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* CrossoverShip: Nia from ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' and Lofty, as both are people with welsh accents thicker than their thighs.

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* SpiritualSuccessor: With a young protagonist leading a small army, having the option to recruit [=NPCs=], building a prosperous town and having army battles expressed through miniatures, the game certainly has that ''VideoGame/{{Suikoden}}'' vibe down pat.

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With a young protagonist leading a small army, having the option to recruit [=NPCs=], building a prosperous town and having army battles expressed through miniatures, the game certainly has that ''VideoGame/{{Suikoden}}'' vibe down pat.pat.
** Despite being a direct sequel to the first ''VideoGame/NiNoKuni,'' the battle system is more closely related to that of Level-5's very early RPG ''VideoGame/RogueGalaxy,'' being an action RPG where each character specializes in both a melee and ranged weapon, the mild platforming elements, and the fact that enemies in dungeons are fought in the dungeon itself, rather than in a specialized arena.
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** Gravity elemental attacks, a sub-element of the darkness element, verge ''very'' close on being a flat-out InfinityPlusOneElement. The number of things gravity is strong against is way higher than the other elements. To wit; flying, 'goo' and large enemies such as Manticores and Dragons. This might not sound like much but these enemies make up a ''large'' amount of beastiary; with large enemies making up a ''large'' number of bosses and {{Bonus Boss}}es.

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** Gravity elemental attacks, a sub-element of the darkness element, verge ''very'' close on being a flat-out InfinityPlusOneElement. The number of things gravity is strong against is way higher than the other elements. To wit; flying, 'goo' and large enemies such as Manticores and Dragons. This might not sound like much but these enemies make up a ''large'' amount of beastiary; with large enemies making up a ''large'' number of bosses and {{Bonus Boss}}es.bosses.
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** Again, Doloran's HeelFaceTurn holds a lot of potential for new side quests and even a whole new adventure had he been made a playable character. Sadly nothing came out of it due to Level 5 giving up on the game.
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Merged They Wasted A Perfectly Good Character which got listed twice.


* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Roland himself is shockingly underused in the main story despite the shocking opening. He never brings up his past life beyond whatever skills are needed to help Evan until ''right before the final boss''.

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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: ** Roland himself is shockingly underused in the main story despite the shocking opening. He never brings up his past life beyond whatever skills are needed to help Evan until ''right before the final boss''.
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This game is not considered to be better than the original by most people.


* EvenBetterSequel: Despite the SequelDifficultyDrop, this game is considered to be this to the original ''Ni no Kuni''. Many people [[AuthorsSavingThrow liked how the battles played out]] much more comparable to ''VideoGame/StarOcean'' or the ''VideoGame/TalesSeries''.

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* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Hey, remember when Oliver beat the [[http://ninokuni.wikia.com/wiki/Hickory_Dock King of the Mice]] in the first game?


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* HarsherInHindsight: Hey, remember when Oliver beat the [[http://ninokuni.wikia.com/wiki/Hickory_Dock King of the Mice]] in the first game?

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** Also, Doloran after his HeelFaceTurn. There's potentially a lot that can be done to flesh him out and a lot of potential additional quests he can bring. Sadly Level 5 decided that the game was not worth any additional effort after the second DLC failed to sell well.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter:
** Roland himself is shockingly underused in the main story despite the shocking opening. He never actually brings up his past life beyond whatever skills are needed to help Evan until ''right before the final boss''.

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** Also, Doloran after his HeelFaceTurn. There's potentially a lot that can be done to flesh him out and a lot of many potential additional quests he can bring. Sadly Level 5 decided that the game was not worth any additional effort after the second DLC failed to sell well.
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TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Roland himself is shockingly underused in the main story despite the shocking opening. He never actually brings up his past life beyond whatever skills are needed to help Evan until ''right before the final boss''.



** The game's world has six major species inhabiting it[[note]]Humans, Grimalkin, Mousekind, Greenlings, Dogfolk and Merfolk.[[/note]], as well as robots and many species of monsters. However, all of the playable characters are human, or humanoid [[HalfHumanHybrid in Evan's case]]. The game could have allowed other species to be playable to add more variation and to tie into the game's theme of peace and unity.
** One of the game's hidden missions has Evan helping a group of Grimchillas get rid of a porc that has invaded their den. The game could have had a larger number of side quests featuring Evan assisting various monsters and befriending them, possibly even inviting them to live in Evermore.
** A number of players were disappointed when Level 5 hinted that there will not be season 2 [=DLCs=] due to the season 1 [=DLCs=] not selling well. These players feel that Evermore holds a lot of potential for new adventures and that Level 5 is abandoning it just because of a bunch of whiners.

