On the planet Dahna, reverence has always been given to Rena, the planet in the sky, as a land of the righteous and divine. Stories handed down for generations became truth and masked reality for the people of Dahna. For 300 years, Rena has ruled over Dahna, pillaging the planet of its resources and stripping people of their dignity and freedom.
Our tale begins with two people, born on different worlds, each looking to change their fate and create a new future. Featuring a new cast of characters, updated combat, and classic Tales of gameplay mechanics, experience the next chapter in the world-famous Tale of series, Tales of Arise.
They're just copying the characters the fans liked previously. Nothing is good is gonna come out of this game, just like it didn't with Zestiria / Berseria.
>classic Tales of gameplay mechanics Why are they just blatantly lying like this. Zestiria / Berseria combat isn't "classic Tales combat". Do they believe people will just gobble it up if they write it like that even if it's far from the truth?
Hudson Gomez
It's Tales of THE Abyss Abyss: TOTA Arise: TOA
Lucas Wright
My fucking god, I hope not
I don't want the new Tales game have ANYTHING to do with Zesteria and Berseria
Angel Ortiz
Fuck off. Zesteria/Berseria duology is dead and should stay dead.
Levi Jenkins
Well, they also lied about their next game being on Switch, so it's very possible.
Lincoln Taylor
Wasn't that Vesperia
Grayson Kelly
What if Arise is actually the combination of Xillia and Zesteria/Berseria? Hence Ludger and Lailah
Anthony James
a 10-year old ps3 port is the best your gonna get, salty nincel, stay mad cuck
Jaxson Garcia
WHAT IF ARISE IS SOMETHING NEW AND THE SIMILARITY TO LUDGER AND LAILAH ARE JUST COINCIDENTAL
Gavin Brown
A mix of Ludger, Veigue, and Kocis
Ryan Gutierrez
This is what people said when Berseria got revealed.
>Ludger and Lailah >Xillia has a potential 3rd game >Zesty/Bersy as well
NO.......IT CAN'T BE
David Ramirez
Is xillia good?
Brody Fisher
It's fine but it's a horribly rushed game
Matthew James
Why use Ludger's design again if they're going for a hypothetical 3rd game in the Zestyverse?
Ayden Roberts
What if Estelle weren't such a dummy
Jose Stewart
i like the combat of the second over first
Jackson Rivera
If it was a third Xillia game and/or a third Zestiria/Berseria game, it'd be in the Xillia engine so they could reuse assets again (and they'd feel justified in doing so since it's a sequel). The new engine means it's a new story.
Daniel Gomez
velvet makes my pp arise
Tyler Ross
Is the combat better than Berseria's? It's the only game from this series I've played, I didn't like the combo system and I haven't picked it up in months, the protag and her brother weren't all that interesting to me, I liked all of the other party members more.
Caleb Morgan
You all are getting on the screencap.
Robert Rogers
Stop calling him Ludger. His name is much more normal than Ludger
Easton Torres
Remove me from the screencap
Jace Howard
It's okay. Environments are absolutely awful though and the 2nd game reuses every single one from the first as well as bosses.
Luis Hill
The combat is more free flow than Berseria's but it starts off small Ludger himself blows away Berseria's combat
Evan Wood
What name would you suggest for notLudger then?
Evan Kelly
Scott Erik Mike Mark Bobby
Alexander James
Shadow the Bloodedge
Leo Peterson
That's pretty retarded then given they outright stated Berseria was a prequel before they even showed the first trailer.
Robert Reed
I agree. The Berseria-Zestiria saga already has a proper conclusion.
Henry Phillips
Will L. Kresnik
The L stands for Ludger
Nathan Ward
Let's hope so Shit taste
Nathaniel Perez
I feel like I've heard this story a thousand times.
Carter Wilson
Okay but Will notLudger have a nice ass like Lewdger?
Velvet is dead. Sorey has just finished his duty purifying Maotelus.
Matthew Miller
Not shitposting, the series is fucked beyond repair I'd they continue down the same road, I used to be a fanboy and played al of the games up to and including Vespera dozens of time but the move towards a more simple and action oriented combat system and the massive drop in quality of the writing killed the series for me. The latest game with the generic anime emo goth girl was so bad, bland and generic that it was painful to play, the combat was just mashing buttons even on the hardest difficulty, the bosses were fucking jokes, and the story might as well not have existed.
