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Tales of Xillia |OT| "Progress" It's Been 15 Years. . .
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BanditKing
Banned
pancakesandsex said:
It came~! I got normal costume Jude.
nice collection of tales games
InternHertz
Member
Yes! Post came by 2 times today!
First time, no Tales so I thought I wouldn't get it today.
Second time I was coming back home after eating and I saw the guy on the street, with a package from Japan for me.
Xillia GET \o/ My charm was Jude in Xillia outfit, perfect.
First time, no Tales so I thought I wouldn't get it today.
Second time I was coming back home after eating and I saw the guy on the street, with a package from Japan for me.
Xillia GET \o/ My charm was Jude in Xillia outfit, perfect.
Dead Prince
Banned
tried booting up the game. i got a black screen and it's froze.
I've ran into this issue twice personally myself. No real idea of a solution. Maybe its placebo, but I find letting the game load up/identify itself on the XMB before starting it up seems to work. As dumb as that sounds, I haven't had issues since.DMPrince said:
Aeana:
Seems same as Jude from the sound of things for Felghana... Im controlling Jude now! Milla just had to go so crazy and get herself nuked. sigh
Shouta
Member
I got the freeze once but it's worked most other times.
And sheesh, Link Artes do actually go up in number though not as many as between Jude and Milla but Jude + other characters can get some really nice ones going. I'm using one particular one now with Leia and Jude with two powerful spells from Rowen and Elise to clear regular enemies out. It's like the one before but a lot more TP efficient and ridiculously powerful. Making the regular enemies on hard look like chumps, unfortunately bosses are still a bit dicky.
And sheesh, Link Artes do actually go up in number though not as many as between Jude and Milla but Jude + other characters can get some really nice ones going. I'm using one particular one now with Leia and Jude with two powerful spells from Rowen and Elise to clear regular enemies out. It's like the one before but a lot more TP efficient and ridiculously powerful. Making the regular enemies on hard look like chumps, unfortunately bosses are still a bit dicky.
Dead Prince
Banned
i played a little bit earlier this morning. got up to where alvin told me about links.
R_thanatos
Member
Question : Are the bosses still in "TALES Style ?"
Meaning with their own special mystical artes ? ( mostly unavoidable , like in Abyss , vesperia ) ???
( my package, delayed by the MARIA caribean tempest is now in clearance , hopefully i'll get it today or tomorrow, some dude is clearly busy thinking how much more TAXES i must pay to get this game...... WONDERFULL )
Meaning with their own special mystical artes ? ( mostly unavoidable , like in Abyss , vesperia ) ???
( my package, delayed by the MARIA caribean tempest is now in clearance , hopefully i'll get it today or tomorrow, some dude is clearly busy thinking how much more TAXES i must pay to get this game...... WONDERFULL )
Giriath_89
Member
Ordered this. It will be my first Tales.
Been a busy couple of days but I finally managed to get 15 minutes with Xillia this morning before work. First impressions are that the game is absolutely gorgeous. Even moreso than I would have expected. The lighting is especially nice and I'm a sucker for the type of aesthetic that Jude's starting academy displays.
I'm also hearing some similarities in Sakuraba's ambient tracks here and in the work he did on SO4. It's the Sakuraba that I like the best that is so far on display here. If this keeps up I can definitely see adding this soundtrack to my collection.
I'm also hearing some similarities in Sakuraba's ambient tracks here and in the work he did on SO4. It's the Sakuraba that I like the best that is so far on display here. If this keeps up I can definitely see adding this soundtrack to my collection.
InternHertz
Member
I'm at the first port after getting Alvin, man there are some neat additions in Xillia, like the smileys and the exclamation marks. 'Bout time this was added.
Still no Link Arts but should come anytime. I will resume playing in 10 minutes, all evening.
Still no Link Arts but should come anytime. I will resume playing in 10 minutes, all evening.
Beat the first 'chapter,' finally got a trophy. The first one I've gotten in the game.
