Ni no Kuni II is broken and no one knows how to fix it

Ben Fordy says "Ever since the launch Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom on 28 March the internet has been riff with numerous PlayStation 4 users reporting of frequent issues with the game freezing and crashing. In addition, the Steam community is also reporting similar game breaking problems."

[Sm00thNinja]

Got to the very last chapter and had no resolve to continue. Probably my most disappointing game this year. Although now that they've incorporated difficulty settings I may have to dive back in. It wasn't that the game was neccessary you bad, it just had so much to live up to imo.

[MrSwankSinatra]

I've actually been hearing from many that Ni No Kuni II just doesn't live up to the first game, is this true. I have yet to purchase it.

[CaptainOmega]

It's just a short RPG in terms of the main story. It only has 9 chapters. It's a good game nonetheless. Buy it if you want to wait for a price drop.

[naruga]

i didint play th 1st one (but i saw many wlakthroughs) i bought the sequel only,,,,the game while it oozes from beauty , is ultra boring , not challenging and childish i couldnt play even the 1/2 of the game before i eject it out of PS4 (i will keep it and finish it definately as collection but is not of these games that keep you absorbed from start ot finish

[notachance]

I platinumed it,

if I have to summarise, it's polished both in gameplay and graphics but lacks the soul of the first. e.g they killed a close person to MC here like they did in the first but here it felt like a cheap plot instead of heartbreaking moment in the first game.

It's also too easy even on the hardest difficulty..

[mkis007]

I just got my kingdom and I'm enjoying it enough...its easy though...doesnt bother me.

[The Wood]

I'm with 'not a chance' here. It lacks the soul of the first game. It's not a bad game. .it's just it's not on the same level as the first one. I've started it but haven't had the energy to finish it. I hope it picks up

[kevnb]

thats true, but its still a good game.

[thorstein]

That is true, but the first game was amazing.. so not living up to amazing is still pretty damn good.

[CurbStompin]

Yeah I found it boring. Not as unique as the first one. Wish we could get a remaster of the original.

[InKnight7s]

If you like Dragon Quest.
Get DQ Heroes 2 is the same game but with better gameplay and better character characters makes sense and play more roles and fun.

[Sm00thNinja]

@SwankSinatra absolutely. The disagrees have never played the first game. Or just rabid. It ditches the collectible pocket monster system in favor of a traditional action rpg experience. The studio Ghibli aesthetic is still a HUGE BRIGHT SPOT. The combat is waaaay to easy but the addition of difficulty settings through a recent update remedy this somewhat. It also feels extremely linear despite being open world. None of the characters are overly interesting, and the story is suprisingly cliche. I'll find the will to beat it eventually but it was definitely a huge disappointment for me

[Segata]

Ghibli had nothing to do with this game and the overworld the anime characters clash with the realistic textures.

[Cobra951]

Not true, Segata. The same people are involved. Studio Ghibli has practically disbanded, but their artistry lives on in their more talented staff.

[Sm00thNinja]

@segata actually read what I wrote next time. No WHERE DID I SAY STUDIO GHIBLI WAS EVEN INVOLVED. Please look up the definition of aesthetic next time.

[Teflon02]

I've played both, own both and platinumed the second and I definitely disagree. I'm actually shocked someone played up to the last chapter and didn't finish. The games story really gets good from chapter 6 until the end. The game had a great end. The only problem was it was extremely easy apart from the tainted which only a few were hard. That damn mushroom and the Fairy at tainted 57 or something. Also the first game was great, but the game was pretty boring in Dungeon traversal and was very slow in comparison to the second game. They have different strengths and weaknesses and I love them both about the same

[Aceman18]

Well I loved the game, got the kingdom to its final level. Just waiting for the dlc to jump back in.

I had no technical issues in my playthrough.

[shammgod]

The skirmishes is what caused me to quit the game right before the end. I just couldnt bring myself to do the skirmishes.

The game was very easy too. Difficulty tweaks would have kept me engaged. The story was very light and could use work

[thorstein]

Yeah? There are difficulty settings. They came in the last patch....

[joab777]

The difficulty settings change EVERYTHING! What used to be the most basic rpg ever made, opens right up when you put it in the hardest setting. Now, all of the systems have purpose and are required. Each battle is more than just a grind fest.

[Sm00thNinja]

I'll have to pick it back up for sure based on this recommendation. It sounds interesting!

[BadElf]

Yeah, I was sad. Didnt get far into it. The first Ni No was one of my top 3 favorite games of that generation...and bought a PS4 mainly for the second one. But...Im sad.

[deadfrag]

Would appreciate a link to this reported issues on PS4!

[Tobse]

http://www.giyf.com/

[Elda]

I had fun with it but trying to fully develop the kingdom was a pain & I didn't complete about 15 side quest due to the fact they were a pain as well but overall I enjoyed the game.

[Segata]

Remake it as the game is just bad top to bottom nearly. Despite coming out 5 years later it feels like a game that was rushed. Feels like it has less budget and a straight to home video Disney sequel. The only thing they improved was the combat..other than that everything else was a major step backward.

[kevnb]

I like the old combat system better actually.

