History Headscratchers / TalesOfVesperia

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** ... [[VoodooShark That just raises]] [[UpToEleven even more questions]]. When is it established that the phases of the moon have anything to do with the power of the Children of the Full Moon? If they had some sort of weakening-effect, surely Estelle's healing power would have been, y'know, weakened. But it wasn't. And it's not just the Children she refuses to see then: she refuses to take any guests until the night of a new moon. So... why? What's the point of it?

* In the ''The Empty Mask'' supplementary manga, Alexei gave Schwann the shut-off switch for the heart blastia out of guilt when he learns the latter was a DeathSeeker. By the time of Raven's HeelFaceTurn, Alexei would probably like nothing more than to shut off the latter's heart, but if that was the only switch in existence, he no longer has the option of doing so. Though there is the question of why Alexei didn't attempt to either reclaim the switch or build a copy.

* In the ''The Empty Mask'' supplementary manga, Alexei gave Schwann the shut-off switch for the heart blastia out of guilt when he learns the latter was a DeathSeeker. By the time of Raven's HeelFaceTurn, Alexei would probably like nothing more than to shut off the latter's heart, but if that was the only switch in existence, he no longer has the option of doing so.

** tl;dr: Alexei was a misguided and badly written extremist, who thought the Entelexeia were ''too powerful'' to be left unchecked.

* Keep in mind that what they actually have is not a prison, but a set of ''jail cells''. The difference being, holding anybody in those cells is going to be extremely temporary and most of the people in them will be there for minor infractions. When Yuri's down there, all the other cells are empty (except for Raven), and all the Knights know Yuri as "that jerk who would never really hurt people", so it's not surprising that the guard who's supposed to watch him is taking a nap. (For more evidence that the Knights know Yuri isn't a bad guy per se, re-watch the scene where Leblanc & Co., when given the choice between pursuing Yuri and pursuing the Red-Eyes, obviously choose the criminals who are actually a danger to citizens. And this is ''after'' kidnapping a princess has been added to Yuri's list of crimes.) Basically: there's hardly anyone in those jail cells for the Royal Family to worry about breaking out. (And also, hardly any Royal Family members actually live in the castle; Ioder, Estelle's only real rival for the throne, grew up outside the Castle.)

*** Shadow has been around for as long as the spirits of the four classical elements and Rem is always his counterpart in the games not taking place [[VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia on]] [[VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia Aseria]]. There really was no reason not to include them like VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss did.
** I imagine they probably didn't want to add more sequences where you had to recruit surviving Entelixaia to become Rem and Shadow. Not to mention; there wasn't really anyone introduced earlier who could have fulfilled the role. Khroma was ''kind'' of pushing it.

** There's no reason they had to kill any Entelexia- they could have used the Clear Ciel Crystal rather than have Duke destroy it and have it become Rem, and they could have gotten Elicufer's apatheia from Ioder, who cites it as a treasure from the war, and create Shadow. I was actually expecting them to use Elucifer's apatheia since he was so important. I doubt very much it would have stopped Duke, though, because he sees spirit conversion as unnatural.

* Yuri was the reason Cumore fell in the first place. If Yuri hadn't of chased him, he would have never fell, and not helping him in a situation that he directly caused is the same as if he had pushed in Cumore himself, something Yuri himself would likely acknowledge. He may not have hacked Cumore down the way he did Ragou, but lets not kid ourselves, or get bogged down in technicalities, He killed him.

*** Okay first of all, I miss remembered. It’s actually the night of the New Moon that she agrees to meet with them. Second of all, it’s obvious that not all Entelexeia have the same abilities, strengths, and weaknesses. Third of all, it’s implied through the fact her duplicate disappears when the torches in the arena are lit, meaning she can only use it in areas with minimal light. Fourth of all, she lived through a war between her species and the species of a civilization that uses magi-tech made from her kind. She may have pride in her species, but she ain’t stupid enough to underestimate what “lowly humans” like the Hunting Blades are capable of.

It feels like the writers realised we were 2/3 of the way into the story, that they hadn't given us a major villain in about twenty hours, and were just kinda banking on us hating him because of his sudden KickTheDog moments instead of examining his philosophy and *why* his plan should be stopped.[[/folder]]

* What vital information did she discover that she could only share with him personally? (And if it was about the conspiracy, who messed up and let the information slip?)]]

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** @TC: Have you seen the way Yuri talks to people; including his former superiors in the Imperial Knights, and nobility such as Estelle and Ioder? He never shows proper respect, nor does he ever use the proper form of address. In their society (and others like it) that would be considered ill-mannered, especially since he does it deliberately. A fact which Flynn and Sodia both chastise him for and, when they do, he either gets flippant about it, or he simply ignores them.

Yuri's repeatedly noted as being rude, but in all the skits and most dialogue, Yuri is actually surprisingly polite, considerate, and reasonable. His "rudest" moments are just him being blunt. Hell, compared to Rita, he's practically a gentleman, but one of the excuses Yuri is given (courtesy of Raven) for why he's not part of the waiter minigame is "a rude waiter like Yuri'd be bad for business". But... Yuri is the most polite of the three guys and the least likely of them to offend anyone? In a skit he says he just doesn't want to do it because it's a bother and it's boring, but Rita of all people doesn't? I just fail to see how Yuri is so rude it's commented on several times and he agrees he's rude (less so this since Yuri clearly has a low opinion of himself).

** @TC: Have you seen the way Yuri talks to people; including his former superiors in the Imperial Knights, and nobility such as Estelle and Ioder? He never shows proper respect, nor does he ever use the proper form of address. In their society (and others like it) that would be considered ill-mannered, especially since he does it deliberately. A fact which Flynn and Sodia both chastise him for.

[[folder: So the conflict between Yuri and Flynn over his killings of Ragou and Cumore. I'm going to put it bluntly: who exactly does the game side with? I've been trying to figure that one out for some time now.]]