Easy to Use Skill System
In order to help streamline the battle system and speed it up in Ni No Kuni II, Bandai Namco has employed a quick, easy to use skill system. Basically, you can equip up to four skills in battle at once, each mapped to a different face button. You activate these by holding down the trigger and then hitting the face button you want. The skills are on cooldowns as you use them, and the four we had access to had wildly different effects.
Two were physical skills that unleashed devastating sword attacks, while another launched a water spell at the enemy. Of course, the most helpful was a healing spell that restored health to both me and surrounding party members, or even Higgledies. We didn’t get access to more than these four skills unfortunately, but it’ll be interesting to see how you can build your combat repertoire. It could end up giving a good amount of variation to battle in Ni No Kuni II, if the skill system is diverse enough and implemented correctly of course.
