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Tales of Series | Community Thread | Localizing more games than Square Enix
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Likely auto item, with R3 to cancel their use
Since there is no longer a PS3 in my house I've been playing Vesperia on 360 again and am setting up a new run, ideally with all skills 1sp and maybe this time I'll do all the secret missions. As I'm getting all items and skills with my level 200 file I got Rita's Leviathan skill and I have never had so much fun wow it might be the most fun skill. The skit that comes with it is fantastic too.
That was much easier than the one for Yeager.
That was the one where you had to hit him while he was in a weakened state with one of Raven's artes right? That was actually pretty easy for me.
Oh thanks!
Maybe because I was playing it on Hard, but it took a bit of setup to Guard Break Yeager enough to let Raven do Rain. It's not that difficult, it's just stupid and almost nobody will figure it out by themselves. The other one, you can just use Wolf Strike or an equivalent near the edge and he'll fall off pretty easily, especially since Zagi likes using Cyclone Shot/Victory Light Spear to get himself in the air already.
I'd like to see the series expand on Secret Missions a bit, maybe just add more environmental stuff in battles to interact with, without tying specific sidequests to it...or at least give the player a boss rush mode so you can do any Secret Missions you've missed.
Playing Vesperia again after so long makes me, for lack of a better word appreciate Xillia's trimming on some of the game's subsystems. For instance, I never really cared for cooking as it became overly complex on who is good at making what, how to get new recipes, etc. Also never liked having to use a magnifying glass in the middle of a battle just to gain an enemy's stats.
They should have just taken Destiny/Graces' way of cooking though and made them interesting systems that integrate well into battles instead of just dumb items. I did like the effects they did in Xillia 1 and 2, but cooking is just downgraded to glorified items.
Magic Lens have been gone for awhile from the Destiny/Hearts developed games, but Vesperia and the spinoff games still used them.
BassForever
Member
Yeager's secret mission is the biggest amount of crap in any Tales game I've ever played. Even when I knew how to do it getting the scene still took multiple tries. The only consistent way I could get it was ol -> destruction field til he yelled -> switch to raven and shoot and hope I was fast enough.
The best part was the first time I ended up doing it correctly, but then ended up losing the fight due to the AI liking to target the player controlled character first on Hard mode.
...yeah I lowered the difficulty to redo it. Fuck that shit.
Other Tales related, I have Tales of Hearts' OP stuck in my head. Almost makes me want to get Tales of Hearts R. Almost.
Young Magus
Junior Member
I really, really wish that translation patch for the ds version gets released soon.
dakkumauji
Member
It's weird how Tales of Innocence R got a new theme song while Tales of Hearts R didn't.
Though I guess Namco got lazy in buying a new song.
The original is an awesome song (DEEN~), but I wish they gave it some new animation instead of just awkwardly letterboxing it on the Vita.
Joke option: Have it side by side with the CGI opening to fill up the empty space~
The CG version of Hearts is locked away deep in my mind. Don't unearth it.
What's funny is that everything looked better in the CG version (IMO) except the characters. Production IG has just been phoning it in for far too long. Good riddance.
CielTynave
Member
I imagine they decided to go with the original song/animation for budget reasons after seeing how poorly Innocence R sold.
BassForever
Member
Anyone have a good recipe for a crablette?
Wow should have known this would be a problem. Completely forgot about the spelling puzzle in ToV at Caer Bocram. Knew what I had to spell so I translated
from english to japanese but I still had no idea how to use the PS3 keyboard to get the word. Finally did some searching and found out how to do it after a while.
"sun"
I'm not sure how anyone can say Xillia trimmed the fat when the Lillium Orb system can take a huge amount of time if you want to go manual and forget what sort of things you are gunning for.
Vesperia's cooking system is good aside from the fact I seem to run out of ingredients really quickly that wasn't much fun. It really is a blast that Tales games have the sense to switch around mechanics. That said give me some Eleth Mixer books from Graces in every game and I'd be very happy.
Vesperia's cooking system is good aside from the fact I seem to run out of ingredients really quickly that wasn't much fun. It really is a blast that Tales games have the sense to switch around mechanics. That said give me some Eleth Mixer books from Graces in every game and I'd be very happy.
Eh? I was never sure why people were so fond of the Eleth Mixer. I found it be kind of un-extraordinary
But anyway,
A Zelos pillow. Good god
http://tokrin.com/archives/50831920.html
But anyway,
A Zelos pillow. Good god
http://tokrin.com/archives/50831920.html
I loved the Eleth Mixer, I just want it to branch out further than just food effects and book effects. Not sure how but that mechanic is begging to be explored.
I'll tell you what should be a permanent fixture, Narikiri dolls.
BassForever
Member
Eleth mixer is great because you can set it and forget it basically. It can give you a free treat or free life bottle in battle, get more materialize for dualizing without having to grind in old areas, and could give you constant buffs or extra rewards. Recharging your Eleth is also really cheap and is quick to set up and switch. Past tales games with traditional cooking it cost a small fortune to have enough ingredients to cook after every battle, and in some games you had to go to the menu every time you wanted to cook. It slowed things down especially in multiplayer games.
