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What video games are you playing? What have you finished recently? What do you plan to play? - Video Game General Discussion Thread #25 (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Discussion questions:

What video games have you played recently?

What are your favorite video game genres?

Question of the week:

Are there any live-service games, such as Fallout 76, that you're currently playing? Anything like Helldivers 2 or any other multiplayer games?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I've been playing Ni No Kuni. It was kinda underwhelming, in my head I had picture a more "grandiose" story (closer to a Tales Of game), but the beginning was very slow and not much was going on, and also the gameplay was kinda boring since it's one of those games where you recruit monsters to fight with you. That said, it's gotten better, quite fun, though the friend AI was completely useless with some bosses.

My favorite genres are probably JRPG, stealth games and FPS with emphasis on story regardless of the genre. Really liked Deus Ex (except for the awful stealth, good thing you aren't locked out of much if you're not stealthy) and Stalker (gotta replay Clear Sky tbh)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, the first Ni No Kuni is underwhelming.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is the sequel better?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I found the second game to have more game, but also it felt sorta...low budget?

Ni no Kuni 1 felt very much like "what if ghibli made a JRPG". The second one loses a bit of that, and the production values seem a bit lower around the edge. Lot less voice-acting, seems to go more broad than deep as it were. I didn't hate it, I think the combat was an improvement and the castle building stuff was fun, but I honestly probably liked my time with the first game more overall.