I fucking hate Xillia 2 so much >silent protagonist >the most annoying loli ever >you literally have to carry out multiply genocides and noone seems to be bothered by that I liked gamplay though
Jonathan Bailey
If Tales of Arise is powered by UE4, then the PC version will be Epic Store exclusive, right?
Owen Gomez
Is Octopath Traveler an Epic Store exclusive?
Adrian Reed
Are you all blind? He is nothing like Lutger at all. Different bangs, different eye color, different hair color, generic ikemen face.
Daniel Hill
more like tales of assfag
lmao at that edgy protagonist's over-designed piece of shit face
In agreement. I've personally always felt that Vesperia nailed the perfect art style for the series.
Henry Morgan
The most important thing to me is unironically whether or not Sakuraba will do the soundtrack. Won't pay a cent if he does
Evan Wright
#NotmyLudger
Leo Cook
i've been playing phantasia recently and the soundtrack is so soulful. why's he such a hack now?
Ian Campbell
Same. I hope cities and dungeons would look more colorful at least
Jeremiah Morales
Rita is for ____
Joshua Nguyen
Is it possible to get Go Shiina one more time or he's too expensive now?
Brandon Walker
...
Jonathan Davis
this
Justin Scott
>no Switch >game immediately looks good See, this is the reason why no Naruto Storm clone looks as good as the Naruto Storm games, because they force thselves to dumb the game down to the Switch.
Now I'll buy your game
Oliver Cox
epic fail
Isaiah Fisher
It's going to be exactly like every other Tales game
Since Tales is a Bamco video game franchise, why not have Keiki Kobayashi of Ace Combat fame compose it?
Eli Diaz
Kisses for notLudger
Brayden Adams
They could hire anyone, its just a matter of whether they laze out or not, Sakuraba is like the McDonalds of videogame soundtracks and that they keep using him is a sign that they don't respect their own franchise This one at least looks like its trying to push the series forward a bit
Joseph Morris
LUDGER AND LAILAH CAMEO BATTLE
Chase Collins
>Tales of the Abyss HD remake never ever Come on Bamco. Last I played this game was at 3fps on my 3DS
>Both Xillias were hard male gay >Zestiria was nothing but male gay >Berseria was lesbians
Daniel Butler
Why does he wear the mask?
Parker Adams
Lailah has a bunch of secrets that were never revealed Lunarre is revealed to still be alive (albeit severely injured and recovering) after Alisha's DLC story
Jaxson Stewart
Luger and Lyla
Easton Martin
Tales is so fucking terrible, how do they keep making games.
It's comfy, has a lot of pretty waifu of both genders and gameplay is addictive
Jack Martinez
That's why I only like Magilou in Berseria, because she is the only woman on the team who is around 30 years old during the events of the game.
Jose Gomez
Sure it is.
Daniel Jackson
cringe
John Young
There better be a fist user again
Grayson Robinson
>realistic textures on clothes, environment, armor etc. >realistic lightning and shaders >but pasted in animu faces Wow this looks like trash. Worse than Kingdom Hearts 3 and Code Vein.
How come a bunch of random cheap mobage gooks can make something like this youtube.com/watch?v=lMdsrZ1otlA but Japs can't into anime artstyle anymore?
>Is there a Tales festival going on? It will be held next weekend.
Christopher Nguyen
Gamescon?
Daniel Martin
>and Code Vein CV has about 10 times what you described(realistic clothes/textures etc.). So I don't see how this is worse.
Henry Gomez
>Lailah cringe and bluepilled
Jose Williams
>half the battle system tied to a single character its shit
Nicholas Butler
CV is aiming for the gritty chuuni Tokyo Ghoul aesthetics so at least it has some sort of style it wants to follow. This shit though looks like a poorly modded Skyrim.
Adrian Young
It doesn't look as disgustingly plastic as KH3, which makes it automatically better.
Jose Morgan
What's wrong with Lailah?
Elijah King
It doesn't? Could've fooled me.
Colton Cook
>thing is aiming for "insert artstyle" >therefore better that's not even an argument
Daniel Powell
It is. However your IQ is too low and your melanin is too high to understand art directions.
