Ya, you right. Also another thing that happens a little later on is the menuing becomes so bloated that you spend no joke 70% of your time just clicking through them to collect rewards. I can literally feel my brain short circuiting, And it's obvious that it's meant to shower you with as many rewards as possible and keep you in the app for as long as possible.
aw man, I haven't tried this game yet but thats why I don't play bdo mobile. Exactly like you said, everytime I sign on I have to do too much menu navigation through a multitude of various rewards and other notifications. Inventory becomes cluttered with items I haven't learned about because I haven't got a chance to play. By the time I'm finished collecting everything and organizing it all trying not to waste anything rare going to deposit into my filled up warehouse I don't feel like playing by then. lol UI is almost always way too cluttered in these mobile games. We need way more control over what is visible while gaming and developers need to stop leaving every menu right in the gameplay UI screen. Disappointing these games are more character and inventory maintenance rather than playing and enjoying the content created.
@@bryanable9813 as a person who played both BDO mobile and NNK CW for a brief amount of time... If you think BDO is cluttered, then you'd suffer a stroke from this game. Abhorrent, boring, and the lack of quality of life features hurts a lot alongside the already bloated and hard-to-navigate UI, shitty servers and matchmaking, and clunky combat system. Is it really so hard to put in a feature to customize the battle tool to make the buttons bigger? Apparently so; better add a feature to make the players auto grind instead because no one would play this shitty game unless it plays itself And as a fan of MMOs, the grinding here is so damn tedious. At level 30, you pop your phone off and make the game grind for hours, and you'd still be at the same level because monsters give negligible exp and you can only level up by doing these boring ass quests. (For context: Average enemies that can kill me after 2 minutes of grinding gives you 30 exp. I think by level 25 or so, you need around a million exp to get to the next level)
@@coffeeandkeyboards8361 i hope you realize that you're not supposed to grind mobs for XP but you grind specific mobs for collection CP/stat bonus. The game literally tells you that.
Now this is the most accurate review. I'm only using my mouse just to click some buttons and there's no really action needed because "it plays the game for you".
@@azur-faery5931 congratulations, that means you're essentially not capable of playing the game till level 30... How long does that take mind you? If it's more than 30 minutes, nobody's going to bother, as a 30 minute tutorial where you do nothing isn't fun. And judging by the fact it's an mmo, it's probably more like a few hours right?
2 was also good the gameplay of 2 is objectively better than 1 but the story is worse. Its not as bad as this guy made it seem tho. It has the elements of a good story but its just poorly excueted.That probably because of all that kingdom building bloat if that was slimmed down or made ACTUALLY more relavent to the game than the game would be leagued better than one(also the little pikmon shits needs to be deleted its actually just compelety boring and uninspired they shouldve brought back the familiars instead
Exactly! It's such a shame that mobile game developers even use franchises we love, give it attractive graphic designs, flashy effects, and create an autoplay game. Game plays the game for you. What's the point of installing the game then. Thanks for this review!
Gacha games are about collecting characters, building them up, battling other players, and buying skins for them to wear. This games has no good waifu.
Netmarble's games are deliberately designed with autoplay in mind, grinding doesn't have to require you to look at your phone 24/7 and can be fun and engaging. But in most of Netmarble's game, grinding are useless, takes forever, boring, and doesn't engage you at all since it plays itself. This is actually true for almost all of their game. Honestly, if a game is being developed by Netmarble, just avoid it. Of course if you just want a game that plays itself for you, then sure, they might be your cup of tea.
Started playing this game cause of the drought content in Genshin Super beautiful game but the combat system and terrible UI/UX made it difficult to be immersed. I felt so disconnected cause everything is practically being done for me. I have gotten so used to Honkai/Genshin’s combat system that this game feels like a downgrade
U should try playing punishing gray raven by kuro games if u like honkai, that game is f2p friendly and it requires skill instead of whaling. There's also various endgame contents every patch
I started playing this game because I saw a trailer and thought Genshin would finally get some competition. I uninstalled it shortly after and never want to touch it again. I tried not doing the autoplay, but as said in the video the controls are terrible.
@@lucidragon5260Literally the controls are fine- you just have to get used to them on pc the battle mechanics are very reminiscent of dungeon siege 3 imo
You play fate grand order? Now that's a game that keeps you busy with events & there's a lot of strategy to the challenge quests especially cause its turn based
Can agree, movement feels like one of those point and click rpg games on pc, movement and combat is off. However environments, art, and the fact that there's great voice acting is all amazing
This is what happened when you take a game from a developer with passion and give them to a mobile developer who thinks with money. This game is "a turd encased with golden sheet"
@@abdelrahmanesam6625 lol. I've played the game. And I've played ff14, played wow, played lost ark, etc. And no, it's far from those game. What are you on to clown?
This game appeals to the chinese gaming market, and "tiktok" people. High satisfaction (rewards, power, loot) and low effort. This game doesnt require your full attention, as a lot of kids in our generation are used to 15-60 seconds of content, and then something different.
I honestly like this game, but for specific reasons. Since this game is a mobile game, I play it like a mobile game. I put it on my second monitor and do other stuff on my main monitor. It's a great game to play while multitasking, because a lot of this game plays itself. There is fun to be had with field bosses, world bosses, PVP, and account progression. There's also so many collectables to obtain. A big thing for me is that I haven't felt the need to spend any money, because you can craft or obtain almost anything instead of using the gacha system. The gacha is just a bonus that speeds up progress. I also joined a guild which adds so much to this game. I do admit there's some scummy stuff in this game, but I've also been playing it 6 days straight because I like playing it. There's a lot of other people having fun too.
I agree with most of this. But honestly the amount of daily grind and notifications to click to get tiny reward a million times per day is insane. I was having fun over the weekend but I'm already exhausted by it. I think the game is getting a lot of wrong criticism honestly, but it still has major flaws, the microtransactions are needlessly hyper aggressive and the manipulation with rewards constantly fed to the player is stupid.
Yeah, it's fun for the first 3 days until that queue started because there's too many players in 1 server. I'm just annoyed that because of that long queue, I can't even play for 2 days straight now. Wish they'd just remove the queue and just fix the problems. I guess that too many players started afk farming causing them to make such horrendous queue(limiting players?really?). Overall, this game is 1/10. Literally unplayable.
@@falkarios2944 Asia. What's more intriguing is that pc users don't have to wait in queue like mobile users because my friend is playing on pc.(he did told me there's no queue while I'm waiting in queue with 700+ players waiting)
the world looks beautiful, it's truly a shame. but like you said, free mmo along with mobile games really isn't a good mix. thank you for this video! it saved me from wasting a lot of time prepping and installing.
6:36 only 50 crystals once per day is easily obtainable f2p, but I get your point with the cosmetics, as well as the game removing your ability to really battle on your own
I have not spent a single dime in this game and obtained cool looking costumes and you can craft them with materials. only some costumes are hidden behinde medals you receive in pvp and pvp is heavy pay to win. Some functions have limited daily uses and can be increased by spending gems again. I have not spent any money in this game and kind of enjoy i but i have to agree its not a real game at this point. Same goes for all these gacha games on mobile. Some people enjoy it and some dont and i can easily see why
Nah bruh you're going to realize later on by playing the game it's actually not that bad. Demone Kim had the same first impressions as you and this guy but now he's actually having fun and making content about the game.
I think the point of Ni no kuni is gear and familiar management to get the highest cp possible while auto playing the game with your maximized character. All a player needs to do is power up the right euipment, mount, or familiar etc. efficiently. There's also so many little rewards to gratify the dopamine difficinet ADHD brain. The pretty graphics is very soothing and watching the game play itself is quite relaxing. If you are busy, it can also become an idle game. It's not as bad as your narrative makes it seem. Edit: this is from the perspective of playing it on the latest flagship phone. I can imagine it being really boring on the PC. Mobile gaming is built different tho.
wow, i heard that the game had a lot of auto, but i didnt know it was THIS bad. a shame, i loved both ni no kuni games so much :( thanks for the review! you've saved me some time and disappointment
@@benafleck7310 the problem is that the game was built around these auto features. If you turn them off the game feels clunky. En plus we got some "nice" new features introduced. CRYPTO, BOTS, etc. A premium pass for an exclusiv queue. Because without it you can't play the game...
Level 5 should be given an award for the amount of recycling they did in this game. Story, characters, character models, music and gameplay. I love both White witch and Revenant kingdom so I’m disappointed this game was so bad. Don’t even get me started on the fact that there’s both crypto and gacha in it.
I spent the last week "playing" this game while doing my homeworks and im already on lvl 43 doing nothing lol yesterday i had some free time and wanted to play myself but i got bored after 10 minutes watching the game playing itself 😅 i even tried to go in combat but i hate how you cant spring and the roll to dodge has a countdown lol
Dude I think I’m gonna quit this game. I hate when a game just lets people pay their way to progress. There are already people who are above lvl 55, just because they paid. That is just trash. It creates an imbalance where the people who paid their way to the top get best rewards consistently. Putting a huge gap between f2p players and whales. That creates a toxic environment of bullying and narcissism, with one team of people controlling every aspect of the game. That’s wack. Sick of games like that.
