Hcoregamer00 said:I would put symphonia behind Tales of the Abyss and FFX, but it is up there as one of my favorite games last gen.
It had a cliched storyline that had every damn cliche in the book, but it was a damn fine game. As someone previously said, it had cliches but on the whole it had heart and soul which made it better than most RPG's out there.
I think that the idea of a cliche is actually a bad thought, for most people a cliche is "comfortable"
Most fantasy novels have yet to drop the Lord of the Rings cliche, like seriously Drizzt (of course I might be wrong, never really read the books...) is just a dark elf version of Legolas meets Strider (before the "king" stuff and during the "ranger" style of the character so I chose to use ranger name

Final Fantasy IX, which is (in my opinion) the best of the PS1 era Final Fantasy games, gets ragged on ALL the time for a "lame lead character" whereas I preferred Zidane (THIEF WHOOO!) as a main character compared to the typical super-strong warrior.
Part of Symphonia's allure is that it uses the cliches to make a predictable yet still awesome story, although I think that is because the characters are actually well developed
