Xenoblade also gave you really fast movement speed (compared to other RPGs, even open world ones).
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Tales of Zestiria Import Thread - Turning Legends Into Hope
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Xenoblade also gave you really fast movement speed (compared to other RPGs, even open world ones).
IMO the Future Arc wraps up the game much better than the vague original ending. But the main game hardly feels like a "beta" without it.
I don't know man.
The entire game was built around following
around and finally putting an end to him.
came out of the blue after that and is the very definition of "lol here i am i'm the real final boss" trope-wise.
Future arc gives glimpses into what happens after to the setting/characters (which is kinda cool, as it is with any 'sequel' to a JRPG, from Advent Children to FFX-2, to TAY (yeah i said it) to Xillia 2/Symphonia 2) but then invents a new opposition just to give a plot motivation for the added gameplay shenanigans that had virtually no foreshadowing throughout the entire game. Hence, tacked on. Like I said in my rant, it could better have existed as a 3-part OVA.
But we're going off on a tangent :V I'm up for discussing this more over on Tales community.
The entire game was built around following
LambdaRichard
Fodra Queen
Future arc gives glimpses into what happens after to the setting/characters (which is kinda cool, as it is with any 'sequel' to a JRPG, from Advent Children to FFX-2, to TAY (yeah i said it) to Xillia 2/Symphonia 2) but then invents a new opposition just to give a plot motivation for the added gameplay shenanigans that had virtually no foreshadowing throughout the entire game. Hence, tacked on. Like I said in my rant, it could better have existed as a 3-part OVA.
But we're going off on a tangent :V I'm up for discussing this more over on Tales community.
Yeah, Xenoblade is definitely unbeaten in this regard.
Yeah the whole Fodra Queen stuff is tacked on, but everything else regarding the cast (especially Sophie), plus clarifying the ending, felt well done to me.
Largely liking what I've been reading about it thus far, though a shame they didn't bring back something similar to the system from Graces with how Titles were done. The weapon upgrade system sounds less maddening than the one from Graces though thankfully.
I also quite like the opening song and imagery.
All this just reminds me I still need to get around to playing Vesperia on my 360 at some point.
I also quite like the opening song and imagery.
All this just reminds me I still need to get around to playing Vesperia on my 360 at some point.
At first, it seemed like they weren't doing what I told them to, but I found out that it's because several of the things depend on others (or, that is to say, it seems like one behavior can be overridden by a setting in another category in some cases). I haven't experimented in-depth, but I was at least able to get the behavior I wanted (for the most part).
Does Zestiria have strategy shortcuts? It was great in Vesperia but they never added that feature in Graces, Xillia and Xillia 2. It may seem a minor annoyance, but it piss me off quite a lot since I've already enjoyed that commodity.
Loved that Hearts R had it. It so comfortable (you can have a healing focused build, a attack focused build and a defense focused build for enemie overlimits) to be able to switch them in 2-3 seconds and go back to the action...
It doesn't have shortcuts you can set up, but you can use the right stick to do generalized orders. i.e., everyone attack my target, everyone attack a different target, etc.
For the person who told me to cave in and play Vesperia PS3 untranslated yesterday
I knew waiting all those years would be worth it
Just in time for me to get home from the UK.
I guess I'll just keep my Jap Zestiria copy so I can undub it with then in case there will be no dual audio.
I knew waiting all those years would be worth it
Just in time for me to get home from the UK.
I guess I'll just keep my Jap Zestiria copy so I can undub it with then in case there will be no dual audio.
There is an active Tales series community thread for such posts.
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To add some more staff listing impressions: It's so odd to see a Tales one with so many live musicians (hope they were used for some Sakuraba music as well...) and without Eiji Kikuchi, Shinichiro Okamoto and Makoto Yoshidumi.
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To add some more staff listing impressions: It's so odd to see a Tales one with so many live musicians (hope they were used for some Sakuraba music as well...) and without Eiji Kikuchi, Shinichiro Okamoto and Makoto Yoshidumi.
With the amount of OT in this thread I'd have thought this post wouldn't have bothered anyone.
Pls no backseat moderino.
