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Tales of Berseria |OT| The Band of the Crowe
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Cornbread78
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Ok! 😄
Clearly I didn't need much convincing.
Edit: Done, pretty excited. I hope I have a similar experience to jumping into Ys.
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
Member
I'll make sure to keep this in mind when I start it. I'd hope there are enough story tie ins to Berseria to keep me interesting because I've heard bad things about Zestiria's cast.
Cornbread78
Member
The funny thing is that you won't get all the Zestiria references when you play Berseria without playing Zestiria first...
Meh.
25 hours into the game now, and yeah, Velvet is pretty awesome. It is a damn shame that the game tries really hard to not let her actively do anything truly terrible, but that has not been to big a deal so far.
I bought this game a few days ago, got to play a bit and right now I'm at Logress
After doing the first batch, I've been told to
The prologue of the game felt too cheesy at times and I wasn't feeling the tone was all over the place. But things seem to have settles now and I really like how things are going. I like Rokurou a lot, the conversation he has with Eizen in the tavern was quite cool. Velvet so far seems like an interesting character. There is loads of stuff conflicting her. Laphizet isn't bad.
The game doesn't really potrait them as villains though. They have their goals, do their business but they certainly help people if it's not going to hold them back a lot. It gives people plenty of reasons to not like the Abby.
I'm playing on Hard and the game seems on the easy side so far. Bosses not having bullshit barriers after you hit them 5 times is good though. The most challenging battle is when I had to fight against 2 groups of mobs at the same time. Which is cool, I guess, in Tales of Xillia 1/2 the most fun I had with the game was luring 2-3 mobs in the field and battling them at the same time.
AI seems to be more competent, or may it's just that the game has a lot of ways for you to heal without the AI.
Enviroments are awful as usual. They need to step up their game.
I haven't played Zestiria BTW.
doing the Blood Wing errands.
kill the High Priest. Cool lol.
The prologue of the game felt too cheesy at times and I wasn't feeling the tone was all over the place. But things seem to have settles now and I really like how things are going. I like Rokurou a lot, the conversation he has with Eizen in the tavern was quite cool. Velvet so far seems like an interesting character. There is loads of stuff conflicting her. Laphizet isn't bad.
The game doesn't really potrait them as villains though. They have their goals, do their business but they certainly help people if it's not going to hold them back a lot. It gives people plenty of reasons to not like the Abby.
I'm playing on Hard and the game seems on the easy side so far. Bosses not having bullshit barriers after you hit them 5 times is good though. The most challenging battle is when I had to fight against 2 groups of mobs at the same time. Which is cool, I guess, in Tales of Xillia 1/2 the most fun I had with the game was luring 2-3 mobs in the field and battling them at the same time.
AI seems to be more competent, or may it's just that the game has a lot of ways for you to heal without the AI.
Enviroments are awful as usual. They need to step up their game.
I haven't played Zestiria BTW.
Been hearing good praise so tried it out and it's not bad or anything but at the same time I'm feeling like I'm playing it just to finish it and not because I'm truly engaged.
I'm about 10 hours in, do the story and characterization get much better or is it just more of the same?
So far I'm seeing run of the mill anime stuff, nothing terrible or worth hating but not something I'm interesting in sticking with for 40 hours or whatever.
I'm about 10 hours in, do the story and characterization get much better or is it just more of the same?
So far I'm seeing run of the mill anime stuff, nothing terrible or worth hating but not something I'm interesting in sticking with for 40 hours or whatever.
ShadowSoldier89
Member
the game is long and hits a notable weak point in the middle. I find that however it becomes quite fantastic after that hump.
Thanks, I'll try sticking to it for now.
Cornbread78
Member
She just keeps getting better once you get her story (takes a long time to get there though)
"cooo cooo"
Lunafreya Nox Fleuret
Member
The next tales game better have a world design redo because I'm tired of the emptiness we have been getting since Xillia. It's just simply awful. I just want Tales of Symphonia like dungeons back with the sorcerer's ring for the next tales game. As awesome as Berseria was, it's beautiful environments are dull because of the way it is designed.
jipewithin
Member
I really hated the game at the beginning. However after maybe 15-20 hours I started to like it more and more, mostly because of the characters. Story is nice also.
