Well Ni No Kuni came out today and hopefully I'm not the only playing the game. Whoever else is playing speak up so we can talk about how much fun it is and what you're doing. We already knew the game was going to be beautiful, but it still makes me just stop and pause to look at things sometimes. The attention to detail is great, the animations and all the work in each town. It is just fun wandering around the town looking at everything. Plus the Wizards book in game is one of the coolest and most interestingly designed pieces of interface I've seen. I don't think too much about those sorts of things placing, but the work put into it was amazing. It makes me wish more games did something like that.

Combat has been a blast. I hit the first difficulty spike going into the desert. It was actually surprising. I was only taking 1 or 2 damage previously and it jumps dramatically to 5-10. Took a lot more thought to survive when that happened. But once I got my second party member and new equipment it was a lot more manageable. I think getting more health drops in battles from my merit rewards helped out a lot too. There is a lot to play around in there. It's so much like Persona and Pokemon where you collect and decide which monsters will make for a good assortment of fighters. The only downside right now is that it seems that the AI doesn't switch around familiars, not sure why I'll have to figure it out.

Anyway progress!

Time: 11:41
Location: Al Mamoon
Party: Oliver lv 21 (Mighty Mite lv 16, Dumbelmur lv 7, Seed Sprite lv 22)
Esther lv 20 (Drongo lv 22, Sea Naiad lv 13, Lubber Cub)
Stamp Card #5 (8 Stamps)
Merit Awards: Jack Be Nimble, Little Jacker Horner, Jackpot
Money: 5422 Guilder