Lol do you. It’s not for me. Plus territe a system that blocks growth is something that can also be paid with real money. That is insane. Something that is a necessary step for every single character to upgrade their gears, is restricted behind a pay wall.
Sad part is if they took all the pay to win out, auto pathing and allowed for crafting those outfits I could have seriously dropped 15 a month on this game as a serious MMO with that studio ghibli anime look. Same issue I had with Genshin Impact. I try the game for free then the freemium stuff gets in the way of my enjoyment and instead of spending money I just give up. At least genshin had fun characters and a ok pity system that gave out gems regularly.
It's difficult to compare these two games as one is an mmo (Ni No Kuni) and one is a mostly single-player story rpg (Genshin Impact). You have different expectations of an mmo which Ni No Kuni unfortunately does not meet. It reminds me a lot of those FB games that plays itself and throws rewards at you to keep you hooked.
The CP system is an old school system typical of korean mobile games. The game basically dumbs down the combat system as who has the better bulk stats. Better stats will invalidate any attempt for outplay lol. Classes does not matter, its like a priest with outrageous amount of stats can clobber a knight to death
Of course, just like a level 60 would beat a level 40 in any other game. Numbers go up...But when you are evenly matched, ability order, cooldowns, evasion, positioning, all matter aka outplay material.
Imagine ni no Kuni 1 with ni no Kuni 2's gameplay. That would have been really cool since the only real flaw i have with ni no Kuni is that it can feel like a press-X-button-every-4-seconds simulator on non boss battles, so that would have been really fun
Damn, a lot of comments dunking on you here but I must say as someone who played this, some other games like this, this review is very true Combat is bland and shallow even if you can turn off auto because it's clearly designed around auto. The whole game is like this. There's an excuse that "You can turn off auto!!" that might make the game a little better but frankly, the game is still designed around having auto on People always say 'auto is good for grinding' but like.. the parts where the game is supposed to introduced you into its beautiful world and scenery, literally all auto. No exploration. Quests and plot and exploring aren't supposed to be 'grinding' These maps were designed to be walked passed with auto on, not explored. Maybe there's not much to be explored after all for a so-called open world MMO Also people calling you out for reviewing while not playing much of the game but they'll also say "If you don't like it then don't play it!" You'll be called a madman if you play for like 100 hours and give a negative review like this lmao there's no winning
Saying the game is not designed to be explored is pretty untrue. A big CP booster is Records like Soulstone, Vistas and Chests and these require you to go searching open world for them. Some regional chests require you to run around the world daily to find them. You can't auto these things. And discovering vistas gives you a cinematic view of some of the more beautiful areas of the maps. Also going around taming familiars is a completely manual explore process. I think there are many ways and options to play this game and while auto seems to be the main way to get through questlines to level up quickly and gain CP fast to be competitive, not everyone plays for the competitive experience. There are still many ways to explore the world at leisure and rewards for doing so. (I do agree that the movement and skill mechanics are super clunky but way better if you use a pc instead of phone)
I'm a lvl 32 roque I still like the game you can just turn off the autopath mode if you want to I'm glad the auto path option is there so I can roll my joint and still play at the same time I liked the story felt like a movie for me
Bro same it weirded meout at first but then I was like ya know what? Why would I want to grind with my hands for 2 hrs when I can just auto grind. Why would I bother holding a key down to walk when I can just auto. Like your training up a character rather than trying to be the character. Your upgrading his gear ect not your gear. Idk it's a differant concept but I love sitting back chopping up and having a sesh while I go through autoing my quests or whatever 👌😎🤙
This game only have 1.7/5.0 rating on Asia mobile server,And I played this game year ago on Asia server, i definitely know how bad this game is than you
@@dashbry In the setting under the battle tab, there is an option "Counter when attacked" or something like that. Turn it off and it should fix what you mean iirc.
As someone who has not played the other ni no kuni games and didnt even know of them until recently i honestly really enjoyed this game so far my only probably with it was the controls and unskippable text that you can later skip on other characters. BUT I have been playing it a lot recently and honestly really enjoying it super fun from what i've seen although its called ni no kuni this doesnt feel like the type of game that can be compared to the other two.
A lot of music is from the first ni no kuni game, which I like. I don’t like how everything is AI controlled, and how you can’t pick up items inside the worlds.
as an aside I think I heard about NFTs also being implemented into the game? which, uh, god no. also in classic netmarble fashion, complaining about these kind of things on their discord will likely get you banned
@@chasefray Bruh dont believe this guy who just played it for 5 minutes. There is a lot more. The world is massive and it is very fun to play with friends. I am lvl 45 and I can say that me and my friends are actually having fun playing and doing bosses.
Bro so many dumb people here, guess it fits their braincell power when it comes to auto mmo games. Calling dodging telegraphs a "manual play" lmao. They could have had resources grind for auto then manual play to get immersed with story and any challenging content, but game is designed to play mostly on auto with just some dodging. Turning all auto features off doesn't make the game any better as it's manual play is clunky and incomplete. I don't like Genshin but I keep seeing people comparing this to Genshin, that's so unfair when one game requires ability and full manual play.
I also keep seeing comments where they're saying that it gets better after a certain amount of time or level,like,i thought games were supposed to hook you in from the start.
I mean. They’re both mobile games, ofcourse they will be compared. Hoyoverse needs a lot of improvements in their game and they can’t do that if they don’t have a good competitor. So far, no game has come close Genshin’s overall performance on mobile. The only competitor Hoyoverse have is against their own games lol
@@BigotíndeLeche nope, still a fair comparison cause they’re both open world rpgs, story driven, have a gacha system, co-op and character building. The only difference is the combat system which Genshin remains to be better at. Don’t forget Genshin changed the expectations and perception of mobile games in the market and still remains at the top. Ofcourse people would compare it with Ni No Kuni because we WANT a good competitor against Genshin. Also COD and RE can’t be compared cause they’re both drastically different. Genshin and Ni No Kuni are not, they’re practically in a similar category.
Click on the mission and you can cancel the auto run and fight. Under settings you can turn off auto attack n ability too. Play the game again you might get a different feel with new settings
I did this but the combat wasn't fun or easy at all. There didn't seem to be any s, and the movement felt clunky. Plus I was playing ranged and it just wasn't fun for the enemies to crowd close to me. Maybe I was expecting too much after getting used to Genshin controls, but this game didn't feel good to play unless it was on auto.
i completely agree with you. i havent played any other ni no kuni game before but i was excited to try this one out cause it looked gorgeous. and then i try it out and realize the game plays itself. whats even the point then? by the time i figured out how to turn auto combat off i thought why would i make it harder for myself if i dont need to. that wouldnt even be a thought if auto combat wasnt an option in the first place and gameplay would be a lot more fun, no, gameplay would actually exist.
Hello! As a nnk player since almost two years, I agree with some things here. But tbh, it’s as p2w as other p2w games. About the green pot that you can buy with blue diamonds, these diamonds are massively f2p obtainable. Also, you can just remove the auto combat if you need, as a support I need to control my skills to buff my team, I agree about the fact that the controls sucks a lot, but you can still play without auto combat. Honestly that’s a game you play if you enjoy Ghibli universe, and if you enjoy guild related content. Also, the auto play is really good for people who are usually not able to play classic games because of physical disabilities. In my guild there are players who were able to play video games before, but since an accident they are not able to enjoy games anymore. That game makes them happy because they found a way to enjoy video games even with their physical disabilities.
I agree. As someone who just want to enjoy the game, I would say I'm dissapointed. The graphics are good, the stories are somehow interesting, and cut-scenes are amazing, but the automation of the quests is just lame. It's like you're playing but you're not.
The problem with Auto-play turn on and off is that you know that even if you turn off the auto play Other Players are still using it. And 4 year olds are playing the mmo that you thought will give some challenge to you.
I rate it 5/10 just because it has NFTs and it's because netmarble is a scummy company. But I'm still playing this because of my friends. The story is surprisingly good and the graphics are clean. Also it's not really 100% auto play like y'all think. At the beginning it definitely is but once you get into level 30 and above that's where it starts to get difficult specially if your CP(combat power) is much lower than the recommended. Of course everything can be solved using money but if you're a F2P player like me you definitely can't auto the harder stages unless you grind hard to power up your equipments so you can reach the CP requirements. If you don't believe me then try to beat a stage with a CP requirement 100k higher than you and see if you can beat it with auto. I bet you can't!
