Not if you are planning to play Xillia 2. You don't want to go through the same areas a third or fourth time.
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Not if you are planning to play Xillia 2. You don't want to go through the same areas a third or fourth time.
Freezasaurus
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Milla's route does fill in some blanks from when she was away from Jude at different points in the story, but you already got the bulk of the story from Jude's path. I think I lost interest before I finished. JRPGs are too long for multiple playthroughs close together.
Basileus777
Member
It's not really worth it unless you care about trophies or planned to play through it again anyway. The differences are pretty minor.
VanillaCakeIsBurning said:
Depends on whether you want to see some extra story bits (it's not much though) and net a few trophies. Make sure you have enough grade to get the EXP x 2 and EXP x 5 bonus from the grade shop though. This will help you breeze through the standard enemies.
ULTROS!
People seem to like me because I am polite and I am rarely late. I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks.
I forgot, my other issue with the game towards the end is:
Lailah and Zaveid seem to know each other but that wasn't explained at all. Also Lailah's connection with the previous shepherd, although I haven't completed the orbs yet. A lot of the characters, while they have rich personalities, have almost no backstory that ever materialized in the end.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
He's my favorite protagonist by far for all of these reasons. He also used a broadsword. Ice based, offensively oriented, and a two handed swordsman? Recipe for success. And his love of peach pie. lol. He's also voiced by Link.
Yep, and
Zaveid knew Dezel. The Lailah thing was sort of explained in Earthern Historia but so vaguely that it left you wanting more.
Cornbread78
Member
Uggh, I played Xillia like two years ago and just got Xillia 2 on the cheap. Would that 2nd Millia play through still feel repetitive if I did her route as a refresher before playing 2?
As a refresher, if you have your save file for grade shop shenanigans to speed up the playthrough I'd say go for it.
Especially if it's 2 years ago.
BUT on the other hand, consider that Xillia 2 does retread a lot of ground (locations, not story), so you might be more susceptible to burnout playing them back to back.
Especially if it's 2 years ago.
BUT on the other hand, consider that Xillia 2 does retread a lot of ground (locations, not story), so you might be more susceptible to burnout playing them back to back.
Well I own a few, and I bought the last one on a whim because... well it's the last one, so I could tell you
- First of all half of the magazine (80 pages out of 155) is simply prepublishing Tales of mangas, currently two Zestiria's related ones some 4koma, some fanmade and some fan art
- You have a few pages of advertisements (5), for the two current mobile titles, Link and Asteria, for the latest artbook, Tales of Memoria, and for the orchestral concert to come, Tales of Orchestra Concert
- Beginning and table of contents use 5 pages
- Being the last one, you have a bit of a retrospective of the recuring points of the series (battle system, spells & arts, spots, item & weapon, colosseum, cooking, costume, escort titles) taking up to 18 pages
- A two pages articles with lots of pictures about the Tales of Museem which will be taking place late November - early December (with a ton of goods to buy of course)
- Two pages about special skits from the last Tales of Festival
- Then you have 6 pages (lol) about Viva Tales of the usual chat between Viva-kun and Onosaka-san (Zelos' s seiyuu which is kinda the main voice actor associated with the series)
- 6 pages focusing on a character from the series, this time it was Presea
- 8 pages about Tales of Link, the first two are about the current events/collabo/special characters, two pages about the plot, 3 pages of interview with the director of Tales of Link (some guy from Akatsuki) and 1 page about a special story
- 4 pages about Asteria
- Tales of Tribute, a 2 pages special illustration from a guest artist
- 8/9 pages of colored fanarts
- Tales of no Sentaku, some kind of VS where I guess readers can choose between two "sides", this month it's Zelos vs Kratos, last month it was Repede vs Lulu (and it was a 50/50, how convenient)
- A 2 pages report of Tales of Matsuri, some kind of events where you could buy goods and foods based on some characters (like the Ludger Mabo Curry Crepe)
- 1 page about Tales of Shop, which is located in every Kotobukiya I think (at least it was in both Osaka and Akihabara)
- Tales of Daisuki, 1 page about some kind of celebrity liking the Tales of series, this time it's an idol from Passpo, an idol group in Hiroshima.
