hah shit I forgot about those, which I guess says a lot about the quality of writing in them. Dude's idea of drama is tacky as all get out.
I don't feel anything whenbeacuse they are too under developed for me to care. =( The only character that I somewhat care about is Rose but she is surrounded by boring people.any of the characters died
Ok, this game went down a dark path pretty quickly.
Finally! Have been waiting all day for this
Oh... It kinda felt that way in the demo but I was hoping it'd get complicated in the master version. It wasn't very difficult to get a 100+ hit combo in it. Oh well, maybe it'll require a little more finesse later on?+ Fighting mechanic may not be for everyone, but it's perfect for button spammer like me. Gonna X X X R2 X X X L2 all day! Balance and challenge are good.
Mostly been away/busy (esp this year) or when I show up it's for soundtrack threads. The Canadian dollar + my licensing exam murdered my games budget, haha. So I mostly play FF14, cheap VNs, and RPGs I've missed/backlogged until I balance my budget a little more.So totally OT, but I haven't seen you post in any RPG thread in a long while. Dunno if I just missed you or you've been away, but good to see you're alive!
this isn't natsuiroI'm currently streaming some. Not sure how much longer I'll go, but. twitch.tv/elliotryo
Details?
Malak (a different species with stronger magical abilities than humans)
I tried to just write a couple of sentences, but I feel like it's important to contextualize everything, so here's kind of a writeup of the entire intro sequence.
Intro segment spoilers.
The game opens with a scene of Velvet and her younger brother, very young, escorted by their older brother in a forest, escaping some some violence in the village and searching for their older sister with a red moon in the sky. The two kids eventually collapse, and the older brother carries them over and sets them down. He says he's going to go on ahead and save their older sister. Time passes, and they hear a scream, their sister's. Then someone comes out of the bushes and transforms into a wolf, so they run away to find their older brother. They find him, standing over a pit.
Fast forward 7 years, and the younger brother is sickly, and the older brother and Velvet are taking care of him. There are rumors around town about the gouma disease edging closer to the village, but Velvet needs to go raise money to buy her brother's medicine, so she goes out of the village to fight boars and get their hides to sell to the shopkeeper. While out there, we discover that the older sister's anniversary of her death is approaching soon. The next day, Velvet awakens to find that her younger brother has left the house on his own. Blah blah blah, panic because sickly sibling, but she catches up with him and they head to the place where the older sister died, which is a shrine with a large pit in the center, to have a memorial. When heading back home, they're attacked by a werewolf. Velvet can't injure it, and eventually she shields the younger brother from an attack. Before she passes out, she sees the older brother killing the werewolf.
When she wakes up, the same red moon from the introduction is in the sky, and her family is nowhere to be seen. She rushes out into the village, but it's filled with werewolves and there are no townspeople. She rushes to the memorial site, which is also the place where they found the older brother 7 years prior, and her two siblings are standing there. "Throw away your feelings," her older brother says. "He must be sacrificed to revive the power of our salvation." He pulls out his sword, and stabs the younger brother in the chest. Velvet is horrified. The older brother begins to toss the younger brother's lifeless corpse into the pit. Velvet rushes and grabs the boy's hand just in time, but the older brother jams his sword into her hand and they fall.
A bright light erupts from the pit, and Velvet is ejected. When we see her, her left hand is missing, replaced by some demonic hand. She's furious, and can barely form any sentences. Her mind is only on killing her brother. Just then, she is attacked by many werewolves, and dispatches them all. "Take another look," her brother says. Velvet realizes that all of the bodies around her are those of the townspeople. All victims of gouma disease. Velvet is horrified, and then infuriated further. She rushes him, but he knocks her back and she is eventually knocked out.
And that's where the intro ends. So yeah. Pretty dark for Tales.
And that's where the intro ends. So yeah. Pretty dark for Tales.
Well seeing as they're aping Berserk, it's bound to get pretty edgelord, pretty fast. And since I only need one Berserk I think it's going to be another pass for Tales based on yours and other impressions.
Berseria >> Heart R >>>>> Xillia 2 > Xillia >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Zestiria
Really good to hear we finally have a good tales again?
I'm standing here in Singapore deciding whether to get or not before I head back home...
