Ni no Kuni Wrath of the White Witch™ Remastered

Absolutely the best game I've ever laid my hands on, I had the PS3 version back in the day and remember everything from then except for a few things. Till this day, my favorite familiar is Little Big Horn!

Ni No Kuni has been my favorite standalone game since my childhood, and playing this remaster has filled me with the same wonder and joy I felt on my first playthrough so many years ago. I cannot recommend this game enough. To give it a ranking would be to say that it is comparable to any other experience I have had in my time with video games, and Ni No Kuni is simply beyond that standard. If you haven't already, give it a try. I truly believe it has something for everyone to enjoy, from beautiful scenes to a heartwarming story wrapped up with mechanics that feel familiar even as you're learning them for the first time.

Wonderfull fable, help believe in kindness and compassion.

I wish I would've refunded this game. Combat is clunky as hell and the anime cutscenes seem to run at 1/4 the FPS of the rest of the game. Attack/defend needed to be mapped to separate buttons, not attached to a menu that you have to scroll through.

If you are over the age of 6 this game will suck balls

This was a really fun game, really heart breaking Good story, really cool characters, lovely Visuals boss fights that are fun yet also challenging, Gameplay that is like Pokemon and a Godlike Soundtrack highly recommend this game.

One of my favourite games ever, if you aren't against spoilers and want to see what the game is like, watch Stampy's playthrough.

classic

Game was great until the last dangeon. The final segment is imbalanced, artificially drawn out piece of shit.
7/10 for game, 0/10 final segment

Oozing with charm

An adorable little game with charming characters in a large world full of pleasant encounters and a good story.

The game is cute and story is okay.
My only complaint is it holds you hand through everything with your walking tutorial sidekick "fairy" if you are looking to dip you toe in RPGs then this is the game for you it's basically RPG 101 with ghibli theme.
Also it is NOT open world; you walk on the map and the actually adventure areas are small and linear.

my all time favorite game, can't recommend it enough

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I think this is one of the most boring JRPG's I have ever played. What an awful experience.
To be fair, I bought this game at a DEEP discount - and you should too - because it's just not what people are raving about.
The story is very childish - but cute.
The combat is very simple/childish - but somewhat engaging.
The locations are very childish - but they are pretty.
Are you seeing a theme yet?
I'm like, 4 actual hours of play into this game, AND ITS STILL FORCEFULLY HOLDING MY HAND.
This game is the definition of "Cut the umbilical cord, already!" and it refuses to do it.
I have found myself falling asleep multiple times and fought myself to stay awake.
Do yourself a favor and steer clear of this.

This is a gem. If you love creature collectiing fighting game. This is it. To bad Ni No Kuni 2 didn't follow the same recipe.

I first heard of this game when I saw Stampy Cat do a Let's play of it several years ago. I really enjoy everything about it. The story,gameplay, familar catching mechanics etc. The Studio Ghibli music and 2D artstyle is immaculate, gorgeous, memorable.

HEAVY storytelling. Be prepared to sit and listen/read a LOT.

It's a good game, you just need to set the time aside to enjoy it without rushing.

Great game.
Like a mix of Final Fantasy and Pokemon.

Child

It's neat!

The visuals are really good, but the combat system and monster capture system need a revamp, both are too repetitive.

You like Pokemon? You like lovable characters? You like a fantastic story with twists and turns? Play it, just do it. One of my favorite games of all time and I am so glad that it finally got the remaster it deserves. This is one of the few games that I have played that I wish I could go back in time and play it for the first time again.

Might be the nostalgia speaking but this is an incredible game, and I think everyone needs to experience it at least once in their life.

Only play this game if you are 4 years old.

Thumbs up for the vibes but boy do I feel infantilized.

One of The Best and Unique RPGS of All Time

Completed on Steam Deck OLED. Get it on sale. I bought it for $7.49

All 33 achievements. Solosseum Rank S. 250+ Familiars. I "won big" at the casino. Max level all 4 playable characters. All alchemy recipes crafted. All treasure chests opened. Wizard's Companion completed. All spells and abilities for each character unlocked. All side quests and bounty hunts completed. All Merit Awards unlocked

Wholesome story with great voice acting. OST is decent. Great visuals, they'll age like fine wine. Gameplay is really bad. The grind was the worst I've ever done in any game

The camera was painfully slow. Takes seconds to do a 180 FFS. When moving left, looking right will be EVEN slower. No settings to adjust speed

Occasional texture flickering throughout the world. Interacting with the "Familiar Retreat" often took a whole minute. It'd sometimes break my controls, leaving me unable to do anything but move Oliver, camera, or pause/quit game

I think the ending was really bad. It felt abrupt. No conclusions, to 'goodbyes', no tying up loose ends, etc. Just credits. The final cutscene after the credits just left even more mystery: Who's gonna be paying the rent now?

