I love this game so much, it made me feel like a little kid again. <3 The art of the world and design of the characters are like a summer holiday for your heart

a really great RPG that takes me back to the ps1 JRPG era. Happily paid £40 for this so £4 is just daylight robbery!

I remember pre ordering this for £40, no regrets, absolutely gorgeous game :smiley: Don't even think twice if you havn't played it.

Anyone who is a fan of RPGs or the work of studio ghibli should own this

Best RPG I've played in a long while

just been on another website and its 14 april it finishes

I tried to like this game - I really did - but it's really, really not that great.

The story is - well - it's several reading levels below Harry Potter - and the characters are VERY childish. You play a super-wet-and-whiny kid and you're spending the whole game with a welsh 'fairy' who will talk ENDLESSLY about EVERYTHING

and I mean EVERYTHING - EVERYTHING is markered and signposted and hinted and - he even interrupts big fights to tell you what you should be doing - hand-holding like I've never seen in a game before.

Oh but it's Studio Ghibli - you cry - and yes it is, but they were on an average day to say the least - "magical" replaced with "infantile" (and his hints repeat and are often not skippable!!)

End of the day, I could not give a damn about ANYONE in the game - indeed I'd like to see several of them consumed by fire - some people will not shut up and appear to be brain dead beyond any measure of sanity.

Even if you get over the childish schmaltz, it's a "by the numbers" JRPG which requires grinding and collecting and talking to everyone/everything and the pacing is DIRELY slow.

I binned it and switched to Kingdom Hearts 1.5 (a PS2 game with an HD whitewash and Disney content - so I didn't expect much!) but it felt far more grown-up, it didn't hand-hold as much, it didn't tell you everything you needed to do (tho that information is there if you pump NPCs for it) - it felt like a game and not a childrens interactive film.

This game is a work of art. I give it 8/10 (fyi I give FF7 9.5/10 and Just Cause 2 9/10).

I need this game!

Hot!! one of the best games ive played to date.

Is it 1 player?

I feel I would have enjoyed this game if I were 11 or 12ish but I just found it boring and the artwork childish and cartoony.

Combat sucks and more importantly I feel it's catered towards young children. I play games like zelda but u guess this just felt too disney//kiddy compared to other games I play

Amazing game! Anyone that doesn't spend this much to play it is a fool :stuck_out_tongue:

Best game I've ever played.

I really enjoyed the first 5 hours of this game, then for me it got incredibly difficult. I was either grinding on really low level enemies or running in circles waiting for health orbs to appear so I could kill something my own level. I always felt like I was missing something obvious - but I searched in vain and eventually had to stop playing.

Taken a chance on this. Never really liked the RPG genre but I do like Studio Ghibli so worth a punt for £4

Great game, good story, music etc...

Seems that the comments are always roundly positive for this game, personally I love the look and feel of the game but I haven't played more than an hour or two because I find the combat absolutely horrific, haven't got a clue what's going on, is it turn based or is it real time?
The game doesn't even know. :laughing:

Over rated imo, massively.
1st 1-2 hours is brilliant and makes you think the world is only going to get more interesting but to be honest, you've seen the best it has to offer by that point and creativity, story, locations, voice acting and well everything really just goes totally stale, it doesn't develop the fantastic setup it created.

As far as JRPGs go I'm afraid it's awful taking it all as one package.
Sure it's pretty and artsy but like said, that soon wears thin...real shame.

^To say this is up there with Chrono Trigger is bonkers, Chrono Cross for a start is way better, any tales game is better, Lost Oddyssey, blue dragon (though that was pants in a similar way to ni no kumi and looked worse, better gameplay though)...

People just got suckered by the ghibli artwork, high end production values and forgave all the bad stuff as a result.

all over this. Been meaning to play it since it came out. Love JRPG's.. and love Studio Ghibli.. it's a win win.

Best rpg since chrono trigger, beautiful animation, amazing soundtrack, entering story a game everyone should play.

Personally got very bored of this. The battle system is pretty awful and the 'levels' (ie labyrinth style areas with enemies) are poorly designed and dull.

PS3 I'm afraid.

Complete noob question but is it compatible to play on the PS4 through PSN or would I need to buy a PS3 to play it?

Couldn't get in to this one :disappointed: good price though, have some heat!

Incredible game. For £3.99 you owe it to yourself to play this.

It needs 44gb free space to download (twice the file size)! I got it last time at this price, but haven't downloaded yet as I need to lots of deleting and find a slot to leave the ps3 on for a few hours!

Thanks for the correction and sorry for spreading misinformation.
I just remember purchasing it and then it being too big to download without deleting loads of other stuff :neutral_face:

Excellent game, with a soundtrack to die for (worth an iTunes purchase!)

From the store:

Special offer price valid from 25-03-2015 to 12am GMT 16-04-2015

I've got loads of games to play so I was kind of hoping this would show up on PS+ , but I might just bite this time. Knowing my luck I'll come up next month.

Great game - worth much more than this - heated!
It's a shame it's PS3 only but it would cost an extra £50 for a Vita memory card to fit it on :stuck_out_tongue:

no reason not to buy at this price!

Any idea how long it will hold this price?

So many great games to play on PS3, who needs a PS4!

Best game on PS3

Let me know when someone posts the full list :smiley:

Wow this has simply plummeted in price. Heat.

Haha no, im in their often enough

Best JRPG of the last generation, nothing else you comes close. Heat

Ni no Kuni 2 at Sony's E3 conference this year, come on!

Yes. Can't wait to give this another go. Vita version would be amazing.

Don't they sell it in Tesco wiggy :smile:

I got this when it was this price last time, just a little tip that because of the memory it downloads in two parts. Just sharing because when I went back to my download list I was confused as why there were two versions of the game.

It took me like nearly a full day to download and install it. But worth it in the end. Just kinda like waiting for something to be delivered in the post

I remember pre ordering this for £40, no regrets, absolutely gorgeous game :smiley: Don't even think twice if you havn't played it.

Beware its over 30gb

Edit: It's not. See next post

I love this game so much, it made me feel like a little kid again. <3 The art of the world and design of the characters are like a summer holiday for your heart

It a really great game. Love the ghibli look

If i was to nit pick at anything it would of been nice if a lot of the familiars changed their looks lot more when they metamorphosize, most just look the same

Very good game. Took me back to how I felt about ff7 when it came out.

And it's under 150Kr on the Czech store if you've got left-over credit from the failed Battlefield: Hardline deal.

(As are Demon's Souls, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, and Mass Effect -- all great ways to use up that credit)

That's some price for a game that has a lot of gaming hours! I spent way over 80 or 90 hours on this. Have the platinum for it too. Such a masterpiece and is worth getting! It got me into JRPG.

An absolute masterpiece. Hot!

Anyone who is a fan of RPGs or the work of studio ghibli should own this

Looks like PSN is having a closing down sale.

a really great RPG that takes me back to the ps1 JRPG era. Happily paid £40 for this so £4 is just daylight robbery!