Thanks, at least the sentiment that the second half of the game is really good seems to be consistent.
Obliterator
Member
Just wait. There's an even bigger connection to
Xillia
Though I think this stuff is mostly fan service
Brawly Likes to Brawl
Member
Yeah, Berseria just has a lot of references to previous games. The expedition feature is chock full of them.
Galactic Fork
A little fluff between the ears never did any harm...
Definitely fan service.
OK, so I beat Berseria and loved it, and now want to try Zestria, but haven't heard great things. I want to see the connections between the two, though. Is it a huge step down to play Zestria after Berseria?
Bought it during the European PSN sales and I'm... kinda conflicted about it right now. I'm roughly 17 hours into it and I greatly enjoyed the first 12. However, ever since about the time
, I feel like it just drags on and on. I just reached Southgand and nothing really interesting happened in the last five hours. Instead, the one-dimensional characters are starting to become annoying: Velvet in particular is in dire need of some character development. Her mindless revenge shtick is tiring.
On top of that, the weaknesses in dungeon/field design become more apparent (not as bad as Zestiria, but still very lacking and rather dull) and for some reason the game is incredibly easy. I'm already avoiding most battles and yet no boss battle or Red Code monster so far was even remotely challenging. I barely even used any items yet.
Eleanor joined the party
On top of that, the weaknesses in dungeon/field design become more apparent (not as bad as Zestiria, but still very lacking and rather dull) and for some reason the game is incredibly easy. I'm already avoiding most battles and yet no boss battle or Red Code monster so far was even remotely challenging. I barely even used any items yet.
it kinda is, game is slow, repetitive and plot is....almost lame. dungeons are super lame and to me it felt like a chore. meanwhile i beat berseria in almost one sitting (didnt play anything else, was consumed by it).
zestiria anime is great though, definitely watch it
redfox088
Banned
But you'll get it if you play vesperia second
DangerMouse
Member
Completely agree, and the great skits, which really adds to the group rapport wonderfully.
Cornbread78
Member
I still haven't played Vesperia. I've seen it on sale a ton of times over the years, but that would mean I have to turn on my 360, which has been turned on a total of 5-6 times since I bought the stupid thing, lol
Yeah, some of the skits were LOL funny. That whole Magilou x Velvet dynamic was great; OK, Magilou in general was great, lol.
allenpergallon
Member
Berseria's 2 biggest weaknesses imo. It's a strikingly easy 20 hour game that's stretched more than double that to come off as more of a full game. I feel it would be something really great if it was more focused all around.
That being said, the character writing is pretty good and your patience will mostly pay off concerning Velvet.
Giolon
Member
I did this, and while Zestiria as a game is more flawed than Berseria, I think that the connections and revelations that Berseria brought to the overall story makes Zestiria a more interesting game. As I posted a few pages back to someone asking which game to play first:
And man are there some good, neat connections between the two stories. It feels to me like they had to have been written together at the same time.
How far have you got? I was pretty bored during the prologue, things got better once I left Titania, and then after you fight
Artorius
I'm still having fun with the game. The story should pick up soon. After you get the obligatory fight where you're getting your ass kicked, Eleanor joins the party and you get a few slow hours where some characters' stories open and you have Eleanor asking stuff.
Still, the cast feels like the strongest I've seen on a Tales game in a long while. Magilou is probably the worst of them, but I think her being hit and miss with its jokes is the point, so whatever.
Velvet is slowly opening up to the rest of the party. Rokurou is awesome. Laphi is surprisingly nice. Eizen is good too. There was a scene where both him and Rokurou where drinking that won my over TBH.