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** The game's world has six major species inhabiting it[[note]]Humans, Grimalkin, Mousekind, Greenlings, Dogfolk and Merfolk.[[/note]], as well as robots robots, and many species of monsters. However, all of the playable characters are human, human or humanoid [[HalfHumanHybrid in Evan's case]]. The game could have allowed other species to be playable to add more variation and to tie into the game's theme of peace and unity.
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** One of the game's hidden missions has Evan helping a group of Grimchillas get gets rid of a porc that has invaded their den. The game could have had a larger number of several side quests featuring Evan assisting various monsters and befriending them, possibly even inviting them to live in Evermore.
** A number of players were disappointed when Level 5 hinted that there will not be season 2 [=DLCs=] due to the season 1 [=DLCs=] not selling well. These players feel that Evermore holds a lot of potential for new adventures adventures. However, not much is done with it, and that Level 5 is abandoning no longer developing DLC for the game has left it just because of a bunch of whiners. underused.



** Throughout the game, you'll learn almost a dozen noncombat spells, some of which are given to you throughout the main quest while most require research at Evermore's Spellworks. However, the spells are very situational and are barely used throughout most of the game. Some spells, such as the spells to speak with animals and to spirits, are only used once or twice for side quests.

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** Throughout the game, you'll learn almost a dozen noncombat spells, some of which are given to you throughout the main quest while most require research at Evermore's Spellworks. However, the spells are very situational and are barely used throughout most of the game. Some spells, such as the spells those to speak with animals and to spirits, are only used once or twice for side quests.
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YMMV tropes can't be played with. Even then, a few bugs don't make it a disaster.


* PortingDisaster: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. The Steam version of the game is generally regarded to be one of the better porting efforts for any Japanese-studio made game, which are pretty infamous for this trope when it comes to PC ports. While the game mostly runs flawlessly, it ''does'' have a tendency to randomly crash on extremely rare occasions [[note]]thankfully, it's usually only when you first start talking to store [=NPCs=] and the game frequently auto-saves so not much progress is usually lost[[/note]] and the odd graphical glitch [[note]]which may or may not be the fault of the display drivers, or the fact that the game was optimized for [=NVidia GPUs=] thus ruining the experience for those with AMD [=GPUs=]. Although, there are reports that even higher end [=NVidia GPUs=] have issues with the game where lower end ones doesn't- namely first, those that used HBM memory suffers from stuttering [[/note]] tends to pop up not present in the [=PS4=] version but, otherwise, the port is considered pretty solid overall.

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* PortingDisaster: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. The Steam version of the game is generally regarded to be one of the better porting efforts for any Japanese-studio made game, which are pretty infamous for this trope when it comes to PC ports. PolishedPort: While the game mostly runs flawlessly, it ''does'' have a tendency does tend to randomly crash on extremely rare occasions [[note]]thankfully, it's usually only when you first start talking to store [=NPCs=] and the game frequently auto-saves so not much progress is usually lost[[/note]] occasions, and the odd graphical glitch [[note]]which may or may not be the fault of the display drivers, or the fact that the game was optimized for [=NVidia GPUs=] thus ruining the experience for those with AMD [=GPUs=]. Although, there are reports that even higher end [=NVidia GPUs=] have issues with the game where lower end ones doesn't- namely first, those that used HBM memory suffers from stuttering [[/note]] tends to pop up not present in the [=PS4=] version but, otherwise, does pop up, the Steam port is considered pretty solid overall.
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The Black Knight [[OneWingedAngel transforming into a gigantic mouse centaur creature]] lines up with what extreme exposure to Darkness could do in the first game. Here, however, it's a single isolated incident given no explanation and is never seen happening again.


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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter:
** Roland himself is shockingly underused in the main story despite the shocking opening. He never actually brings up his past life beyond whatever skills are needed to help Evan until ''right before the final boss''.
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Not YMMV


* DamnYouMuscleMemory: Dodge is done by tapping both the Guard ''and'' the movement key simultaneously, not by spamming a dodge roll like in [[VideoGame/MonsterHunterWorld a lot of]] [[VideoGame/DarkSouls other games]] like this. This also makes it more difficult to execute as you need to tap two keys at the same time, which may not be possible on cheap keyboards.



* UnexpectedGameplayChange: Again, early game, when Roland and Evan will need to use stealth to evade Mausinger's soldiers while sneaking out of the castle. This is the only stealth section the game has, with the rest of the game being purely action based.
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** Roland's son is mentioned only three or four times throughout the entire game and there is only one scene where Roland displays any pain and sorrow over being separated from him. This was remedied in second DLC, which has a chapter deidcated to him.

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** Roland's son is mentioned only three or four times throughout the entire game and there is only one scene where Roland displays any pain and sorrow over being separated from him. This was remedied in second DLC, which has a chapter deidcated dedicated to him.

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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter:
** Roland's son is mentioned only three or four times throughout the entire game and there is only one scene where Roland displays any pain and sorrow over being separated from him. This was remedied in second DLC, which has a chapter deidcated to him.
** Also, Doloran after his HeelFaceTurn. There's potentially a lot that can be done to flesh him out and a lot of potential additional quests he can bring. Sadly Level 5 decided that the game was not worth any additional effort after the second DLC failed to sell well.


