Ni No Kuni is awesome in many aspects, but something is off indeed. The game does way too much handholding, and while the battles can be challenging the actual puzzles and fetch quests are mostly lame. The characters literally tell you which spells to use to solve a quest/puzzle, and you can only cast them and finish that quest until you have talked to them enough. Let me think for myself please, I'm not dumb

But man does this game go out with a bang. It has one of the strongest endings I have seen in a long long time.