A trailer for this game has been released for about a week now.  Seems quite good really, although no gameplay has been shown yet.  I truly hope they fix the Ai though, as the previous game had truly terrible Ai for the most part, leading you to literally lead the vast majority of the battles by yourself.  Still, the game was good regardless of this, with gorgeous graphics, a good story for the most part, interesting characters, decent music (not truly memorable though to be fair), and a vast world that easily equals the size of Ivalice and Dragon Quest VIII's in terms of variety and size.  This trailer indicates that, at the very least, the story, world, and graphics will all retain the same quality.  This leads to the questions of the characters (trailers aren't the best indicator of this) retain it too, and if the gameplay (the weakest portion of the original) will be improved.  There isn't a release date attached to this trailer, though, so much has yet to be seen.

I never completed the original Ni No Kuni, admittedly, but this one looks a lot better.  I thought the plot and some of the quests were a bit lackluster in the original, something that I'm hoping will be improved here.  The graphics were gorgeous, I will agree, and I liked a few fundamentals of the plot.  The plot here looks pretty good, as does the main character Evan, so hopefully this will be an enjoyable game. : )  Thanks for sharing the trailer!  I actually didn't even know there was going to be a second game until now.

Yeah I've played the first one, and while it was good, it wasn't as great as many others have said it to be. It definitely had problems, such as the characters being a little boring and the music not being particularly memorable (and don't get me started on the awful battle system and the terrible AI)

 

However, this one looks much better than the first one, so I'll have to check it out. Hopefully they'll fix the problems the first one had. If the battle system doesn't change, then forget it.

Edited December 15, 20159 yr by mag77

SO TRUE! The AI was terrible.

And here I thought I was just bad at playing the game.

 

I loved the first one, the story was amazing and it felt like an epic adventure. Music was great and it felt unique.

This one looks very promising, and the main cast seems interesting (even though the main character looks like a girl)

 

I can't wait for this game to get released and experience another great adventure.

I'm also hoping for it to have references to the previous characters.