I'm sure they did say a new Tales game was in development for the Switch, but these are Jap devs, so they probably did mean Vesperia. It's the only Tales game i've played, and i enjoyed it and wanted more. Fuck me i guess
Blake Lee
>l-low iq i accept your concession
Julian Peterson
Tales of Arise has been stated to be set on planet Dahna and planet Rena. Why do people keep thinking it'll set in the same universe as Berseria and Zestiria?
Henry Carter
Do we know the name of the planet in Bears/Zest?
Austin Ortiz
When can we expect the game? Bamco announces the Tales games way before hand or when they are almost close to release?
Andrew Jenkins
Zestiria/Berseria fags think their shitty world and setting is even relevant
That can't be the name. Abyss is already the Tales game that starts with the letter A and we only get one of each.
Robert Sullivan
Imagine if this really is a completely new canon and the character designs are just super bankrupt
David Rogers
...
Liam Lopez
Fuck it, I'll say it. Most Tales games are creatively bankrupt and so cookie cutter in their character design (both visually and personality wise) and the gameplay has barely evolved since its early days.
I absolutely cannot fathom why anyone would still play this incredibly generic series.
James Torres
Tales of THE Abyss Its abbreviation is TOTA This game is TOA
Juan Hernandez
Played both games and never even saw that name come up anywhere. Thanks anons, yeah, seems like a new setting but I just wanted to make sure, can't trust these fuckers to not reuse one of the worst worlds ever in the franchise.
Matthew Butler
Asteria existed before this
Gavin Johnson
Same reason people keep playing sports games, racing games, derivative FPS titles. They are all the same every damn year, yet people find the familiar mechanics comfy.
Owen Fisher
>Every other games had a made up name >Zest/Bers use a word as the name
Owen Morris
its not veigh without CLAAAAAAAAAAAAIRE
Josiah Adams
You're right. I play them because there's nothing else in the action JRPG department, as far as I know. Star Ocean is dead. KH comes out once every 2 decades. Final Fantasy games with action gameplay somehow manage to be even worse.
Carson Rogers
wicked opinion user. Did you make it all by yourself?
Josiah Gutierrez
Because I liked the previous games and I just want to play the same thing with a different experience It's the same reason people can play basketball or hockey or chess over and over even if the game doesn't change
Levi Sanchez
at least we finally got it
had to fucking wait, but it finally came when most of us gave up on it like 2 years after it came out in japan.
Until a new game comes out and Yea Forums circlejerks the heroine's design while forgetting it's Gust shovelware
Josiah Collins
it didn't have either boycuck
Isaiah Thompson
Do you have any pantyshots of Milla's?
Angel Cook
Hated Symphonia. Hated Graces. Hated Xillia. Hated Pakis. Hated Zestiria. Hated Berseria. But maybe I'll like this one.
Isaiah Torres
>ys he'll just go with "hurr party battle ruined ys" just stop replying to niggers
Camden Ortiz
What about Vesperia?
Angel Davis
Not tried it.
Nolan Perez
Begone yuricuck
Kill yourself
Xavier Evans
>remaster It's a remake. Maybe only a partial remake (portraits and sprites), but they're using new character designs that don't match the old portraits and sprites at all.
The plot description sounds boring the way they put it. But I'm gonna have to give it credit for not being "Oh fuck I guess I have amnesia now and I'm in what looks like an important place an- HOLY SHIT REFERENCES TO DRAGONS AND GUESS WHAT I MIGHT BE CONNECTED TO A SEALED DRAGON GOD IN A PLOT TWIST LATER ON." JRPGs have been toning down on that kind of shit but some still do it and it annoys the fucking hell out of me.
Ethan Wood
2 worth playing?
Kayden Gray
When was that setting used recently?
Jayden Peterson
Tales games don't need 5 fucking games to wrap up an arc. There's something to be said about the world building, but Tales games are objectively more efficient at telling an anime jrpg story.
Noah Bell
Those leaked screenshots are gorgeous. They actually captured the style of Daigo Okumura's art direction in 3D graphics, that the Xillias failed so horribly at. I knew the time this game is taking was gonna be worth it.
For the gameplay yes If you liked the Einherjar stories in the first game, that's gone
Andrew Hernandez
Thanks for confirming that nu-Ys fans are braindead apes. Fucking retard.
Ayden King
I know there was something heavily among those lines in Shining Resonance Refrain. Then again only a small handful of people probably played that game.
