History VideoGame / TalesOfSymphonia

* YouWontGetAwayWithThis

A sequel for the game called ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphoniaDawnOfTheNewWorld'' (originally titled ''Knight of Ratatosk'' in Japan) was released for the Wii in 2008.

* GlassCannon: Colette, Genis, and Sheena. Especially frustrating with Genis and Sheena, since their most powerful attacks rely on them getting into Overlimit first, which requires them to get hit at least a few times. Especially frustrating with Sheena, considering she has arguably the worst damage output otherwise. Even resident StaffChick Raine can put up better numbers with attack magic. People rag on Sheena for this, but it seems a Justified trope considering that she might be a Guardian User/Magical Ninja, but she wasn't raised to be a fighter, and in fact one thing about making pacts that terrifies her [[spoiler: as well as the Volt incident]] is that they refuse to make a vow with her and attack.

* StaffChick: Subverted twice. Once in that it's Raine and not Colette, and second, the fact that Raine is a pretty heavy subversion herself.

The game was adapted into 3 [[RPGAnime anime]] {{OVA}}'s and 6 [[BonusMaterial omakes]]. A manga was published that covered the events of the first game and its ending becomes the first game's canon ending according to the second game (See ThirdOptionAdaptation below). There are also several [[AudioAdaptation Drama CDs]]. It's unlikely any of this will ever be officially translated to English, but fansubs of the [=OVA=]s are circulating around the Internet if you look. It places more emphasis on the relationship between Lloyd and Colette, and is obviously a CompressedAdaptation since the total running time is about nine hours.

The game was adapted into 3 [[RPGAnime anime]] {{OVA}}'s and 6 [[BonusMaterial omakes]]. A manga was published that covered the events of the first game and its ending becomes the first game's canon ending according to the second game (See ThirdOptionAdaptation below). There are also several [[AudioAdaptation Drama CDs]]. It's unlikely any of this will ever be officially translated to English.

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: [[spoiler:Yuan, Kratos, Zelos, and Mithos.]] This has led to the rather appropriate observation that [[spoiler: 'There is no 'us' in trust.']]

* MotiveDecay: [[spoiler: After Martel rejects Mythos, he goes from wanting to bring about (an albeit twisted and unnatural) equality to the world to wanting a world where he can live with his sister, at the cost of leaving the world to die]].

Tales of Symphonia is a 2003 video game, the fifth game in Namco's famous ''TalesSeries'', and the third to ever be released outside of Japan; [[NoExportForYou first on Europe]]. It stands as the top selling game in the entire series, and the only one to break a million copies sold due to extensive worldwide sales.

Like many of its predecessors, ''Tales of Symphonia'' retained the real-time battle system, the use of [[HyperactiveMetabolism food as healing items]], the famous [[SummonMagic summon spirits]], and the games' general tendency to include lots of CharacterDevelopment, [[FantasticRacism themes of discrimination and alienation]], and a villain with considerably deeper motives than simply being AxCrazy and [[CardCarryingVillain openly evil]]. The game also contained numerous references to the first game in the series, ''TalesOfPhantasia'', which turned out to be because Symphonia is a {{Prequel}} set in the same world as Phantasia, a few thousand years before.

* AlternateWorldMap: Sylvarant and Tethe'alla are both visited by the heroes, with party members coming from both worlds. Eventually, the party gains the ability to travel freely between both worlds. (Incidentally, the worlds' names are [[ShoutOut references]] to the names of the moons of the world of ''TalesOfPhantasia'').

The name thing is a bit of a joke. The game is a prequel to TalesOfPhantasia, which features a Mana Tree, inhabited by the Goddess Martel, and is set thousands of years later. The name of the tree in that? Yggdrasil, same as the mythological tree and the villain of Symphonia. They didn't say it probably to be funny and/or keep from making the connection between the games even more obvious than it already was.\\

* [[spoiler: InferredHolocaust: This is the prequel to TalesOfPhantasia after all.]]

** Several, such as the the snow statues of Namco characters like Pac-Man in the first game. The Tales developers gave one to themselves with the names of the worlds of Sylvarant and Tethe'alla, which are taken from the moons of ''TalesOfPhantasia''[='=]s world.

** No one could blame him though, given what [[CompleteMonster 90% of the game's villains are like]].

** Tethe'alla's capital Mel-tokio is most likely named after the Japanese capital Tokyo. The maintain that is associated with Meltokio, Fooji Mountain or Mt. Fooji, is named after Mt. Fuji. Meltokio itself is very European based however.

*** [[spoiler:He gets uncharacteristically angry at Kvar when he insults Lloyd's parents and kills him before Lloyd can.]]

A sequel for the game called ''[[TalesOfSymphoniaDawnOfTheNewWorld Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World]]'' (originally titled ''Knight of Ratatosk'' in Japan) was released for the Wii in 2008.

The fifth game in Namco's famous ''TalesSeries'', and the third to ever be released outside of Japan; [[NoExportForYou first on Europe]]. It stands as the top selling game in the entire series, and the only one to break a million copies sold due to extensive worldwide sales.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Most of it is only obvious in hindsight. During subsequent playthroughs you'll probably wonder how you missed some of them.
** There's even some on the western box art. Notice how, of all characters, It's Lloyd/Collete and Sheena/Zelos that appear on the cover? (with Lloyd & Sheena being in front, and Zelos & Collete being in the back?) [[spoiler: Essentially, it's showing two Sylvaranti along with their, for all intents and purposes, alternate-dimension counterparts.]]

* [[spoiler:Kratos being Lloyd's father]] is hinted at several times:
** [[spoiler:In the beginning, he asks Lloyd "Your name is Lloyd?"]]
** [[spoiler:His interactions with Noshie.]]
** [[spoiler:He gets uncharacteristically angry at Kvar when he insults Lloyd's parents and kills him before Lloyd can.]]
** [[spoiler: Pronyma and Yuan both notice a resemblance.]]
** [[spoiler:AI Kratos uses first aid on Lloyd a lot.]]

** [[spoiler:He gets uncharacteristically angry at Kvar when insults he Lloyd's parents and kills him before Lloyd can.]]
** [[spoiler: Pronyma and Yuan both notice a a resemblance.]]

** [[spoiler:He gets uncharacteristically angry at Kvar when insults Lloyd's parents and kills him before Lloyd can.]]

** [[spoiler: There's also a reason why AI Kratos uses first aid on Lloyd so much.]]

The game was adapted into 3 [[RPGAnime anime]] {{OVA}}'s and 6 [[BonusMaterial omakes]]. A manga was published that covered the events of the first game and its ending becomes the first game's canon ending according to the second game (See ThirdOptionAdaptation below).

* EverythingsPreciousWithPuppies: A sidequest involves naming all the dogs.