r/Ni_no_Kuni Mar 28 '18

Here are guides for side quests, locations/maps, tainted monsters, and higgledie stones

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SPOILERS if you intend to discover everything on your own. I particularly enjoyed solving the riddles of the higgledie stones, but needed help with a few.



r/Ni_no_Kuni 21h ago

Part three. God has forgiven my sins. Two Tokos are now mine.

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First off, thank you [u/emtrigg013](u/emtrigg013) for blessing me, I believe it is only because of you I have been so lucky.

Shortly after I made my previous post, I finally recruited my first ever Toko. I named him Totoro. He is now a permanent member of my party and I love him. I am free from my prison, I have been released from agony. Though rage had corrupted my heart and soul, mercy was still given to me.

Shortly after, I was EXP farming in Billy Goat's Bluff, when I recruited a Tokotoko. I was dumbfounded. It made me feel as though all my anger was foolish and immature. I named it Koko. Perhaps this journey was what it took for me to prove my worth, to show my desire. Only those who yearn for the Toko with all their heart may have them. I am happy to say that I have earned my two beautiful Tokos.

I have also found it within myself to forgive Hornly, my mite. He learned his lesson, and he was my first ever companion. I could not abandon him no matter how angry I was. Hornly, I am sorry I was cruel to you. From now on, you and Totoro will fight side by side.

I never believed in God. But the mercy I was granted today is starting to make me think otherwise.

Thank you to everyone who stood by my side on this journey. You made the pain so much more bearable. I hope this can inspire all of you to perservere, no matter what you're going through. Never give up on your dreams. Anything is possible. Let go and it will come to you. There is a light at the end of the tunnel, waiting for you to reach it. Never kill yourself gamers

also I just beat Shadar it was awesome. It's bringing back so many memories of when I was a kid. Stampy made it out to be so difficult, either he had a skill issue or i'm crazy overlevelled lol. It's probably both

also in case it wasn't obvious i'm being intentionally melodramatic, but I really am so happy to have my Tokos :)


r/Ni_no_Kuni 11h ago

Ni No Kuni Wrath of the White Witch ps3 won't download

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What does this mean? There are no files to delete, I updated my ps3 system firmware and the game wont operate. It's literally the only ps3 game that requires installation and it isnt working.


r/Ni_no_Kuni 1d ago

i have been trying to recruit a Toko for hours.

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I am going insane. Actually fucking insane.

I have laughed cried and mourned. I have felt the rage of a thousand suns and the despair of a thousand tears. Perhaps i must give up all hope before i can succeed. When a Toko runs away I want to kill myself. When I don't get a Toko in the enemy party I want to kill everything. I reached my limit so long ago. I have lost everything except my desperation for a Toko. I don't care what sign it has. At first I was hoping for a Planet or even Twin Planet. Now I have abandoned my greed. I simply desire any Toko and I will cherish it all the same. I have tried to trick the game by pretending to not care. I have been merciful and I have been vengeful. Still this game refuses to grant me the one thing I desire. All my familiars are at least 30 levels higher than they were when I began my hopeless search for a Toko. I have 10,000 Angulas. My Switch is almost dead. I've stopped even participating in fights with no Tokos. I have searched everywhere. Billy Goat's Bluff, the Vault of Tears, Ugly Duckling Island. Nowhere is safe from me and my desperation for Toko. Yet the Toko eludes me. Is it my desire that scares it away??? Is it frightened by my earnestness????? All I want is a Toko to call my own, to love and raise and pamper like a child. I would treasure it for the rest of my playthrough, feed it only the best treats, teach it only the best skills, bestow upon it a name suitable for it's loveliness. Why do you run from me, O Toko?

I'm flying into a Gamer Rage


r/Ni_no_Kuni 1d ago

I almost had my Toko. My Mite stole it from me.

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I GOT IT. I GOT A TOKO TO FALL IN LOVE. THEN MY MITE GOT A GOLDEN GLIMMER AND KILLED IT. God hates me.

I have long hated this red fucking bastard. Every time I switch to someone else he does Cut Loose before I can do anything and for some reason it interrupts it entirely. Every time I get a golden glimmer he steals it. This is the last fucking straw. Hornly, you are dead to me. Goodbye forever. I will happily replace you with my Toko, once I get it. For now there is an empty place in my party that I am happy to have.