Levi Rivera
ive played the old ys games too nigger-kun, stay mad
Was there any signifigance between how he obtains the sword ingame, and the reason he's seen with it in most official art
Gavin Gonzalez
Soulless Bland Generic Derivative Uninspired
Dominic Rodriguez
Symphonia takes place on sylvarant and tethe'alla despite being a prequel to Phantasia which takes place on Aselia
We're talking about a series that tends to reuse the same concepts over and over again, See where I'm going with this?
Nicholas Young
The story sounds boring because "two worlds" is not really that uncommon in JRPGs and Tales is the series that does it the most, in fact what they've shown of the story sounds extremely similar to Eternia.
Man that game was ass. Dropped it at the fire boss. A shame because the second Elf girl you get has an amazing ass.
Carson Jackson
hopefully it has a better OST than vesperia. playing vesp right now and I'm tempted to mute the fucking music.
Justin Wilson
This is all going according to Baba's keikaku
Bentley Wood
I played the demo out of curiosity and they did fuck all to reel me into its story and I immediately dismissed it the moment a major character complained about amnesia and being connected to a dragon or something. That being said, looking at the new images being put out for this game in particular makes me a bit more interested. I just wish they would've worded the synopsis better.
Justin Martinez
He's cute. I'd fuck him.
Juan Torres
Maybe the series isn't for you user
Christian Walker
>there are people in-denial about the girl on bottom right being Lailah
I guess that IS Lailah as stand-in asset (reusing previous game's assets for testing purposes is common in development, and sometimes ends forgotten in the fold(er)s of released data...)
Jordan Reyes
That is true. It is a pretty commonplace thing in JRPGs.
And yeah if that game has anything going for it it's the elf girls and that knight lady, Sonia was her name I think.
Jaxson Thompson
are you people fucking retarded? It's literally a case of japanese artists lacking any originality and just reusing similar character design. Not to mention her color scheme is inverted and her hair is light pinkish not white. If you think its actually Lailah again, you are a brainlet.
Xavier Campbell
>bro what if like there's two worlds... and one exploits the other or something... Literally Eternia Literally Symphonia Literally Hearts Literally Graces Literally Xillia
no, it's not about his sword, but they make a big deal about his blastia (bracelet thing) and then do a very poor job of actually explaining what it does.
Easton Lewis
I hope it's not related to Zestiria since I didn't play it.
Ethan Williams
Isn't the blastia what lets them use Artes?
Alexander Cook
i hope it has good characters like vesperia and berseria
Sebastian Howard
Xillia wasn't two separate worlds. It was two separate continents
Landon Robinson
i guess? I'm not really sure that's all it does, i've been through the game a few times, I couldn't reall tell you desu.
>>> > Anonymous 06/08/19(Sat)13:50:26 No.465209975▶ > (OP) >How am I supposed to self-insert as this edgelord But neither of those games have good characters.
>And Graces was two separate planets, not "worlds". So were Eternia, Hearts and now Arise
Luke Wright
bullshit, you needed dimensional shenanigans to access Elympios in X1 before they merged at the end.
Luis Kelly
I just hope the movement speed isn't as fucking slow as Berseria's
Lucas Murphy
So two MCs?
Alright who is the other one? I like notLudger.
Also let's throw Sorey and Velvet in here after their nap to be the Paragon and Renegade route
Aaron Gray
kek
Daniel Torres
Punished Ludger
Jeremiah Ward
it'll be even worse based on what we see on screenshots, expect FFXV combat with most likely subpar animation
Cameron Garcia
So the girl is the main villain and is going to ruin fucking everything? >Hey Lailah why do you CONSTANTLY FUCK THINGS UP >well I just had a good feeling about this guy uWu
Leo Harris
>Announcement trailer at E3 >Stay tuned for Tales of Festival full trailer 1
How mad will you be, Yea Forums?
Joseph Butler
based
Juan Lopez
So this will be revealed at Microsoft or does bamco has a Japanese direct?
Nathan Edwards
Vesperia DE was revealed at microsoft last year so most likely
Aaron King
Microsoft is the only company at E3 so the trailer probably will be first shown there
Bamco will probably have videos at their Japanese Youtube channel
Man I'm finally forcing myself to play through that too rn. I only bought it to support the Shining series but it truly is the poor man Tales, I want old Shining back.
Looks like the deformed child of Monster Hunter and Star Ocean. I really don't dig that style
Christopher Hill
You think a Tales game is going to be "highly-anticipated"?