Not necessarily, he may still be at BN Studios, just not in a position necessary to credit. Either that or he went after the move was completed (ToSC from last year still credited him). *shrugs*
No, Yoshidumi is (as only one of the three) mentioned in the special thanks section still.
It's just quite some change, Kikuchi was credited as general director (likely as the studio manager) in all games, Yoshidumi seemed responsible for the formation of Tales Studio after Destiny 2 and moved from producer to general producer when Baba took over, Okamoto was development producer for a lot of games, e.g. all "Team Destiny" ones.
Don't think they were involved much in actually creating the games. Most likely they did just management stuff that's no longer necessary now that everything is within BN Studios? Who knows.
legendaryskitch
Member
Got my copy yesterday. I'm not very far but I already feel like i'm having a much harder time playing this in Japanese than previous games. My Japanese is slipping like crazy, I understood exactly what was going on in Xillia 2 but seriously struggling here. Is the game just using harder words or am I just forgetting the language?
Well, that's better than nothing, I guess. Still, I don't understand how that feature hasn't appeared on any game since Vesperia. It couldn't be that hard to implement.
But, does that mean you can't map artes to the right stick anymore?
What does exactly Baba do? I don't understand what's his role at all lol.
The Cool One
Member
time to dust off the old ps3 when this baby gets released here in the US
That you need to ask him yourself. =P
For a short time (around Vesperia) he had the title "brand manager" which probably describes his role best. I'd guess he's the PR head to the public and likely the first contact between all the different involved parties (developer/publisher side, animation studio, seiyu and jpop management etc.).
They'll patch it in the form of Zestiria PS4. lol Full price patch.
And it won't get localized. ;D
They should've just done a separate battle room for dungeons. The seamless transition is cool, but it sounds better at the field areas.
RyougaSaotome
Member
Just got Rose in my party and I'm already loving her to death. Really digging the party dynamic in this game, especially compared to the last few Tales games.
Edit: I've only really had a few issues with the camera going wacky in tight spaces, but I'd be really sad if it wasn't seamless in dungeons too. It's been fun using parts of the environment to my advantage.
Edit: I've only really had a few issues with the camera going wacky in tight spaces, but I'd be really sad if it wasn't seamless in dungeons too. It's been fun using parts of the environment to my advantage.
threelights
Member
So, how is the side content in the game? Is it on the same level of previous games? Is there more? Is it better? Fetch/Killing quests? Marks? Discovering secret locations on the map?
I know someone mentioned a bit about it before, but I just wanted to ask again
I know someone mentioned a bit about it before, but I just wanted to ask again
I'm a sucker for good side content =X
dakkumauji
Member
I still love that the battle camera is now a problem thing in Tales.
Seems like seamless battles was a good idea, but executed poorly due to the camera.
Seems like usual for Tales. Aka improvements on some fronts then completely stupid back steps on things that weren't issues before.
Bosses can be comboed past 12 hits again, yay. But there's now camera issues, in a Tales game lmao. It's definitley due to the seamless nature, though I think it's because they still have a battlefield. If it was like say, FFXII, this wouldn't have been an issue or as bad.
Regardless I'm gonna try (but probably fail) to stop watching footage and wait to get my hands on it myself. It seems to have been received pretty well so far, minus some issues and everyone going nuts over the Alisha stuff.
Bosses can be comboed past 12 hits again, yay. But there's now camera issues, in a Tales game lmao. It's definitley due to the seamless nature, though I think it's because they still have a battlefield. If it was like say, FFXII, this wouldn't have been an issue or as bad.
Regardless I'm gonna try (but probably fail) to stop watching footage and wait to get my hands on it myself. It seems to have been received pretty well so far, minus some issues and everyone going nuts over the Alisha stuff.
Yeah, looks like it.
Seven Force
Banned
I'm guessing Zestiria retains Xillia 2's screen capture function?
Sony should really force everyone to go off of system settings AND have an option in system settings to swap O and X. :/
Nope.
Seven Force
Banned
That's unfortunate.
Battle camera weirdness aside (Funny to have to bring that up in the series now), the impressions sound great. I might just end up importing a copy, too.
Dice//
Banned
God I "felt the vibe" better too. The music video was so lame where she looks like she's just whispering the entire damn song (not sure what the conscious decision was there). =/