Ni No Kuni(PS3)

[aukevin]

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Okay, in reading some reviews I read that this had some similarities with pokemon. Without spoilers what might those be, if any?

I only got about 40 minutes in last night and didn't notice any.

I'm a little over 10 hours in and I just got the ability to acquire new familiars in battle, so yeah you are still real early in the game. I could have been to the point I'm at earlier, but I've done all the errands but one in the first two cities and all the available bounties as well. Plus I've just wandered around doing battles a lot too just to get the hang of the game more.

[injunwal]

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No matter, once you "beat the game" a whole ton of errands and bounties open up.

I know, I am just not one who usually goes back and does anything after i see the credits of a game. Bounties might change that as I really like doing those.

[CMH]

I haven't been stumped at all while playing or sat around doing noting. But I've played 8 hours according to the clock and am just now in Mammoon.

I did complete all of the available side quests and bounties in Ding Dong Dell before moving forward, so maybe that's why?

I also just got to level 10 and didn't see any option to catch familiars. Perhaps I need to do something in the desert first?

I did pick up my third familiar on my way over and completed the second guardian battle.

Also it seems to me that MP moves become very important as you advance. I rarely used MP in the first area. Just attack and moving around.

I faced two sets of enemies in the second area and the difficulty jumps significantly in comparison. I'm thinking I either need better weapons or the game is gonna turn into a MP fest.

Don't mind if MP becomes that important but I'm definitely assuming my weapons no longer cut it.


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[aukevin]

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I haven't been stumped at all while playing or sat around doing noting. But I've played 8 hours according to the clock and am just now in Mammoon.

I did complete all of the available side quests and bounties in Ding Dong Dell before moving forward, so maybe that's why?

I also just got to level 10 and didn't see any option to catch familiars. Perhaps I need to do something in the desert first?

The battles outside of Al Mamoon are tough until you do a little more in the Al Mamoon section. I think Drippy even says to avoid battles and just head to Al Mamoon.

[bcruise]

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The battles outside of Al Mamoon are tough until you do a little more in the Al Mamoon section. I think Drippy even says to avoid battles and just head to Al Mamoon.

Yeah, the area around Al-Mamoon is dangerous when you first get there. It will be much less dangerous once you've visited the city and done what you need to do there.

[aukevin]

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Yeah, the area around Al-Mamoon is dangerous when you first get there. It will be much less dangerous once you've visited the city and done what you need to do there.

yeah when I first got there I thought I'd discard what Drippy said and take on a battle. Some little runt of a baddie beat the crap out of me, after that I avoided everyone and went straight to Al Mamoon. Once I took care of business there, the baddies in the desert weren't bad.

[CMH]

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Good to know.

Obviously, I enjoy the challenge; I was just shocked at how challenging it became so quickly.

Thanks, guys.

[aukevin]

Do you guys evolve your familiars as soon as possible, or could it be better to keep leveling them up before metamorphosis?

[ubernoob]

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I evolved mine ASAP as long as I had said stone, and there wasn't a move I wanted them to learn.

For min-maxers you can squeak a few extra stat points out by maxing them out before evolving but ain't nobody got time fo dat.

[VTPack919]

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Ahhhh, I need to get back on this. I will before the Duke game tonight. I want some familiars.

[aukevin]

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I evolved mine ASAP as long as I had said stone, and there wasn't a move I wanted them to learn.

For min-maxers you can squeak a few extra stat points out by maxing them out before evolving but ain't nobody got time fo dat.

So if you evolve them before they learn a move, they won't learn it in their new state?

[ubernoob]

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So if you evolve them before they learn a move, they won't learn it in their new state?

Some do, some don't. Each 'evolution' has moves they learn just depends on which familiar we're talking about.

[aukevin]

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Some do, some don't. Each 'evolution' has moves they learn just depends on which familiar we're talking about.

Oh yeah, that's what that metamorphosis screen is showing isn't it, when it is showing your two possibilities? Guess I need to pay more attention.

I beat the Old Smokey boss last night. He would kill Ester pretty much right away and leave me controlling Oliver to finish him off on my own. I probably died 3 times before I beat him, so he was the hardest boss yet for me.

What do you guys set your Tactics to during big boss battles and then for normal battles. For normal battles I have Tactics set to attack who the leader is attacking and for Ester (I pretty much always control Oliver) to do what ever she wants. But during the boss battle, I could keep Ester alive longer if I put her to provide backup.

Also, is there any other way to add MP other than the blue pickups during battle or the provisions? Those Coffee provisions are like 200G a pop and only give you 10 MP. Do you eventually get a spell to build MP or something to regen it?

[bcruise]

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Oh yeah, that's what that metamorphosis screen is showing isn't it, when it is showing your two possibilities? Guess I need to pay more attention.

I beat the Old Smokey boss last night. He would kill Ester pretty much right away and leave me controlling Oliver to finish him off on my own. I probably died 3 times before I beat him, so he was the hardest boss yet for me.

What do you guys set your Tactics to during big boss battles and then for normal battles. For normal battles I have Tactics set to attack who the leader is attacking and for Ester (I pretty much always control Oliver) to do what ever she wants. But during the boss battle, I could keep Ester alive longer if I put her to provide backup.

Also, is there any other way to add MP other than the blue pickups during battle or the provisions? Those Coffee provisions are like 200G a pop and only give you 10 MP. Do you eventually get a spell to build MP or something to regen it?

At that point I usually had Esther set to Keep us Healthy or Backup because she's just not very good in a fight. At those settings she'll mostly play safe and use her MP to heal or support. The problem with that is, as you noted later, she's an MP vacuum. You're at a point in the game just before you gain the ability to do alchemy, and once you get there you can make Strong Coffees (30 MP) at half the cost it would normally take to buy one. That's one option, but she doesn't start out with all that much MP anyway, so even those iced coffees can get you by for a while.

All throughout the game I've dealt with the MP problem by just keeping enough MP recovery items on hand. Because Esther especially is pretty useless when her MP runs dry. I didn't want to just solo run everything with Oliver, so that's really the only way to keep your other characters useful aside from controlling them yourself.

I've also kept most of her familiars' inexpensive spells that far into the game as well - They still do pretty good damage/healing if a high magical attack familiar uses them. And she can cast them a whole bunch of times without running out of MP at that point.

There's no MP regen that I know of save for picking up the orbs Drippy tosses in during battle, but remember that you do get a full HP/MP recovery when a character levels up.

[myghty]

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I have to stop coming into this thread. Just makes me want to get the game more & i have to cut my backlog...