When it launched earlier in the year, Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom was criticised by many for being a tad too easy. Indeed, only a select few battles offered any real threat to players who were at least familiar with typical action titles.
Although it seems a little late, Bandai Namco has addressed the complaint with the game's latest patch on PlayStation 4. Update 1.03 is out now, and it adds two new difficulty levels to the title, both of them boasting a tougher challenge. Hard mode notches up the difficulty a decent amount, while Expert mode makes combat much more demanding, with enemy attacks dealing a lot more damage.
The payoff is that if you decide to play on one of these new difficulties, you'll get rarer loot drops, including accessories that can come with an extra skill slot.
Will you be trying Ni no Kuni II with these new difficulty levels installed? Become a king in the comments section below.
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I still need to get this. So many games and so little time.
I bought this on the weekend. Look forward to starting after i finish Assassins Creed Origins, play God of War and Life is Strange Beyond the Storm. Look forward to it. Loved the first game, although i had concerns about the direction of the sequel (like the battle system and the extra modes they added) - hence the delay. Tbh with game time limited by my daughter these days, i doubt i will play on the new difficulty settings.
Oh, great! I kind of gave up on ever buying the game after reading how easy the gameplay was, but this incites me to buy it in a future sale honestly.
Good news! I barely started. Guess I'll restart on a harder difficulty.
A welcome addition, but I won't be going back to it. It was a mediocre experience all round, disappointing after how much I enjoy the first.
I haven't even played it yet, still got it sealed untouched.
"Although it seems a little late"
What seems a little late is info about the DLC in the season pass. Two new stories were supposed to drop in spring and summer but there hasn't been so much as a peep about either 3 months after launch. Glad I didn't spend the $20 day one.
I did buy the game last night for $35, if they don't announce the DLC by the time I'm done with it I'll probably trade it in.
And I won't be playing on hard. One of the selling points for me was everyone saying how easy it is. 😊
I’m pretty well versed in rpgs, but I typically play on normal because of the length. I don’t mind a little challenge, I just don’t want to get so stuck I have to restart an entire long game because it’s too hard. Can you change the difficulty mid game? Does anyone think hard will be the new normal for this game?
@ztpayne7 Based on the footage I've seen hard looks more like "normal" — at least compared to the original difficulty. Expert looks like a big step up from that.
And I think you can change the difficulty at any time.
@ShogunRok thanks!
Nice. I bought digitally on release night because I had been waiting for this forever. I didn't pre-order because I had a 20% off code I wanted to use, & you can't use any codes on pre-orders. I did a media blackout as I usually do for games in a franchise I know I'll buy, but I may have waited for a good sale if I'd have done at least enough research to know how different it was. The kingdom building was welcomed by me, but the overworld chibi characters & 5 second battles really disappointed me.
I got to the 1st main boss (there are a couple, what I'd consider, mini bosses before that point) & put it down for a while & have yet to go back. The insanely easy battles made most of the loot hunting worthless, so it seemed like a lot of filler just to get to the bosses, of which there were only like 52 total (including secret & endgame bosses), IIRC. I was honestly hoping they'd release new difficulty levels, so good on them. Better late than never. I'm glad I didn't go further, so if you do have to choose difficulty at the start (though, doubtful it forces this for just hard, at least), I won't be replaying much.
I don't need a long game, especially RPG, to be insanely difficult. But I would like it to at least convince me there's a reason I need to have the controller in hand, as opposed to it basically playing itself. I could sit there & do nothing & the AI teammates would decimate the enemies in seconds. Even on a mini boss, I tested that & basically did as little as possible (I think it forced me to attack a few times, but maybe not) & still didn't come close to dying. That saddened me, & made me look forward to the newer kingdom building stuff. I was excited that this moved from controlling the little guys in the first game to a more direct action RPG, as I wasn't really feeling that. I can't stand games with AI controlled teammates of any kind. I want control of everyone on my team in any game, which is why I love turn based games so much (& why I hated ME:Andromeda, as they stripped the control of teammate powers away). Once I found this game had AI teammates, it was made worse by the fact you were basically not even needed, just like ME: Andromeda, (which is what mads me bring that up). In both games, I could stand there & do nothing, yet win the battle & progress the story, essentially.
Sorry for the long rant, but I really hope this adds some fun to the non boss battle portions of the game, & I suspect it will. I randomly tried to update the game a few mins ago, then searched online to see what it did once I saw it had a new version, so I'm a little excited right now. Very nice job listening to fans, Bamco/Namdai (can't recall the devs name, but I'm sure it wouldn't have been done or time allowed to create this without this publisher's support).
@ztpayne7 I can only hope so. I can't imagine it being too hard on hard since normal is so easy it's absurd. That would leave a huge gap in between those settings, which wouldn't make any sense. I can't wait until someone confirms, though. I'm still playing through GoW before I'll go back to NNK2, but I'd like to know if my excitement is warranted, because this is something this game really needed.
After completing the story and majority of the side missions, not sure I will return until DLC. The final few missions seem tied to the remaining few people I need to complete the last bits of research in my kingdom. Said missions would involve searching the whole game world for a specific item or other (no spoilers). I simply don't want to spend what little time I have playing games doing that. I also don't like looking at guides. Hmph!
Havnt got this yet so good news for meeee
Yeah, I will pick this up at some point.
Already finished & forgotten about this one. Was a bit dull tbh
I platinumed it a few weeks after it came out. As someone else said above, I'm more concerned with where the DLC is. I paid for it at launch as I liked the game so much and nothing's even been announced yet.
Thanks for the news! I look forward to the sequel being more challenging than it originally was.
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