The grind is really bad. For alchemy, you need specific items. There are items in which you need 20-25 of each. Those items are VERY rare drops/steals from VERY rare enemies. The RNG is way too low. They should've raised the drop rates

Familiar taming was also RNG. It just sucked. I managed to tame a lot while grinding for absurdly rare drops from absurdly rare enemies

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THE COMBAT SYSTEM

This is by far the worst combat system I've ever played. It's so insufferably bad.. This game basically has Turn-Based combat, but they removed the "Turn-Based" part of it. It's real-time combat but with Turn-based controls and mechanics

TIMED ACTIONS - When you attack or defend, it acts for a few seconds. Then you gotta press it again. It's so frustratingly STUPID. There are no turns. You just press Attack command erry 3 seconds. Boring AF. No automation, either

ERRYTHING TAKES TOO LONG - Using provisions (items), it takes SO long before you can do anything else again. So you're basically just left getting chased around the area until the animation/mechanic lock FINALLY expires

NOT ENOUGH TIME TO DO ANYTHING - This is the major problem with having TURN-BASED controls & mechanics in a REAL-TIME combat system. When an enemy is about to perform an attack, there's not enough time to react. Sometimes, there's just no warning at all! Can't defend at all

BUFFS - As cool as buffs are in games, increasing stats and such, it's hecked me over SO MANY TIMES. When you get buffed by the Esther AI, you GET STOPPED DEAD IN YOUR TRACKS. So when I'm running away with 1hp, I get stopped dead in my tracks for a whole second and then DIE!!

SITTING DUCK - This is typical in games, but in Ni No Kuni in particular, it's really bad. Casting spells or using certain provision items will leave you as a sitting duck for WAYYYY too long. I get the whole 'animation-lock' mechanics, but in this game, it was just RLY bad. Sometimes I'd cast a spell at horrible timing, just to get interrupted. Can't defend or cancel, can't predict, can't do anything!

INTERRUPTIONS - There are special ability animations for certain abilities. So often when I was trying to do something, like heal or steal, I'd get interrupted by an enemy's ability animation/cutscene. When it finished, I'd have to SCROLL BACK AND RE-SELECT WHAT I WAS TRYING TO DO, only to be interrupted AGAIN

CHARACTER AI - They suck. Errybody is stupid in this. Esther blows thru all her godam MP just healing me when I take 1hp of damage, constantly buffing, etc. Swaine doesn't do anything but takes a lot of damage. Oliver just uses all his most powerful spells, extremely expensive spells.. 4th character did nothing smh. You can change all AI tactics, but then you're left having to control all characters.. In a real-time combat system

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Overall, the combat system just doesn't work. It's so extremely flawed. It should've just been turned based like the OG NintendoDS version. Instead, we got this rage-inducing combat system that doesn't know if it wants to be turn-based or real-time

After witnessing Ni No Kuni II combat system, it's relieving to know they ditched the stupid 'Familiar' system, but it also sucks they just made it a generic, button-mashing hack n slash. I just hope completing it isn't a flippin' chore like this game

The terrific art and great music cannot save this sub par RPG. The story, dialog, and voice acting are some of the worst I've experienced in role playing games. The combat feels like they tried to mash action and turn based together, and it just doesn't work. It falls in this middle area where you wish it would have just chosen one style over the other. There are sharp difficulty spikes when you need to grind out levels, which can be a fine and necessary part of any RPG, but with the slow, sluggish, boring, combat, it really turns the level grinding into an absolute slog. With so many great RPGs to play out there, this one is, unfortunately, one you should pass on.

This Game is such a Beautiful game. I really enjoyed playing it. I hope they will a Sequell to Ni no kuni 2, a NI NO KUNI 3.😎

A solid JRPG worth sinking a hundred hours into. The game has a very "old school" approach in terms of its overall experience where you are set to journey all over a vast and well-fleshed out world with a lot of interesting secrets and locations. It is worth noting though that some of the mechanics are clunky and tedious. Combat, for one, has a lot of issues such as a clumsy interface, buggy hybrid turn-based system, and very basic AI tactics system. That said, it's not a bad system just not a great one which is further exacerbated by the fact that they have some ideas that felt quite promising and just needed some refinement. The main core of the game relies on a familiar system where you go around the world to tame wild monster which you can then use as familiars/minions during battles. In paper, it all sounds great, however, the mechanics of "actually" taking care and developing these minions get tedious even at the earlier stages of the game (sitting 10 minutes mashing the feed button to get all my familiars fully fed is not fun).

The game's story is nothing new or unique, but how the game actually executes it is what makes it captivating. Needless to say, the game's presentation is very well done. Drawn animated cutscenes, art style/design, and music combines to create a very beautiful and magical experience. A part of me still hopes that there was more animated cutscenes though. Where the game truly shines though is in its worldbuilding. The overall design and narrative of the world is just so enchanting that you just can't help but want to spend more time grinding and traversing the world to uncover its lore, and before you know it you just sank almost 100 hours into a game that would've been completed 60 hours ago. An easy recommend especially since this game is more often than not in a state of forever deep sale at this point.

I have been enjoying this game so far! It feels very much a throwback to a bygone era of JRPGs that managed to have a lot to do without being super over the top.

It does feel like it takes a while to get going, and Drippy can be really annoying early on, but once you get past that it starts being pretty cool.