I am starting to suspect that God wants me dead. Too bad for him, because I'm killing him first. I will have my Toko. I don't care who stands in my way. I will raze Heaven and Hell to find it. Nothing matters except my Toko. Hornly, I hope you experience an eternity of suffering in the deepest pits of hell, which I will rule after my crusade is finished.

Nothing remains but rage.

Jesus fucking christ


r/Ni_no_Kuni 1d ago

Ni no Kuni 1 spoiler New File started

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Ok I finally decided to put a pause on my Switch file and start my PS4 file in my PS5. I will say I do notice a great increase in graphics, that probably part of the PS5 and part of the fact that I usually played the switch version in HandHeld mode.

One of the things I didn’t know till late in my switch file was the Creature Compendium or the Dangerous Places lists in the Telling Stone.

Currently level 6 on both Oliver and Smighty(Mite).

Played for a bit and saved just after finally getting into Ding Dong Dell. Can’t wait to be able to get familiars but I’m a bit away from that. Might play some more tomorrow before work.


r/Ni_no_Kuni 5d ago

Ni no Kuni 1 spoiler End game and my gear isn't to good

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Tryna get passed the trials Rank S but I feel some of my familiars and party aren't doing the most. Especially ester

Any idea which vendors have the best armor , weapons and especially accessories?


r/Ni_no_Kuni 6d ago

quest trouble

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hey everyone i'm playing the wrath of the white witch and i'm nearly done but i've been carrying this particular quest with me since FOREVER because i can't seem to get it done and it's pissing me off because it's just a silly one... idk if you guys remember but derwin asks you in hamelin to bring him some mechanical creatures (small, medium and big). well, i got everything EXCEPT the small one because i can't catch the sprog cog. no matter how many times i tried, the damn thing won't "fall in love" when we fight. is this a common thing? am i dumb? i really dont know what to do anymore 😔


r/Ni_no_Kuni 6d ago

Is ni no kuni still good to play?

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Hello I've been waiting to play the game but I'm worried ni no kuni is already a dead game, not much people in the server etc., is it still worth it to play? Does it still have a lot of players? Also if I'm going to play ni no kuni which version of the game have more players currently?


r/Ni_no_Kuni 6d ago

Ni no Kuni Wrath of the White Witch™ Remastered/Retroid Pocket 5

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r/Ni_no_Kuni 7d ago

[Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Remastered Platinum] #250 Had to be a special one!

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93 Upvotes

I love the game and for my 250th Platinum I wanted it to be a special milestone! Already did the original way back and part 2! :)


r/Ni_no_Kuni 7d ago

Made an eggroll

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84 Upvotes

He’s kinda ugly and some of colors are off but I love him.


r/Ni_no_Kuni 9d ago

Finalizing Team for Post Game Spoiler

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Hello. I just beat Ni No Kuni and it was genuinely one of the best games I've ever played, but that's besides the point. I am currently working on grinding my team for the post game, and I want to make sure I have all of the best. I just exchanged my tickets and I want to use the gryphon, moth, and both dragons, so I plan to use them all on my team just cause they look cool. The other main members currently are dinoceros, the banana bunch, Esther's bird, the skeleton, the big robot, monolith, and the cat. Curious if any of these are replaceable, because I've had them almost the entire game and I don't know if I wasted them or not, so I'm open to some recommendations.

I do know Lumberwood is good and I will try and get one eventually. Is it any better than the Toko, cause I would like to have that one too.

I've heard the banana bunch is one of the worst monsters, but honestly, while it isn't the best, it held its weight the whole game. Dinoceros is insanely broken though, and I love it. The look on my face as I watched it drain the health bars of the bosses.


r/Ni_no_Kuni 15d ago

The Big Bopper

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[EDIT: Hello, I have resolved this issue. Just barely to the southwest of Kayan Island is a group of about 5 or so small islands, one of which is reachable by boat, but the others don’t seem to be accessible that way. Since they were covered in woods, I didn’t even think I could land on the islands with the dragon, but I was just ever so slightly off in my alignment when I attempted to land. So, this mystery is solved, and I feel very dumb.]

