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Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom

Players complete quests to progress the story and can freely roam an open world with a diorama-style overworld map.[1] From a third-person viewpoint, players experience the role-playing game Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom.[1] Metacritic's aggregated scores for Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom fall into the "generally positive" category.[2]

Quick Facts

Developer
Level-5
Director
Yoshiaki Kusuda, Takafumi Koukami
Designer
Kengo Shibata, Yuichi Murase
Programmer
  • Yasuhiro Akasaka
  • Yusuke Hashimoto
  • Ryosuke Nakahara
Artist
  • Nobuyuki Yanai
  • Hiroshi Matsuyama
  • Hiroyuki Maeda
Writer
Akihiro Hino
Composer
Joe Hisaishi
Series
Ni no Kuni

Facts from the source article.

Making and release

At the December 2015 PlayStation Experience event, Level-5 announced Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom.[3] Studio Ghibli did not contribute to this sequel, unlike the first game.[3] Yoshiyuki Momose, previously a Ghibli character designer, and composer Joe Hisaishi both returned to lead roles for the sequel.[4] According to Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino, the sequel was intended to more completely realize the first game's goals through enhanced narratives and superior graphics.[4]

To give the combat a fresh feel, the developers added the "Higgledies" creatures.[4] An Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S version became available on March 21, 2023.[5]

What the cited sources add

A Polygon article from January 2017 confirmed the game would release on Windows PC as well as PlayStation 4.[6] The sequel has a slightly different look from the first game.[6] A Verge article explained that Level-5 approached key members who worked on the first game directly, including Momose and Hisaishi, to involve them in the creative process.[7] The Verge article also stated that the game bears hallmarks of a Ghibli production despite the studio's name not being on the box.[7]

The original Ni no Kuni sold more than 1.1 million copies worldwide on PS3, which played a large part in greenlighting the sequel.[7] Hino told The Verge that the chance to develop a new title for more capable hardware, such as the PlayStation 4 and contemporary PCs, was very alluring.[7]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Campbell, "Ni No Kuni 2 is looking just as sweet as the original", Polygon, January 26, 2017; Romano, "Ni no Kuni II diorama-style field map has secret related to "important new system"", Gematsu, February 2, 2017; Tran, "Ni No Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom Could Be Taking The 'J' Out Of JRPG", GameSpot, January 26, 2017 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom for PC Reviews", Metacritic; "Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom for PlayStation 4 Reviews", Metacritic; Kunzelman, "The Radical Fairy Tale Politics of 'Ni No Kuni II'", Waypoint, 13 April 2018 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Frank, "Ni No Kuni 2 is coming to PlayStation 4", Polygon, December 5, 2015; Phillips, "Ni No Kuni 2: Revenant Kingdom announced", Eurogamer, December 12, 2015 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Webster, "The new Ni No Kuni isn't technically a Studio Ghibli game, but it still kind of is", The Verge, June 21, 2017; Romano, "Akihiro Hino: 'Ni no Kuni II a huge improvement to the first'", Gematsu, December 6, 2015; "Level-5 on Ni No Kuni 2's "More Mature Perspective"", IGN, January 30, 2017; "Level-5 on Ni No Kuni 2's "More Mature Perspective"", IGN, January 30, 2017 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom – Prince's Edition coming to Switch on September 17", Gematsu, May 20, 2021; Romano, "Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Remastered now available for Xbox Series, Xbox One; Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom coming in 2023", Gematsu, September 15, 2022; Serin, "Civilisation 6, Guilty Gear, and Ni No Kuni 2 come to Game Pass this month", Rock Paper Shotgun, March 7, 2023 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Campbell, "Ni No Kuni 2 is looking just as sweet as the original", Polygon, January 26, 2017. facts only, no text reused. polygon.com
  7. Webster, "The new Ni No Kuni isn't technically a Studio Ghibli game, but it still kind of is", The Verge, June 21, 2017. facts only, no text reused. theverge.com

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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