Nah, I'm saying you'd be surprised what's sample libraries nowadays, especially if you stick 1-2 live players in front of them.
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Tales of Zestiria Import Thread - Turning Legends Into Hope
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Nah, I'm saying you'd be surprised what's sample libraries nowadays, especially if you stick 1-2 live players in front of them.
Of which Tales outside of Shiina's involvements never got even one. =( Plenty of Tales music (especially by Tamura) would have fared way better played live as chamber music, alas it was never meant to be...
There's a support talent that gives you a speed boost after battles and when you pass NPCs. As for those battle actions, yeah, they're just cheaty things with a penalty.
I think the marketing really oversold the character's importance (maybe "physical presence in the party" is a better way to refer to this than "importance"), but I hope going forward this doesn't make it (more?) difficult to mix things up and have characters leave and stuff. I kinda like that since Graces they've been more experimental with the heroine's role in the story and group dynamics, in Zestiria's case making the position a little less clear-cut than usual.
That aside, after almost two weeks, delivery of my copy is back to making progress and I might get it tomorrow as long as it doesn't get stuck again. It's probably a coincidence that it started moving a day after I emailed them to figure out what was going on, but I like to think I made something happen.
That aside, after almost two weeks, delivery of my copy is back to making progress and I might get it tomorrow as long as it doesn't get stuck again. It's probably a coincidence that it started moving a day after I emailed them to figure out what was going on, but I like to think I made something happen.
keisuke999
Member
Also, upgrading the 主の加護　to level 13 gives you the ability to have permanent sprint in that area.
Oh, that's cool. But by the time you do that, I'm sure you've done pretty much everything there.
keisuke999
Member
If you're just playing the story one time through, yeah your 加護　levels will be only 3 or 4, maybe even 1.
If you're going for Platinum, though, that's a very different story.
I agree, but from what I heard most of the complaints come from
her reasoning for leaving being not very solid. If she had died, then maybe the backlash wouldn't have happened as Leon and Aerith both didn't have that much backlash. But she doesn't die, she just leaves because she doesn't have time to adventure given her position. It makes sense to me, but I guess some people aren't happy with that reasoning. It'd be like if Aerith said the FFVII quest was too dangerous for her so she gave up and when back home 1/3rd through the game.
I also agree that it'd be cool to have JRPGs where your party members sticking around to the end wasn't certain. However, you'd run into the Fire Emblem scenario where only 3 characters out of 20 are important to the plot. In FE that's not a big deal, but a lot of people play Tales games for the character interactions, so I could see how that could affect their enjoyment.
Well it's more that
at that point the party is going to pal around in the neighboring kingdom, which happens to be at war with, and the enemy of, her kingdom and she's all about duty to her kingdom and self-sacrifice in the name of that duty, so she's not going to leave her kingdom when it needs her in the moment of crisis it is going through. Seemed fine to me.
link to said podcast?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SURNFSEBmw
I do a lot of exaggerative complaining. For reference, Seda is on the podcast as well lol.
R_thanatos
Member
Intresting .Will probably listen tomorrow at work
InternHertz
Member
Why? They capped the
at
where I'm in the story I hope the Grade I'm still earning now will be counted towards
>_<
I also hope they'll unlock those fast.
Anyway I'm loving it right now (I'm where I need to
) and today is going to be Zestiria day: I'll be playing all the time until I go to bed tonight.
Ladylake 主の加護 level
9
I hope the Grade I'm still earning now will be counted towards
levels 10+
I also hope they'll unlock those fast.
Anyway I'm loving it right now (I'm where I need to
go and fetch an earth tenzoku -which will most certainly be Edna if I go by the opening- to aid in the reconstruction of the bridge
SmartWaffles
Member
I don't believe that devs has no control on how to describe a character in game, and has no idea the company is advertising a character as such literally everywhere, like they don't read Famitsu at all?
Also I believe
the vendors still sell her outfit and items way after she left the team, which doesn't make a lot of sense.
welp, guess I'll wait for the mandatory PS4 port.
What's the world come to when Tales of games have bad framerate and bugs aplenty?
The character description issue was in the mobile game Tales of Asteria afaik. I don't know who exactly developed and manages that, but it's most certainly not the BN Studios staff that worked on Zestiria.
What do you realistically expect? Shiina did
14 out of 109 tracks
Game is good, but shafting Alisha (even for good reasons they surely made up at the end of development), there are way too many indications that she was supposed to be playable the whole time (like trailer scenes where she appeared, but is missing now, weapons etc.)
Nevermind, because it is as it is and they even try to sell her as DLC now... whatever. I like Roses battle style more.
Nevermind, because it is as it is and they even try to sell her as DLC now... whatever. I like Roses battle style more.
Shouta
Member
Tales are usually built from scratch, I think. So they don't often build upon what they know like most development houses. I could be wrong on that though but it's always seemed like that to me.
dakkumauji
Member
The seamless transitions are the biggest improvements to the presentation imo. Makes it feel like a western AAA game in presentation.
Well in my opinion the worlds really look way way better than Xillia 1+2 and story is presented in a movie like way. You go to your event and the cutscene goes on seamless - I like that. But I don't like that there are even more cutscenes than in the Xillia series.
They should have made an anime series for that. :-/
Shouta
Member
Well in my opinion the worlds really look way way better than Xillia 1+2 and story is presented in a movie like way. You go to your event and the cutscene goes on seamless - I like that. But I don't like that there are even more cutscenes than in the Xillia series.
The cutscenes and the movement within those are so much worse though. Some of it is really just awful. So even if they improved on transitioning into it better, the actual content isn't great. =/
R_thanatos
Member
If the game wasn't dropping frammes at the start of those transitions, i would certainly agree .
Yep you are right, the frame drops are bad and the animations are clunky... but I guess it's a good step for future games. Xillia 2 movements were quiet nice sometimes like that one Ludgar battle against "him"
Aside from that, Rebirth.
oh, that's a much bigger difference than what I was expecting. still I'm glad that he was involved to begin with.
The animations may not be mindblowing, but I like that they have more oomph to them. Hitting several enemies with the attack where Sorey falls from above feels pretty good, and artes feel more powerful in general, even if the damage numbers are probably the lowest in the franchise. I'm only up to right after meeting Laila, but so far so good.
Rebirth, Symphonia PS2, Abyss 3DS.
Didn't even think about the portable ports. How did all the PSP games/ports fare again?
Destiny 2 PSP is 30. Innocence R too, not sure about Hearts R though.
Damn that low?
If you're just couting by the numbers it may seem low, but Shiina's tracks are all used for important battles/dungeon/scenes.
keisuke999
Member
And thus I lay down my hand, if but for a brief respite...
Congratulations! Did you find out what the last two trophies actually required, or did you randomly achieve this?
keisuke999
Member
Sorta both.
Using the out of battle menu to switch characters, fight with all characters 150 times, and after, within battle, use the battle act to switch randomly. Seems this does it. worked for me and everyone else.
For the item collecting one, just open all chests, do all side quests, and open all chests in the EX dungeon. Many people, including me, have gotten it without getting ALL items or opening ALL chests, though.
We still have no idea the exact numbers or the exact flags for the trophy, but these methods work.
RyougaSaotome
Member
It's actually kinda comical how you can predict when a Shiina track is gonna pop up.
"Uhoh this looks like an important scene- yup. There's the strings and horns."
keisuke999
Member
I was defeated before I even began.
Wasnt exactly fair. We would need to start at the same time. Any big releases coming up soon you plan on getting? After Zesteria