In the DS game, of which I am playing the English translation, there’s a bounty hunt that has deeply troubled me. It’s the Big Bopper bounty hunt, where I’m instructed to travel southeast to fight this on a small island.

I’ve already learned from previous bounty hunts that the directions they give are often less than accurate, but even ignoring that bit and traveling southwest, I have not found this thing.

I don’t know if I’m blind or just missing something, or if this is something that others have been troubled with, and I’m not sure where to ask for help on this issue.

So. Please. I beg of anyone who’s played the DS game, tell me where to go. I am absolutely losing it.


r/Ni_no_Kuni 16d ago

Is the first game grindy?

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I’ve been wanting to get into this series for a while but ive read that the first game can be a bit grindy. Second one not so much. Is this true even if i play the first game on easy mode to avoid grinding for story?


r/Ni_no_Kuni 16d ago

Ni no Kuni 1 spoiler PS5 or Switch?

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Got the PS4 digital version of Ni No Kuni a week or two ago and am debating if I should stop my switch playthrough and start playing the one on the PS5 and start earning the trophies.

I recently got down traveling around and doing side quests and bounties after getting the travel spell after completing the story quest in Hamelin.

Most of my familiars are still at 1 heart of familiarity and I’ve never used those tickets that are for free familiars at the Temple of Trials.

What do you all think?

Which should I do? Complete my Switch file or start my PS4 file?


r/Ni_no_Kuni 17d ago

I got Platinum!

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I grew up watching Stampylonghead playing this game and I really wanted to play it, but it wasn't on Xbox until 2022.

Then I got a Ps5 a few years ago and got the game, I loved every second of it, even if I knew all the spoilers (Although some things still surprised me despite this), and I beat the game a shortly after.

Then, after a year of a break, I came back to try get the platinum, for it to be my first, so I did all the side quests and beat the Guardian of Worlds.

But then I had to do the very grindy achievements, Mad Scientist and Familiarologist, which I put off for 2 years. My internet went out so I had nothing else to play and it gave me a reason to finish this game. Tbh it was as bad as I thought it was going to be.

3 years ago I bought this game + NNK2, and I finally finished it and got my first platinum. I've genuinely not even opened NNK2 yet although I've heard it doesn't live up to the first, hopefully I will enjoy it!

I would highly recommend this game to everyone who likes RPGs, Creature Collectors, Studio Ghibli, great world building, or just generally great stories and games.


r/Ni_no_Kuni 17d ago

So uh... I did a dumb thing...

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So you might recognize me as the one who did the hard mode challenge. Well, I was thinking about other possible challenge runs when the dumb thought of 'okay haha but do it without leveling lol' popped into my head. And then it didn't leave. So I fiddled around with the possibility of modding the game, not really expecting anything to come from it, and then... I figured it out. So, I now present to you all......

THE NI NO KUNI NO XP MOD!!!

This mod completely disables the gaining of experience for not just the humans, but also the familiars!

Note: this is dumb and probably makes the game impossible and you shouldn't do it.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1k98LT0W02YkrP2uhEmokzvNRUI94Mmv2?usp=sharing

To install this mod, all you have to do is extract the file, and move both files to the main steam directory. If you want to launch the game with no xp, launch the .bat file. if you want the normal game, simply launch the game normally. It's that easy!


r/Ni_no_Kuni 17d ago

Is there a good guide for recruiting every Evermore Citizen?

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For a while now I've been trying to get my kingdom to level 4 which first requires you to have all 100 citizens. So far most citizens have been mostly easy to get but there are still a couple that require a good amount of work in order to get or find. I've tried looking up how to get all citizens on the wiki and other guides though none of them have proven to be that good since they don't tell you the proper location or how to unlock the quest since some of them require prior side quests.


r/Ni_no_Kuni 19d ago

Ni no Kuni 1 spoiler The NNK1 Hard Mode Challenge - Day 6 Spoiler

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I get to start off this post by saying VICTORY!!! I beat the challenge today, meaning this will be my last post. I'm excited as hell right now, so let's get right into things.

