Ni no Kuni

[Kungfro]

PS3's Ni no Kuni coming to North America early next year

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During a Sony Computer Entertainment Asia press conference adjacent to TGS, Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino announced some very welcome news: the beautiful Studio Ghibli and Level-5 crossover for PS3, Ni no Kuni (http://joystiq.com/game/ni-no-kuni), will be released in North America.

And now we know what Level-5 International America (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/07/26/level-5-ceo-introduces-the-new-american-office/) has been up to. The game is due in early 2012, so that studio must have been busy translating the adventures of Oliver and the lantern-nosed Shizuku in the magical, probably imaginary world of Ni no Kuni.


http://www.joystiq.com/2011/09/16/ni-no-kuni-coming-to-north-america-early-next-year/

Trailer (http://www.gametrailers.com/video/japanese-debut-ni-no-kuni/701065)

For anyone not too familier with Studio Ghibli I really recommend you check out some of their films.

[Kungfro]

Demo just came out on psn, gonna check it out.

[konex]

I played the demo for this last night. It's a beautiful game.

[Kungfro]

I played the demo for this last night. It's a beautiful game.

Definitely. You go with the Japanese or English audio? I tried the dub when I played, seemed decent.

[Qwyjibo]

I've been looking forward to the English version for a while now.

The main thing I'm wondering about is the depth and difficulty of it. I'll wait for reviews on that to determine whether this is worth an immediate $60 purchase or wait a year or so for $29 or $39.

[gigantes]

whoa, if this is anything like being in the middle of a miyazaki movie... whoa. :eek:


sad thing is, i have a DSXL, not a PS3, and it looks like they won't be doing the english version for DS.

[konex]

Definitely. You go with the Japanese or English audio? I tried the dub when I played, seemed decent.

I went with the English. It was pretty good

[Levity]

Bought this game over the weekend. (used from gamestop runs around 17 bucks)

so far, beautiful game. very pokemon esque. my all time favorite game is FFVII and i played a lot of pokemon on gameboy back in the day, so this game is right along those lines. Only about an hour+ into the game, and at this point its pretty simplistic. but it seems like itll increase in difficulty as it goes on. but like ive been saying, its definitely a very well done game.

[code green]

I picked this up earlier this week after my buddy showed me a trailer. I'm absolutely hooked so far, and I'm generally not a big RPG guy.The storyline is great, but the music and cartoon-like video really make Ni No Kuni stand out among other JRPGs. I haven't gotten too far yet, I'm looking for the cat king's soulmate in Oliver's world.