I like the over translation to like the item guage now saying something like "use item" for no reason when it was already in english in Japanese
That's the part of the point in my suggestion, makes too much sense from gameplay and sales perspective
There aren't any more anyway (unless you seriously wanted Innocence R?).Its all part of BN plan to not release any more Vita tales games guys.
There aren't any more anyway (unless you seriously wanted Innocence R?).
That ship has sailed with them picking Hearts R first. They never went back to localize an older entry.I wanted it over hearts r thats for sure
Casino, gold dice.
It's a fine portable Tales with a good story and a modern battle system.How is Tales of Hearts R, anyway?
How is Tales of Hearts R, anyway?
On a scale of one to ten, how hyped is everyone for Tales of Hearts R?
It's kinda short, I finished my first playthrough in ~25 hours or so. I wasn't even intending to go quickly. The story is fine, but not as good as the DS version, in my opinion. I would say the battle system is probably one of the most enjoyable we've seen in a modern Tales game.
It's kinda short, I finished my first playthrough in ~25 hours or so. I wasn't even intending to go quickly. The story is fine, but not as good as the DS version, in my opinion. I would say the battle system is probably one of the most enjoyable we've seen in a modern Tales game.
It's not the same, doesn't even have the same base and simply is not comparable at all. Hearts' was 2D and like a somewhat worse portable Destiny R. Hearts R's is imo the best 3D battle system after Graces and Xillia 2.How is the battle system in R? Heard it's not as good as the DS version.
There is a superfluous additional character, and some scenes are different in the oddest ways. Nothing that would stand out unless directly compared though imo.The transition from DS to Vita made the story different?
The transition from DS to Vita made the story different?
How is the battle system in R? Heard it's not as good as the DS version.
The transition from DS to Vita made the story different?
Galando Grinus. Overall he's barely integrated into the story, just there.What character was added to the Vita version of Hearts R? Were they not likeable?
Unfortunately it seems it doesn't always work due to DLC. Tried converting my JPN save to a US one and it fails the check since I had the Madoka costume DLC.The save file isn't super copy protected like, say, Demon's Souls saves are, which can't be even exported out of the console.
Afaik, ToX2 saves are only assigned to a particular user, which is easily fixed on a computer. I could be wrong though, I have yet to actually import any save data.
Galando Grinus. Overall he's barely integrated into the story, just there.
Galando Grinus. Overall he's barely integrated into the story, just there.
Galando Grinus. Overall he's barely integrated into the story, just there.
Wrote a Xillia 2 review for my internship. Yeah, I was pretty harsh, but I knew the silent protagonist/debt paywalls were big warning signs before jumping in and as expected they severely hampered my experience (other things did too, but those two stood out the most besides maybe the reused assets).
I didn't go into this due to spoilers, but what bothered me the most about Ludger wasI'd still take his default self over Emil any day, but I'm getting quite frustrated with Tales' squandered potential.the post-Julius battle scene and he's ACTUALLY TALKING and has something resembling a personality; one I could get to like, even! What the hell kind of a tease was that?
Anyways, enough pessimism. Hello, TalesGAF! I could replay Tales of Symphonia until the end of time if I wanted to.
Just to make the whole being a silent protageven worse is that on your second play through you can choose to play with Ludger having his voice. As other people on here have said, Bamco needed to either stick with a fully silent protag or a fully voiced protag. Not have both.until the end
That said, at least they can't get worse than Emil, right?
To me the funniest part about the whole ordeal is how he's fully voiced in combat.
"Yeah you can do your silent protag thing but he needs to call out his moves when he does them that's a japanese trope and sacred and you can't touch it naaa uhhh"
So I hear! Not worth a second playthrough from my end, lol.
Fully-voiced protagonist or bust. I guess it's an interesting concept on paper but it just doesn't work in Tales.[\quote]
Especially when they can't not have the protag call their attacks out like Falk said. It'd be interesting and they could possibly pull it off if there was an in-story reason, such as the character was a mute, but then they'd have to let that character not call their attacks.
They couldn't have made a worse protagonist for that game if they tried. As far as I'm concerned, DOTW is non-canon bullshit.
