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Ni no Kuni Wrath of the White Witch™ Remastered - NOW I & II on STEAM !

Miner 2049er

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After 8 hours I had to stop. As beautiful and lovely the game looks, as boring it is for me. I tried to get in, but the combat and the hand-holding killed it for me.
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Ivan

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I'm at the 2nd main dungeon of the game (Cat King level). I think I've gotten a good look at the loop of the game. Town>new pet>dungeon>boss>story progression, rinse repeat.

This combat is lulling my ass to sleep though. Is it worth suffering through to get to the dead mommy story bits? That I like, the game is beautiful, and the cutscenes are amazing. Maybe putting the game one made will make the combat go by faster...
 

lightbane

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Just watch a LP or play the translated DS game. The White Witch version is weak sauce and the unique content outright horrible.
 

Ivan

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could you briefly explain? is this "White Witch" version some sort of GOTY bloated version? I don't watch LP's so I think I'll just set aside and move on. I'll see if the game remains the same after the Cat Kingdom...
 

lightbane

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could you briefly explain? is this "White Witch" version some sort of GOTY bloated version? I don't watch LP's so I think I'll just set aside and move on. I'll see if the game remains the same after the Cat Kingdom...
No, lightbane has no idea what he is talking about. Wrath of The White Witch is just a remaster of the PS3 version with higher framerate and resolution. There is an old DS version of the game. Think of at Dragon Quest 11. There is a 3DS version and a PS4/PC version. That's the difference
The dumbfuck tag serves you well, as it clearly shows you haven't played either game, or the DS version.

could you briefly explain? is this "White Witch" version some sort of GOTY bloated version? I don't watch LP's so I think I'll just set aside and move on. I'll see if the game remains the same after the Cat Kingdom...

The White Witch one is a remaster of the PS3 version, of course, that's true, never denied that. The problem is that the PS3 version has story and gameplay differences compared to the original DS version (which has been translated long ago so it's finally playable), for not to mention the DS version is turn-based and has better capture mechanics than the PS3/remake version. The White Witch continues the story where the original ended, and it shows. The writing takes a nosedive (which was noticeable with every scene with that ghostly little girl being an addition) with asspulls and poorly thought ideas, gameplay gets bad, a 4th character joins in at a lower level that yours (so he's useless except for an unique spell you can get later anyway) and the new bosses will eat you alive due the sudden spike of difficulty unless you grind to obtain the best familiars by that point... Or you farm the "common" new enemies, as each one of them is carrying an elixir for some reason, letting you get tons of them very quickly. The "real" final boss was bullshit hard IIRC because your party wasn't able to target it correctly, forcing you to do everything with just the character you control.
If the remaster fixed some of these mechanical issues, I do not know, but I doubt they changed the story from the OG PS3 game. That game is a game carried by the production values and art style.

I haven't played the original DS game yet to be honest, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's better than the PS3 and beyond versions, if only because combat is fully turn-based and thus you don't have to worry about positioning issues or dumb AI.
 
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Grauken

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It's just as good as saying that someone shouldn't play Dragon Quest 11 on PS4/PC and rather watch a playthrough of the 3DS version that never left Japan
The current Steam version of Dragon Quest 11 has the classic mode just like the 3DS version and replaced the original DQ11 version on PC, so you're kinda wrong there as well
 

Ivan

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moving on guys. thanks but I'll same my JRPG stamina for Persona 5 next month (never played a Persona before)
 

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