Tales Series

I figured Zilva being bascly last has less to do with her being female and more to do with her being a complete piece of shit.

Also for all her hateability she's actually a pretty forgettable character; the Four Stars and Milhaust make a better impact as antagonists.

Not to mention she spent most of her screentime as a Satellite Character for Agarte, which didn’t help matters. Also, I think the reasons she’s in the poll are because 1) Yuris is a mindless entity and is too huge to model and 2) as popular Saleh is, he’s still a member of Quirky Miniboss Squad.

Aaaaand here we have the results

Surprise, surprise, the one who’s already in the game wins the poll.

Mithos, Dhaos, Duke, Gaius, Artorius, Van, Creed, the Fodra Queen, Bisley, Schwartz, Shizel, Miktran, Heldalf, Fortuna, Mateus, Zilva

in order

FQ as the Graces rep? Would've preferred Lambda tbh

edited 7th Dec '17 10:07:19 AM by asterism

I keep forgetting how deep Guy's Japanese voice is

Yeah, the poll was kinda awaste of time if Mithos was gonna win/ get in the game anyway really. :/

Just beat Tales of Graces. Really liked the battle system but I thought the plot went south pretty quick by the time the Richard shit started happening.

I've been considering getting this game. How would you rate it personally?

I'd say it's worth playing.

edited 8th Dec '17 5:20:22 PM by tenryufan

From what I understand, the fanbase likes the gameplay, but considers the story subpar. One point of contention is Asbel constantly defending Richard despite meeting him once as a kid.

It easily has the best combat of the franchise once it gets going and some of the funniest skits of the franchise. The story is not the best but it has its moments. Graces F I think has the most content out of any Tales game as well.

Just a Warning though it’s got the Kingdom Hearts 2 problem and has an intro just as long.

edited 8th Dec '17 9:48:25 PM by Memers

And there are actual unlockable costumes, not just palette swaps. Its still worth picking up because Pascal's in it.

So, in Tales of Symphonia, I managed to help Sheena make a pact with Efreet. I'll be headed to Sylph later.

So on Ao 3 today, I saw someone made a Berseria version of My Immortal. Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

I saw that too. I found it amusing, but I’m not sure what to think of the fact that they’re apparently planning to parody all 44 chapters. That seems excessive.

and its more likely to just go to shit if the author goes the whol way, unless they know what they're doing.

To clarify, the fic is less a parody and more “My Immortal copied and pasted with all the in-name-only Harry Potter stuff replaced with Berseria.” Y’know, like what people do with the first chapter sometimes, except it’s apparently going to be the whole thing.

But yeah, it’ll get old really fast unless the author’s edits are just that funny. You can only go so far with “emo edgelord Velvet” jokes.

You might as well ISO hack Shadow the Hedgehog to replace Shadow with Velvet. While not touching the camera data.

Although I'd personally also replace all the FM Vs with the movie I Love You Phillip Morris in its entirety.

Admittedly, seeing Velvet ride a motorcycle while using guns makes more sense than Shadow doing so.

(Hum, what are they talking about... lesee...)

On the favorite villains thing: I like a villain more (as in 'to vote them over the others') if they do their work, which is making me HATE them with burning passion. Out of those, very few have made me feel like that, but I think Zilva, Maurits, Barbatos, Creed and friggin' Chronos fit the bill. Then there are the sympathetic ones, but I'd want to have them playable for a different reason.

On the Graces front, I say everyone should play it. Top of the crop gameplay, chars, skits and length. Idiotic equipment system and some aggravating dungeons are nitpicks of mine. Played it twice, once on Wii and later on friend's PS 3. Both worthwile.

I have around 7 hours on Abyss 3DS and Natalia just joined. I'd say a couple of things. It's capped at 30 fps but it feels FAST to my untrained eyes (I tried to play it once, 20+ fps with lots of drops) and more with the Wing Boots. And then the difficulty: I tried not to overlevel in order to not have Natalia 5 levels behind everyone and that lead to Arietta and Kaiser Dist being harder than they should be (Jade still had not learned his first Water spell!) Other than that I am going for a mostly complete file via a sidequest guide.

The guy that owned the game previously had a cleared file, so I should be getting the bonuses in my own file, right? (Is that how it worked in PS 2 or is a beneficial bug?)

edited 10th Dec '17 10:27:45 AM by FlightMaster

Fun Fact: Fonons are real.

edited 12th Dec '17 11:23:26 PM by RedRob

...Wow. I had no idea. That’s kinda cool.

The concept even has some vague similarities with Auldrant’s fonons, although it’s obviously a whole lot more mundane.

And now I remember the time Mieu screamed "RUN! FONONS ARE ATTACKING!"

Indeed. Phonons aren't sentient, for a start.

OR ARE THEY

Well, I'm almost done with my second Playthrough of Tales of Symphonia. I beat Pronyma and Yggdrasil and now I have to back to Heimdall to get Origin from Kratos.

I finished my Playthrough of Tales of Symphonia this evening. It took me 39 hours to finish. The final battle with Mithos was hard but fun. It's still a good game. I'm glad I decided to replay it.