Bandai Namco have launched a bumper new gameplay video for Ni No Kuni 2, displaying off the sport’s skirmish mode, in addition to a little bit of questing and fight.
The 25 minute video – which options commentary from Stephen Akana, Ni No Kuni 2 model supervisor – first particulars the strategy-inspired skirmish mode, the place chibi variations of the sport’s principal characters sq. off towards battalions of enemies on giant, open battlefields.
In skirmish mode, you command completely different sorts of models with various kinds of assaults – there’re pink sword wielders, blue spear troopers and inexperienced hammer customers. Each unit takes its place on the nook of a “rock-paper-scissors” model fight triangle, the place pink is robust towards inexperienced, inexperienced towards blue, and blue towards pink.
There are additionally commanders and fortifications that should be destroyed in what appears to be like like a enjoyable little change of tempo.
The video then transitions into one thing extra intently resembling traditional JRPG gameplay, when new protagonist Evan receives a quest from the pinnacle of the Sky Pirates to rescue his daughter from a gaggle of wyverns.
Between cities and dungeons player-characters flip again into their chibi kind, exploring and amassing gadgets, till they run right into a monster which triggers a battle scene like within the final Ni No Kuni – the place Evan and his celebration tackle enemies in a smaller area.
Ni No Kuni 2’s release date was pushed back in December, and can now seem on PC and PlayStation four on March 23 2018.
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