Talk:Ni no Kuni

Release Date?
The article mentions a 2009 UK release but all the materials I can find online point to a 2009 Japanese release with a possible international release without giving any indication of the timing of the international release. Can anyone confirm this info with a cite-able source? KrisWood (talk) 09:20, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Oops, on second look, I see it does refrence the latest issue of the official Nintendo magazine, but could still use a more accurate citation. See here for more details on how this should be done: Citing_sources KrisWood (talk) 09:25, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Release Date?
European date has been postponed to 2013 http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-02-15-ps3-exclusive-jrpg-ni-no-kuni-out-in-europe-q1-2013 Citing_sources DjZiggy (talk) 18:37, 15 Februari 2012 (CET)

Console
Any source on this "another to-be-announced console"? It seems kind of strange a DS game would get ported to a console. --SelfQ (talk) 23:56, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Though this is a bit late, the console has been announced as being PlayStation 3 and is not a port; in fact, Level-5 has announced that it is a completely separate version that is being developed from scratch and will be completely different in terms of graphics, story development and even gameplay from the DS version. The PlayStation 3 version is more of an animated version that is similar to Studio Ghibli works, whereas the DS version is more similar to a handheld RPG. Article updated with references from Level-5's press conference and Famitsu revelations. ··· 巌流 ? · talk to ganryuu 13:24, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

Merge?
We seem to have ended up with two pages for this game. One using a translation of the title, the other using the actual title. There should be a merge but I'm not sure which title we should go with. Does anyone know if the Another World has actually been announced as the official English title, if an English language release has even been confirmed yet? eyeball226 (talk) 15:41, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
 * As stated in the article and during Level-5's news conference, the earlier subtitle "The Another World" has been completely scrapped and replaced by two separate subtitles for the PS3 and DS versions. That was also just a subtitle, and not an official English title, which has not been announced (not even an English release, actually). There should definitely be no other article apart from this, as this article was moved to the correct title. ··· 巌流 ? · talk to ganryuu 15:51, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Also, I've just checked and there is only one page for the game and not two separate pages, as the title was only moved (correctly so, as I mentioned), nothing more. ··· 巌流 ? · talk to ganryuu 15:53, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
 * There were two separate pages when I wrote that but it looks like you merged them so it's all good.eyeball226 (talk) 15:08, 3 July 2010 (UTC)

Title to Use?
I'm really hoping that a solution is provided for the English version of the title. 'Another World' is acceptable. 'The Other World' is acceptable. 'The Another World' is particularly poor English, by which I mean, anyone who says that phrase will sound as if they have a problem speaking English. Unless this is a published title (which we wiki people have no say over), then using this phrase produces a poorer wiki page. A traditional solution to this (ie non wiki solution) is to place the title phrase in italics.

Jsemmel (talk) 03:07, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Japanese spelling
According to the Japanese article, Ni in Ni no Kuni is spelled with the kanji numeral 二, not the katakana ニ. A little nitpicky maybe, but they do look different. Erik10081989 16:49, 25 June 2010

The Another World
The Another World! Classic! As Gackt so eloquently put it: We don't need another words! We can see the another world! 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 14:00, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

PS3 and DS versions should be separated.
I don't think it's right to have the DS version and PS3 version merged into one article. They're completely different games, with different gameplay, and from what I've heard different stories. They have different receptions, and they have different information. They shouldn't be merged into one article. At the very least, they should be separated to different subsections, because one paragraph talks about the DS version and another paragraph talks about the PS3 version, then later goes back to the DS version. It's very hard to keep track, and it makes the article hard to read. If a user is only looking for information on one version and not the other, it makes it almost impossible to read, because you have no idea which version the paragraph is talking about.

Because of the above, I recommend a split on this article. Polantaris (talk) 10:05, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
 * This is currently a very short article. The first thing to do before a split is to see if the problem can be addressed without one. Can you bring in more information about each version that would make it more clear? As of now, neither game has been released outside Japan, so info is understandably scarce. I would suggest holding this split discussion off until the PS3 version launches in January when there's enough info to justify a separate article. Axem Titanium (talk) 13:29, 2 July 2012 (UTC)


 * OMG separate the articles already. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.240.200.72 (talk) 05:07, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

I'm sorry, it shouldn't matter how short the article is - it's one article attempting to cover two full, released works. That is unprecedented on Wikipedia - separate works get separate pages. Rebochan (talk) 07:14, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Unprecedented? How about Pokemon? Axem Titanium (talk) 16:03, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Reason for not releasing DS version
Wasn't the reason because if they released the DS version in the states, they would ALL need the book and they cannot print that many thousands of copies? The issue is not with translation, as they translated it for the in-game book for the PS3 and used that for the printed book. 76.208.129.48 (talk) 19:52, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

The PS3 version still misses some stuff present in the DS version. 193.28.249.21 (talk) 07:56, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Settings and Story
Can I write full story even it will spoiled the game? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rudolf sonora (talk • contribs) 10:03, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Is anyone going to talk about the colonist ideology of this game? Or? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Katherineeremia (talk • contribs) 03:11, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

Can we get a link or information similar to https://ninokuni.fandom.com/wiki/Ni_no_Kuni_(film) ? The information on the film isn't great.

PC
uh ni no kuni never got ported to windows? so the claim ni no kuni was released on computers over on the right tab is false. ni no kuni and ni no kuni 2 are seperate games — Preceding unsigned comment added by 100.6.158.12 (talk • contribs) 17:58, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Ni no Kuni II is being released on PC, and this is the series article. There is no game with the full title "Ni no Kuni". – Rhain  ☔ 00:12, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

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Reception section problems
Can someone fix these problems please? Link [28] should link here: https://www.gamespot.com/reviews/ni-no-kuni-wrath-of-the-white-witch-review/1900-6402702/ instead of where it links now. Right now it links to a sort of overview rather than the review itself. This part is poorly worded: "Kevin VanOrd of GameSpot wrote that it joins the "hallmark of the greatest RPGs"." That's not really how the word "hallmark" is used in the referenced review, or in general. The article is semi-protected or I would fix it.
 * Good catch! (on the  too). –  Rhain  ☔ 02:27, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Infobox image
I think this article should have the series logo as the infobox image, as has become standard for video game franchise articles. — Goszei (talk) 03:55, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Agreed - not only that, but an image of the cast from the first game does not represent the series as a whole super well.--AlexandraIDV 03:57, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
 * To be fair, there was no "series logo" at the time that image was added, so it was based on the Mana series article instead. I've . – Rhain  ☔ 08:05, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it was less of "why wasn't this done originally?" and more "this should probably be done now". Thank you for implementing it!--AlexandraIDV 00:18, 23 July 2020 (UTC)