NOW PLAYING: Ni No Kuni (Part 3)
There be SPOILERS below! Run for your lives!
Every Friday (well, this is
a late post, so Saturday) I like to update you all on what I’ve been playing
the past week, and unsurprisingly, it’s been Ni No Kuni for the last three. The game has me hooked and I don’t think I
can stop until I’ve done everything.
I’ve gotten to a point in
the game where the world has finally opened up a bit. After obtaining the ship and traveling to
Hamelin, Oliver gained the Travel spell, which allows you to “Fast Travel”
(Skyrim fans) to any location previously visited, making it SO much easier to
collect items you missed or finish up outstanding side quests.
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| My favorite familiar so far... about to om nom nom nom... |
I’m finally taking a lot more
time to feed and properly upgrade my familiars, and I found a great place to
grind levels – the Ugly Duckling isle just northwest of Hamelin has Toko’s, a
weak and timid familiar that likes to run away in battle, but is worth about
2,000 experience a pop when defeated.
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| If you enlarge this picture, you can see where my red arrow-circle is in the upper middle portion of the map. That's Ugly Duckling isle with the juicy Tokos! |
The Casino in Tombstone
Trail is open now, too. It has the feel
of a real life gambling joint, though.
You have to pay Guilders for Chips, and you use the Chips to play the
games. All the games are a bit luck
based, and it almost feels like they’re “rigged”. My boyfriend and I had fun playing the
original “Platoon” game though, and we both got a laugh when we saw that the
Temple of Trial Challenge involving Oliver and Esther walking on the dual paths
was now a game, too. Perhaps we’ll be
spending more time there, later.
I also tried the Solosseum
where you fight other folks with familiars in ranked challenges. It was a little difficult beating just the
first two tiers, so I’m probably going to have to go back later once I get
strong enough to take on the rest.
The deeper I dive into the
game, the more impressed I am with its design.
Good job, Level-5! I’m totally
loving it. 45 hours and counting…
LATE UPDATE – I got the
dragon! Woohoo! Time to fly everywhere and collect all those
nasty things that were just out of my reach!
Yay!
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| WEEEE!!! |
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