The boss I just fought was really, really difficult. I had an extremely difficult time with it, it reminded me of that boss in Vesperia that's also in the demo, the one where you use the plants around the battlefield to stun it. I also found that boss to be unreasonably difficult compared to all previous content in the game (and after it, to be honest). I guess it just proves how much I suck at the game.
The boss I just fought was really, really difficult. I had an extremely difficult time with it, it reminded me of that boss in Vesperia that's also in the demo, the one where you use the plants around the battlefield to stun it. I also found that boss to be unreasonably difficult compared to all previous content in the game (and after it, to be honest). I guess it just proves how much I suck at the game.
Dead Prince
Banned
should come up when you leave. lol.InternHertz said:
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Also i ended up upgrading the stats thing when i was at the weapon shop. Is it okay if i used the items for that (I just end up using the ones with the bonus. saw that when a lvl was reached it unlocked more items that could be bought.
hm. i may try this after work if it locks up again.rykomatsu said:
Those items are only for building the shops, so yes, use them there by all means. It can be beneficial to wait until there are bonuses (sometimes they'll get an x3 bonus instead of an x2, but I don't know what causes the requirements/bonuses to reset), but I usually don't wait.DMPrince said:
Dead Prince
Banned
awesome. Will go back and build up my shop even if i can't afford most of the items there lol.Aeana said:
3 more hours until i'm off work! can't wait to play again!
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
You may probably like the rest. I can't stop listening to my boyfriend's copy of it because a lot of the tracks are pretty darn good. IMO, at least.matmanx1 said:
Dead Prince
Banned
does it matter which i level up for the discounts?Aeana said:
InternHertz
Member
Just saw Elise, and Tipo was the boss!
However I'm wondering something : does someone know if at max level, the Lilial Orb grid is complete ? I've been holding back on the GP consumption (lvl 9 with ~20 GP) until I know more about this. I wouldn't want to spend them without too much care and find out I can't get everything in the end.
However I'm wondering something : does someone know if at max level, the Lilial Orb grid is complete ? I've been holding back on the GP consumption (lvl 9 with ~20 GP) until I know more about this. I wouldn't want to spend them without too much care and find out I can't get everything in the end.
Baten Kaitos 1 and Eternal Sonata were also games published by Namco with soundtracks solely by Sakuraba. All those and Tempest are not developed by Tales Studio, so I'm not counting them. =PSagitario said:Tempest still was a Tales contract by Namco, I suppose. You should count it
Dead Prince
Banned
Ah okay. Makes sense.Aeana said:
Dead Prince
Banned
how does this link thing work? i see the flashing cross on me and i hit R2 and it does a special link move. then i see a regular flashing circle like i'm in sync with the other person. what does it mean?
Japanese in this game continuing to be a hurdle. Tried to read a conversation by a few merchants and had to go through soooooo slowly. Why on earth would I know what 徴用 or 強制 mean?! And 混沌たる宙空! Needs furigana badly
Oh well. Fun game still. I need to keep experimenting with other characters.
Also, Rowen with elf ears, smiling glasses and アホ毛 (what the f would you call this in English? Alfalfa spike?) is awesome
Oh well. Fun game still. I need to keep experimenting with other characters.
Also, Rowen with elf ears, smiling glasses and アホ毛 (what the f would you call this in English? Alfalfa spike?) is awesome
Dead Prince
Banned
tried. didn't work. tried to boot up a psn game. and go to xillia. no go.kiryogi said:
InternHertz
Member
Yeah I know, but what I'm asking is if EVERY node in the grid can be learned at max level.Shouta said:
I saw somewhere the max level is 99, and the number of GP is finite, so if you are max level you automatically have the maximum number of GP. Is that maximum number the same as the total number of nodes is the entire grid?
On another note, 8:53 and at the 3rd port, got 3 or 4 subevents with TO BE CONTINUED on them, that's cool to let you know you can continue those ones until at least next chapter.
