"Critical Gamer writes: If there were any doubts that the DS version of Ni No Kuni was going to be something special, they can safely be put to rest. Ni No Kuni has perhaps the most interesting and unique peripheral ever to be integral to playing a game; a spell book. This isn’t a digital representation tucked away in an item menu – this is a real, full-sized, beautifully designed actualisation of a spell book, with a glass gem imbedded into its hardcover. Everything about it is exceptionally ..."

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Wired's Chris Kohler went hands on with the DS RPG Ninokuni: The Another World, the collaborative game effort between game developer/publisher Level-5 and legendary animation studio Studio Ghibli.

Ninokuni is a standard RPG with unique elements, with your requisite battles, NPC-talking, potions and magic spells. In battle, you can have your basic RPG-type system with a twist: you can manipulate the positions of your party members with the stylus.

The game is set to release in the sprin...

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