10 hours, nap time!
Playing on second and hard, didn't dare EVIL yet (got this mode from mini boss).
+ Field details are great, didn't see big and complex dungeon yet (at least they are not linear)
+ Characters are okay~; MC not emo (and can change shitty cloth to normal cloth), adorable kid not pedo's bait, lovable bitch (first I hate her at first sight, but...), handsome carefree guy, extremely handsome pirate guy, the waifu. Villains have punch-able face and attitude.
+ Many deaths early in main story again (Dejavu Xillia 2), bloody too.
+ Fighting mechanic may not be for everyone, but it's perfect for button spammer like me. Gonna X X X R2 X X X L2 all day! Balance and challenge are good.
+ Skill, Equipment, upgrade system are good.
+ Musics are above "Lazy Sakuraba's" standard (better then his recent Tales and SO). VAs're great.
- Equipment drop rate is too much (but need to, because you need them a lot to make materials).
- Field enemy running a little bit fast (later you will get item to run faster, and hover board).
Berseria >> Heart R >>>>> Xillia 2 > Xillia >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Zestiria
Aeana's summary sounds so bizarre for Tales that I'm approaching intrigued (but am equally dismayed by the MC design).
Is it considered required to play Zestiria beforehand?
It's a prequel to Zestiria so you should be good. You get Velvet's old costume at the start so you don't need to use the main outfit.
Please contribute to our local economy.I'm standing here in Singapore deciding whether to get or not before I head back home...
Please contribute to our local economy.
Actually our games are priced quite reasonably for Japanese games recently, it is more expensive if you get where you live?
I want Tales to get back on track and then I want to not see a Tales game again until like 2018. XD
Oops, I meant Sofmap not Singapore. Damn autocorrect. I'm in Japan right now.
Not sure how I feel about a yet another darker Tales game. On one hand, I do love me some dark fantasy - Berserk and ASOIAF are some of the best shit ever. But after replaying Xillia 2, I'm not sure they can handle a dark storyline in a meaningful way. X2 was just fucking weird about all the dark shit going on in the story. Nothing felt genuine. It was weird.
How was Zestiria import impressions? Maybe we can relate to that.
How was Zestiria import impressions? Maybe we can relate to that.
And that's where the intro ends. So yeah. Pretty dark for Tales.
Really? I loved it. Elevated it wayyyy above Xillia 1 in my estimations.
That's pretty dark, but for some reason Graces still comes off as darker to me, if only because of how the intro goes down. Still I like the tone set, problem is will the game keep it and will it stay balanced or will it hit Xillia 2 level silly.
Just saw Arthorius' Hi-Ougi and so far it's the best looking one, and it's not even a playable character. And even then it's kinda dull, with stale camera angle and stiff animation.
Hi-Ougi have really been going downhil post Graces and it saddens me.
The one where herains down swords then does Yuri's Hi-Ougi?
How was Zestiria import impressions? Maybe we can relate to that.
Development cycle for a Tales usually takes around ~2 years bar Xillia 2 which recycled a lot from Xillia.
We're in Q3 2016 and it's been established that there's only a single team for developing Tales nowadays, unless it changed without us knowing (and in that case the game would've been in development for at least a year already) there's zero chance you will see another Tales before 2018.
I dunno, there was something that bugged me. It had a grim-dark plot with terrible shit happening in it for seemingly no reason other than to be grim-dark, but the characters still acted like they were in any other relatively chipper Tales game. I'd have to think about it more to actually figure out what it is that feels so wrong in it, but there's definitely something weird.
I still liked it, though. Ella was adorable and the bad ending was absolutely hilarious in its darkness and badass-ness. It's definitely not the worst Tales game around.
Well, yeah. TBH if it weren't for Japan being weird about letting consoles live way longer than they should, I'd say we missed the window for a PS4-only Tales since by the time another Tales hits the PS5 should be coming out.
Stop insulting Yuri's ougi by making a comparison. At least Yuri struck different poses and different angled strikes. Arthorius just slides around in a static pose like he is on rolerskates. I can't help but imagine some assistant jsut running around and pushing him ohter direction after each slash as he just stands there, looking important.