estas jugando una película de Studio Ghibli, ademas de la banda sonora que esta genial un juego para durar (alrededor de 60+ horas, sin quest`s). No hay pierde con este juego y la edición premium trae un CD con 4 canciones la caja metálica un DLC de armas y el escenario 3d.

I having have so much fun playing PS4 games since I don't know when. This is quite a fun games even with some annoying things such as no full speech and some game mechanics. This is what I would expected from a JRPG game, spent hours playing this one and well worth the price of admission.