Yeah. I skipped Zestiria and I still feel like I'm sick of having the same empty fields in 3 games in a row (Xillia 1&2 and Berseria), 4 if you count Graces f (which was the best of them all in that sense, I mean, at least it had straight corridors). It feels like they aren't even trying.
Playing this game 2 months after Persona 5 probably doesn't help.
I hope the next game breaks the mold a bit. If I need to get a 25-30 hour story in exchange of better enviroments, I'm okay. If they reduce the amount of artes to channel money to other stuff, I'm okay.
They should get back Xillia's 2 structure back imo. The Main Chapter followed by a few optional Character Chapters were something I really liked. Wish they had included them. Minus the debt system, of course.
I'm right after where
those rebel guys send you to kill a priest because he was trafficking in drugs and Magilou first becomes playable
The gameplay and combat just feel so basic and brain dead -_-
Giolon
Member
If it's basic and brain dead for you, turn up the difficulty. I ended up switching between the the 2nd and 3rd hardest difficulties by the end. You'll need to use weaknesses and status ailments, and block and dodge appropriately and to me helped keep the combat engaging rather than a simple mash fest.
Hironobu Sakaguchi
Member
is there a place offering the game for $30 ?
i lost my chance from amazon
i lost my chance from amazon
DangerMouse
Member
I have it in Hard right now. I more or less control the weakness stuff but the status aliments are a bit harder to remember. I'll try to pay more attention to those.
In harder difficulties I think that positioning is the most important thing though. Enemies are more aggressive, there usually are 5-6 of them and they attack in groups of 3 quite often. Finding a spot where you can safely hit them all so they don't break your combo is important.
Son Of Sparda
Member
Anyone knows what the hell happened to this game all of a sudden? I'm on PS4, I was playing it without any problems for like 30 hours and now suddenly the game just keeps on crashing.
I can't even start the game! Bandai Namco screen and then crash. Over and over again.
I can't even start the game! Bandai Namco screen and then crash. Over and over again.
Cornbread78
Member
I had this happen with Mass Effect. I uploaded the save file to the cloud, deleted the gane from the hd and reinstalled it. No problems after..
Son Of Sparda
Member
I don't have plus so I can't upload my save to cloud, but I'll probably try reinstalling it next. First I wanna try and see if installing that optional PS4 firmware that they released a while back can do any good.
Edit: Nope. I guess I'm reinstalling the game, sigh.
Cornbread78
Member
Son Of Sparda
Member
Too late for that. But I don't think that'll be a problem. Other games don't delete your save files when you delete the game, so I think this will be the same.
God, I hope so...
Edit: Just checked the PS4 storage and the save files are safe.
Son Of Sparda
Member
Yep, reinstalling the game did the trick. Thank you for your help, Cornbread78.
FrenchMovieTheme
Member
Played about 7 hours so far and enjoying but does the main girl not have magic spells to cast? Kinda feels like a beatemup when playing because I'm just comboing people with physical attacks
BBPunjabi816
Member
is there a place offering the game for $30 ?
i lost my chance from amazon
Yes! Gamestop has it for sale on $30.
Main characters aren't meant to be spell heavy, try using other characters.
Cornbread78
Member
Sweet! I still get nervous because of my Vita saves, lol.
FrenchMovieTheme
Member
You can control the other characters!? Nice
You can even play 4 characters at once, the battles are multiplayer. Or let the AI control all characters and just watch them battle with the AI settings you set.
Son Of Sparda
Member
Wait a sec, Berseria has local coop?
All console Tales games (except Phantasia SNES and Legendia) have local coop.
Son Of Sparda
Member
Wow. This is my third Tales of game, yet I had no idea that you could play them coop.
I should try this sometime.
This can be great fun if you have friends that don't mind just watching between battles. I prefer playing Tales in coop whenever possible. It's really unfortunate that this feature is flying under the radar for many players, by having linking/armatization (which temporally combine two characters) as core part of their battle system the Xillia games and Zestiria even actively worked against smooth coop (though thankfully not removing the feature outright).