I feel the same way with it being non-canon. Although most of my beef is with the Centurions being able to run the world without mana. It just doesn't really fit in the Symphonia world. There's not a single record about something like them existing, and despite all the "new" characters knowing about it, when someone like Raine or the 4,000 year old angels hasn't heard about them before now, you got a problem. Then there's the issue of mana; so the Centurions can make the world remain alive without mana, so what was the point of needing mana for life before? Hell, what was the point of the original game's plot if mana wasn't needed for life? I am not going to believe in 4,000 years, no one had ever tried studying the possibility of living without mana.
Also, if I recall about Tales of Phantasia, mana is still a thing. The world is still living off the mana from the great tree.
I admit that the Centurion idea was interesting, but honestly it's something I felt that should have been in another game that was not based in Aselia.
Also, if I recall about Tales of Phantasia, mana is still a thing. The world is still living off the mana from the great tree.
It's actually different in ToP, in the beginning of the game The World Tree is dead and there's no mana, but all that does is make it so no one is able to use magic. The world doesn't require it to survive like it did in Symphonia (and probably the main purpose of the ending of DotNW since Ratatosk starts working on changing how mana affects the world).
So I hear you have the option of having Ludger voiced in a new game plus. Does he just read out one of the two options that you are faced with?
I can't imagine they went through the trouble of writing dialogue and changing skits.
So I hear you have the option of having Ludger voiced in a new game plus. Does he just read out one of the two options that you are faced with?
I can't imagine they went through the trouble of writing dialogue and changing skits.
I haven't seen it but I don't think they need to change the skits. Hearing from people who have played it, in-game universe, everyone behaves like Ludger actually has a voice and is talking, when you clearly cannot hear his voice. They would just need to access the sound file where he's speaking for anything needed on the second playthrough with voice on.
The problem is they don't add voices to those skits or scenes, it's only when you get the L/R decisions where Ludger will speak a line and he'll literally only say that one line then go back to being mute.
Wait, is it only Ludger that isn't voiced during the skits or is no one voiced during the skits? If it's the former, is Ludger still voiceless for skits on a second playthrough with voice on option?
Goddamn, if that's the case, Bamco wtf. Not only did you do something as weird as a silent protag for a game series where it doesn't make sense, but you messed it up big time.
I would have found it more annoying if they had just cut out Ludger's voice lines but still had him talking in skits. He's a quiet guy, nothing wrong with that. I really don't get all the hate for silent protagonists. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But, the same is true for voiced protagonists. I just don't see it as an automatic negative.
No, I meant that, if in the second playthrough, when you choose to have his voice on, is he not voiced in skits at all despite being voiced outside of them? Or do they just not have voiced skits at all?
I believe most people who find it negative here is that Ludger is a silent protag who at the end, then starts talking, and can then have an option to have a voice. It's already kind of weird bringing a silent protag for a Tales game, but it doesn't help how he's only a silent protag up until a point, with then having the option to remove the silent protag aspect out of Ludger's character. Either go all the way with a silent protag or don't do it, cause it feels weird otherwise.
I would have found it more annoying if they had just cut out Ludger's voice lines but still had him talking in skits. He's a quiet guy, nothing wrong with that. I really don't get all the hate for silent protagonists. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But, the same is true for voiced protagonists. I just don't see it as an automatic negative.
Very short ones at that. Which are flowery additions of the localization where they were only grunts in the Japanese original.He just only says like a single sentence or two in most large conversations.
Is there a consensus on Tales of Hearts that's coming out in a few weeks? Been waiting for a Tales game on an handheld for a while now. The PSP ones were a major disappointment, not being full titles, for me.
He's still a really quiet guy in NG+. He just only says like a single sentence or two in most large conversations.
At least that helps his case.
But I really don't understand what they were thinking with "let's have him a silent protag but also have him voiced as well". I'm not sure what marketing or developing team thought that was a better option than making Ludger a fully fledged silent protag.
Which ones weren't full titles? The ports are complete. The crossover spin off titles are, well, spin offs. NDX is superb at what it does and imo validates getting a PSP for Tales.The PSP ones were a major disappointment, not being full titles, for me.