2021 will be a special year for the mobile market. How not, the mobile market is now visited by many interesting new video game titles, one of which is Ni No Kuni Cross Worlds.

Ni No Kuni is a famous RPG genre video game series released by Bandai Namco Entertainment and developed by a studio called Level-5 in Japan. Their first game was released on the Nintendo DS platform in 2010 with the title Ni No Kuni: Dominion of The Dark Djinn.

What makes Ni No Kuni Cross Worlds Review interesting is its inherent and unique art style, especially for those of you who like Studio Ghibli. Not only is the art style the main concern, but Ni No Kuni’s music is also composed by a great famous composer, namely Joe Hisaishi. With the enthusiasm of gamers with this franchise, Level-5 also spreads its wings in the mobile market by releasing a new game called Ni No Kuni: Cross Worlds. Curious about this game? Let’s look at the following reviews further.

Overview – Ni No Kuni Cross Worlds Review

Ni No Kuni: Cross Worlds is a video game genre Role-playing Games developed by Level-5 and published by publisher Netmarble. This game was first announced at the G-Star event held in November 2019 and then released in Taiwan on June 8, 2021, followed by the Japanese and Korean versions on June 10, 2021.

This game tells the story of a beta tester of a VR Game called Soul Diver. The Soul Diver game will transfer them to another realm called Ni No Kuni. Before Soul Diver crashes, they meet an AI character named Rania. The game’s players wake up in a burning city where they save the queen who is believed to be a parallel version of Rania. The world in Ni No Kuni: Cross Worlds is based on the worlds of Dominion of The Dark Djinn and Wrath of The White Witch.

After knowing a bit about Ni No Kuni: Cross Worlds, let’s move on to the game’s assessment segment as follows.

Visualization (9/10)

Ni No Kuni: Cross Worlds is one of the Mobile MMORPGs with the best graphics support. The reason is that Level-5 collaborated with Studio Ghibli to produce Ni No Kuni with its unique Ghibli-ish graphics and design.

As long as you play, you will be spoiled by captivating scenery and visualizations. Especially for those of you who like animation from Ghibli Studio, you will love to reminisce and enjoy your experience traveling around the world of Ni No Kuni. This is certainly a positive value and the main advantage of this game.

Gameplay (8/10)

Similar to MMORPGs in general, this game carries a hack and slash battle system filled with lively action and effects. In Ni No Kuni: Cross Worlds, you can choose one of 5 classes, namely Wizard, Technician, Warrior, Swordsman, and Rogue. Each class has its own advantages and disadvantages, so make sure you choose a class that suits your playing style.

Apart from the aspect of the game’s battle system, Ni No Kuni: Cross Worlds also offers a variety of exciting game modes that are worth trying. Call it from PvE to PvP with various game modes including Special Dungeons, Warrior Battleground, Tsubakuro Company tasks, and various other exciting game modes that you can try. You are guaranteed not to get bored playing this one game.

Control (8/10)

Like other mobile games, Ni No Kuni: Cross Worlds uses a virtual controller that includes basic attacks, skill sets, and a weapon switcher to adjust the weaknesses of the enemy. In addition, you can also give skill commands to the monsters you have to attack the enemy. If you are the type of player who is busy and doesn’t want to linger on the screen, this game also provides an auto-combat feature to make your work easier.

You can also adjust the camera angle as you like. This game provides 3 types of camera angles, namely auto camera, free camera, and also fixed camera angle. You can also adjust the camera’s viewing distance, both far and near. So you can adjust the camera angle according to what you feel comfortable with.

Optimization (9/10)

Considering this game is a new release, it seems like this game requires heavy smartphone specifications. But take it easy, because, in fact, this game has a pretty good optimization accompanied by varying graphics settings.

This game has various settings such as:

• Quality Details

• Post Processing FX

• Shadow

• Visible Distance

• Anti-aliasing

• Resolution Scale

• and some other settings.

But there is one thing that is unfortunate, this game locks the frame rate up to 50 FPS only. Impressed, but it shouldn’t be too much of a bother.

Addictive (7/10)

This game can be one of the MMORPG games that make you addicted to the various game modes offered. Not only that but you will also be made to feel at home with eye-catching visuals wrapped in a melodic Joe Hisaishi-style musical.

It’s just that there is one thing that limits the enjoyment of your playing experience, namely the language of the interaction of this game which is foreign to understand. You will not fully understand the storyline of this game. Even though the story should be the most crucial thing in the Ni No Kuni game that you should enjoy. In addition, maybe you will also need a lot of time to understand the features in this game.

Although less addictive, of course, everyone has a different way of enjoying video games. If you are a typical player who likes to explore and try new things without worrying about the plot, then this game is worth trying.

Photo Mode (7/10)

Considering Ni No Kuni: Cross Worlds is an MMORPG game with beautiful visuals, it feels incomplete if you don’t discuss the photo mode feature in this game.

Although this game seems photo-mode-able, unfortunately, the photo-taking feature is not satisfactory. You can only adjust gestures and standard visual effects. You can also add frames and stickers to add variations to your screenshots. Not too special and ordinary for the completeness of the photo mode feature. So you shouldn’t have to expect more to get satisfactory photo results.

Advantages vs Disadvantages

To review what has been described in the previous article, let’s look at the advantages and disadvantages of Ni No Kuni: Cross Worlds.

Excess :

• Ghibli Studio-style visuals that spoil the eye

• Good optimization

• Attractive character design

• Good musical

• Diverse game modes

Lack :

• Difficult language to understand

• FPS Cap that feels heavy

• Photo mode could be better

Conclusion

Ni No Kuni: Cross Worlds is one of the MMORPG games with the best visualization and musicalization ever on the mobile platform. This game must wait for the upcoming global version so you can feel the potential of this game in more depth. In closing, we give a score of 8.2/10.