I do not know who this games' intended audience is.

While the music is great and the world is interesting that's where the good parts end, the characters are boring and one-dimensional, the story is basic and bland which sours the interesting world building the game has.

The gameplay is split into 3 parts; hack-and-slash, base builder/kingdom management, and a military strategy, all of which hardly interact with each other and ends up feeling like you're playing 3 different 'mini' games which are all watered down versions of what you'd find in other games.

The hack-and-slash gameplay is a weird combination of the worst parts of the hack-and-slash and soulslike genres, with long animations and charge ups for attacks, it feels like you're playing a soulslike character against hack-and-slash bosses/enemies.

The kingdom management aspect is very bare bones, the game doesn't really force you to interact with this part of the game which is good because there's not enough depth in this system to engage players.

The military strategy side is essentially rock paper scissors with a coat of paint, it has some interesting special skills that different squadron commanders can use, but again never asks of the player any sort of thought or strategy outside of the rock paper scissors baseline its built off.

This is a hack-and-slash game I wouldn't recommend to people who like hack-and-slashers, a base builder/kingdom management game I wouldn't recommend to people who like base builders/kingdom management games, and a military/strategy style game which boils down to rock paper scissors which I probably could recommend to some people. All of this made worse by the bland characters and poorly written story.

There is nothing wrong with enjoying this game, I just can't in good faith recommend it as a good game.

I got this game as a gift from my boyfriend. Overall, it's a fun game. Yes I recommend. The balance between action fighting and kingdom building is amazing. You should play or at least watch the Ni no Kuni 1, to understand some parts....you don't have to but it will increase your satisfaction.

The only drawback is the English translation. There are some mistakes on system part + the speech lines are....mediocre, to say the least. They even changed the characers' names despite of them having unique/ somewhat English style names. Also, the kingdom name is changed to Evermore instead of Estavania and made the Contract of Brahaban to just a simple Declaration of Interdependence. Like seriously, why. Brahaban is a VERY important name in this game for gods' sake. And...I actually have more things to say but there's too much. Like whoever did the translation for this game needs to be fired.

Good ass game bruh