REVIEW Ni No Kuni: Wrath Of The White Witch (PS3)

Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch - A good example of how primitive mechanics is unable to pull even the most fabulous project.

History Ni no Kuni It originates in Motovill town, where the main character, a boy of thirteen, Oliver lives with his mother, in school and dreams of racing.His friend had finished repairing an old car, and together they want to test the car in action.At this point the intervening dark forces from other measurement and break the chassis, because of which the car falls into a river.Oliver's mother selflessly rushes to save her child, then dies of a heart attack. Heartbroken boy comes out of her room and crying all day long.His tears are falling on a toy donated by his mother, and so she comes to life.There is a strange kind of seems Drippy, Lord of all the fairies but No Kuni - another world, a parallel universe in which there is the spiritual counterpart of every creature on earth.Drippy, brilliantly voiced by Stephen Rhodri, believes that only the purity of children's heart was able to bring him back to life, and that it will help him to do magic. Drippy asks Oliver to find and save Alicia Wise - strong magician, which is double of the boy's mother.
Alicia was imprisoned dark gin Shadar during a magical duel, and then the magic was forbidden, and the country was under the yoke of the dark forces.If Oliver will be able to save Alice, in his own dimension mom again be alive.Of course, the boy agrees to embark on dangerous adventures, however, before proceeding to implement the goal, the heroes of the book to find the wizard and wand.Ironically, the first "artifact" Oliver finds his home in the fireplace, and the second falls into our hands as a gift from a girl ghost, the origin of which we will reveal infuture. In the story of the game you will meet with a variety of charismatic characters, and visit the many different places but No Kuni - game reminiscent of Hayao Miyazaki's animated cartoons, the studio who was directly involved in the development of the project.

Due to the purity of his own heart, Oliver can cast spells and return Shadar broken hearts. In this quest system is built and the game.You communicate with people and find that some of their hearts were broken and stolen, which is why they are behaving very strangely.In order to restore the character to mind, you need to find another game in the world, with an excess of a particular element in the heart, for example, enthusiasm, courage, and kindness, and ask for a piece.
After that, a special spell to transfer his "damaged» NPC.For carrying out missions you will not only donated money and items, but also the special ink that can be changed in local analog guild useful stuff and bonus abilities such as increased chance of precipitation kits in battle.

In addition to these quests, the developers have added a lot of job template from a series of go-kill-fetch, completely devoid of any imagination.Because of obscure indications and leaky diary where entered is not all important information, you can wander for a long time in search of the goal.These moments are burdened too remote from the hero camera which appears during a trip to the world:see the important interactive objects, poorly illuminated by yellow dots, it becomes very difficult, as is the case with the definition of the desired type of enemy or seeking entry to the forest village -see them on the map is simply impossible. In addition, the character is moving so slowly that you will surely fall asleep while you look for the right place.

Boredom and accompanies the player in the battles. The combat system here is based on the use of local counterpart Pokemon, which you can collect and pump.You simply select your desired monster and throw him into the arena to fight with the enemies.Despite the number available to you creatures, there is very little variation: the whole mechanics boils down to is pressed again, "attack" and the expectation of when the animation ends.All available for the player freedom lies only in the ability to move the arena in between animations, and not entirely clear why this element was added - for the first 15hours of play I got only 1 opponent who was protected with a particular party. The lack of tactics, one touch and not very user-friendly menu action in the form of swirling clouds begin to strain very quickly.
Long-term accumulation of power hitting bosses means that you will have time to choose to "defend", but the time switch will be problematic, since it is necessary to interrupt the attack and to seek specialoption, which is not visible on the screen.Although, as it turned out, this does not necessarily - in which case you can easily switch over to Oliver and cured with a special spell or bread that falls out copiouslyenemies and chests, and because even the bosses do not cause problems and makes very fast. A little later the hero joined by other characters from the svoimipokemonami, but in fact fundamental changes should not wait - just in the battle involved more goals.

Dungeons that are made here in the form of corridors, sometimes making element Adventure THE GAME: often come across puzzles and entertaining mini-games, like running on the plates falling into the abyss or a small puzzle with the ignition of torches in a certain sequence. In general, the gameplay Ni no Kuni too primitive and boring.

The graphics and music - it's a different story. Established LEVEL-5 together with the famous Studio Ghibli, The game looks and feels like a magical real cartoon. The characters and the game world as if drawn to the same very smoothly performed their animation that can definitely add to the advantages of the project.The same can be said about decent "Spirited Away" soundtrack written DzёHisaisi.You can only find fault in a painted inserts - they come with noticeable jerks, apparently, the developers did not have the budget to order the full amount of animation frames. Criticism is also the fact that most of the dialogue have taken no voice.

What surprised us most of all - it's an incredible book Sorcerer 300 pages with detailed descriptions of spells, items, enemies and even the stories of the life of the world Ni no Kuni. The book is available from the inventory of the hero and made very high quality - each page is decorated with a meticulous and painstaking portrayal of all the details. You can leaf through the village, or zoom the camera for easy reading, and if you buy Wizard Edition version of the game, the book will be applied in the form of this tome, looking one-to-one in the game. Some saydkvesty tied to the knowledge of the information in this book, so read it is recommended not only for the sake of interest.