Gabriel Thompson
Be cause he is Rokurou's descendant.
Aaron Ramirez
Did Vesperia really sell that badly because of the xbox thing? How well did the PS3 version do in Japan? I just cannot phantom why they wouldn't go back to that graphical style.
Joseph Johnson
Yes as it has a cult following. Tales series is popular enough that there are many hentai doujins of it on the internet.
Joshua Ward
i have no idea and could be talking out of my ass but the vesperia's cell shaded style might have been more expensive than this generic fantasy UE4 fare
Benjamin Rogers
Punished Ludger
A Fallen Father
Sebastian Ward
Lailah confirmed for becoming Elle's mommy?
Nathan Brooks
Daigo (Ludger's character designer) was also the one who pushed for a more realistic style rather than keeping up a style like Vesperia's which is why the series is like this right now (though the team did say they didn't want to work as hard as they did for Vesperia ever again which can also be another reason why we haven't seen it again).
I don't understand the people knocking the graphics in this, saying it looks "soulless". I know soulless has become a meme, but this game stylistically looks like a continuation of the PS3-era games, just with much better textures and geography. Character models are still just as anime as before. People are fucking faggots.
Ryder Peterson
>tfw they will never annouce x1+x2 port and follow it up with x3 announcement As long as the new game is completely new and not a follow up to Zestiria/Berseria, maybe we have a chance of the next game after this being the Xillia 3 we'd like it to be.
Michael Garcia
soul/soulless is literally a meme low poly+shit textures = soul, the opposite = soulless dont get baited
Owen Lee
its why I only tolerate Yea Forums in small doses average intelligence here gets lower every passing year
Parker Young
>xillia 1 cameo on berseria >by he order, xillia 2 cameo on Arise
I will be great to see not!Ludger meeting Ludger
Daniel Hill
Reminder that Zestiria was kino and only NPCs disliked it.
The vita tales of games had the last decent world design in the series.
Caleb Torres
Good song. Still, Shiina is better
Bentley Lewis
>links one of the greatest vidya tracks ever made
What did he mean by this
Wyatt Bailey
zestiria was the "safe game" with your typical jrpg protagonist that was supposed to be a safety net for berseria. It's hard to believe how uninteresting it is.
Zestiria had the best Tales OST in years. Thus making the game actually better than Berseria.
Mason Green
Hearts R is actually pretty okay, but I would definitely recommend Ys VIII over it. Really great game.
Dylan Green
Finally more Tales of. But can we go back to being fruity and gay like Hearts?
Cooper Baker
Sorey has to deal with the concept of mercy killing people who cannot be saved and struggles with the lives he is involved with taking throughout the game. The final scene where he slowly approaches and ultimately kills Heldalf is the artistic peak of Tales.
By contrast, Yuri only kills mustache twirling laughably evil bad guys and never gets challenged throughout the game, this is the NPC's favorite Tales protag.
I'm not. I was very fond of Zestiria. It managed to deliver surprisingly dark and mature story, in my book, but not the shitty kind of "dark and mature" , a more subtle kind. Highland abandoned Marlind to their fate, like they did with the other village next to Ladylake. You have people killing children without batting an eye just to save money. Sorey has to come to terms with killing people in order to be able to save the world. In a sense, it ties into the bigger theme of sacrifice: he has to sacrifice his principles, as well as himself (and his friends, oh and his grandfather too) in order to achieve his goals. And I believe that the finale (where Sorey kills Heldalf) is the best directed cutscene of the series.
For me, berseria did the exact opposite. We had some shiny and new packaging (female protagonist, pirates and "bad guy" point of view), but in the end we got a story we have seen countless times before, with a villain who has the best intentions in the world, but uses wrong methods, the party quickly becomes the good guys in anything but name due to how shitty the Abbey is. I really hoped there would be more of a moral gray zone in Berseria but in the end it was just a variation of the same old "bad guy wants the entire world to be ruined because of reasons" shtick.
Yeah it had that whole 'they should be tried in court instead of murdered' thing, but then again you're out killing hundreds of bandits and what not.
Ryder Gutierrez
Agreed.
Austin Taylor
I legitimately have never heard a piece of music better fit for exploring a world than this one, and I have been playing Western and Japanese RPGs autistically for decades. This track is actually perfect. GOD Shiina will always be my favorite vidya composer.