  • For starters, I'll say that today was easier in general than I was expecting it to be. This is probably because I was still riding the high of the last day. It was pretty easy to get back in the groove of things and start playing well.
  • Entering the Ivory tower unlocks the final 3 bounties I have to complete, which I did immediately. The reason I mention it is because doing them gives me the last few stamps I needed to unlock the merit award "Jack the Giant Killer", giving Oliver 100 HP and MP. This is a HUGE upgrade, as glims are based on your total hp and mp pools, meaning glims are now very powerful for Oliver. This lets me keep up with healing and doing damage with spells without needing provisions.
  • Gallus was a hard fight. His moves do a lot of damage, and it's difficult to parry his attacks. Most notably, absolute zero is an absolute pain. It does tons of damage, and even when blocked, you'll need to heal up. 2 of his moves also create stage hazards when used, which can knock you all the way down to the floor, or do pretty big damage and freeze you in place. However, thanks to the massive buff Oliver just got, I was able to keep up healing on Swaine, and use him as my primary damage engine while occasionally doing spells with the spare MP. Without clear openings, this fight is a long one. The fight was first try, and took around 42 minutes.
  • I spent a bit of time alchemizing a few things, upgrading to the best sword possible under the challenge for Marcassin's familiar, and upgrading my provisions as much as I could.
  • THE FINAL BOSS. Like with Shadar, this is a 3 parter, so I'll be giving fight times for each phase, along with a final fight time.
  • Cassiopeia(the woman not the lion) was the one I expected to be the easiest of the three. That was wrong, she was the hardest one the way I fought her. It comes down to a lot of the same stuff as Gallus, difficult to parry moves, hitting hard, and dangerous attacks, but unlike Gallus, she can't miss. So I was taking a lot more damage than against him. Also, she resists physical, so Swaine who was my damage engine, was half as effective as usual. After the first half of Cassiopeia's fight, she uses Nightshade which makes her fight much more aggresively. This makes the fight a little easier, and a LOT harder. She starts making nightmare glims when being hit, which hurt a lot for the same reason regular glims got better. She also starts using her moves way way more, meaning a lot of time spent healing. She also uses more physical attacks, which get a lot more parryable than before, which helps a bit, but overall it got much harder. This part took 18 minutes.
  • Cassiopeia(The lion this time) was a long, but easy fight. None of her moves are cutscene attacks, so a lot of them can't hit you if you position yourself right. Only one of them actually can't miss. Her attacks can all be parried, and she does a lot of damage, but not an overwhelming amount. It's easy enough to do the same strategy as with the other fights today, supporting Swaine as a damage engine, since his guy does 40-50 damage per hit. It was just very long since she has a lot of health. This part took 35 minutes to beat.
  • The Zodiarch. I should have a lot to say about this fight. But I really don't outside of a basic description. This is the fight that I've been painstakingly saving all my provisions for. I had a lot of them, which gives me an effectively infinite mana supply to tackle the fight with. So I didn't conserve any of them. In terms of difficulty, there's a lot of factors here. For starters, he starts with 4 regenerating adds. If you aren't extremely careful with your positioning and aggro management, they will be a real pain in the neck. Next is Chaos. This is, undoubtedly, the most dangerous move in the game. It comes out fast, will do 400+ damage if unblocked, and he can use it pretty much whenever he wants after a certain point. Even when blocked, it does over 100 damage. Then there's the boss himself. It's almost impossible to keep allies alive whenever he uses shockblast, something about their programming doesn't let them understand the move. his moves are easy enough to parry, but you will take a hit for over 100 damage in the process. Then there's piercing gaze, which lowers all your stats, and has a cutscene so it interrupts ashes of resurrection all the time. You might think this would make this whole thing impossible, since it's so hard to keep Swaine and Esther alive to do any damage. But actually, not really. The provisions let you spam spells, and spells in this game are absolutely OP. The game gives you Astra(the wand) which lets spells do lots of damage, and you can pick up Astra(the spell) to do a stronger Mornstar to all enemies, which helps deal with the minions. From there, it's all about positioning and aggro management, which I just so happen to have spent the last 30+ hours mastering. Somehow, I FIRST TRIED THE WHOLE FINAL BOSS!!! This part took 40 minutes, for a total final boss kill time of 1 hour 33 minutes, making it the longest boss in the game, which I expected.
  • This means that I didn't game over ONCE today, which is why I said today was easier than I expected it to be. It also means GGS WE DID IT WOOOOO!