@@thatguybis1997 Huh? What do you mean? It only took me an hour to reach level 30, some even did it less. Did you really tried the game? All gacha games are very easy at the beginning and once you progress further then it gets more difficult. The same logic applies to this game since it's still a gacha game while also being an mmo. Don't tell me you want dark souls difficulty right off the bat? 🤦♀️
@@thatguybis1997 I really think the gameplay isn't really the main problem of this game. You shouldn't be even surprised that it's an auto play game because 99.9% of mobile mmo's are like this "auto path, auto play, red dot simulator mobile mmo --FG3000" that we see constantly on the playstore. For me the fun on mmo's are joining guilds and making friends and y'all will go farming together in a dungeon. Otherwise playing this game alone will bored you out. For me the main problem of this game is it's horrible monetization. It has 3 types of gacha currency and with how little gems you get from doing quests it'll take you months or years before you can pull or hit pity in the banner. Of course there's a F2P way to get those like crafting and hatching eggs but the rates on those are much lower than doing a gacha. That's why despite the story being good I can't rate it higher than 5 lol
@@thatguybis1997 a lot of us just don’t care 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♀️ to each their own and I get why if you’re regular gamer that it’d be annoying but for some of us that we just sorta kinda maybe play games here n there…some of us aren’t bothered by that mechanic 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♀️ I play ffxiv and this and FFCCRE. That’s it so idk I wasn’t too bothered but again I get y it might be annoying to some
I like the game but I dislike the idea that they will put NFT in this game. If many players will play this game just becoz it has "nft" and the idea of "play to earn", I will stop playing this game. I hope people will play this game not becoz of "NFT" but becoz they want the game. This will be the same as MIR4 if that happen.
I don't mind auto pathing for a mobile MMO as navigation on mobile isn't great most of the time. What I do mind is the auto everything. Auto questing, auto combat, auto completion. I want to play the game and it does it all for you. I even tried to turn it off and had so much trouble doing so. This was a while back so I can't remember if it was bugged or you legit don't have an option to (... or it kept turning itself back on), but this basically killed it for me. What were they thinking when they did this? Ni No Kuni is such a fun game series and they basically ruined it by making their 3rd entry the unholy trinity of gaming and on top of that make it so its nearly impossible for you to actually play the game instead of it doing it for you. I was very bitter, because the graphics, jokes, and story 1.) Show that this is very much a continuation of the Ni No Kuni world/story (not just some separate thing... even if its a bit gimmicky), but 2.) Also show that they actually put effort into making it an actual Ni No Kuni game instead of just saying that it was a game in the series and making it nothing like it.
This is what I feared. I played for a few minutes then just felt it was a shame. I could see some of the developers making the game did actually make an effort, the cutscenes were great and they immersed me into the story but the auto battling... Yea it just takes away the experience.
I love Korean mmorpgs and I love the auto feature in this game because I don't even have to do anything to endlessly farm without using some bot or cheat engine.
I just find this whole game frustrating. Frankly, the fact that it's a mobile game really wasn't really an issue for me. There are a couple of mobile MMORPGs that I enjoy and have fun with. I really just didn't have fun when I started. I didn't really like the story, as it felt like a poorly written y/n SAO fanfic set in the ni no kuni world more than anything else. (but Chloe is a queen, and no one can tell me otherwise.) The gameplay is very superficial. The combat feels like it was just made for autoplay, and even if you turn it off, it's still just waiting for your skills to cool down, and rolling from time to time. Its not that fun, and there's really no point in doing it. Also, I hate what they did with the familiars Combat wise. I think it's mostly just to declutter the game, (but how well did that go, hm?) But the thing is, familiars were a big part of the first game's combat system, having their own unique set of skills, and genuinely being a good option for battle. What they did here (and with Solomon, god bless his soul) just feels, once again, superficial. As if it's just a callback to something that was actually fun, but not really anything more. There are certain things that you can't use autoplay to do, and I think it's important to acknowledge them. But this is also an issue for me, as it feels very inconsistent, as if the game doesn't know what it wants to be. Can I set my phone down and watch the game progress like a movie, or do I have to be hands on? Trying to have it both ways just makes the gameplay inconsistent and janky. To put it in perspective, it feels like an early 2000's anime mmorpg game, where the player is the least important part of the game. (the most important part being the player's wallet.) Which, danm that is some nostalgia I did not expect from this game. XD It's the same thing for character customization, as in, it is entirely pointless. The options are already genderlocked... and... model locked (as in you can't even change your height, and if the character has cat ears, a beard, or is a loli, have fun with that. Because you're stuck with it whether you like it or not.) I know it's a superfical complaint. But honestly, I wish they just scrapped character customization all together, and just gave the playable characters... some personality. It was a charming aspect of the original games, and might have legitimately saved the game for me. But having cluu talk for your character because they're a mute is just... I find it grating, and it just disconnects me from whatever it is that I'm supposed to do. It killed the game for me, and really just made it a chore to play. ...maybe that's just me, but at the end of the day I feel how I feel. Lol It really sucks, because I wanted to like the game. I was really excited when it was announced, because I honestly thought when I pre-registered it would either try to make the player a part of the world, or add new and compelling protagonists (well, about as compelling they can be for an mmo, LOL). And I just feel sad, because neither of those things were given, (well, more of a Frankenstein of the two) and it makes it hard to be invested. Maybe my expectations are the issue. To whoever is reading this, If you are having fun with this game, awesome. Ni no Kuni is a great franchise, and I hope you continue to have fun. I just... didn't.
🌸😼I must wholeheartedly (albeit respectfully) disagree with your assessment as I have enjoyed my experience within Ni No Kuni Cross World’s and am one that preferences Mobile over PC. It story and dialogue are impressive, it’s aesthetics are gorgeous (as expected), and it yields a wealth of content by which one can truly sink their teeth into. I am not bothered as you are by the auto nor the ease of content near the beginning phase of the title for it gets progressively more difficult as one goes along and auto can’t be counted on later. It too could always be turned off and though you expressed “why would one pass up its convenience should it be available”, I would utter “ if one is truly against it, why use it at all”? I know not what woe’s the PC community experiences as again I do not preference PC for my MMO experience, but I do hope it is solved for those of you that do. I am to subscribe despite being at odds with your opinion here for I enjoyed the upload nonetheless.😼🌸
One more thing that i really hate is that they only talk to cluu and my character could rarely interact in a story, like why?! It would've been more fun if they didnt do that 😭
Making a game review with only progressing till level 5😂. Like judging a book by it's cover. I thought you reach atleast level 30 or something. Let me ask how long is your play time at the game?
really ? cause im lvl 23 and it doesn't get any better i want to play this game but i eventually want to get to a point that i need to play myself and its more skilled based then just clicking on the quest and it auto do it even the combat stuff
Old Mobile mmorpg games are wayyyyy much better than now.. idk why but now everything seems auto and boring + the ads is stupid "enter code xxx and you got legendary" like wtf??
I undersrand the negative criticism and I don't blame you. There is a new wave of games like this that has entered the gaming industry and many big companies are entering it. It's no question that this game doesn't pivot to those in traditional MMO style games but it is a game within this 'new genre' of gaming that is much cleaner than others in the market. So the comparison is apples and oranges in most cases... but zooming in, this game is quite cleaner than most. Right now, blizzard Diablo immortals take the cake for most absurd pay 2 win mobile games. Let's count our blessings.
100% agree. Deleted it after three days. Didn’t even had the urge to play a lot either. Ended at lvl 30. It’s auto play ruin it. And the aggressive time limited micro transactions.
I played it like 3 times but I had to stop playing. I felt the game did everything for me. It was boring. The missions were uninspiring and boring. I hope they improve the game because it has potential.
If everyone hates auto play so much why do they even put them in the game then To be honest I was still going to play the game even after hearing about the stress in signing in or the bad controls. Where I got totally discouraged is just that word autoplay
Don't believe anyone about the bullshit they're saying about the game "needing you to not use auto" during the games endgame. What they're actually saying is "You need to dodge a big flashy aoe, kite some mobs maybe, and use your abilities on cooldown (which auto does) to get the most out of your DPS" which by the way is completely fucking braindead to do if you've ever played a game before in your entire life. The game has no other substance other than being massively pay to win. It doesn't even try to hide it. These peoples idea of a "video game" is "dodging sometimes" when "things are kind of harder". It's an idle auto-game, and those sections that require your attention only require about 1/3rd of a brain cell to do. Woopty doo. I dodged an aoe. *proceeds to auto attack after one single dodge*.
I played a ton of these mobile MMORPGs like Tales of Wind, Guardians of Cloudia, Black Desert, Marvel Future Revolution, Seven Knights 2 and what not. They need to have auto for convenience because people are playing this while they do something else. And that doesn't last long either because later on they usually throw a bazillion PvP modes at u and the bosses will clap your cheeks if u stand in red circles with auto. Ofc these games are P2W af it's a mobile game.
If they all need to have auto because people are doing something else, then should you really even be playing a video game? And because all mobile games are P2W it’s cool that this one is as well? Wow.
Really ruins the point of "playing" a game does it? It's not for convenience. It's stupid lazy design. The convenience part comes AFTER because you know the game plays itself, so you do something else.
Thank you. What you said was right. A GAME should be playable, not watchable. It must be engaging. Automated games these days, they really pisses me off.
