Just started playing Xillia, really excited I love how the game is designed. How does this game compare to Symphonia, Abyss, and Vesperia?
Xillia doesn't have a world map, and instead, has those large field areas. S/A/V all have the world map, and have segmented towns dungeon areas instead on that world map - so more like a traditional JRPG. Symphonia has some of the best dungeons in the series, in my opinion (as well as one or two notably bad ones, however).
Vesperia's and Abyss's combat are similar, they are sort of like Xillia without any of the linking. Each character can combo regular attacks in various ways depending on how you hold the control stick, and that can be following up with 'arte' attacks. Symphonia is a little more limiting because you can only move in straight lines towards and away from the enemy, but otherwise is pretty similar. There are a few smaller game-specific quirks I'm not mentioning for brevity.
Thanks for the heads up everyone. Well, it looks nice at least. If I recall correctly the GC version never had that song at the beginning.
The English GCN version had an original instrumental music in the opening which I'm actually pretty fond of. Japanese GCN version had 'Starry Heavens', PS2 version has something I can't remember the name of at the moment.
Chronicles has both the Japanese songs, and Namco has said that's staying in the NA/EU release.
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