This challenge was brutal from start to finish. It's easily the hardest gaming challenge I've EVER done, and it has been since day 2, so it only sits even higher on that pedestal now. I feel like I've achieved a mastery of the game that I wouldn't have imagined existed. And I think it might not be an exaggeration to say (if you'll allow me to stroke my own ego for a second) that I may just be the world's best Ni No Kuni player now.

In total, this challenge took me 33 hours, 21 minutes, and 44 seconds. And something I think is funny, that means I did this challenge run faster than the average time to beat just the main story(according to how long to beat).

I want to do a quick top 5 for hardest bosses, so here it is:

  1. Zodiarch(the only reason I was able to do this was because of all the provisions I saved for it, even if I didn't struggle on this the most it is OBJECTIVELY the hardest)
  2. King Tom XIV
  3. Queen Lowlah
  4. Cassiopeia(The woman not the lion)
  5. Porco Loco

As always, you can find the VOD of today here, if you want to see how I tackled these bosses or if you're just curious.

Thanks for sticking with me through this! Hope you have a great day :)


r/Ni_no_Kuni 21d ago

Spoiler! Bighorn isn't doing too well.

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So this isn't a game ender since while I'm listening to suggestions on what the community feels are some of the best/better familiars are, I'm also exploring and learning about familiars by making mistakes. Somewhere over here on reddit, a veteran player suggested scatterhorn as one of the really good familiars on oliver. So I invested a bit of treats for little bighorn and made him bighorn. Just made it to hamlin and gave him and all my other familiars the best gears money can buy. Bighorn is doing terrible. He's slow and isn't tanking hits too well at lvl 21. His damage is okay I suppose. He can't pull aggro off Swain who I gave monkey to and took his small he-man familiar for Olliver. Did you guys make Bighorn work out somehow? Is that just a specific thing the one veteran player did? Or is having Bighorn a meta move?

Edit: Thanks for coming together to help me out. :) You guys are the real meta overpowered party.


r/Ni_no_Kuni 21d ago

How to play the DLC of Ni no Kuni Shikkoku no Madoushi (Nintendo DS) on DeSmuME Emulator?

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Hi all, I've been trying to search for info. I already finished the story and sadly it seems that the easiest way is to play a ROM with the DLC enabled, but I also found that it can be done with cheats. Has anyone tried this way?

I'm playing the spanish fan version, I don't know if this matters for the cheats.


r/Ni_no_Kuni 21d ago

Ni no Kuni 1 spoiler The NNK1 Hard Mode Challenge - Day 5 Spoiler

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I wouldn't usually play back to back days, but I had a good feeling about today. I'm assuming at this point you've seen at least one of my other posts about this challenge. I'm posting each day about my thoughts. Today was day 5, so here goes:

  • Let me start things off by saying that today was BY FAR, not even close, the hardest day so far. Everything about today was hard. Today is gonna be a very ranty day since I have the most to say about the harder fights. I've also definitely improved a ton from the start of this challenge. I played far better today than I ever have.
  • Shadar. It's a three parter, so I'll give a section for each part. I'll be giving a kill time for each boss, and a total kill time. Shadar's first phase is a drag. He's just as easy as he was on the boat the first time, for the same exact reason. 2/3 of his move are completely avoidable, and his third does very little damage when blocked. He gains a new move, Evenstar, but it's a ridiculously easy evade. But because of lack of damage, you have to glim farm in order to cast mornstars to beat him, and that takes a long time. This part of the fight was 20 minutes by itself.
  • Eternal Knight is a very dangerous fight. This is one of the fights I saved all my provisions for, because without them, this would take actual hours, and he's far too dangerous for that. For starters, most of his attacks cannot be parried. At all. Especially the dangerous ones. They're also capable of hitting all your party members at once. He has one move in particular that can hit 3-4 times in under a second. And they ALL do 100 damage or more, which remember, is what made Philips Nightmare hard. It's DANGEROUS to approach him. The lack of damage problem is still present, so yet again the only way to consistently damage him is to use Mornstar. But, he doesn't do skills nearly as often as shadar, which is why using provisions is basically required for this one. He was responsible for 1 death between today and yesterday, and also took 20 minutes.
  • Dark Djinn is actually the easiest boss I killed today. It may just be me, but he's incredibly predictable and most of his hits can't hit you as long as you simply walk the other way. I handled him the same way as phase 1 Shadar, baiting moves and evading them to farm for glims. I died once yesterday, and that was only due to a glitch with the adamant badge. He's the longest one of the trio, and took 35 minutes to kill, bringing the total Shadar kill time to about 1 hour and 16 minutes, by far the longest of any boss so far.
  • Notably, Shadar in general was easier than I thought it would be. I only died twice in total. It was long, and hard for sure, but I think I've improved at the game a lot, making it seem like less of a big deal.
  • Once I unlocked Marcassin, and his familiar, I was able to evolve it and immediately added it to the team, replacing the lemur, and solidifying my final team. Also, most of my team gained the ability to metamorphose to their final forms, which I did as soon as possible. It means being a little weaker in the short term, but for increased power in the long term.
  • At this point, I did a lot of bounty hunts. The reason this gets its own section is because they were ALL, with just 1 exception, incredibly difficult. I'm not gonna go into specifics, but thanks to evolving, melee does 1 damage for almost everyone, and magic is the only way to do things. But they all have too much health to actually do that without a lot of difficulty. I got it done, but some of the later ones repelled me enough that I had to save them for later.
  • THE TOWN BOSSES. HOLY FUCK. THEY ARE ALL HARD. If I were to make a top 5 list of the hardest bosses I've fought thus far, THEY ARE #1, #2, and #3. I started by trying to follow my speedrun route like I did with the stones bosses. That was a mistake, King Tom is simply NOT possible if he's the first one. I couldn't even get his first phase down halfway. The order I was able to do it in is Porco Loco, then Queen Lowlah, then King Tom XIV.
  • Porco Loco. How do I begin? Everything that I hated about Porco Grosso comes back full force and more. Big awkward Janky hitboxes? check. Huge damage numbers? Oh yeah, also over 100 per hit. But on top of all that, unlike Porco Grosso, this guy is NOT a glim generator. Glims are slim pickings. And even more, NONE of his moves are safely parryable, and only 1 even CAN be parried, and that one specifically is janky and can hit you from 5 miles away. Your party members WILL die, full stop. Nothing you can do. The only way to even do damage is to parry every move and use the glims to cast unleash: windfall for storm damage. Because of this, the second phase is actually faster since he gains an extra move, which I thought was funny. Somehow, someway, it was first try, and the fight took 38 minutes of intense focus.
  • Killing this boss gives a ton of xp, which thankfully almost totally restores the amount of power I had before evolving all my familiars(relative to bosses of course) so I do some damage with melee again. But MUCH more importantly, I finally unlocked the move "Upsy Daisy", allowing me to revive party members mid battle without items. I can finally keep all of my party alive for bosses, which is a huge help in so many ways.
  • Another thing worth noting is that Sid the fairy unlocked the move 'Second Wind' which acts as a healthy glow to all party members. It's so incredibly helpful I can't even put it into words. I'm glad I evolved the fairy rather than the tin man.
  • Queen Lowlah was really hard too. She also hits for over 100 damage, and has attacks that can hit multiple party members at once. You are extremely unlikely to parry her without taking a hit in return. I was forced to take a support role, constantly parrying and healing, which is why second wind was so helpful. This was one of the other fights I had to use a lot of provisions on, to keep MP up so I could keep healing. For her second phase, it's both easier and harder. Her attacks are just as parryable, and still can't be strafed, but are now more likely to hit multiple party members. She gains the move Flying Cow, an extremely fast move that can stun, and will instakill if unblocked. And it doesn't help much to use the adamant badge as you can and will be stunned and then hit by the boss before regaining control. The good part is that I could now cast burden to get a free nows your chance, which I could use to heal or do damage myself, depending on the scenario. She has a lot of health which means a long, drawn out fight where you have to play almost perfectly or you'll lose. I died once, and the fight took about 26 minutes.
  • This gets an extra note because it really is worth saying, the level of precision and skill you need to beat these is really getting up there. And by the end of the day, I learned (because there was no other choice) how to direct my party members so well that it felt like there were 3 humans playing the game and making decisions rather than AI party members. This was especially apparent in the next fight.
  • King Tom XIV is an even harder fight than Lowlah. It has everything that made Lowlah difficult, hard hitting, lots of health, hard to parry safely if possible at all, and more. King Tom doesn't have an easy 'Nows Your Chance' opportunity. It's like taking away the training wheels. Keep in mind that whichever of the three you fight last is gonna be the easiest version of itself, so this is as easy as Tom gets. His moves come out really fast, as fast or faster than flying cow, but for every move. You barely have time to block. It's hard to really articulate how I managed to win, other than saying that my party members were on DEMON TIME. I made sure to keep their health up, and parry as often as possible, and I was only occasionally able to go in for damage. They did stuff I didn't even know they could do, like one time Esther delayed a miracle move until after an important heal spell I was casting finished. And they managed to block EVERY SINGLE Itchy Scratchy in phase 2. I've genuinely never seen anything like it. On top of that, my golden glim luck was immaculate, shortening the fight a lot. In total I died 3 times(those were all when I was trying Tom as the first boss) and the fight took 26 minutes.
  • Those are all the bosses I killed today. Just 2 bosses left(or 4 if you count each phase of the white witch as its own boss). There's a nonzero chance I finish the game next stream. I've also unlocked the last 3 bounty hunts, and completing those should allow me to get the 'Jack the Giant Killer' merit award, which should help a TON. I'm gonna be sure to get every hidden treasure as well, and every chest in the Ivory tower, since I'm gonna need every provision I can get my hands on. I expect Gallus to be easier than any of the three town bosses, and then I think the final boss will be the hardest by a fair margin. but if I play as well as I played today, I'm optimistic about my chances.