Superprisim made a gatcha game called kingsense telling people to leave a good review for the game to get in game stuff and got in trouble now ni no kuni is doing it to ugh..
it is actually a good game, if u want engagment do the world bosses, field bosses, dimenstional border, pvp, larva vally. list goes on. i also like that i can afk farm stuff, it is a shame that its pretty pay to win seeing as there a some players who have 1.5mil combat power while i have only 300k
True story. I was searching their website for maybe an hour to just REGISTER. After those painful and full of confusion moments finally downloaded this shit on mobile device. Oh wait... I can't play because I also need to create chara on my phone... At this point, why they even created the PC launcher? Even the game controls are mobile. I left for a moment to grab some food and to *pat pat* my parrots... oh wow, my character is just running and fighting BY HIMSELF now. Does this game even need me to be here? Really hoped for a next good game I could play for a long tome but it sadly ended with ALT F4 and uninstall very quick.
Quit if you guys wanna quit, I'm playing this while im doing my work so that I can save some money to pay for my school. After all this is a NFT game. They designed like that because it's a NFT mmorpg game and fyi they dont give a shit if you're complaining about the game since they care for only those player who invested their time and money for it.
You can turn off the Auto-Battle feature. You can actually turn off all the auto features but the auto-battle settings in the settings won't turn off the auto ability usage. You have to turn it off from the HUD
Only in biss battles it makes sense to dodge every attack. And that's the only fun part of the actual gameplay. And yeah, the soundtrack is really good and the story also. But there are way too many text boxes. And there are so many unnecessary moments.
I really wish Genshin had a good competitor but I tried so many “open world” rpgs and no one has come close to Genshin’s quality of gameplay and graphics
This is the most hand holdy fucking game I’ve ever played, it’s like it was made for toddlers. If I wanted to be treated like a baby I’d join a weird age-play group on Facebook
This is just a reskin of Dragon Raja, a chinese game, which explains alot. They have amazing artists and animators but terrible developers who think cluttering the UI means DEPTH. It's mind boggling what potential goes to waste these days.
Unselecting turns off auto story progression. To turn off auto battle completely you go into system settings and turn off "auto counter". There's also crossed swords near the familiar ui, that can toggle auto battle on/basic/off! It's important to know as some missions have rewards for not using auto battle, not using skills, challenges for extra rewards for completion with only basic attacks, etc.
First of all, the servers are literally full at certain times, which is undoubtedly times where people are gaming, starts full at 7pm UTC+8 and reaches its climax where the queue you've to wait is 800 players at around 10pm UTC+8! It's horrendously long, I've tried waiting once for an hour and more just to fken login the game!; another time is around the daily reset times, 2pm UTC+8, but it's not as long as at night (200-ish queues). You can, however, workaround this by logging in beforehand and just activate AI mode, the server still counts you logged in, therefore you can get back in the game whenever before your AI mode time runs out and directly enter the game without queueing (if there's one). Second reason I quitted the game is because the grinds are ridiculous, you can speed through 0 to 200k CP in less than a week easily, but once you hit 300k and above, you'll realise that territe ~the second currency that can be exchanged for crypto~ is required for most of the upgrades. The currency itself can be obtained from dailies (50/day) or you can grind ingame for 4 hrs just to get around 40 at most I've gotten. Meanwhile, the amount required to upgrade one equipment is at least 50 or its multiple, it's just annoyingly too many. You either choose to exchange them for a minimal of 300 to a crypto and sacrifice your progress (which I didn't do since it's too many and I'm not a miner) or the opposite. Final words, it's not that friendly for F2P players, you progress very very slowly since you're getting bottlenecked by the exchangeable currency that breaks the game, meanwhile your enemies keeps getting tougher. If you're a miner, yes, you can mine in this game, and it's quite the value too. However, keep in mind that if your level gap (which will increase as you grind more) between the monsters are high, your drops are significantly decreased and you may won't be getting anything, therefore forcing you to play the game properly. In the end, the game's as it claims to be, a play to earn... or play to waste time.
I hate auto play or auto battle as a combat system in a game. Like what’s the point?. I’m not doing anything. I’m just watching like it’s a movie just doing nothing 😭
autopath feature always spoil the fun in games. They should replace it with markers on map, so players can roam free and more adventure experience. As for leveling they can introduce the idling/auto atk mode on monster within certain radius.
Sounds a lot like what they did with Tales of the Wind. You can just open the game and step away to do chores because the game plays itself completely.
The #1 thing that made me immediately lose interest in this game was the fact that it just plays itself. What's the point of a game if I can't even play it the way I want to? At least make it so that playing manually actually feels fun & interesting. No game I've ever seen that has the auto-play as its best option has ever amounted to anything other than a complete waste of time.
Only 10ish hours in. It definitely plays itself. I don't hate it but it'd be better if the only automatic part was the pathing, like BDO. I'm enjoying it but I doubt I'll make it past 20-30 hours.
Ya, you right. Also another thing that happens a little later on is the menuing becomes so bloated that you spend no joke 70% of your time just clicking through them to collect rewards. I can literally feel my brain short circuiting, And it's obvious that it's meant to shower you with as many rewards as possible and keep you in the app for as long as possible.
Hahaha!
and I love every part of being able to collect things and be rewarded by doing obscure tasks that aren't just "Kill 10x"
aw man, I haven't tried this game yet but thats why I don't play bdo mobile. Exactly like you said, everytime I sign on I have to do too much menu navigation through a multitude of various rewards and other notifications. Inventory becomes cluttered with items I haven't learned about because I haven't got a chance to play. By the time I'm finished collecting everything and organizing it all trying not to waste anything rare going to deposit into my filled up warehouse I don't feel like playing by then. lol UI is almost always way too cluttered in these mobile games. We need way more control over what is visible while gaming and developers need to stop leaving every menu right in the gameplay UI screen. Disappointing these games are more character and inventory maintenance rather than playing and enjoying the content created.
@@bryanable9813 as a person who played both BDO mobile and NNK CW for a brief amount of time... If you think BDO is cluttered, then you'd suffer a stroke from this game. Abhorrent, boring, and the lack of quality of life features hurts a lot alongside the already bloated and hard-to-navigate UI, shitty servers and matchmaking, and clunky combat system. Is it really so hard to put in a feature to customize the battle tool to make the buttons bigger? Apparently so; better add a feature to make the players auto grind instead because no one would play this shitty game unless it plays itself
And as a fan of MMOs, the grinding here is so damn tedious. At level 30, you pop your phone off and make the game grind for hours, and you'd still be at the same level because monsters give negligible exp and you can only level up by doing these boring ass quests. (For context: Average enemies that can kill me after 2 minutes of grinding gives you 30 exp. I think by level 25 or so, you need around a million exp to get to the next level)
@@coffeeandkeyboards8361 i hope you realize that you're not supposed to grind mobs for XP but you grind specific mobs for collection CP/stat bonus. The game literally tells you that.
Now this is the most accurate review. I'm only using my mouse just to click some buttons and there's no really action needed because "it plays the game for you".
at some point when you are like level 30+ you can't do that anymore. The game becomes harder. You need to dodge attacks, heal, etc.
@@azur-faery5931 congratulations, that means you're essentially not capable of playing the game till level 30... How long does that take mind you? If it's more than 30 minutes, nobody's going to bother, as a 30 minute tutorial where you do nothing isn't fun. And judging by the fact it's an mmo, it's probably more like a few hours right?
The auto play thing can be turned off from the beginning, so I am not sure what is the issue, I am playing the game myself 🙂
Hopefully ghibli makes a new series bc this one STARTED OFF, a beautiful story and experience with Oliver
2 was also good the gameplay of 2 is objectively better than 1 but the story is worse. Its not as bad as this guy made it seem tho. It has the elements of a good story but its just poorly excueted.That probably because of all that kingdom building bloat if that was slimmed down or made ACTUALLY more relavent to the game than the game would be leagued better than one(also the little pikmon shits needs to be deleted its actually just compelety boring and uninspired they shouldve brought back the familiars instead
Exactly! It's such a shame that mobile game developers even use franchises we love, give it attractive graphic designs, flashy effects, and create an autoplay game. Game plays the game for you. What's the point of installing the game then. Thanks for this review!
Fr. Slaughtering a well beloved franchise with a predatory business mobile game is a sin.
Gacha games are about collecting characters, building them up, battling other players, and buying skins for them to wear. This games has no good waifu.
@@LarryWater lol genshin don't even have pvp just collecting vs ai enemies
@@TheDragonfriday Genshin is not a usual gacha game.
Because some people don't like hard game
Netmarble's games are deliberately designed with autoplay in mind, grinding doesn't have to require you to look at your phone 24/7 and can be fun and engaging. But in most of Netmarble's game, grinding are useless, takes forever, boring, and doesn't engage you at all since it plays itself. This is actually true for almost all of their game. Honestly, if a game is being developed by Netmarble, just avoid it. Of course if you just want a game that plays itself for you, then sure, they might be your cup of tea.
"grinding IS useless"
@@xavierallen2730 Uhh... right, thanks for the correction i guess.