[Nick_Shively]

I personally disliked the old combat system. Not necessarily the fighting itself, but it was counter-intuitive to evolve your creatures because they had to start out at level 1 again. This created way too much unnecessary grinding that wasn't fun at all. Most of the time you had to stagger your evolutions and gimp yourself with a low level creature in late game stages so you could progress. No other game punishes you for trying to progress like this.

[Segata]

The problem was it's grind-heavy RPG and while grinding ina RPG can be fine this game used the wrong kind of combat system for grinding. Combat for those kinds of RPGs should be simpler and be fairly quick. So the system wasn't terrible in its own right but they either should have removed the grind-heavy approach or used a quicker combat system.

[TheColbertinator]

Level 5 needs to return to glory again. This requires a partnership with Sony Japan again.

[blackblades]

Hell a lot of devs mainly jp devs needs to return to glory again they been slipping after ps2. It's like they lost there way or something.

[blackblades]

So what ya saying that the lastest star ocean games, tales and other series etc... isn't as good as they use to be.

[P_Bomb]

Loved the first game all the way to Platinum and that fine go-kart, heh. Haven’t bought this one yet. Ive got enough in me for one last jrpg this year, but the closer we get to DQ11 I find myself leaning more towards that one. Not sure when I’ll have time to squeeze in NNK2. Maybe January.

[windblowsagain]

I will buy when it reaches 50pence.

[chris235]

the game was unnecessary. i got tricked into thinking it was the same team that did the second game and therefore we would get the same quality. what i got was a lame excuse for a jrpg watered down to casual needs. biggest disappointment this year.

[Mister_Wolf]

It is an okay game in its own right.

Doesn't live up the the first at all.

I think many really wanted it to, and it gets defended alot by those not willing to face that it doesn't come close to the first.

It really missed proper voice acting, animated cutscenes, likable characters, and most of all it missed being able to use Familiars. Higs were very, very unimaginative, given that the first game is full of imagination.

Definitely one of the most disappointing games.

[goldwyncq]

I must be the only one who liked it better than the first game, especially now that we can finally change the difficulty. Story and characters are way better in the sequel and the combat is much more enjoyable.

[Cobra951]

I can't compare it to the first one, not having played it (yet). But I wholly agree that it is a very good game in its own right, technical issues aside.

[AK91]

I played the game from start to finish on my Pro had zero technical problems. Are there any valid sources to confirm these claims or just more conjecture.

[Cobra951]

Not conjecture. I don't care if you trust me, or all the other people who have had a history of crashes and other issues. You just got lucky. I played for dozens of hours before my first crash, but after updating the game (to a supposedly more stable state), I started experiencing them a lot more frequently.

[ibrake4naps]

Glad my copy works fine

[antikbaka]

And yet everyone bought into nostalgy... although i was saying for a long time that Nino Kuni 2 is gonna be something average or less

[ccgr]

Crap I just bought this on the Steam sale :(

[kevnb]

Dont worry, its a bit buggy but this title is a bit of hyperbole.

[Cobra951]

Remember this is the internet. If a game isn't exactly what people hoped for, it gets mercilessly trashed by a loud minority. Read the pro reviews. Don't trust user reviews on this one. It's a good game in its own right.

[Cobra951]

Here's what I discovered about crash bugs, though I play on PC, so I can't say for sure this will help PS4 players.

(1) Nearly all crashes are related to doing something that opens an item menu, such as at a vendor's (but not limited to vendors). I got in the habit of saving just before talking to merchants or upgrading gear.

(2) One or two very specific open-field battles (with the chibi armies) are bugged. My guess they try to do too much at once, and run themselves out of memory. Some have suggested not summoning dragons, though personally, I never verified this. Luckily, my one terminally bugged such quest is optional. I just ended up ignoring it.

[LG_Fox_Brazil]

Weird, I got the platinum without a single bug or crash...

[CrystalFantasy]

7/10 game. Fun but not brilliant.

[NextGenCeo]

I still playing and i give already over 67 Hours and not even one time game not crush or get freez on my day one PS4.
(ESL Guy)

[Docmortem]

Played it to a 100% with 70h on PS4 Pro. Did not have any crashes what so ever.

[jznrpg]

I like it but you can’t compare t to the first game they are totally different. If comparing to the first it’s not as good , the first game was one if the beet games last gen imo, this new game is just a pretty good game it would be better if they added some diffficulty

[WitcheRivia]

I only had 1 crash on PC and that was a bug that happened when talking to the baker in the kingdom. They patched that within a week of its release though. Overall, I liked this game more than the 1st as it had better combat & better characters.

[Hardiman]

I've had no issue with it and while I liked White Witch this is a great great!

[Teflon02]

My first hearing of this. Maybe it was like BFBC2 was only my first ps3. It would freeze etc because the gpu was bad or something, the game pushed it too hard and would freeze it. Only one other game did that to it and I believe it was Killzone 3? Can't remember. Bought a new system and they worked fine. Just maybe a demanding game. I know I was getting some really odd stutters in the game that apparently no one was having. Later in the game I stopped getting it but it was annoying that not even digital foundry found these so no one could get it replicated nor was anyone talking about it

[OpenGL]

I beat the game on PS4 and didn't have any issues.