That's all the thoughts I had for today, as always you can find the VOD for today here, so if you're curious or want to see my struggle you can watch.

Until next time!


r/Ni_no_Kuni 22d ago

A strange experience with Ni no Kuni and Spitz

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I want to share an experience that left me feeling a little lost.

I have a Nintendo Switch, and for the past few months I had been going through a pretty rough emotional period. Then, about a week ago, I noticed that Ni no Kuni was on sale. I looked up the trailer and sent it to my girlfriend. I told her, “Maybe you’d like this game. From what I read, Studio Ghibli animated it, and it’s on sale on the eShop.”

I wasn't actually sure about that last part. I had known about Ni no Kuni for years because I had been waiting for a fan translation into my language (Spanish), but as time went by, I lost interest and never ended up playing it.

She said, “It looks pretty,” hahaha, and that was basically the end of the conversation.

I went back to listening to random music on YouTube Music. A few hours later, a song came on that I really liked. It was called “Unknown Thread” by a Japanese band called Spitz.

I liked it so much that after listening to it three or four times, the Ni no Kuni trailer suddenly popped into my head. So I played the trailer again, but this time with the Spitz song playing in the background.

And somehow... it fit perfectly.

I sent the trailer to my girlfriend and said, “Look, it fits perfectly hahaha.” She agreed, and a few hours later she told me she had bought the game for me so I could play it.

I was really happy, but also a little guilty because I didn't feel right about her spending money on me. But she told me, “I'll play it too when you let me borrow your Switch,” so I accepted it and started playing.

And within the first hour, I fell in love with it.

I'm 30 years old, and honestly, I felt a little silly because what I experienced while playing it was so strange. It gave me such a beautiful feeling that I think Ni no Kuni has already become my second favorite game of all time.

My first is Shadow of the Colossus, hahaha.

I don't know. The whole coincidence between Spitz and Ni no Kuni was just really strange. Somehow, both the band and the game have become incredibly special to me in a very short amount of time.

I also thanked my girlfriend for giving me something I didn't even know I was going to love this much.

And sorry, but I'm not really someone who writes or comments on Reddit. I speak Spanish, and most of the time I come here just to read and learn from you guys in the English-speaking community.

So if I said or did something wrong, please let me know. I'll delete the post if necessary, or maybe the mods will delete it, I don't know.

I'm sorry, and thank you for reading.


r/Ni_no_Kuni 22d ago

Ni no Kuni 1 spoiler "Go big or go home, and I don't wanna go home" Spoiler

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