Wed Dec 10 2025
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Familiar Expedition Season 9
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Snowball Fight Event
I’ve just started to play it’s already a great game, my only problem is that some cut scenes are a little buggy or some characters disappear during the scenes. I think personally the fighting needs a little work, it automatically makes the attacks for you which is a cool idea but i think it would be more fun if players had more control. When doing a mission/quest it makes your character move to the quest location and if you try to move away from route to the location it makes your character keep going in the direction of the quest. I think is a great mechanic but I think it takes away from the exploration of the game, I think it would be better if you were able turn this off and on because it does save time if your trying to rush through the game. Overall this really is a great game and it’s super fun. I love all the characters and adorable animals and it deserves a good reputation. btw to all the people complaining about the loading thing it’s because the game was pre downloadable and it wasn’t officially released yet but now you are able to play :)
I liked Studio Ghibli’s movie “No ni Kuni” so I wanted to try this game. It’s a very imaginative world like the movie and fun to play. NetMarble made the game accessible for all ages by making an open world on training wheels. Yet, the training wheels are tightened with a torch wrench. NetMarble has not found a good balance of auto-play for new players and letting experienced players play on their own. While you can turn off the auto-fight function in settings, I noticed the game still wanted to fight for me on upgrade levels, like the labyrinth. It should not be that complicated. NetMarble is very generous with upgrade materials for weapons and armor and makes the process fairly easy to understand. However, your items bag fills up very fast, so half your time on the game is spent clearing space for needed items and upgrade materials whether you buy more room in the bag with gems or not. I am dropping the game not because I had to wait in line to play which was bad enough. No, it’s because the game always shuts down when I am upgrading weapons and armor as if I’m not playing. If this game came out a few years earlier, I would have absolutely loved it. However, after playing an open world game like Genshin Impact, Ni no Kuni feels antiquated. This would be a good console or PC game. It is not a good game for a phone/tablet. I played until level 49 and found little reason to spend any more time or money.
If you want a better “open world” game, then download genshin impact. This game is almost a exact copy of it, the opening, the mechanics.. any of you genshin impact players know what im talking about. I literally pre ordered the game expecting something way better, but as i was playing way too many things remind me of genshin. Maybe this game was inspired by it, just like genshin impact was inspired by the game Zelda breath of the wild but its just way too similar to me. Not only this, the game is really confusing, i think theres way too many buttons and things to upgrade im just lost in the game. If you have auto on, you can legitimately just leave the game running and it will do story quests FOR you. It even has auto combat. I don't really understand the point of this and theres no clear way to turn off auto. Also, the gems that you need to summon for familiars and weapons and stuff are way to expensive and I don't even know how to get them for free. How am i supposed to collect new stuff? Im only level 19-20 right now and the only thing that’s remotely interesting that i got as a reward is a giant cat mount. Its extremely easy to level up in the game as you can just auto do everything without even touching your device. And the story isnt all that interesting either. The game will most likely improve over time, though, this is what i think about it right now.
