Freezasaurus
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Alright, cool. Thanks. I know in past Tales games, most characters have had a specific role to fill, and it wasn't usually wise to play too far outside of that.
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Tales of Xillia |OT| - Teach me about Bazongas!
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Alright, cool. Thanks. I know in past Tales games, most characters have had a specific role to fill, and it wasn't usually wise to play too far outside of that.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Yeah, I usually went with the skills/artes I wanted instead of developing certain stats first because, really, you end up getting all of the orbs towards the end anyway. Again, illusion of choice.
Due to complicated circumstances I got to play it for an hour but won't be able to again for a few days.
The game is really fun so far. The graphics, music, and presentation are a noticeable improvement over Graces and Vesperia. I especially like the snappy load times (probably thanks to the mandatory install) and menu aesthetic. The reinclusion of TP seems much better added to the AP system rather than the Symphonia team games.
Two things that bug me, though:
- Milla's voice. Fuck you to whoever said she had a lisp. I can't unhear it.
- The quick step seems way too easy to do with its more lenient timing and only one direction to dodge in. They shake things up in this regard, right? It's just really easy to avoid damage at the moment and I've barely started playing.
The game is really fun so far. The graphics, music, and presentation are a noticeable improvement over Graces and Vesperia. I especially like the snappy load times (probably thanks to the mandatory install) and menu aesthetic. The reinclusion of TP seems much better added to the AP system rather than the Symphonia team games.
Two things that bug me, though:
- Milla's voice. Fuck you to whoever said she had a lisp. I can't unhear it.
- The quick step seems way too easy to do with its more lenient timing and only one direction to dodge in. They shake things up in this regard, right? It's just really easy to avoid damage at the moment and I've barely started playing.
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
I almost bought it on PSN but I am missing 40 cents, damn.
Well Graces was just an up port of a Wii game. No excusing its soundtrack though, outside of the battle themes I'm not sure what Sakuraba was doing.
Not really, Jude is pretty broken.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
Everyone is broken. You can solo the entire game with just Jude if you wanted to because of that skill, and because he has decent heal spells for himself.
lol, well alright then. Wouldn't be a Tales game without a broken mechanic or two. Hope I unlock the next difficulty past Hard after some more battles, they're pretty easy.
Dark Schala
Eloquent Princess
You unlock Unknown when you beat the game.
Milla playthrough, then. Anyway, thoroughly enjoying the game so far.
It's for the best, it's not like Graces where you can play more intelligently and get by in Chaos. It's more like Abyss/Vesperia where they just have much more HP.
Hours Left
Member
Well, got the regular copy of the game I'm giving as a gift in the mail today. Still waiting on that special edition...
Xenoflare
Member
Stop reminding me of Sawashiro, then I'll never get over Milla's lisp, I can't believe I'm saying this but I'm seeing the point why IGN said her voice is bad, and it's even worse considering the rest of the cast is great.
I actually like Mercer's Alvin more HUEHUE, Sugita is a respectable VA, but I was never really a fan of him.
DracoBlade
Member
Is there "Free Run" in Xillia by pressing a button like in Vesperia? I'm playing Abyss and I really hate how it doesn't have this feature (or i completely missed it lol)
Yes.
Werewolf Jones
Member
Free run in Abyss is an ability you unlock leveling up instead of having it from the start.
Just auto-level everything... the system wants you to believe that you have the choice to level your character, where in reality you don't have a choice at all.
Synless
Member
I see, they should have just left it the way they did it in all other Tales games if that is the case.
Yeah the Skill system was pretty good in limiting what you could do yet providing customization.
DracoBlade
Member
Thanks guys
Xillia looks so enticing but I've been waiting for Dragon's Crown since it was revealed in 09 for the NGP so I'll have to wait awhile before I get my hands on this Tales.
Nephitamine
Member
Alvin + aviators = awesome
Item menu -> DLC section and use the items there.
Equip menu, go down to the bottom and you can equip the costumes.