Started playing this game cause of the drought content in Genshin
Super beautiful game but the combat system and terrible UI/UX made it difficult to be immersed. I felt so disconnected cause everything is practically being done for me.
I have gotten so used to Honkai/Genshin’s combat system that this game feels like a downgrade
U should try playing punishing gray raven by kuro games if u like honkai, that game is f2p friendly and it requires skill instead of whaling. There's also various endgame contents every patch
I started playing this game because I saw a trailer and thought Genshin would finally get some competition. I uninstalled it shortly after and never want to touch it again. I tried not doing the autoplay, but as said in the video the controls are terrible.
@@lucidragon5260Literally the controls are fine- you just have to get used to them on pc the battle mechanics are very reminiscent of dungeon siege 3 imo
You play fate grand order? Now that's a game that keeps you busy with events & there's a lot of strategy to the challenge quests especially cause its turn based
Can agree, movement feels like one of those point and click rpg games on pc, movement and combat is off. However environments, art, and the fact that there's great voice acting is all amazing
This is what happened when you take a game from a developer with passion and give them to a mobile developer who thinks with money.
This game is "a turd encased with golden sheet"
True
The game is literally better than any active mmo on pc right now. Play the game first before being a clown on the internet.
@@abdelrahmanesam6625 lol.
I've played the game.
And I've played ff14, played wow, played lost ark, etc.
And no, it's far from those game.
What are you on to clown?
@@abdelrahmanesam6625 there is albion, eve, lostark, ff14, wow, guildwars2 and this money grabbing trash on the other hand
@@abdelrahmanesam6625 Even Genshin Impact is better than this "game" that plays it self. It's sad, because I was looking forward for this.
This game appeals to the chinese gaming market, and "tiktok" people.
High satisfaction (rewards, power, loot) and low effort. This game doesnt require your full attention, as a lot of kids in our generation are used to 15-60 seconds of content, and then something different.
wow, that's a mighty short attention span.
This isn’t a Chinese game tho lol
I honestly like this game, but for specific reasons. Since this game is a mobile game, I play it like a mobile game. I put it on my second monitor and do other stuff on my main monitor. It's a great game to play while multitasking, because a lot of this game plays itself. There is fun to be had with field bosses, world bosses, PVP, and account progression. There's also so many collectables to obtain. A big thing for me is that I haven't felt the need to spend any money, because you can craft or obtain almost anything instead of using the gacha system. The gacha is just a bonus that speeds up progress. I also joined a guild which adds so much to this game. I do admit there's some scummy stuff in this game, but I've also been playing it 6 days straight because I like playing it. There's a lot of other people having fun too.
I agree with most of this.
But honestly the amount of daily grind and notifications to click to get tiny reward a million times per day is insane. I was having fun over the weekend but I'm already exhausted by it.
I think the game is getting a lot of wrong criticism honestly, but it still has major flaws, the microtransactions are needlessly hyper aggressive and the manipulation with rewards constantly fed to the player is stupid.
Yeah, it's fun for the first 3 days until that queue started because there's too many players in 1 server. I'm just annoyed that because of that long queue, I can't even play for 2 days straight now. Wish they'd just remove the queue and just fix the problems. I guess that too many players started afk farming causing them to make such horrendous queue(limiting players?really?). Overall, this game is 1/10. Literally unplayable.
@@carljojohnson Really? my guild hasn't had a queue at all. What region do you play in?
@@falkarios2944 Asia. What's more intriguing is that pc users don't have to wait in queue like mobile users because my friend is playing on pc.(he did told me there's no queue while I'm waiting in queue with 700+ players waiting)
@@carljojohnson I play on PC and there is also a queue sometimes specially during world boss,I also already experienced a 700+ queue before
I'm just shocked they went this route after what seemed to be a good series for a 3rd iteration
the world looks beautiful, it's truly a shame. but like you said, free mmo along with mobile games really isn't a good mix. thank you for this video! it saved me from wasting a lot of time prepping and installing.
I'm glad to hear it. If I saved even one person from wasting time with this game, it was worth it.
6:36 only 50 crystals once per day is easily obtainable f2p, but I get your point with the cosmetics, as well as the game removing your ability to really battle on your own
Spending 24 hours to get a 30 minute buff doesn't seem like a good thing though...
"Easily" 🙄
I have not spent a single dime in this game and obtained cool looking costumes and you can craft them with materials. only some costumes are hidden behinde medals you receive in pvp and pvp is heavy pay to win. Some functions have limited daily uses and can be increased by spending gems again. I have not spent any money in this game and kind of enjoy i but i have to agree its not a real game at this point. Same goes for all these gacha games on mobile. Some people enjoy it and some dont and i can easily see why
I definitely thought that the fact that the game was designed around auto-pathing and auto-playing was poor game design.
Nah bruh you're going to realize later on by playing the game it's actually not that bad. Demone Kim had the same first impressions as you and this guy but now he's actually having fun and making content about the game.
@@zura2304 nah i just played it and fell asleep clicking through and wait. I miss when people are grinding like drakensang back in the days.
@@louisnicholas3275 tru miss the old days where you actually play the game
I think the point of Ni no kuni is gear and familiar management to get the highest cp possible while auto playing the game with your maximized character.
All a player needs to do is power up the right euipment, mount, or familiar etc. efficiently. There's also so many little rewards to gratify the dopamine difficinet ADHD brain.
The pretty graphics is very soothing and watching the game play itself is quite relaxing. If you are busy, it can also become an idle game. It's not as bad as your narrative makes it seem.
Edit: this is from the perspective of playing it on the latest flagship phone. I can imagine it being really boring on the PC. Mobile gaming is built different tho.
wow, i heard that the game had a lot of auto, but i didnt know it was THIS bad. a shame, i loved both ni no kuni games so much :(
thanks for the review! you've saved me some time and disappointment
Glad I could suffer in your place!
you can disable auto but its complicated basically just turn off all stuff in gameplay section to off
Its not that bad, lol, in fact you can play completely manually by yourself
Give a try yourself before you judge. This guy got to level 5 and said its trash. Not unlocking the other 90% of the content in the game
@@benafleck7310 the problem is that the game was built around these auto features. If you turn them off the game feels clunky. En plus we got some "nice" new features introduced. CRYPTO, BOTS, etc. A premium pass for an exclusiv queue. Because without it you can't play the game...
Level 5 should be given an award for the amount of recycling they did in this game. Story, characters, character models, music and gameplay. I love both White witch and Revenant kingdom so I’m disappointed this game was so bad. Don’t even get me started on the fact that there’s both crypto and gacha in it.
Wait, there's crypto?? Fuck them
Ruined yokai watch too
I spent the last week "playing" this game while doing my homeworks and im already on lvl 43 doing nothing lol yesterday i had some free time and wanted to play myself but i got bored after 10 minutes watching the game playing itself 😅 i even tried to go in combat but i hate how you cant spring and the roll to dodge has a countdown lol
Fr its literally playing itself 😭 all I do it fight and thats it
Dude I think I’m gonna quit this game. I hate when a game just lets people pay their way to progress. There are already people who are above lvl 55, just because they paid. That is just trash. It creates an imbalance where the people who paid their way to the top get best rewards consistently. Putting a huge gap between f2p players and whales. That creates a toxic environment of bullying and narcissism, with one team of people controlling every aspect of the game. That’s wack. Sick of games like that.
It took me a day to get near 50, f2p. Lots of free time memorial day. This game gives you the pay to win xp/loot buffs as rewards for progress
@@xxhierophantxx lol
Happy territe farming. 200 territe to get to 6 star, and you get prob 1 per hour farming.
Forced nft pffft
Lol do you. It’s not for me. Plus territe a system that blocks growth is something that can also be paid with real money. That is insane. Something that is a necessary step for every single character to upgrade their gears, is restricted behind a pay wall.
Sad part is if they took all the pay to win out, auto pathing and allowed for crafting those outfits I could have seriously dropped 15 a month on this game as a serious MMO with that studio ghibli anime look. Same issue I had with Genshin Impact. I try the game for free then the freemium stuff gets in the way of my enjoyment and instead of spending money I just give up. At least genshin had fun characters and a ok pity system that gave out gems regularly.
It's difficult to compare these two games as one is an mmo (Ni No Kuni) and one is a mostly single-player story rpg (Genshin Impact). You have different expectations of an mmo which Ni No Kuni unfortunately does not meet. It reminds me a lot of those FB games that plays itself and throws rewards at you to keep you hooked.
The CP system is an old school system typical of korean mobile games. The game basically dumbs down the combat system as who has the better bulk stats. Better stats will invalidate any attempt for outplay lol. Classes does not matter, its like a priest with outrageous amount of stats can clobber a knight to death
Of course, just like a level 60 would beat a level 40 in any other game. Numbers go up...But when you are evenly matched, ability order, cooldowns, evasion, positioning, all matter aka outplay material.
I also beat people with 50k CP on me in the arena frequently.. it's called TURN OFF AUTO BATTLE.
