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Review: Tales of Arise Winds Through Rich Moral Terrain, But Only Up to a Point | Slant

The game’s incredibly refined, real-time combat is complemented by the social lessons and warnings imparted by the story.

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Kaii1339d ago

Combat visually is sweet and superb when everything connects, the disconnect happens when on bosses I found (Immune to stun/stagger) which leads the fighting to a somewhat slow waltz the player must perform. Difficulty being health increase and blindly ignoring incoming enemy attacks will lead to death & zero item management results the same.

The enemy variety lacking & way too many unlockable attacks, removing long wind up attacks on bosses because duh its stab>stab>break away dance>assess situation>repeat.

I guess people didn't have issues with the Ai (team) on story/normal/moderate but I felt like I had to micromanage a tad too much on some encounters (Just past the 4th lord atm).

Is it just me that feels like combat vs mobs is the right way but the combat on bosses (ignoring difficulty) isn't tied to the system they've taught you from the get-go?

chaos9991339d ago

mobs at too easy and bosses are punishing

GoodGuy091339d ago

The combat really relies on boost attacks and strikes for small enemies. And especially tons of heals. Bosses are indeed a problem and just not fun, theyre complete sponge tanks that can never have the break effect that stuns them making combos near impossible and you being squashed easily. Youre discouraged from using long and slow artes, this wouldnt be a problem if we can dodge out of artes. So all you can really do in boss battles is hit them with some fast artes when they are open...and when they are open, they are only very slightly open, and keep dodging or else youll just keep dying making you use tons of cp and items. This bs makes it really seem they really want you to buy the dlc. Enemies have way too much health that the real way to kill them is by boost strikes. This gets very very repetitive.

Arena battles are complete trash since you cant use items or even have a set of items you can use. Solo arena is really bad if your character cant heal.

Again, im not a fan of the artes that have their own guage and recharge system, I much prefer TP which was simple and classic rpg and brought better balance to artes. All artes feel like they do the same damage because they all use the same amount of AG. The TP system told you what was more powerful becuase it was more versatile. Sure magic users use tp quick but it was because they were so powerful.

Game has its problems but I am enjoying it nonetheless compared to the other tales games in years. A step in the right direction.

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Relientk771339d ago

For Slant, a 7/10 is actually pretty good

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Tales of Arise Has Sold 3 Million Copies Before Releasing on Game Pass and PlayStation Plus

The beloved JRPG Tales of Arise has become available on Xbox and PC Game Pass and PlayStation Plus Game Catalogue today, but not before passing 3 million copies sold.

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Knightofelemia458d ago (Edited 458d ago )

It's a great entry into the Tales franchise I enjoyed it. I just wonder if Namco will make a new Tales game. Or will they make a sequel or prequel to Arise. Like they have with past Tales games like Berseria being a prequel to Zestiria, Tales of Xillia got a sequel, Tales of Symphonia got a sequel even though it's crap. Either way I am excited for the next Tales game.

SeTTriP458d ago

Game was phenomenal to me it deserves the success.

Lexreborn2458d ago

I would love a modern remake of Phantasia.

Shane Kim458d ago

I have slept om this series. First game was Arise and it was awesome. I just didn't like the end where they threw one mini boss after the other until the last boss.

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PlayStation Plus Game Catalog for February: Need for Speed Unbound, The Outer Worlds and more

February’s Game Catalog lineup for PlayStation Plus brings together racing thrills, sci-fi adventure and a selection of entries from a classic RPG series. Take to the streets in Need for Speed Unbound, blast off into space in The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition, then experience some acclaimed RPG fantasy action in the Tales of… series. These and many more titles are playable from February 20. Let’s take a closer look at each game in turn.

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LucasRuinedChildhood465d ago (Edited 465d ago )

Finally, Resistance: Retribution 🔥

It's an alright month overall. I think Sony should try to more consistently get some high quality indies Day 1 in the service, e.g. Ultros would have been good. Those have usually been some of the better months, e.g. Stray, Sea Of Stars, Tchia.

Shame that for this version of Outer Worlds, you can't import your save. 😔 Truly Spacer's Choice

darthv72465d ago

retribution was a cool game. It's the only one that allowed you to link a DS3 controller using Resistance 2 to play it (as far as i know). It was an interesting experiment that didnt offer 2nd analog support though but Im betting this version does.

Eonjay465d ago

Good point. One assumes that is the reason for the delay on releasing it.

ChasterMies465d ago

Joke’s on Outer Worlds Spacers Choice. I quit after the first planet in Outer Worlds.

MaximusPrime_465d ago

Glad I didn't buy NFS rebound. I expected this to be on PS Plus.

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ravens52464d ago

Unbound lol. N I got it for 15 physical, 🤷🏽. I'll take it. Jus got extra this year for $80, which is a great deal. If I can pay $80 on sale every year I'd stick with Extra. I don't mind buying a game but then it shows up here cause then I can download it to have it digitally but still have MY copy. Once they take it off I can still play it.

Eonjay465d ago (Edited 465d ago )

You can say what you want about day one purchases but besides that Plus really blows GamePass out of the water.

NFS, Outer Worlds and 4 different Tales of Games... and Retribution. And you throw the monthly games on top of that... its no competition.

BTW... how is it that no one realized that Microsoft could just put its games on Plus. No one seems to realize that Microsoft and Sony are now working to enrich each other. (Console ware is over)

darthv72465d ago

Sadly, Retribution is only for premium users... not us extra folk. I do have the original UMD, but it would be nice to get it digitally like i did with killzone liberation and stardust. Both of which i already owned digitally on my Go/Vita and it was cool when those were made available for the PS5 as then i could dl them.

Eonjay465d ago

This is one UMD I never had but thats really awesome you still have an original.

ChasterMies465d ago

How can Game Pass be the best deal on gaming when it is more expensive than PS+?

badboyz09465d ago

Plus you need a platform to.

Petebloodyonion465d ago

Gamepass PC is way cheaper to PS+ and even way cheaper if you use MS rewards points

Redgrave465d ago

Is that Jet Moto 2, under Resistance? As of writing, it's just an image and no text.

Redgrave465d ago

It's been fixed, and yes it is

Toecutter00465d ago (Edited 465d ago )

Why is the Killzone series still M.I.A? I still love playing splitscreen co-op of KZ3.

MrBaskerville464d ago

They did release the psp top down shooter a while back. So it's not completely forgotten.

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An Xbox blog blunder has all but confirmed that Tales of Arise will be on Game Pass very soon

After a big blunder, Xbox has all but confirmed that the incredible RPG Tales of Arise is finally making its Game Pass debut very soon.

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franwex472d ago (Edited 472d ago )

That’s cool. I bought in on a sale for like $15, or $20. Was gonna play it, but new games keep coming out. Now FF7 Rebirth is about to come out, so again I will have to push this til later.

I did play Scarlet Nexus on Gamepass, so it doesn’t surprise me that they will release this there to get a bit more income.

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1UP-Words471d ago

I've been eyeing it up (and Scarlet Nexus) for ages so this is the perfect opportunity!