I like both games and I understand why you are so fond of Zestiria because it does have great potential and better grey-morality than most JRPGs in the past decade, but the game really fucks it up in execution in various ways. I personally prefer Berseria and think id a much better game.
Fuck that they made Artorious a bad guy by the end, though, almost ruined the story for me.
>How to spot a Vesperiafag Xillia 2 had the same style of combat as Vesperia, and Vesperia is an off-shoot of Abyss. Xillia 2 was also better.
Camden Cooper
Recently i'm not too excited with Tales related news. Stopped playing right after finishing Zestiria even though i played any other main titles before it.
Jose Jackson
Yikes
Adrian Scott
Ludger may have the best moveset but nothing can beat Graces' combat
Jeremiah Torres
I liked Zestria and Berseria combat (i can't really say much about the games themselves...)
anyway, they made it much easier for the average normie to play but you can't say that they didn't keep a lot of the same mechanics of the older games. It still has the same depths should you wish to play it that way. Berseria was definitely the cheesiest game but it also had a much better tempo to the fighting, hard and fast.
Sebastian Flores
I hope this guy isn't actually an edgelord and he just looks like one. Or alternative it would be fun if he's out of place edgy all the time for comedic relief. Curious about the trailer.
Zestria had very poor gameplay design which is pretty typical of devs being new to open world(ish) games. Witcher series had this problem in the first two games. There was no rhythm to the exploration, it was fucking tedious and the backtracking made it 100x worse. It had it's moments but it dragged down an otherwise decent game.
Dylan Perry
The only two things Zestiria had going for it was Go Shina's OST and that Fusion looked cool. Everything else was mediocre at best and terrible at worst.
>nothing can beat Graces' combat love this meme. its like the modern version of Symphonia is the best tales because its the one everyone began with except somehow even more misguided
Connor Anderson
Graces is what started the shitty combat system that we are still forced to play with today. CC is miles better than the horrendous shit that is Graces/Zestiria/Berseria.
Ayden Gray
graces f had good combat but too bad the rest of the game was pure garbage. worst dungeons, worst music, worst plot, worst graphics
>TEMPEST R WHEN? Hopefully soon because I'm not gonna play a fugly DS game.
Landon Jones
OH SHIT! We're getting a new Tales Of game?!?! I've been waiting for awhile for SOME fucking news about it. Is there a trailer yet? Any release date? I NEED INFORMATION PEOPLE!!!!
Gavin Nguyen
OFFICIAL ----[REVISED ]---- TALES OF OPENING SONGS RANKING
And some new character teasing in the viva tales magazines.
Jack Price
Meh, I played Graces F after Xillias. Played Zestiria a year after, Berseria it came out. Played both Symphonias first. Symphonia had a fair amount of strategy and MP conserving to it, but ultimately you were often fighting your horrible AI and playing a tank / distraction unit and mageplay was fairly boring, though it had some neat things for melees like jump dodging (why the fuck you only can move in a liine I'll never know). Symphonia 2 was really good, nice free movement, felt fairly alright but they botched it through the other mechanics (monster party members, bad balancing, etc) and only Marta and Emil felt really fluid. Xillias were alright but Xillia 1 was a spamfest with stupid combo-breaking mechanics from bosses, and Xillia 2 was too focused on abusing elements and balanced around Ludger's insane capabilities (3 weapons + a whole mechanic just for him, wtf?). Zestiria was also a spamfest and too focused around the merge mechanic to survive, as well as bosses absolutely abusing the horrible team AI by focusing on them (there are bosses specifically aiming for casters and the casters suck at defending unless micromanaged. Berseria's pretty good. Velvet is beyond broken, but it's not as spam-heavy as people make it out to be and the other chars deserve some love, Magilou's great anti-mage and the other chars are plenty capable. Graces F is the best to me, the team AI felt good, the bosses felt threatening but not too OP, and the focus was still on hitting multiple weaknesses. All chars felt pretty balanced and there was a nice fluid feel between b-artes and a-artes for everyone. I also love building up your CC for performing well over the battle. Graces F had plenty of problems, dodge frames were weird at times and some chars took a while to get going (e.g. Cheria) It was simple to pick-up, didn't have many weird gimmicks and the emphasis was on learning fights. A lot of it jumped over to Berseria in some ways, and it can definitely be outdone.
