Where you'll have a lot of different opinions, the strongest story entries are probably Tales of Phantasia, Tales of the Abyss, Tales of Symphonia and Tales of Vesperia. Story has never been a strength of the titles.
Suffice to say I'm not pleased, but I'm mopping up my tears with cheddar rice crisps and Cool Ranch Doritos.įans of the Tales series, let's be real with each other.
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Tales games were the naissance of an event that my friends and I lazily nicknamed "Tales of Broplans", where we would all take a week off work/school/life to do nothing but eat garbage food and play through the most recent title in the series with me at the helm. Where this doesn't affect the game overall and I'm not scoring the game much lower because of this exclusion, I dislike this omission. Other series tropes have returned, specifically the existence of treasures/animals/items that reward the player with optional costumes/accoutrements, however, one series trope that notably hasn't returned is four-player local coop during battles. Comedy was a strong suit of Tales of Graces F (Out the butt?) and Tales of Symphonia (Tell me your name and I shall tell you mine.), but Tales of Arise has put that metaphorical baby in the corner. This entry is much more serious than the series predecessors. The voice acting cast has really knocked every role out of the park, and the pithy, quick retorts of Shionne and other characters feel real. The gameplay and overworld element are where Tales of Arise really shines. Character models do sometimes seem a little robotic and lifeless in the skits, but otherwise look good.
Without getting too deep into those themes, each one is based off an element, and the design team utilized this to great effect. Everything looks crisp, clean and the environmental designers did an awesome job creating thematic, non-repetitive environments for the player to explore.
Where the graphics are nowhere near as impressive as, say, other current-gen releases, for the Tales series this is a hugestep forward. And it doesn't have Malik throwing out one-liners in a speedo, which is a decisive strike against. Tales of Graces F was the best battle system of the franchise, and Tales of Arise doesn't quite match up to that level of fast-paced, nail-biting action. The overall speed of battle seems slower than Tales of Berseria, which I felt was a near perfect culmination of other battle system iterations in the series. This pairs well with items, which can close the gap if your CP runs out, and the cooking mechanic which helps to mitigate some of CP usage with enhancement bonuses and campsites which recover the gauge entirely. You have a "CP" gauge that controls how much healing can be done in a battle. The combat of Arise is smooth and slightly unconventional when compared to previous titles. Since I'm a fan of organization, I'm going to categorize a few elements that the series is known for and compare them on a sliding scale to previous entries with a numbered rating. It worked well, even.įast-forward nearly thirty years (!!!) and you have Tales of Arise, which has combined several of the series' greatest conventions to mostly great effect. Tales of Phantasia, for its time, had some of the most innovative gameplay elements and a story that blended science fiction with high fantasy - and, surprisingly, it worked. I've been a patron of the Tales of series (and its less commercially successful sister series, Star Ocean) since its inception. By braven113 | Review Date: September 13, 2021
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