10 TERRIBLE Games That Got Great Reviews
3. Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom
Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom - sequel to hit RPG Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch - landed an 84 Metascore, a mere point below its predecessor and suggesting that, if nothing else, it would be an impressively consistent follow-up.
For anyone who loved the original, there's absolutely no joy in experiencing what Revenant Kingdom turned out to be - basically a "direct-to-video" sequel with all the worst connotations that entails.
Beyond the game's admittedly spritely visuals, this is a bafflingly vapid experience which suggests returning developer Level-5 cut corners in order to save money at every turn.
Ditching the gorgeous animated cutscenes of its predecessor and massively scaling back the amount of voice-acted dialogue ensures that there's a major poverty of charm in this sequel from the outset.
Worse still, the plot is abject nonsense, protagonist Evan is childish to a fault, and eventually the game forces you to partake in a glut of dull "side content" - that is, snoozily unimaginative fetch quests - in order to continue the main story.
On top of all this, the skirmish mini-game is thoroughly naff and it's too easy to the point that there's genuinely little motivation to see it through to the end.
And yet, this thing got quite terrific reviews right out of the gate, no matter that fan opinion on it remains intensely divided to this very day.