Imagine ni no Kuni 1 with ni no Kuni 2's gameplay. That would have been really cool since the only real flaw i have with ni no Kuni is that it can feel like a press-X-button-every-4-seconds simulator on non boss battles, so that would have been really fun
Damn, a lot of comments dunking on you here but I must say as someone who played this, some other games like this, this review is very true
Combat is bland and shallow even if you can turn off auto because it's clearly designed around auto. The whole game is like this. There's an excuse that "You can turn off auto!!" that might make the game a little better but frankly, the game is still designed around having auto on
People always say 'auto is good for grinding' but like.. the parts where the game is supposed to introduced you into its beautiful world and scenery, literally all auto. No exploration. Quests and plot and exploring aren't supposed to be 'grinding'
These maps were designed to be walked passed with auto on, not explored. Maybe there's not much to be explored after all for a so-called open world MMO
Also people calling you out for reviewing while not playing much of the game
but they'll also say "If you don't like it then don't play it!"
You'll be called a madman if you play for like 100 hours and give a negative review like this lmao there's no winning
It literally plays just like an mmo like ff14 ….
Saying the game is not designed to be explored is pretty untrue. A big CP booster is Records like Soulstone, Vistas and Chests and these require you to go searching open world for them. Some regional chests require you to run around the world daily to find them. You can't auto these things. And discovering vistas gives you a cinematic view of some of the more beautiful areas of the maps. Also going around taming familiars is a completely manual explore process. I think there are many ways and options to play this game and while auto seems to be the main way to get through questlines to level up quickly and gain CP fast to be competitive, not everyone plays for the competitive experience. There are still many ways to explore the world at leisure and rewards for doing so. (I do agree that the movement and skill mechanics are super clunky but way better if you use a pc instead of phone)
@@darkvoidb9717 Don't you dare ever sully FF14's name like that!
I'm a lvl 32 roque I still like the game you can just turn off the autopath mode if you want to I'm glad the auto path option is there so I can roll my joint and still play at the same time I liked the story felt like a movie for me
Bro same it weirded meout at first but then I was like ya know what? Why would I want to grind with my hands for 2 hrs when I can just auto grind. Why would I bother holding a key down to walk when I can just auto. Like your training up a character rather than trying to be the character. Your upgrading his gear ect not your gear. Idk it's a differant concept but I love sitting back chopping up and having a sesh while I go through autoing my quests or whatever 👌😎🤙
Fr , gives me time to head up my rig for a dab of wax
You can't turn it off, it's bugged so even if it's off it still auto battles.
This game only have 1.7/5.0 rating on Asia mobile server,And I played this game year ago on Asia server, i definitely know how bad this game is than you
@@dashbry In the setting under the battle tab, there is an option "Counter when attacked" or something like that. Turn it off and it should fix what you mean iirc.
As someone who has not played the other ni no kuni games and didnt even know of them until recently i honestly really enjoyed this game so far my only probably with it was the controls and unskippable text that you can later skip on other characters. BUT I have been playing it a lot recently and honestly really enjoying it super fun from what i've seen although its called ni no kuni this doesnt feel like the type of game that can be compared to the other two.
Ohman loves the commentary style, very much akin to AVGN!
Hahaha it wasn’t intentional but I do like to diaherrea over games that suck ass too
This is so honest and I just started playing it yesterday 😭
A lot of music is from the first ni no kuni game, which I like. I don’t like how everything is AI controlled, and how you can’t pick up items inside the worlds.
was going to play this but this video has completely driven me away lmao, great video though
Glad I could be of service!
You can turn off all the auto attack features...All of them. The game was design for mobile ppl on the go or at work so yeah auto is nice for them
as an aside I think I heard about NFTs also being implemented into the game? which, uh, god no. also in classic netmarble fashion, complaining about these kind of things on their discord will likely get you banned
@@chasefray Bruh dont believe this guy who just played it for 5 minutes. There is a lot more. The world is massive and it is very fun to play with friends. I am lvl 45 and I can say that me and my friends are actually having fun playing and doing bosses.
@@zura2304 look i'd take your word for it but you play genshin
Just finished the video you are hilarious, you have earned my subscription.
the pig thing that follows you everywhere is so annoying. it reminds me of james cordon and also sounds like him
Bro so many dumb people here, guess it fits their braincell power when it comes to auto mmo games.
Calling dodging telegraphs a "manual play" lmao.
They could have had resources grind for auto then manual play to get immersed with story and any challenging content, but game is designed to play mostly on auto with just some dodging. Turning all auto features off doesn't make the game any better as it's manual play is clunky and incomplete.
I don't like Genshin but I keep seeing people comparing this to Genshin, that's so unfair when one game requires ability and full manual play.
I also keep seeing comments where they're saying that it gets better after a certain amount of time or level,like,i thought games were supposed to hook you in from the start.
I mean. They’re both mobile games, ofcourse they will be compared. Hoyoverse needs a lot of improvements in their game and they can’t do that if they don’t have a good competitor. So far, no game has come close Genshin’s overall performance on mobile. The only competitor Hoyoverse have is against their own games lol
@@yolkyegg Just cause they're mobile games doesn't mean they're comparable.. Just like saying Call of Duty is better than Resident Evil.
@@BigotíndeLeche nope, still a fair comparison cause they’re both open world rpgs, story driven, have a gacha system, co-op and character building. The only difference is the combat system which Genshin remains to be better at. Don’t forget Genshin changed the expectations and perception of mobile games in the market and still remains at the top. Ofcourse people would compare it with Ni No Kuni because we WANT a good competitor against Genshin.
Also COD and RE can’t be compared cause they’re both drastically different. Genshin and Ni No Kuni are not, they’re practically in a similar category.
@@yolkyegg The combat system already makes a huge gap to even be compared. Action type vs an almost idle type.
japanese game tends to be freemium model, means the rate of items from ticket is not bad, but drop rate from monsters are hellish
Please dont remind me of toram drop rate omg. Spent 2 weeks trying to get an xtal from the boss. Still farming.
@@passingby7943 well feel that but 10x worst, because this game also design with NFT system
Click on the mission and you can cancel the auto run and fight. Under settings you can turn off auto attack n ability too. Play the game again you might get a different feel with new settings
it doesn't matte if the auto off or on bsc the combat is just auto target spamming button
that's not really the point.. mobile game is cash grabbing.. period..
@@nzrlsyzwn I haven't gotten that far myself, nor will I spend money on it either. I rather pay for a ps5
I did this but the combat wasn't fun or easy at all. There didn't seem to be any s, and the movement felt clunky. Plus I was playing ranged and it just wasn't fun for the enemies to crowd close to me. Maybe I was expecting too much after getting used to Genshin controls, but this game didn't feel good to play unless it was on auto.
i completely agree with you. i havent played any other ni no kuni game before but i was excited to try this one out cause it looked gorgeous. and then i try it out and realize the game plays itself. whats even the point then? by the time i figured out how to turn auto combat off i thought why would i make it harder for myself if i dont need to. that wouldnt even be a thought if auto combat wasnt an option in the first place and gameplay would be a lot more fun, no, gameplay would actually exist.
Hello! As a nnk player since almost two years, I agree with some things here. But tbh, it’s as p2w as other p2w games. About the green pot that you can buy with blue diamonds, these diamonds are massively f2p obtainable. Also, you can just remove the auto combat if you need, as a support I need to control my skills to buff my team, I agree about the fact that the controls sucks a lot, but you can still play without auto combat.
Honestly that’s a game you play if you enjoy Ghibli universe, and if you enjoy guild related content.
Also, the auto play is really good for people who are usually not able to play classic games because of physical disabilities. In my guild there are players who were able to play video games before, but since an accident they are not able to enjoy games anymore. That game makes them happy because they found a way to enjoy video games even with their physical disabilities.
I agree. As someone who just want to enjoy the game, I would say I'm dissapointed. The graphics are good, the stories are somehow interesting, and cut-scenes are amazing, but the automation of the quests is just lame. It's like you're playing but you're not.
Haha, the unholy trinity. This'll be my quality gauge for games now.
As someone who played it for 30 hours on launch, the most enjoyable time I had playing this game was watching someone else stream it.
omggg im weak i lovve doing this
The problem with Auto-play turn on and off is that you know that even if you turn off the auto play Other Players are still using it. And 4 year olds are playing the mmo that you thought will give some challenge to you.
I rate it 5/10 just because it has NFTs and it's because netmarble is a scummy company. But I'm still playing this because of my friends. The story is surprisingly good and the graphics are clean. Also it's not really 100% auto play like y'all think. At the beginning it definitely is but once you get into level 30 and above that's where it starts to get difficult specially if your CP(combat power) is much lower than the recommended. Of course everything can be solved using money but if you're a F2P player like me you definitely can't auto the harder stages unless you grind hard to power up your equipments so you can reach the CP requirements. If you don't believe me then try to beat a stage with a CP requirement 100k higher than you and see if you can beat it with auto. I bet you can't!
