One night our protagonist learned that not only was his mother dead but that there had never actually been any hope of saving her. Skip the next paragraph if you don’t want some big, late game spoilers. My rule of thumb has been to not save the progress and then play through it again with her the next day.Īnd then I broke the rules. This week we have been playing up to our final boss battles so I kicked my protective gamer mama activities up a notch and have actually start playing ahead after she goes to bed at night so that I know exactly what is coming. The fact that most of the dialogue that takes place in the game is done subtitles and Pea can’t read as of yet has been very helpful. Fortunately, being a bit of a seasoned JRPG player I suspected that this might be the case (don’t be fooled by the cutesy graphics folks) and I was prepared to do the on the fly narrative modding that I have had to do with some books in the past. I should note that a nice guy over in one of the Google+ gaming communities gave me a heads up that I should be careful of the ending because it might not end the way that the game suggests that it might. And as we played more and more hours that goal actually became more secondary to the rest of the narrative. (I reserve the right to protect my 4 year old from dead mother stories because being 4 is hard enough) But as we played on all was good as we talked of all of the stories that unfolded before us, but little of the dead mother other than the fact that we would ultimately save her. At the beginning of our Ni No Kuni journey I left out the fact that the mother of the little boy who is our protagonist dies and that his whole journey was to try to “save” his dead mother. Going in to this game I knew that there was some narrative editing that was to be done in this game. And in true RPG fashion we are about 60 hours in. Pea and I are nearing the end of the main quest line of Ni No Kuni. Let me tell you a little story of how a video game made me tell my little girl a lie.
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