10 Video Games You Couldn't Make Yourself Finish
6. Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom
Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom might well be one of the most disappointing sequels of all time.
Level-5's follow-up to their much-loved Studio Ghibli-esque RPG stumbles right out of the gate with its lack of cutscenes and voice acting compared to the first game.
Beyond that, the new protagonist Evan is earnest and corny to a fault, the combat is excessively easy, and the new RTS-style minigames are crushingly tedious.
But what kills Ni no Kuni II dead is the later introduction of recruitment "side quests," where you're required to recruit villagers to join the nation of Evermore.
Required indeed, because these side quests aren't really side quests at all - they're a mandatory brick wall without which you can't progress through the story.
They're also so soul-sappingly boring that you couldn't be blamed for just noping out of the game then and there.
For as gorgeous, charming, and consistently entertaining as the first Ni no Kuni was, the sequel was a colossal chore to get through. When a game is this disrespectful of your time, why keep playing?