Here’s the thing. If it takes until LEVEL 30 for the auto to stop becoming viable, then there’s a problem with your game.
A big one.
@@thatguybis1997 Huh? What do you mean? It only took me an hour to reach level 30, some even did it less. Did you really tried the game? All gacha games are very easy at the beginning and once you progress further then it gets more difficult. The same logic applies to this game since it's still a gacha game while also being an mmo.
Don't tell me you want dark souls difficulty right off the bat? 🤦♀️
@@thatguybis1997 I really think the gameplay isn't really the main problem of this game. You shouldn't be even surprised that it's an auto play game because 99.9% of mobile mmo's are like this "auto path, auto play, red dot simulator mobile mmo --FG3000" that we see constantly on the playstore. For me the fun on mmo's are joining guilds and making friends and y'all will go farming together in a dungeon. Otherwise playing this game alone will bored you out. For me the main problem of this game is it's horrible monetization. It has 3 types of gacha currency and with how little gems you get from doing quests it'll take you months or years before you can pull or hit pity in the banner. Of course there's a F2P way to get those like crafting and hatching eggs but the rates on those are much lower than doing a gacha. That's why despite the story being good I can't rate it higher than 5 lol
@@thatguybis1997 a lot of us just don’t care 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♀️ to each their own and I get why if you’re regular gamer that it’d be annoying but for some of us that we just sorta kinda maybe play games here n there…some of us aren’t bothered by that mechanic 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♀️ I play ffxiv and this and FFCCRE. That’s it so idk I wasn’t too bothered but again I get y it might be annoying to some
I like the game but I dislike the idea that they will put NFT in this game. If many players will play this game just becoz it has "nft" and the idea of "play to earn", I will stop playing this game. I hope people will play this game not becoz of "NFT" but becoz they want the game. This will be the same as MIR4 if that happen.
I don't mind auto pathing for a mobile MMO as navigation on mobile isn't great most of the time. What I do mind is the auto everything. Auto questing, auto combat, auto completion.
I want to play the game and it does it all for you. I even tried to turn it off and had so much trouble doing so. This was a while back so I can't remember if it was bugged or you legit don't have an option to (... or it kept turning itself back on), but this basically killed it for me. What were they thinking when they did this? Ni No Kuni is such a fun game series and they basically ruined it by making their 3rd entry the unholy trinity of gaming and on top of that make it so its nearly impossible for you to actually play the game instead of it doing it for you.
I was very bitter, because the graphics, jokes, and story 1.) Show that this is very much a continuation of the Ni No Kuni world/story (not just some separate thing... even if its a bit gimmicky), but 2.) Also show that they actually put effort into making it an actual Ni No Kuni game instead of just saying that it was a game in the series and making it nothing like it.
The problem here is that they don't set expectations right by labelling it correctly as an Idle-MMORPG.
Agree w all ur gripes as well. I wish i could be immersed into a different world and enjoy it but its a tedious auto play job rather than a game.
You pretty much summed up about how I feel about Cross streams too
Rip ni no kuni…
This is what I feared. I played for a few minutes then just felt it was a shame. I could see some of the developers making the game did actually make an effort, the cutscenes were great and they immersed me into the story but the auto battling... Yea it just takes away the experience.
I love Korean mmorpgs and I love the auto feature in this game because I don't even have to do anything to endlessly farm without using some bot or cheat engine.
I just find this whole game frustrating. Frankly, the fact that it's a mobile game really wasn't really an issue for me. There are a couple of mobile MMORPGs that I enjoy and have fun with.
I really just didn't have fun when I started. I didn't really like the story, as it felt like a poorly written y/n SAO fanfic set in the ni no kuni world more than anything else. (but Chloe is a queen, and no one can tell me otherwise.) The gameplay is very superficial. The combat feels like it was just made for autoplay, and even if you turn it off, it's still just waiting for your skills to cool down, and rolling from time to time. Its not that fun, and there's really no point in doing it. Also, I hate what they did with the familiars Combat wise. I think it's mostly just to declutter the game, (but how well did that go, hm?) But the thing is, familiars were a big part of the first game's combat system, having their own unique set of skills, and genuinely being a good option for battle. What they did here (and with Solomon, god bless his soul) just feels, once again, superficial. As if it's just a callback to something that was actually fun, but not really anything more. There are certain things that you can't use autoplay to do, and I think it's important to acknowledge them. But this is also an issue for me, as it feels very inconsistent, as if the game doesn't know what it wants to be. Can I set my phone down and watch the game progress like a movie, or do I have to be hands on? Trying to have it both ways just makes the gameplay inconsistent and janky. To put it in perspective, it feels like an early 2000's anime mmorpg game, where the player is the least important part of the game. (the most important part being the player's wallet.) Which, danm that is some nostalgia I did not expect from this game. XD
It's the same thing for character customization, as in, it is entirely pointless. The options are already genderlocked... and... model locked (as in you can't even change your height, and if the character has cat ears, a beard, or is a loli, have fun with that. Because you're stuck with it whether you like it or not.) I know it's a superfical complaint. But honestly, I wish they just scrapped character customization all together, and just gave the playable characters... some personality. It was a charming aspect of the original games, and might have legitimately saved the game for me. But having cluu talk for your character because they're a mute is just... I find it grating, and it just disconnects me from whatever it is that I'm supposed to do.
It killed the game for me, and really just made it a chore to play. ...maybe that's just me, but at the end of the day I feel how I feel. Lol
It really sucks, because I wanted to like the game. I was really excited when it was announced, because I honestly thought when I pre-registered it would either try to make the player a part of the world, or add new and compelling protagonists (well, about as compelling they can be for an mmo, LOL). And I just feel sad, because neither of those things were given, (well, more of a Frankenstein of the two) and it makes it hard to be invested. Maybe my expectations are the issue.
To whoever is reading this, If you are having fun with this game, awesome. Ni no Kuni is a great franchise, and I hope you continue to have fun.
I just... didn't.
🌸😼I must wholeheartedly (albeit respectfully) disagree with your assessment as I have enjoyed my experience within Ni No Kuni Cross World’s and am one that preferences Mobile over PC.
It story and dialogue are impressive, it’s aesthetics are gorgeous (as expected), and it yields a wealth of content by which one can truly sink their teeth into.
I am not bothered as you are by the auto nor the ease of content near the beginning phase of the title for it gets progressively more difficult as one goes along and auto can’t be counted on later.
It too could always be turned off and though you expressed “why would one pass up its convenience should it be available”, I would utter “ if one is truly against it, why use it at all”?
I know not what woe’s the PC community experiences as again I do not preference PC for my MMO experience, but I do hope it is solved for those of you that do.
I am to subscribe despite being at odds with your opinion here for I enjoyed the upload nonetheless.😼🌸
Glad you could enjoy even if my opinion on the game is different from yours :)
One more thing that i really hate is that they only talk to cluu and my character could rarely interact in a story, like why?! It would've been more fun if they didnt do that 😭
If I didn't see how much subs you have, I thought you had like 200k+ lol good quality UA-camr guys 👍
Making a game review with only progressing till level 5😂. Like judging a book by it's cover. I thought you reach atleast level 30 or something. Let me ask how long is your play time at the game?
The man only has 10 mins playing time. HAHAHA
yet he acts like he played until midgame
yeh ikr lmaoo
RIGHT
Really good game. Auto battle only work for the start of the game where you do a lot of simple tasks. End game and pvp is whats all about.
I don't even think that he went outside evermore.
really ? cause im lvl 23 and it doesn't get any better i want to play this game but i eventually want to get to a point that i need to play myself and its more skilled based then just clicking on the quest and it auto do it even the combat stuff
@@-ethernomics7509 Level 23 is nothing dude. You get that in like 2 hour
And you have to level up all characters to at least level 40. Not just one character.
@@HugodaSilvaRibas and after 40 is it still auto path in all aspects?
Guess what ad I got when the video ended?
I love the honesty.
I'm a Asia ser player,I think it is OK for relax , just enjoying the cute animals~
I could see it being relaxing.
Old Mobile mmorpg games are wayyyyy much better than now.. idk why but now everything seems auto and boring + the ads is stupid "enter code xxx and you got legendary" like wtf??
I undersrand the negative criticism and I don't blame you. There is a new wave of games like this that has entered the gaming industry and many big companies are entering it. It's no question that this game doesn't pivot to those in traditional MMO style games but it is a game within this 'new genre' of gaming that is much cleaner than others in the market. So the comparison is apples and oranges in most cases... but zooming in, this game is quite cleaner than most. Right now, blizzard Diablo immortals take the cake for most absurd pay 2 win mobile games. Let's count our blessings.
I think auto gaming gets some players who just like to go with the story
100% agree. Deleted it after three days. Didn’t even had the urge to play a lot either. Ended at lvl 30. It’s auto play ruin it. And the aggressive time limited micro transactions.
I played it like 3 times but I had to stop playing. I felt the game did everything for me. It was boring. The missions were uninspiring and boring. I hope they improve the game because it has potential.