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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter:
** Roland's son is mentioned only three or four times throughout the entire game and there is only one scene where Roland displays any pain and sorrow over being separated from him. This was remedied in second DLC, which has a chapter deidcated to him.
** Also, Doloran after his HeelFaceTurn. There's potentially a lot that can be done to flesh him out and a lot of potential additional quests he can bring. Sadly Level 5 decided that the game was not worth any additional effort after the second DLC failed to sell well.

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* AssPull:
** The reveal that [[spoiler: the "curious boy" is not only Evan's future son, but King Ferdinand who inspired Evan to unite the world in the first place.]] While it's obvious that [[spoiler: the curious boy is from the future and knows Evan as an adult]] as early as the end of Chapter 5 if not earlier, the exact circumstances come out of left field.

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AssPull: The reveal that [[spoiler: the "curious boy" is not only Evan's future son, but King Ferdinand who inspired Evan to unite the world in the first place.]] While it's obvious that [[spoiler: the curious boy is from the future and knows Evan as an adult]] as early as the end of Chapter 5 if not earlier, the exact circumstances come out of left field.



* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Roland's son is mentioned only three or four times throughout the entire game and there is only one scene where Roland displays any pain and sorrow over being separated from him.
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** Also, Doloran after his HeelFaceTurn. There's potentially a lot that can be done to flesh him out and a lot of potential additional quests he can bring. Sadly Level 5 decided that the game was not worth any additional effort after the second DLC failed to sell well.
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* BrokenAesop: The mark of a good leader is knowing when to accept a loss, even if it means admitting failure. [[spoiler:Doloran refused to accept his kingdom was dead and was determined to revive it. Roland accepted that his 'kingdom' was dead, and that he would have to live with the consequences. The end of the game just hands Roland his kingdom back anyway and he never has to live with the consequences of the nuclear attack.]]
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*** It's also worth noting that the battle with Oakenheart follows immediately afterwards, and not only is it [[BreatherBoss one of the easier kingmaker battles]], [[spoiler:Mausinger becomes a GuestStarPartyMember for the fight.]]
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not YMMV. Moved.


* GameBreakingBug: The Dreamer's Mazes are randomized, sometimes using alternate room layouts that don't take certain other maze elements into account. This can result in something as harmless as [[GoodBadBugs NPCs half-stuck in a cave wall]], to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLbe6HYXO1M two different rooms overlapping, soft-locking your progress]] (spoilers for post-game outfits).
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** "The Sweet Stink of Success" can either be really easy or really hard. First, you must recruit Morgan, which is quite a lengthy quest of its own (find her, buy her music sheet, find a flower in the mountains of Rolling Hills). Then her second quest at Evermore involves you giving her any kind of smelly/stinky boots, which are a low-tier equipment title. This late in the game, you might have invested in getting better quality, and may have never gotten such boots to begin with, or may have sold the earlier shoes off due to WrongGenreSavvy (many other [=RPGs=] impose an inventory limit. This is one of the handful of [=RPGs=] that ''don't'') or to gain money to buy healing items. It's possible to find a pair a number of ways, such as going through the Dream Mazes, but that alone requires luck with the [[RandomNumberGod RNG]] and a lot of grinding.

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** "The Sweet Stink of Success" can either be really easy or really hard. First, you must recruit Morgan, which is quite a lengthy quest of its own (find her, buy her music sheet, find a flower in the mountains of Rolling Hills). Then her second quest at Evermore involves you giving her any kind of smelly/stinky boots, which are a low-tier equipment title. This late in the game, you might have invested in getting better quality, and may have either never gotten such boots to begin with, or may have sold the earlier shoes off due to WrongGenreSavvy (many other [=RPGs=] impose an [[AntiHoarding inventory limit.limit]]. This is one of the handful of [=RPGs=] that ''don't'') or to gain money to buy healing items. It's possible to find a pair a number of ways, such as going through the Dream Mazes, but that alone requires luck with the [[RandomNumberGod RNG]] and a lot of grinding.
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** The reveal that [[spoiler: The "curious boy" is not only Evan's future son, but King Ferdinand who inspired Evan to unite the world in the first place.]] While it's obvious that [[spoiler: the curious boy is from the future and knows Evan as an adult]] as early as the end of Chapter 5 if not earlier, the exact circumstances come out of left field.

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** The reveal that [[spoiler: The the "curious boy" is not only Evan's future son, but King Ferdinand who inspired Evan to unite the world in the first place.]] While it's obvious that [[spoiler: the curious boy is from the future and knows Evan as an adult]] as early as the end of Chapter 5 if not earlier, the exact circumstances come out of left field.
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** The reveal that [[spoiler: The "curious boy" is not only Evan's future son, but King Ferdinand who inspired Evan to unite the world in the first place.]] While it's obvious that [[spoiler: The curious boy is from the future and knows Evan as an adult]] as early as the end of Chapter 5 if not earlier, the exact circumstances come out of left field.

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** The reveal that [[spoiler: The "curious boy" is not only Evan's future son, but King Ferdinand who inspired Evan to unite the world in the first place.]] While it's obvious that [[spoiler: The the curious boy is from the future and knows Evan as an adult]] as early as the end of Chapter 5 if not earlier, the exact circumstances come out of left field.

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