Tales of Symphonia, a game with roots extending to the days of the GameCube, has been given a second wind in Tales of Symphonia Chronicles for the PS3. Is this feel-good romp (and its sequel) just as good the second time around?
If you're looking to round out your collection of Tales series games, this weekend might be the perfect opportunity, as several of them are going on sale.
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From a focus on story to an online component, here are 11 ways Bandai Namco can get the Tales series back on the right track.
Trying to make JP games like western games has been the slow death of JP games in the west. Games like Ace Combat AH, RE4-6, SH:Homecoming, Castlevania LoS 1&2,FF13 series are mostly pure mockeries of the franchises they came from (even the games that were technically good for their own reasons like RE4&5 and LoS). If they just stopped trying to make games that they think everyone would like and make games that the people who actually buy their games would like they would be in a much better place. As someone who liked mostly JP games Ive seen just about all my favorite franchises bite the dust, and that f***ing sucks a**, BRO!
FF13 was a fantastic games. I wish more people would start thinking for themselves, instead of keeping up with the herd of other people's opinion.
Oh believe me. When it comes to FF13, there is no herd of people with no thought. They all reached their conclusion individually. FF13 was and always will be, horrific.
Ff13 LR was a fantastic game for sure.
Ff13 was ok until the post game, then the combat system really shined. The post game made me love FF13, when all paradigms are maxed, the game really shines.
I love my lightning + fang + vanille end game team.
Then FF13-2 happened, took the one thing I love about the game and butchered it. Took out all the flexibility of paradigm shifts by limiting the last slot to 3 monsters (and therefore 3 paradigms). You couldn't pull off the super awesome shifts like on FF13 because you'd have to waste a monster slot just to pull off triple sentinel stance and so on.
FF LR was very good. I've played and 100%'d (platinum) them all, but ff13 was very hard to tolerate until Grand pulse... While ff13-2 was overall most intolerable of the three.
With that said, I think tales has been fantastic. I love xillia, graces f, heart r, zeterila.
They never seem to disappoint in deliverin a statisfying jrpg experience
Eh, I played FF13 and forced myself to finish it. I'm not saying it's a bad game for everyone, but if the bulk of FF fans say it's not good, then it's mostly not good.
No to the Westernization of Japanese games. I say!
FF13 was a good game, it just was a terrible FF. Same for DmC. That was a good game, just not a good DMC. MGS 4 & 5 were good games, just not good MGS.
RE4, 5, & 6, Castlevania LoS, Silent Hill, hell, even Bomberman went that route once and arguably killed the series.
Westernization is a perfect way to ruin a series. Western games are good on their own, they don't need to assimilate everything else and I want some variety, damn it.
What I would like to see is
- Seamless instant transition from exploring to combat when you run into an enemy
- NO battle summary screen after each battle is won (They should adopt a similiar system like in Star Ocean V there is a battle summary but it is displayed in the background while you continue exploring and playing)
- All dialogue has audio in it
- I largely disagree with most of the things in the article like the battle systems and including multiplayer with the game (one of the reasons I like JRPG is because there is no multiplayer) but I do agree that they should improve the camera
MP if done right is fantastic.
Few of my fav MPs have been WKC and XCX over the past years. I had 2 thousand hours between WKC1 and 2.
I don't think you NEED Mp in JRPGs, ni no kuni was a shining example of that.
I don't really care about the battle summary, but the victory mini-skits are a must!
If xillia 2 and Zeteria have anything to say, it's definitely this.
The games were very good, and am already looking forward to the next one!
I play the Tales of games since the first Playstation already. They were never games like Final Fantasy but definitely good games for many many hours.
They don't need to get the series back on track. It's been consistently brilliant for the last 20 odd years.
My biggest gripe with Tales series are the protagonists. Every time i pick up of these games half my time i spend thinking about how stupid the guy im playing is.
But i guess thats the thing about JRPGs in general. In most western games YOU get to be the hero, the guy with the big sword and awesome abilities, the guy who everybody looks up to etc. Unlike in most JRPGs where everybody else has all the cool things and as the player you are just some silly child, the odd one out who is kinda just there for "reasons".
Several entries of the Tales Of series are now available for a reduced price on the Bandai Namco Store, including Tales of Hearts R and more
