Unlike Kingdoms of Amalur, this dream team did more than hit its mark, and Ni No Kuni really is the best thing ever.įrom the moment this game starts it is a game that is impossible to forget.
This time it brings together the JRPG development talents of the excellent Level-5, the artistic brilliance of Studio Ghibli (yes, the ones that made Spirited Away and Totoro), and a soundtrack written by Mamoru Fujisawa (otherwise known as Joe Hisaishi, and responsible for some of the greatest Studio Ghibli film music scores) and performed by the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. What does this have to do with Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch? Well, Ni No Kuni is another 'dream team' collaboration. It was a good game, even a great one, but it fell short on the potential that a game developed by the minds of game developer Ken Rolston, storyteller R.A Salvatore, and artist Todd McFarlane.īringing those three nerd-cool hero artists together should have resulted in the best thing ever, but all we got was a game that showed potential as a franchise, only to have that dream crushed by the ruination of its development studio. Last year, I was deeply disappointed by Kingdoms of Amalur.
