Developer: Level-5, Qloc
Publisher: Bandai Namco Entertainment
Release: September 20th
On: Windows
From: Steam
Price: 40/$50/ 50
In Ni No Kuni: Wrath Of The White Witch, saving the world isn’t so much about doing battle with the forces of evil (although that’s certainly part of it). Instead, it’s about mending the broken hearts of the people within it. Whether it’s restoring the enthusiasm of a depressed town guard or snapping the bovine ruler of a desert kingdom out of their all-consuming cheese obsession, it’s the personal struggles that come to define this otherwise bright and breezy adventure. They give it a lot more heart than your Dragon Quests and your Final Fantasies, where the extent of people’s troubles often stop at ‘please kill ten of these giant rats for me so I can give you a stat-boosting sock in return’.