Enjoying myself very much I have to say.
edit : I have my answer from Kouli, the Lilial Orb is max-able as you get just enough GP to get every node of the two Orbs. I don't have to worry then.
Story recap from what I understand so far. Can Shouta or Aeena tell me what I've missed or got wrong?
So 12 years ago some amount of shit went down that changed the world drastically. One of these is Maxwell descending to the village (can't remember the name). Maxwell is a ruler/controller of the four great elemental spirits, Norm, Ifreet, Undine and the wind one whose name isn't coming to me.
Iball took on the job of watching over her, like some kind of steward, I suppose? I didn't quite get all of their relationship, though it's clear to see Iball is jealous that she is entrusting Jude with her protection and has given him more responsibility than she has given Iball.
Humans communicate with the spirits through a gate, which is some kind of neural cortex I suppose? And they maintain a symbiotic relationship - they grant their mana to the spirits and in return the spirits give them Artes, which seem to be what controls everything (technology, medicine, etc). The Lillial orb acts as a medium for power? Confuse there.
Anyway, Mira is chilling and suddenly senses the presence of Jin at the Illfan medical university and goes to investigate. Jude follows her because he's looking for his professor to deliver the good news that his research was selected for a prize/grant maybe. What they find is a laboratory of morbid technology where humans are being used to siphon mana for a giant spear-shaped cannon called Kurusiniku spear. One of the group of evil henchmen is a creepy girl who sets the lab into overdrive, activating the weapon. the four greater spirits jump in to save Mira, and in the process are either destroyed or sucked into it with the mana it was collecting. Thus Mira loses the bulk of her abilities and becomes essentially human.
Alvin is following Jude and Mira under the guise that he's after money and he likes to help people. But he wanders off at times to do things in secret, and is very cryptic and deflective of inquiries. I imagine he knows a lot more than he's letting on, and is probably involved in the political side of the story line, given his involvement in the Crane estate story event and the information it brought to light.
What I'm particularly confused about is Kurusiniku. I was lazilly skimming through the storyline at times and I think I got that Kurusiniku was the first human? Or some kind of diety? The tome in Crane's mansion mentioned that Kurusiniku was from a holy land called Lise (struck me that it was similar to Elise's name, I imagine she is the key to opening up the holy land, and that's why the big fucker with the hammer is being ordered to keep hold of her), and that he brought order to the chaotic skies?
I also caught on that either Maxwell or Kurusiniku had 6 descendants. And there's a rumor that they are still roaming the earth as ghosts. I figure they're either bonus bosses or maybe the henchman that you see following Mira from time to time. Ugh. Confusing!!!
Iball took on the job of watching over her, like some kind of steward, I suppose? I didn't quite get all of their relationship, though it's clear to see Iball is jealous that she is entrusting Jude with her protection and has given him more responsibility than she has given Iball.
Humans communicate with the spirits through a gate, which is some kind of neural cortex I suppose? And they maintain a symbiotic relationship - they grant their mana to the spirits and in return the spirits give them Artes, which seem to be what controls everything (technology, medicine, etc). The Lillial orb acts as a medium for power? Confuse there.
Anyway, Mira is chilling and suddenly senses the presence of Jin at the Illfan medical university and goes to investigate. Jude follows her because he's looking for his professor to deliver the good news that his research was selected for a prize/grant maybe. What they find is a laboratory of morbid technology where humans are being used to siphon mana for a giant spear-shaped cannon called Kurusiniku spear. One of the group of evil henchmen is a creepy girl who sets the lab into overdrive, activating the weapon. the four greater spirits jump in to save Mira, and in the process are either destroyed or sucked into it with the mana it was collecting. Thus Mira loses the bulk of her abilities and becomes essentially human.
Alvin is following Jude and Mira under the guise that he's after money and he likes to help people. But he wanders off at times to do things in secret, and is very cryptic and deflective of inquiries. I imagine he knows a lot more than he's letting on, and is probably involved in the political side of the story line, given his involvement in the Crane estate story event and the information it brought to light.