The Steam Deck rating is misleading, though. There are some interface issues, and a problem with the familiar retreat that seems like it can softlock the game. It's definitely playable, but I would recommend saving often.

A real masterpiece. Fans of JRPGs will love it.

very awesome and amazing game!! hope theres a part 2 of the wrath of the white witch

I dont know what to say for this but. I played this game when it was still on the ps3 as a small child and it fundementally changed by brain chemistry forever. If you were to ask me what piece of media you need to experience to fully understand me as a person, it would be this. I probably have over a thousand hours in my copy on the ps3 and Im still not sick of it. It may be the autism and the special interest but still. play this game, more people need to know about it .

This game has a good story to it. kinda pokemon essence to it and fun battle system.

Os gráficos são lindos e a história é cativante, apesar de ser um pouco demorada de se avançar.

I LOVE THIS GAME I LOVE THIS GAME I LOVE THIS GAME I LOVE THIS GAME!!! I used to watch stampylongnose play this growing up so I'm so glad I get to experience this on the PC port. This is genuinely my favourite game. The characters are funny and lovable, the game is breathtaking with visuals from THE Studio Ghibli... it's often on sale, so do try and grab it cheaper (I got it for £7ish i think). It's a bit boring at times because JRPGs can get repetitive, but it makes it cosy and easy to play after a long day. Feels like a warm hug.

I don't like JRPGs, but I really tried on this one because a friend told me that it was one of the best and a good entry point to the genre. After 44 hours, it became clear to me that the mechanics, tone, and massive amount of fetch quests that comprise JRPGs are just not something I can power through. It's just boring and annoying to me. If you are looking for a JRPG to finally get you past the threshold like I was, I can say this is not the one to do it friend.

This game is beautiful. The Studio Ghibli animation blends perfectly with the cell-shaded graphics. The story is your typical hero saves the world but the way it does it is unique. The music is amazing, although the battle theme does get annoying after awhile. Combat is real time with pauses when you open a menu. Get your favorite podcast ready because this game requires ALOT of grinding. Before every major plot point you are required to grind the area to be able to face the boss. The game could have been 10 hours shorter with better monster leveling. Overall, it's a journey worth taking.

Thanks to this game my childhood was amazing,
soundtrack good story awesome,
made me cry.

bro this was one of my childhood games

Good game

Whenever someone asks me what are my favourite games the same three come to mind: The Legend of Zelda Wind Waker, Super Mario Galaxy and Ni No Kuni Wrath of the White Witch. I've always been a fan of Miyazaki's movies and playing this games feels like being thrown right into one of his works. Everything from the graphics to the music to the story reminds me of Studio Ghibli.

GRAPHICS: Even though the game came out some time ago, the stylized cell shaded still holds up very well. Especially thanks to the great texture work made in collaboration with the studio ghibli artists.

MUSIC: The ost is composed by the master himself: Joe Hisahishi. He is the composer for studio ghibli and nothing can be said about the music he makes. It's just masterful

GAMEPLAY: I was never a fan of turn based combat, especially at the age I played this game. But Ni No Kuni tries to put a spin on this genre by combining it with some real time mechanics (like the need to defend at the right time or the ability to run around to collect mana) that allows the fights to feel very engaging. You can also give members of your team different task during the combat like heal, attack, defend yourself, that really enables you to play as you wish.

STORY: What really struck me about this game was its story. The character you play is very likeable, and the supporting cast is great. Everyone adds something unique to the team and you will end up feeling very attatched to all of them. I won't spoil anything, but this was the game the tought my teenager self how to cry again. The story can be heartbreaking and touching, but will also fill you with joy.

CONCLUSION: If you like the movies from Studio Ghibli, this game is for you, if you like good story drivven games, this game is for you, if you like games that feel like anime, this game is for you, if you don't like turned based combat, I suggest to still give this game a try, the fights will be much more fun than you might think.

(steam will show that I played this game fromo 0 hours, but I promised I've beaten it on the original PS3 version)

Amazing game. As a Steam Deck on Windows user (not sure if the issue exists on Linux), there's a UI glitch where the dpad button prompts don't show correctly. Other than that inconvenience, no issues.

Nostalgic feels like I'm playing again with my old PS2, an all time classic game for me!

i played this alot on PS3, so it's another nice j-rpg, level-5 has some gems out there
they should just Remaster dark chronicle and rogue galaxy and port them on PC too

yesssss. bring me back to golden age of gaming

66hr9m to 100% this game, and it was miserable the whole way through.

I do not understand the love for WotWW and hate for Ni No Kuni 2, which was worth every single second of it's 100% playthrough.

Even the mobile game has a better story, better characters, better combat, better familiars, BETTER EVERYTHING.

If this game wasn't Studio Ghibli, I guarantee no one would nostalgia glaze it, but the art tricks people into looking past the god awful gameplay.

Yes

I really wanted to love this game - I'm not a big challenge-seeker, I love pretty art and I adore RPGs - but sadly, this one didn't resonate with me even after 15 hours. The writing and story were underwhelming, the gameplay (especially combat) did not spark joy, and even the promise of beautiful art and cutscenes were not enough to keep me invested. Unfortunate!