One of the editors at Middle of Nowhere Gaming spent the last few weeks playing Tales of Xillia 2 for review. Was it as good as the first game? How does it compare to other JRPGs on the market today? Check out his thoughts here!
Today it was announced that the gaming and anime industry has lost another beloved artist and creator. Mutsumi Inomata has passed away.
The Tales Of series are some of the best RPGs I've ever played, and the characters are a big reason for that. I don't think I played a single game in the series that I didn't enjoy. Rest in peace.
We're 3 months into the year and I feel like we're taking nothing but L's.
Wow she was the character designer for Tales of Destiny one of my favorites of all time =(
I love the Tales games. Phantasia will always be my favorite. Ironically I felt like as the series progressed the character design became too “anime cliche.”
The Tales games may be less recognizable than the Dragon Quest or Final Fantasy games, but that doesn't mean that they aren't worth playing!
“Tales series is considered one of the top three Japanese RPG series next to RPG giants like Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy.”
How you gonna talk about the top three JRPG franchises and not mention Pokémon, the top selling series in the genre?
This is how the top JRPG series stack up
1. Pokémon - 340M
2. Final Fantasy - 144M
3. Dragon Quest - 78M
4. Monster Hunter - 52M
5. Kingdom Hearts - 30M
6. Souls - 25M
7. Tales of - 20M
Lots of great Japanese games have major Japanese rock and pop singers providing the theme songs for them. The Final Fantasy series had Gackt providing "Redemption" for Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus and Hikaru Utada always provides the theme song for each Kingdom Hearts game. But if there is one series that reliably brings out the best singers and songs, it is Bandai Namco's Tales series. It routinely brings the bangers.
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 has one of the best soundtracks ever and the first Xenoblade Chronicles soundtrack is even better.
Already past chapter 10 and 35 hours+. The battle very addictive and i love the story and new characters. Definitely better than the 1st Xillia.
As far as the game goes, it does have the advantage of familiarality, going around and being able to see hey I remember this place, but thats changed. Was good.
The debt system was forced out of necessity for plot but the game throws Gald at you so often its not an obstacle. Post game even less so.
As for any plot twists, there were none really. They give you just a little too much information during the game so you have a good idea whats going to happen before they reveal it.
The real interest in the game comes from the character missions, this is where the game really adds depth to the companions and pads out the story arc.