- 1 page of a cooking recipe, this time it's the Oriental Rice from Tales of Destiny 2
- You have a few pages of advertisements (5), for the two current mobile titles, Link and Asteria, for the latest artbook, Tales of Memoria, and for the orchestral concert to come, Tales of Orchestra Concert
- Beginning and table of contents use 5 pages
- Being the last one, you have a bit of a retrospective of the recuring points of the series (battle system, spells & arts, spots, item & weapon, colosseum, cooking, costume, escort titles) taking up to 18 pages
- A two pages articles with lots of pictures about the Tales of Museem which will be taking place late November - early December (with a ton of goods to buy of course)
- Two pages about special skits from the last Tales of Festival
- Then you have 6 pages (lol) about Viva Tales of the usual chat between Viva-kun and Onosaka-san (Zelos' s seiyuu which is kinda the main voice actor associated with the series)
- 6 pages focusing on a character from the series, this time it was Presea
- 8 pages about Tales of Link, the first two are about the current events/collabo/special characters, two pages about the plot, 3 pages of interview with the director of Tales of Link (some guy from Akatsuki) and 1 page about a special story
- 4 pages about Asteria
- Tales of Tribute, a 2 pages special illustration from a guest artist
- 8/9 pages of colored fanarts
- Tales of no Sentaku, some kind of VS where I guess readers can choose between two "sides", this month it's Zelos vs Kratos, last month it was Repede vs Lulu (and it was a 50/50, how convenient)
- A 2 pages report of Tales of Matsuri, some kind of events where you could buy goods and foods based on some characters (like the Ludger Mabo Curry Crepe)
- 1 page about Tales of Shop, which is located in every Kotobukiya I think (at least it was in both Osaka and Akihabara)
- Tales of Daisuki, 1 page about some kind of celebrity liking the Tales of series, this time it's an idol from Passpo, an idol group in Hiroshima.
- 1 page of a cooking recipe, this time it's the Oriental Rice from Tales of Destiny 2
And I think it covers almost every page, the Tales of Magazine from September 2009 (only other one I can find right now) was 200+ pages but it was mostly because there were more prepublishing mangas.
It's mostly fan service and there are lots of visuals about almost everything there is to know about the series, sometimes you may have a few interesting interviews with key development staff (Higuchi, Baba, Yoshizumi, Haase...) but if you're not a big fan of the series you will most likely don't find anything interesting to see.
Cornbread78
Member
So a literal coin flip, huh?
Maybe I can just you tube all the strory parts. Can you import your save file into Xillia 2?
You get plushie attachment for Graces and Cleared Xillia save file.
Cornbread78
Member
2 attachment for each game. Save from old Tales game also unlock stuff in PS3 Zestiria
Cornbread78
Member
Honestly they should just print a massive book compiling recipes for every recipe featured in the series, some would be pretty delicious.
Freezasaurus
Member
And therein lies the weakness of the equipment system. Any time you "upgrade" equipment, it's usually going to be a downgrade unless the stars align and you find something with a decent set of skills, which is always completely random. I hope they never ever use this skill system again.
KainXVIII
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New TZFix is out, texture shimmering is competely gone (add 8x SGSSAA and you get very clean IQ)! But still stutter fix don't work for me, strangely.
https://github.com/Kaldaien/TZF/releases
VanillaCakeIsBurning
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I guess that's a no then.
For the record I've already beaten Xillia 2 a while ago, but I was just wondering whether Milla's route in Xillia 1 was worth another playthrough. If there's not much of a difference then I'm probably not going to go through with it.
I guesss all that's left for me is to finish up the DLC then wait for Berseria.
Freezasaurus
Member
I guess that's a no then.
For the record I've already beaten Xillia 2 a while ago, but I was just wondering whether Milla's route in Xillia 1 was worth another playthrough. If there's not much of a difference then I'm probably not going to go through with it.
Honestly, it's kinda boring unless you really really like playing as Milla.
It only has slight changes not many big ones so if you really like the game do it, if not though don't bother.
And this is why Rose just kinda irks me. She just borderlines on Poochie-levels of irk-ness. I understand that Rose is supposed to be a good and fun character if I get used to her, but holy shit game, let me get used to her first.