That's also why I like xillia's food system, it's pretty cheap and you only have to open the menu after x number of battles. The game also makes it very clear when it's time to re eat with all the "I'm so hungry" shenanigans in case you missed the 0 battles left message.
Red Mage
Member
I'm still trying to max that thing out for my first platinum trophy. >_<
Ahh, there are so many different games with different mechanics that I got confused. I thought we were talking about DUALIZING. But yeah, Eleth Mixer is pretty cool, though maybe I'm just not as impressed because I had played ToDR and ToH before hand, and the food sack/heal stone was also pretty handy.
BassForever
Member
Dualizing is an OCD person's nightmare you have to keep multiples of everything including weapons because you never know what you'll find next that could lead to all kinds of dualizing
SOMEONE ELSE THAT UNDERSTANDS
Yeah, that really annoyed me. I can somehow manage in Persona/SMT being able to fuse every persona/demon, but dualizing was just too much for me.
If there was a hell that was tailored to each person, mine would be trying to plainum JRPGs.
dakkumauji
Member
Dualizing was pretty cool but it definitely did bring the OCD out of me.
Keeping tabs of how many I have of each item and pretty much lead to me almost never selling anything since I was worried I would have to use them again. And the quests that required making new items, oh gawd.
Keeping tabs of how many I have of each item and pretty much lead to me almost never selling anything since I was worried I would have to use them again. And the quests that required making new items, oh gawd.
Why Narikiri dolls didn't become a thing in every Tales game after Tales of Destiny R is beyond me. They're amazing. I don't even care if I have to grind stupid amounts of items for them. They're worth it.
SatelliteOfLove
Member
The Eleth Mixer is one of the most brilliant things I have ever seen in an RPG. I was floored multiple times by some new trick of functionality learning that thing.
Was listening to Tales music earlier today. I have decided that I much prefer the English ToS opening over the other two. PS2 opening my least favorite of the three.
My reasoning is that I feel guitar/electronic parts of the Japanese opening music doesn't gel with the rest of the game's OST.
/random
My reasoning is that I feel guitar/electronic parts of the Japanese opening music doesn't gel with the rest of the game's OST.
/random
None of the OP songs really gel with the games' OSTs. Starry Heavens is the best ToS opening IMO.
I think we were talking earlier about what was Alfa System doing.
At the Sony conference Phantasy Star Nova was announced, after the episodes on PSP I assumed Alfa would be the developer, but nope it's Tri-Ace.
Alfa is currently working on Over my Dead Body 2, there was an anime trailer a few days ago but still no in-game footage.
It shouldn't be that big of a project, so, just like in the PSP years they should have two teams working on two differents projects.
We now know the second project is most likely not Phantasy Star related
At the Sony conference Phantasy Star Nova was announced, after the episodes on PSP I assumed Alfa would be the developer, but nope it's Tri-Ace.
Alfa is currently working on Over my Dead Body 2, there was an anime trailer a few days ago but still no in-game footage.
It shouldn't be that big of a project, so, just like in the PSP years they should have two teams working on two differents projects.
We now know the second project is most likely not Phantasy Star related
dakkumauji
Member
Radiant Mythology 4 please!
I dont' think we'll see Zestiria just yet considering we haven't even had the typical Tales countdown yet unless that's happening this week or something.
http://gematsu.com/2013/09/tales-stage-event-set-for-tokyo-game-show
http://gematsu.com/2013/09/tales-stage-event-set-for-tokyo-game-show
Could be a teaser trailer with the full reveal later. We'll see.
CielTynave
Member
I'm pretty much the opposite to both in a way, PS2 is my fave and I think that Starry Heavens is abysmal shit.
The website of Tales of BIbliotheca just opened, it's iOS only guys so please do not be excited.
The genre of the game is described as "Scenario Book and Battle", 1st episode seems to be free afterwards it's 170yens/each or 1700yens for 11.
For now it only seems to cover Vesperia's plot, most likely they will do the same for others episodes later
The genre of the game is described as "Scenario Book and Battle", 1st episode seems to be free afterwards it's 170yens/each or 1700yens for 11.
For now it only seems to cover Vesperia's plot, most likely they will do the same for others episodes later
I will be pleased if they do what they did for TalesFes this year
two days before, "oh LOL we're streaming this btw"
BassForever
Member
Xillia over 100k
NB should be pretty happy with those numbers.
Cause for celebration! I needs mah Tales fix!
7th Chord is making a Kamen Rider game for 3DS and it looks like a Hearts clone, lol
http://www.siliconera.com/2013/09/1...from-tales-battle-system/#tpkq4vLY0o9fB6v1.01
http://www.siliconera.com/2013/09/1...from-tales-battle-system/#tpkq4vLY0o9fB6v1.01