Visuals are fantastic, if you love ghibli, you’ll enjoy this for a few days. My issues is how hard it is for f2p players. You hit a hard wall starting in the 30’s. The game gives you very few free cash currency, and the dye system and beauty creation system are way too harsh and impossible for f2p people. They also seem stingy with any content in game, most dungeons and adventures are a single play a day type system. It’s also mostly idle play style, and from what I’ve experienced of the combat, the camera is so bad, and aiming control is also garbage, so even the combat is pretty rough. Idle grinding is also pretty garbage, you need hundreds of thousands of exp to level up, and mobs give like 10-30 exp each.. The RnG is so bad.. you need good items to progress, but it’s almost impossible to get if you’re slightly unlucky like me. There’s also a upgrading and evolving system that seems to be a solid okay, hard to get items to upgrade though. The classes are also sex-based, which i feel is such an outdated concept. The cat characters ears don’t change with the hair style, most beauty items are blocked behind a paywall unless you’re extremely lucky early game. Was fantastic for 2 days, give it a try, but expect idle-extremely childish-gameplay. Oh, they also give you a disabled cat mount that is like the worst thing ever. 😂
I usually don’t write reviews but for all the things I’ve heard about the game I genuinely don’t think it deserves all the praise. If you’re used to playing mmorpgs I think you’ll be extremely disappointed with 1 the character creation and 2 not actually being able to make decisions for yourself. If you care about character creation the character creation is extremely limited for male/female characters if you want to play as any character for the stats you can’t change the body type and you might be stuck with a character that doesn’t represent you. In terms of gameplay, for some reason auto questing is the only option you have and your character runs towards quests and auto complete them itself. If I wanted to watch an AI make all the decisions I’d watch a movie. You can stop your character from moving towards the quest, but it gets rid of the marker for that quest so you can’t walk to it yourself because you don’t know where you’re going. I’m extremely disappointed in what this game turned out to be, it’s not fun just watching a computer do every thing. It might be good for really young kids, but even then I don’t think it would be engaging enough for them. I wouldn’t recommend it if your looking for a game to actually play, maybe if you want to watch an interactive movie it’ll be your thing.
This game caught my attention because it’s a studio Ghibli based game, I’ve been into the ni no kuni series since it came out on the ps3. Buuuuuut this game isn’t made by studio Ghibli so there’s a lot of downfalls. A lot of people say it’s an exact copy of genshin impact but honestly almost every mmorpg game has the same layout, the same design, just different stories and characters. It does feel very “Studio Ghibli” in design, which I do like, but the game play is very boring. If you can’t find the auto-off function then it very quickly becomes an idle game as you will literally be walked through almost every single part of the game without having to touch anything. This is also another gacha game with so many micro transactions that it’s very unbearable. There’s alot of predatory features in the game that will try to get you to buy gems whenever you can and it’s horrible. After a certain point it’s hard to level up unless you spend money, I’m at lvl. 36 and I haven’t spent any money but literally almost everything is hard to get/accomplish without spending money. This game had a lot to live up to and kinda failed miserably, but you get a cute cat that you can ride around! :D
I just got this game after the official launch, and the art and story so far are absolutely amazing. However, a couple things are already holding my back from really enjoying the game. The first is the auto-running. Whenever you try to navigate a quest, it will auto-run to the location. It seems small, but as someone who likes to run around on the way to my quests, it really annoys me, but even after messing around in the settings I cannot find a way to disable it. My other major complaint is the size of the skill buttons. For a tablet user, they would be perfectly fine, but playing on a phone they’re extremely small and again, there is no way (that I was able to find in the settings) to adjust the size. This makes combat really difficult because I keep hitting the wrong button. I chose a bow user, which in most games already have a hard time locking onto targets, but this issue makes it especially bad. Especially considering the target locking is somewhat faulty. However, these are all really minor issues with an otherwise well put together and entertaining game thus far, and I hope they will be resolved.
I would have loved to give this game a 5/5 stars but sadly I can’t, I have been waiting for this game since the start of this month, and I was pleased to see that at 1 in the morning I see that I can download the game, so I did, it obviously took awhile to download, which the waiting part I could handle easily, after awhile I open the game sign in so I did, got another pop up telling me to download a patch of some kind, which I obviously did and considering how I’ve wanted almost a month to play this game I used my Data (since it’s faster than my wifi) and it only took a couple of minutes, once it was done it gave me the conformation that it finished downloading and restarted the game and after that I chose a server, but then I got the same pop up stating I needed to download the same patch which I thought maybe there’s another one so I confirmed and it immediately gave me a pop up that it finished and I thought wow that was fast and it kept giving me the same pop ups so I decided to just reinstall it and I did all the same process again and again and it seemed like the only game content I got was the mini game you play while you wait for it to download, I understand that it’s a new game and might have some bugs but I was at least expecting to play the game and not be stuck at the menu 😔