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currently playing through tales of vesperia

salty_apollyon

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i thought maybe it would be a nice idea to share my thoughts of the game while im playing it, general thoughts about mechanics, music, writting that stuff something like a mix between a review and dairy?
probably gonna use this thread for that
for now know that i have played tales of symphonia game already and even tho i never finished it myself i know its story thanks to youtube
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day 1: ok so first things first i chose hard difficulty which at the moment i thought i could manage, i was wrong but i'll explain that later
once you start the game you're welcomed by a really nice op for the game not precisely a master piece but still pretty to look at and get a bit acustomed to the arstyle of the cutscenes
once this 2 minute op is done you get to see the tittle screen, btw did i mention how much i like the logo of the game? the colors used, the font and that emblem in the middle work really well together. besides of that an the menu we get a first glance of our protagonist yuri and his loyal companion repede


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the game begins in city of zhapias. this is a bit expected since it's a port of an old game but the performance of the game is really good, no stuters and the game looks really fluid, the game itself looks nice and i has aged quite nicely thanks to it's stylized models and textures, another nice little detail is that npcs have enough variety to their looks to not look bland and boring, they also have some interesting dialogues some of which also talk about the situation of the city or some interesting details about the world

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after playing for a while and progressing through the story we finally get to meet one of the companions that will follow us through our adventure enter estellise (estelle for the homies) a noble from zaphias who for reasons we don't know needs to go in the search of a royal knight called flynn.
this happens inside the castle of the city where you encounter the first enemies of the game and also the first boss which im gonna talk about right now, i honestly didn't have anything bad to say about the enemies in hard difficulty until i got to the first boss, zagi this motherfucker doesn't just hit hard and is spongy as fuck in hard difficulty, he's also stupidly fast and has attacks that in case you block them would stun you and turn you into an easy prey for the boss. i couldn't defeat him even after 2 hours of trying so i decided to lower the difficulty to normal just this time and only then could i defeat him.
on amore possitive note i love the dynamic between yuri and estellise. while yuri is someone who is a bit rebelious in the best way possible and someone with life experience, estelle is a sheltered yet kind character always worrying about not hurting other people, god she doesn't even kow what a high 5 is, isn't that adorable?
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after some more story development on zhapias you finally leave with estelle on your party and it was at this point that i sopped playing for the moment


day 3:
hey don't ask me what happened during day two im too lazy to write a whole other update, anyways day 3 im on my way to visit the portuary city of nor at this point after fighting some other bosses i decided that i will indeed lower the difficulty to medium whenever i have to do a bossfight cuz in hard all the bosses are excruciatingly difficult in the worst possible way, spongy, they deal high amounts of damage and it's near impossible to consistently attack them without getting punished anyways back ito our destination in the way to nor it's necessary to go through some forests before this we get to meet karol and rita other two of our companions, karol being a young lad easy to scare but with a useful set of practical skills and the other one being rita a mage obsesed with magic devices called blastia and a bit of a hot headed character, she is also 15,
these two are nice aditions to the team not only because of their battle skills but also because of the dialoge and dynamics they have with eachother and the rest of the team

wish i could show you some of the funny interactios that there are between the characters, sadly the files are too big for the forum anyways after struggling a lot, a few game over screens and a lot of items used i finally got to nor where we finally get to see flynn who in case i didn't mention earlier is also an old friend of yuri, and like any other good friend as soon as flynn looks at our black-haired protagonist he goes monkey mode and attacks him, drama happens and the party ends ups entangled in the problems that are haunting nor and that's where i left off yesterday
 
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salty_apollyon

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okay so today there's gonna be 2 now and nother one later since this is my third day playing the game
gonna edit the og post with my thoughts now
 

hzp

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I like the idea, I'm quite curious.
Absolutely loved Tales of Symphonia. Got pretty disappointed with Zestiria and Berseria, didn't even finish Berseria!
Also aren't Vesperia and Symphonia unrelated?
 

salty_apollyon

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I like the idea, I'm quite curious.
Absolutely loved Tales of Symphonia. Got pretty disappointed with Zestiria and Berseria, didn't even finish Berseria!
Also aren't Vesperia and Symphonia unrelated?
for what i know yes it may be since they name drop lloyd in the seccond town you visit
 

immahnoob

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I like the idea, I'm quite curious.
Absolutely loved Tales of Symphonia. Got pretty disappointed with Zestiria and Berseria, didn't even finish Berseria!
Also aren't Vesperia and Symphonia unrelated?
What's wrong with Berseria?
Although Zestiria was a drag to play after I finished Berseria...
 
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