Synless
Member
ahhh, they were in item form, that is why I could not find them.
solid mike
Member
chickdigger802
Banned
a few hours or so in (met some loli with a puppet thing that clearly looks like she will be in your party someday. There really does seem to be a lot of lolis with puppets in tales games.). Digging the combat somewhat. Cast seems likeable so far. Love that Jude is the 'smart guy' in the part for once, that's usually left to the protag's best friend role. Don't know about how i feel about alvin just yet. seems a bit too... standard. Seems like there is one of his type in every tales game.
I'm a bit iffy with the world though. framerate shouldn't be ~30 fps for a game that looks not that much better than graces f which is a wii port. And this game not having an overall world is kinda not true because the way you move makes you feel like you are only on a world map lol. You just move like 30% slower than you'd like.
And is it just me or is the enemy encounter rate a bit higher than your average modern tales game? They just dump a shit load of them on each map so far, and there doesn't seem to be any clear 'path' to take if you want to avoid many baddies.
and on that note, not really digging the maps either. Just feel kinda plain and everything is scaled too big and you walk too slow... its that feeling you get when you play mmos lol.
Question: How do you use Jude's teleport behind baddies move well? I had no problem at the beginning where it was like 1v1 against stationary swinging soldiers, but now there are many enemies around and they all seem to have fairly long distance attack reach either from a big swing, or a charge/thrust move, i seem to get hit anyways if I back hop.
I'm a bit iffy with the world though. framerate shouldn't be ~30 fps for a game that looks not that much better than graces f which is a wii port. And this game not having an overall world is kinda not true because the way you move makes you feel like you are only on a world map lol. You just move like 30% slower than you'd like.
And is it just me or is the enemy encounter rate a bit higher than your average modern tales game? They just dump a shit load of them on each map so far, and there doesn't seem to be any clear 'path' to take if you want to avoid many baddies.
and on that note, not really digging the maps either. Just feel kinda plain and everything is scaled too big and you walk too slow... its that feeling you get when you play mmos lol.
Question: How do you use Jude's teleport behind baddies move well? I had no problem at the beginning where it was like 1v1 against stationary swinging soldiers, but now there are many enemies around and they all seem to have fairly long distance attack reach either from a big swing, or a charge/thrust move, i seem to get hit anyways if I back hop.
Yup. This is pretty much how I felt.
The school costume does. Same for cameo.
BassForever
Member
I'm afraid I will end up buying so much xillia dlc lol I bought every graces f costume :X
Great, thanks.
chickdigger802
Banned
luckily for me the default costumes are all pretty good and i seem to like them more than the dlc available atm.
TheContact
Member
Only played 30 minutes so far. I'll have time to play tonight a lot! So psyched!
nintendoman58
Member
Playing as Milla is so much fun. In every Tales game I played I always started off with the main character (who was always the sword wielder). Having the main sword wielder be a caster is fun as well. I love how she can turn her big artes into little quick ones.
chickdigger802
Banned
fuuuuck... jude's counter teleport thing works even if you back dash multiple times...
this is kinda broken op lol.
this is kinda broken op lol.
Winnie the Pimp
Member
Will the disc version of the game go down in price in time... or rather go up? Still debating whether i should grab this right now or wait since i can't play it now anyways
It'll probably go down in like 6 months or so. Depends on if you want the stuff from the first print edition.
Winnie the Pimp
Member
Didn't even know there was a difference? on Amazon UK, you can only order the regular version, you're not talking about a limited edition are you?
Oh. I think in EU it's only GAME that offers the first print edition. Hm.
Even though I preordered this game, I just get the costumes for Milla and Jude, not fair. There is no Limited Edition in my country
I played up until you meet Alvin last night.
It's weird going from Graces f battle system to this one which is more like the older games. I miss the side step but I guess I just have to get used to it.
And yes, the voices are pretty awesome. Milla's not bad but I just feel it doesn't suit her. She sounds a lot older than she looks.
I played up until you meet Alvin last night.
It's weird going from Graces f battle system to this one which is more like the older games. I miss the side step but I guess I just have to get used to it.
And yes, the voices are pretty awesome. Milla's not bad but I just feel it doesn't suit her. She sounds a lot older than she looks.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
Member
I think the reason why people think Milla's voice is bad (partly at least) is because it seems like the audio quality is low enough to the point where s sounds make that fiajdoiasdkasoidj sound when you're listening to a recording in low enough quality.