Tales Of Zestiria Review | IGN

Tales of Zestiria doesn’t deviate too far from its competent predecessors, but it’s not a carbon copy, either. It may have linear dungeons and a less-than-stellar story, but it’s open-world exploration, enjoyable customization, and flashy new Armitization feature are enough for it to stand on its own.

[FallenAngel1984]

IGN seems to have an addiction of giving JRPGs a 7.8/10

[Geobros]

Haha!! So true, I am seeing very often that score on ign site.

[DragonDDark]

"Too much 7.8s"
7.8/10

[Baka-akaB]

IGN (and others) are basically close to just using some office template where they just switch names of the tales games (and a few jrpg) and heroes names ...

Have been since forever

[DarkOcelet]

Gives Tales 7.8/10 because its too similar to the last game and says it have a Bland story and characters

Gives COD 9/10 because it has a Bland story and characters and is similar to the last game.

Yup, seems legit.

[Cryptcuzz]

This is so true, it is both funny and scary to see a big media name like IGN do this.

[blackblades]

Someone needs to put them on the spot about this in a world wide live tv interview.

[Eterna1Ice]

Umm, it might a little bit sudden, but the reviews for those games are written by different people...

[Sono421]

Umm you forget the big difference between this and call of duty is that the campaign is never the main focus of call of duty, it's always multiplayer and zombies/spec ops/survival/extinction so call of duty's campaign being lackluster doesn't really matter because that's not why people always buy the new cod, this game however only has the story mode.

[DarkOcelet]

Do you know how much content this campaign has? You can go over 100 hours and still dont unlock everything.

[Yui_Suzumiya]

I only purchase Call of Duty for the campaign and zombie mode.

[DragonDDark]

I just read 4 reviews praising the story -_____-

[kaizokuspy]

Story is awful isn't it?

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NO

[Sly-Lupin]

Most people in Games media have no real ability to articulate... well, anything. "Story" is a very general term, that doesn't have much more meaning than "graphics" or "audio." Tales Of games typically have (very) cliched, archetypal plots and equally cliched and archetypal characters... and follow a very, very familiar formula. What makes the Tales Of games stand out is the quantity (and, usually, quality) of the characterization.

[vanity29]

Geez. Why do they keep giving shooters high scores if story and originality matters? Lmao

[GamerGT]

Seems like a decent review. This games looks fun though in my opinion. I'm going to have to get it.

[moegooner88]

All the other reviews were praising the story :/

[Jubez187]

IGN is on the low side lately. They gave Armello like a 5, DQ heroes a 6 (most people gave it 7-8), and this seems to be kinda low too.

[DivineAssault]

They dont like Jrpgs.. Only american shooters and nintendo games appeal to them

[Sly-Lupin]

I think there's an impulse to over-rate Dragon Quest Heroes in order to promote the franchise overseas (to Square-Enix).

[Jubez187]

TBH I don't think it's THAT bad. It's at least a 7.5 in my book and I'm a harsh critic. I wish it didn't take you out of the fight so much. 10 hours in and I'm still getting tutorials on opening gates...like come on.

It truly does feel like a hybrid though, not a reskinned musou game like Hyrule Warriors was.

[Sly-Lupin]

I'm not saying its bad, just that it's not great. It feels kinda half-assed, all around. And I'm as big of a DQ and Musou fan as they come.

[DivineAssault]

Vesperia and abyss remain my favorites so far.. Im buying this and will beat it for my own judgement but i really didnt care for xillia

[babadivad]

Same here. I was surprised by how good Graces was though!! I racked it above Xillia*which I was a little disappointed in*. Yuri is the best main protagonist I've seen in any JRPG. That dude was a boss.

[DivineAssault]

Yeah, the rivalry between him and Flynn was fun to watch and the story had me hooked.. I havent played one since thats been that good story wise..

[Gatsu]

I love JRPG and can't wait to play this :). Will be my first Tales game, I dunno how I never played the earlier games lol.

Will keep me busy until Fallout 4 release.

[vanity29]

play graces for combat, vesperia for art+best mc in the world, symphonia for story. and abyss if you like whiny ass characters who develop into more mature characters... Still can't bring myself to play that one.

after fallout of course lmao

[Nerdmaster]

I bought the 3DS version of Abyss because some people praised it as the best in the series, but I couldn't stand the whiny protagonist for too long. And that annoying blue or green pet thing.

[DigitalRaptor]

Either the story is good, or it's not IGN.

Several other reviewers have praised it. I don't know really. Seems like JRPGs really rub certain people the wrong way the past couple of generations, compared to previous ones despite the inherent quality.

I mean Dragon Quest Heroes a 6/10? Really?