Aaron Fisher
Give me Graces F on PC/Ps4 I die to replay that game
You've just described Velvet's medical condition after the end of Berseria perfectly.
Brandon Anderson
It's alright, play as anything except Velvet and it follows the rhythm of hit weakness -> get souls -> use souls -> repeat. Play Velvet and you just break the game because she's both fluid and her soul mechanic prevents her from dying while above 1 HP, and using a soul gives you back HP as well as iframes for Velvet so she's guaranteed to break out and survive enemy combos.
Matthew Thomas
It's fun, but it's mostly all about spamming the most effective artes. I recommend maining Eleanor, she's the most balanced and fun character to play.
Wyatt Richardson
it could be challengenging if you play other characters but velvet is literally one button + claw occasionally
Jordan Barnes
>See enemy has only X weakness >Shit, don't have X artes equipped currently >Open menu >Artes >Set all the X element arts >Mash that button
Rinse and repeat
Jackson Young
Fags will say its easy. But that because they never turned up the difficulty like your supposed to. Otherwise you always get shit gear and the enemies have no resistance.
Zestia Is a rock paper scissors compate where you change forms and frankly its a pain in the ass.
Justin Campbell
It also memorizes core skills for them, which they draw from weapons. It's basically a justification for the way they learn skills, but most games never bother so it's seen as superfluous info.
Ryan Peterson
Depend Velvet makes the game braindead easy Rokurou and Eleanor are really fun to play without being that broken Eizen is okay Laphicet and Magilou are shit
Joseph Baker
Imagine Velvet assaulting the Empyrean Throne while screaming Allahu Akbar at Artorius and the Abbey.
Adrian Johnson
Dude if only she kept the same resolve she had early game and stopped being so focused on her brother. Her half-hearted "redemption" arc was so cringe, they should've just let her gone full berserk and let Laphicet take over, tearing apart both her brother and Arthorius, but they had to shoehorn that redemption in where she went soft
Levi Martin
I hope this has no ties to previous games, no sequel/prequel shit. Start over fresh without Baba's influence at all infecting it.
Blake Phillips
Baba black sheep
Jason Clark
sounds like shit
Jack Hughes
The reason Symphonia doesn't have free walk is because all previous entries were 2D and Symphonia is the first 3D entry. Only the brothers feel good to me in graces and the enemy weaknesses boil down to scan the enemy, spam A artes or B artes accordingly or in the case of elemental weaknesses just look for it in the retardedly convoluted combo system
The CC system is an interesting idea but it too often degenerates to just mashing since you're not worried about resource management . The bosses also felt like it relied too much on super armor but that isn't unique to graces in the slightest. The CC games are just too mashy and incoherent. Leveling up feels like shit because artes aren't impactful (at least for the MCs) since they're supposed to fit into a "fluent combo". Berseria even has a dedicated button just for random artes for gods sake
Nolan Jones
So Yea Forums, who is your favorite Tales MC. The bottom 2 are the mobile games protags, ignore them
She resolved to kill her brother. and would of if they hadn't ended up in a stalemate There was no redemption. She simply resolved herself to kill her brother or die.
Jeremiah Moore
Milla was a great character and seemed very similar to velvet. Almost like the same person in attitude.
Lucas Hall
At least Milla isn't a revenge-driven person like Velvet is.
Parker Howard
Milla is an adult in her twenties and I like that. Velvet, on the other hand, isn't legal enough to drink a beer.
Jordan Miller
Velvets age was a weird choice. I get they wanted to make her more vulnerable to make her heart hardening more dramatic. But having her Devour people, demons and spirits, and refuse to drink due to being underage was retarded.
Kayden Nelson
>19 yes she is
Nolan Foster
You forgot "press R to win".
Ayden Mitchell
Legal drinking age is 20 and for some reason the Japanese have a real hard on for making sure their characters abide by it to the point where even in fantasy settings they get "funny juice" instead of alcohol.
Ethan Cook
Do we know it has Berseria combat, they could have gone back to LMB.
Evan Sanders
But I like IX and Mileena and Kocis and Karia too. Stahn's my #1 though for main titles though.
Noah Kelly
Ludger.
Joseph Bailey
What does R do?
Brandon Watson
>legal drinking age in japan is 20 what the fuck so backwards
Aiden Harris
Rapes enemies with Velvet's demon claw.