And on the subject of her day job,
I know the writers probably did not put too much thought into malevolence, like, at all, but all I can say is that there is a reason why taking a life is often regarded as a very, very, very weighty decision. Rose just halfass deflects it with shit like "Well it's not like we don't do research before getting stabby-stabby!" despite the fact that she has probably murdered a lot of people in cold-blood and upclose. The game may think she's in some moral grey area (or not, because the seraphim literally say she is uncorruptible and pure), but what she shows is literally sociopathic behavior by the very definition of the term. And I am definitely not expecting the game to handle this issue with any sort of skill either.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
What bugged me about Rose was her condescending attitude, sure, but mostly the fact that
she supposedly leads an elite assassin's guild and still manages to do this while traveling with Sorey and keep up both roles with no problem, despite her never doing anything assassin related on screen. Her ability to kill people and shrug it off also makes her seem like a really bad person in general. Sociopathic, even.
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
Feels like? Im almost certain they have at this point. Go play abyss,vesperia,symphonia than play graces f(screw u asbel), xillia and zestria. A whole different experience(in a bad way)
Freezasaurus
Member
It does, doesn't it? Though I admit I rather liked the Xillia games. The first more than the second. Xillia 2 was so rehashed it's not even amusing. Half the time when going to a "new" place, my first thought was "I already played this game."
Basileus777
Member
And I dislike how they use it to make her look superior to Sorey for it. Rose is a better shepherd because she kills people and part of her role is to make Sorey learn how to do it. That could have been an interesting arc with better writing and if Rose wasn't such a Mary Sueish character, but as is it just feels like another way for Rose to show off how perfect she is.
Vesperia was either rushed or had a ton of content cut lol.
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
You think so? I thought vesperia was like for the most part one of the best tales games,ps3 version even more so. Heck I've enjoyed legendia more than i am zestria right now
Basileus777
Member
The writing and character arcs were still a hell of a lot more cohesive than in Zestiria.
I'm sure quite a bit of the PS3 version content was created during the development of the 360 version.
Of course. I would say every other modern Tales game was better in that regard.
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
Just finished the god awful water temple. I feel like im really jus fighting this out at this point. I want to finish but they only characters i like are edna and meebo(lol). The equipment crap sucks,sorey is..eh and this story isn't what i was expecting
Freezasaurus
Member
Bah, I liked Vesperia quite a bit.
RPGCrazied
Member
Finally got past the fire trial. That was kinda annoying. Yeah, this game is taking me forever to beat. Only cause I don't play PS4 during the week. That will change come Thanksgiving holiday, I need to finish it by the time XCX comes out.
I'm not saying the game was bad lol. It and Abyss are my favorites out of the games I played.
ULTROS!
People seem to like me because I am polite and I am rarely late. I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks.
I never played it (nor the PS3 version) but how did it fee cut?
Graces, Symphonia, Abyss, and Hearts R are probably the only Tales that I've played that don't feel rushed towards the end.
Yes, but that doesn't make it rushed. The original game is very much content complete, even stuff like playable Flynn is obviously meant to be a one-off.
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
A lil off topic but sense we are talking bout different tales games might as well ask. How do people feel about legendia? Never see it get talked bout
RPGCrazied
Member
Best soundtrack of the series. I liked the game, despite Shirely being annoying. I really liked it, definitely not a ToL hater.
Freezasaurus
Member
I have a soft spot for Eternia. That one was waaaay back on the PS One, I believe.
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
My man!! High five! Senel coolidge is still one of my favorite tales protags, and i agree Shirley sucks but jay,moses,grune,bubbles"norma"...i gotta pull the ps2 out now
Best soundtrack, felt like a step back combat-wise, the second half of the game being unvoiced gets a lot of flak but I was just super happy it existed and wish more games did something like that. Basically the main plot is resolved like halfway through and the last half of the game is character quests that explore the backstories of your cast more.
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
Always wondered why it wasn't voiced. Budget maybe? I wouldn't mind a remake/remaster of legendia whoooo boy
A lot of the stuff is more like side content outside of a character possibly as opposed to what happened with games like Xillia.
I also, said that this could've simply been done for the PS3 version and it seems likely to me.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Tales of Destiny is underappreciated. The PS2 remake is legit the best Tales game. That aerial battle system. The gorgeous 2D. The fun cast and added skits. Elemental talking swords. Ahhhhh! I need to play the special edition some day.
And that amazing first battle theme
And that amazing first battle theme
I would give anything to be able to play this in english. This is the one tales game I've been dying to play.