If everyone hates auto play so much why do they even put them in the game then
To be honest I was still going to play the game even after hearing about the stress in signing in or the bad controls. Where I got totally discouraged is just that word autoplay
Don't believe anyone about the bullshit they're saying about the game "needing you to not use auto" during the games endgame.
What they're actually saying is "You need to dodge a big flashy aoe, kite some mobs maybe, and use your abilities on cooldown (which auto does) to get the most out of your DPS" which by the way is completely fucking braindead to do if you've ever played a game before in your entire life.
The game has no other substance other than being massively pay to win. It doesn't even try to hide it. These peoples idea of a "video game" is "dodging sometimes" when "things are kind of harder". It's an idle auto-game, and those sections that require your attention only require about 1/3rd of a brain cell to do. Woopty doo. I dodged an aoe. *proceeds to auto attack after one single dodge*.
I played a ton of these mobile MMORPGs like Tales of Wind, Guardians of Cloudia, Black Desert, Marvel Future Revolution, Seven Knights 2 and what not. They need to have auto for convenience because people are playing this while they do something else.
And that doesn't last long either because later on they usually throw a bazillion PvP modes at u and the bosses will clap your cheeks if u stand in red circles with auto. Ofc these games are P2W af it's a mobile game.
If they all need to have auto because people are doing something else, then should you really even be playing a video game?
And because all mobile games are P2W it’s cool that this one is as well?
Wow.
Really ruins the point of "playing" a game does it? It's not for convenience. It's stupid lazy design. The convenience part comes AFTER because you know the game plays itself, so you do something else.
Thank you. What you said was right. A GAME should be playable, not watchable. It must be engaging. Automated games these days, they really pisses me off.
You can turn off the auto play, its not forced
Superprisim made a gatcha game called kingsense telling people to leave a good review for the game to get in game stuff and got in trouble now ni no kuni is doing it to ugh..
it is actually a good game, if u want engagment do the world bosses, field bosses, dimenstional border, pvp, larva vally. list goes on. i also like that i can afk farm stuff, it is a shame that its pretty pay to win seeing as there a some players who have 1.5mil combat power while i have only 300k
True story.
I was searching their website for maybe an hour to just REGISTER. After those painful and full of confusion moments finally downloaded this shit on mobile device. Oh wait... I can't play because I also need to create chara on my phone... At this point, why they even created the PC launcher? Even the game controls are mobile.
I left for a moment to grab some food and to *pat pat* my parrots... oh wow, my character is just running and fighting BY HIMSELF now. Does this game even need me to be here?
Really hoped for a next good game I could play for a long tome but it sadly ended with ALT F4 and uninstall very quick.
Ha! I have to say I had a very similar experience. Maybe next time they’ll know not to try and milk the Ni No Kuni name.
Basically, the game is good but it was a mobile game
It barely feels like a ghibli studio game,the past 2 are amazing
I like that I got an ad for this game before the video.
Quit if you guys wanna quit, I'm playing this while im doing my work so that I can save some money to pay for my school. After all this is a NFT game. They designed like that because it's a NFT mmorpg game and fyi they dont give a shit if you're complaining about the game since they care for only those player who invested their time and money for it.
I couldn't agree more.
Absolutely yeah, I've played some NFT games and imo this game is one of the best so far :D
Indeed
2:15 😂😂😂 "They're ASS"
You can turn off the Auto-Battle feature. You can actually turn off all the auto features but the auto-battle settings in the settings won't turn off the auto ability usage. You have to turn it off from the HUD
This sounds like an excuse. Why would you turn it off? The combat seems mind-numbingly boring anyway since you bulldoze your way through everything.
@@thatguybis1997 excuse you, you literally said that combat feels fun but whats the point if its auto???
The problem is that the game was built around these auto features. That's why it feels really bad if you turn it off.
Only in biss battles it makes sense to dodge every attack. And that's the only fun part of the actual gameplay.
And yeah, the soundtrack is really good and the story also. But there are way too many text boxes. And there are so many unnecessary moments.
@@tacemiko3849 man forgot his own line in the video
Thank you for the review. Seeing the adds for it made me interested. But ik better. And you proved it.
That's why genshin impact is still the best mobile game rpg right now. The only thing that sucks about it is no end game content other than the abyss.
I really wish Genshin had a good competitor but I tried so many “open world” rpgs and no one has come close to Genshin’s quality of gameplay and graphics
This is the most hand holdy fucking game I’ve ever played, it’s like it was made for toddlers. If I wanted to be treated like a baby I’d join a weird age-play group on Facebook
This is just a reskin of Dragon Raja, a chinese game, which explains alot. They have amazing artists and animators but terrible developers who think cluttering the UI means DEPTH. It's mind boggling what potential goes to waste these days.
When he said they tricked my dumbass I lost it 🤣🤣🤣
For the auto navigate and auto battle what i do is i unselect the mission and it won't activate, this worked for me.
Unselecting turns off auto story progression. To turn off auto battle completely you go into system settings and turn off "auto counter". There's also crossed swords near the familiar ui, that can toggle auto battle on/basic/off!
It's important to know as some missions have rewards for not using auto battle, not using skills, challenges for extra rewards for completion with only basic attacks, etc.
Why not just do an anime series of Cross Worlds, so that playing the game wouldn’t be necessary? Like .Hack with Studio Ghibli animation.
Level 5 is just a name in the end. Most of the awesome people working there are gone, expectations are at the lowest now
First of all, the servers are literally full at certain times, which is undoubtedly times where people are gaming, starts full at 7pm UTC+8 and reaches its climax where the queue you've to wait is 800 players at around 10pm UTC+8! It's horrendously long, I've tried waiting once for an hour and more just to fken login the game!; another time is around the daily reset times, 2pm UTC+8, but it's not as long as at night (200-ish queues).
You can, however, workaround this by logging in beforehand and just activate AI mode, the server still counts you logged in, therefore you can get back in the game whenever before your AI mode time runs out and directly enter the game without queueing (if there's one).
Second reason I quitted the game is because the grinds are ridiculous, you can speed through 0 to 200k CP in less than a week easily, but once you hit 300k and above, you'll realise that territe ~the second currency that can be exchanged for crypto~ is required for most of the upgrades. The currency itself can be obtained from dailies (50/day) or you can grind ingame for 4 hrs just to get around 40 at most I've gotten. Meanwhile, the amount required to upgrade one equipment is at least 50 or its multiple, it's just annoyingly too many. You either choose to exchange them for a minimal of 300 to a crypto and sacrifice your progress (which I didn't do since it's too many and I'm not a miner) or the opposite.
Final words, it's not that friendly for F2P players, you progress very very slowly since you're getting bottlenecked by the exchangeable currency that breaks the game, meanwhile your enemies keeps getting tougher. If you're a miner, yes, you can mine in this game, and it's quite the value too. However, keep in mind that if your level gap (which will increase as you grind more) between the monsters are high, your drops are significantly decreased and you may won't be getting anything, therefore forcing you to play the game properly. In the end, the game's as it claims to be, a play to earn... or play to waste time.
I hate auto play or auto battle as a combat system in a game. Like what’s the point?. I’m not doing anything. I’m just watching like it’s a movie just doing nothing 😭
Thanks for the review! Saved me some time.
It's getting to the point now in days that I actually would prefer a paid subscription for mmos than have "freemium" games
just stumbled on your channel and your attitude is funny xD
That's the only thing i need to know... i need to control my character... to feel i'm playing... thanks bro...
thanks. now i'll delete it from my phone and keep playing genshin.
Why even play a video game if it just plays itself?
Whoever made this game needs someone to ask them that exact question.
@@thatguybis1997 Ohh yeah the 3 hours i had to work on friday happen to be when you were live streaming, i'll try to make next time bud!
@@paulnewhouse5126 no worries Paulie. Next time!
Didn't expect that ending o.0
autopath feature always spoil the fun in games. They should replace it with markers on map, so players can roam free and more adventure experience. As for leveling they can introduce the idling/auto atk mode on monster within certain radius.
Auto equip your weapon element button for new weapons to show
Show.
GOTCHA and NFTS do I need to say more
Wait, How does NFTs fit into thos mess?
Sounds a lot like what they did with Tales of the Wind. You can just open the game and step away to do chores because the game plays itself completely.
Also you can customize your appearance but no one can see that customization but you (outside of outfits) like….what’s the point of that even.
The #1 thing that made me immediately lose interest in this game was the fact that it just plays itself. What's the point of a game if I can't even play it the way I want to? At least make it so that playing manually actually feels fun & interesting.
No game I've ever seen that has the auto-play as its best option has ever amounted to anything other than a complete waste of time.
I never downloaded the game because all those steps. No thanks. I love Nino Kuni, but I will wait for another console game to play a new one.
You are hilarious, great review and thanks for being honest
Only 10ish hours in. It definitely plays itself. I don't hate it but it'd be better if the only automatic part was the pathing, like BDO. I'm enjoying it but I doubt I'll make it past 20-30 hours.
Wow, I agree with all you said here.