Owen Mitchell
>Velveto isn't legal wewlad
Jordan Turner
1 - Velvet 2 - Asshole Luke 3 - Yuri 4 - Sorey
Actually, from all of the Tales of I played the protagonist have been pretty based, my least favourite is probably the fag from Eternia
Nolan Morris
Roido
Ethan Clark
Lunarre in the Alisha DLC was just there because they couldn't be bothered with making up a new villain for it. And they've ignored it multiple times.
Jaxon Russell
Kyle looks like he just came out of those How to Draw Anime books, what is up with the artstyle shifts during the early Tales. Like i know Legendia was handled by a different studio, but everything before was like they had no idea what artstyle to go with.
Dylan Rogers
Sorey is IMO the worst Tales protagonist. He was dull, emotionless, unrelatable and Just did what everyone told him to do.
Noah Walker
I hope notLudger isn't a one-dimensional character in Tales of Arise. Would be great if he shared similar personality with pic-related.
>Our tale begins with two people, born on different worlds, each looking to change their fate and create a new future So are we going to have a legit split story like what Xillia poorly tried to do? Letting us choose between Jude or Millia, but only mattering for like the first 5 minutes of the game
Aiden Sullivan
Would Gal Gadot be suitable for the role of live-action version of Velvet Crowe?
Watching a video of this. >Unreal Engine 4 Fuck YOU Yea Forums, now everytime I hear that about any game using it, I immediately think of NINTENDOOOOOOOO
Mikleo is the thirsty one who sucks Sorey's dick while he's asleep. Sorey is pure.
Julian Edwards
I think a Tales game with actual effort put into area design would be the best. I miss when the dungeons and world had a modicum of effort put into them. Things have been so fucking boring since Xillia.
Charles Jenkins
>sample shamefur
Samuel Sanchez
This is how I feel I mean I still really liked Xillia 2 mostly because I liked the combat but the rest was kind of boring. If this new one doesn't at least make the dungeons and areas better than what we've been getting then I'll pass on this one too.
Cameron Roberts
I'll play it but itll really need to have a solid story and gameplay for me to stay invested. I've played all the Tales games, but I really had to force myself through Zestiria and Xillia 1. Xillia 2 was the worst area wise thanks to rehashing so much from the already mediocre Xillia but I loved the combat even if it was just Ludger all day every day.
Owen Cox
Actually, Sorey is one who gushes about how Pretty Mikleo is and is the, treats him like his waifu, and the one who decided to become a shepherd just so that he could show off said waifu (male).
Sorey knows what sex is, he's just not interested in having it with women.
Gabriel Rogers
>Pros It's a good tales game >Cons It's (only) a good tales game
i'm legit curious if the anime will be the canon the crossovers follow for zestira going forward, the fox dude died in the anime while in the game he was last seen going towards the area rosa and alisha were at to kill them in front of the sephard brat and in the anime alisha can armitaize or whatever they called it
I mean, her little brother was literally skewered right in front of her by the man she trusted most after everyone else she knew had been killed by monsters. Then she was tortured for years. I think it would make anyone really fucking mad.
Michael King
The game is canon, while the anime isn't. The anime didn't do better than the game and only pissed off people. They'll ignore the Alisha DLC since it doesn't fit in with the game's canon anyway.
Blake Thompson
Sounds like the setup to a Gundam series.
Aaron Reed
Don't they reference the dlc in Rays? she and Rose come from post script while the others come from some point in the main game
Aiden Rodriguez
Only Eizen has a good character arc: he goes from badass, to literally autistic to cancer patient
Dylan Young
I don't think that they reference it at all since Rose fucks off and Sorey's group mostly just avoids Alisha.
>maps are corridors why are all the maps corridors where is the open space REEEEEEEEEEEEEE >maps are open world another generic empty open world REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Owen Walker
i hate the dagger skirt, i hope he has other armor in fact i wish this is the first tale in which armor changes the appearance of the party
Lincoln Roberts
thats cheating zestiria OST is top tier
Ryan Gray
He's like Velvet all the best outfits will be DLC.
Austin Powell
its fast and offensive based, if you lose the rhythm of the battle you will die instantly. NPCs here hate it because healing and casters are useless and they are forced to create good combos instead of mashing
Michael Robinson
best tales game of the last decade
Leo Wilson
based fuck v
Justin Murphy
Judith, thats all.
Hunter Martinez
too late in the thread to do this, nobody will see it