What I'm particularly confused about is Kurusiniku. I was lazilly skimming through the storyline at times and I think I got that Kurusiniku was the first human? Or some kind of diety? The tome in Crane's mansion mentioned that Kurusiniku was from a holy land called Lise (struck me that it was similar to Elise's name, I imagine she is the key to opening up the holy land, and that's why the big fucker with the hammer is being ordered to keep hold of her), and that he brought order to the chaotic skies?
I also caught on that either Maxwell or Kurusiniku had 6 descendants. And there's a rumor that they are still roaming the earth as ghosts. I figure they're either bonus bosses or maybe the henchman that you see following Mira from time to time. Ugh. Confusing!!!
Dead Prince
Banned
made it to the city after the first port. then the guards came and they ran. met
;3
stopping at the coastal area. i like the enemy design. very cute lol.
elise
stopping at the coastal area. i like the enemy design. very cute lol.
Shouta
Member
odd_morsel said:
Yeah, sure.
odd_morsel said:
It was 20 years ago that Maxwell descended on the village in a human body. The 4 Great Spirits are Gnome, Ifrit, Undine, and Sylph.
odd_morsel said:
Correct, Ebarl/Ival/Ivarl (however it's spelled) is Milla's Miko or essentialy a steward. He's a bit obssessed wth Milla so he gets jealous of Jude because he thinks he's the only one fit to serve Milla
odd_morsel said:
Correct. Humans and Spirits are symbiotic. Humans generate mana through a gate in their minds which the spirits need to survive. In return, spirits grant access to the many skills you see the characters perform. The Lillal Orb is an item that acts as a charm of sorts but strengthens their world and shows bonds between characters giving them the ability to do Link Artes
odd_morsel said:
Largely, correct. The four spirits jump into the spear, believing that they could save Mira by overloading the Spear of Krishnik (I think that's how it's spelled) but end up captured inside. The thing also sucks up Mana so all the accumulated power Milla had is lost and she starts over from scratch and is forced to learn how to ues a sword.
odd_morsel said:
As I recall, It was Reese Maxia or whatever that was the famous hero and he had 6 disciples himself. He was originally from the village Milla currently resides in. He's not really related to Elise.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
It seems that you can't charge Milla's artes if you put them on R-stick shortcut. That would of been useful if they allowed that.
Also, am I the only one having a hard time differentiating between ソ、 ン, ツ and、 シ ingame. They are so similar that I usually forget how the game font represents them when I see them again. Probably one of those things you just get used to I guess.
Also, am I the only one having a hard time differentiating between ソ、 ン, ツ and、 シ ingame. They are so similar that I usually forget how the game font represents them when I see them again. Probably one of those things you just get used to I guess.
Dead Prince
Banned
aw man. died against a boss with only 5% health left. Didn't pay attention to Milla and Alvin's Health. saw the boss was about to use a ground attack so i instinctively decided to run instead of block lol.
Dead Prince
Banned
defeated him in 10 minutes lol. good job.DMPrince said:
Are you absolutely sure you can't spell charge with right stick? I remember in Vesperia I thought you couldn't spell save on the stick until like 20 hours into the game, when I tried holding a direction on the right stick then holding down the artes button or something.
I'm assuming here that spell charge would work the same as spell save.
I'm assuming here that spell charge would work the same as spell save.
InternHertz
Member
12:39, just got Rowen in my party ^^
I had 92 black feathers when I met the guy who wants them, now I have 106 and got the Artes Ball. I don't know if I'll exchange some of them for items for now, I may wait until further in the game when I want to complete the Item Book.
I had 92 black feathers when I met the guy who wants them, now I have 106 and got the Artes Ball. I don't know if I'll exchange some of them for items for now, I may wait until further in the game when I want to complete the Item Book.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
Anyone else playing on Hard? I find the enemies kind of die too fast before I can do some good combos on normal.