Tales Of Symphonia Is Back And More Beautiful Than Ever

16 responses to “Tales Of Symphonia Is Back And More Beautiful Than Ever”

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   mrbs

   November 2, 2013 at 3:04 pm

   Not a huge improvent but so long as it includes the bonus PS2 content with the performance of the GC version all is well.

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   whitepointer

   November 2, 2013 at 3:36 pm

   Might be interested in this. I loved the original on the Gamecube, but never played the sequel. Might be worth getting.

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      negativezero

      November 2, 2013 at 3:43 pm

      The sequel is pretty awful, probably not worth getting it just for that. At least the original game is good.

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         thrasher

         November 2, 2013 at 3:46 pm

         Yes the less said about ToS:DotNW the better.

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         whitepointer

         November 2, 2013 at 4:20 pm

         That’s what I heard, which is why I never actually played it.

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            bodman

            November 2, 2013 at 7:06 pm

            The main problems I had with ToS:DotNW were:
            1. The main character is a complete wuss. It’s not until many hours into the game where he starts developing an alter-ego & some minor backbone that he becomes semi-likable.
            2. How they changed the characters from the original ToS – especially Lloyd – made the game quite jarring & confusing. Not to mention they couldn’t get all the same voice actors so that didn’t help…
            3. Due to the story only centering around two characters, the combat had those two locked in & the last two slots were for beasts you captured. But some areas required certain beasts to make your team effective & some said beasts were quite rare.

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      3. 

         Lawrence

         November 3, 2013 at 3:01 am

         DotNW is honestly not THAT awful.
         It has much less contents than Symphonia, obviously, but remember that it’s always a spin-off.
         All in all, it’s a decent Tales game. Not as long-lasting and deep as the first episode, but definitely likeable and with a good amount of contents. I really liked Emil and Marta as main characters.
         The only reason why most Tales fans hate it and find it horrible is because most characters have different voice actors than the previous game, which is not a big deal to me.

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            negativezero

            November 3, 2013 at 10:33 am

            I found the English dubs for both games awful (aside from Tenebrae who is excellent in the role) so it wasn’t that for me. It was the actual game itself. Specifically the reasons I didn’t like it were the uneven difficulty – you can easily outlevel the trash in each dungeon but the bosses level up relative to you so you get to the point that you’re breezing through normal fights but getting your arse handed to you by bosses each time. The returning characters from the original game come in as guest characters, never permanent and at fixed levels and are quickly outdone by the random monsters you pick up. Tales games live and die by the quality of the characters and their interactions, so having all the returning characters essentially just cameo appearances seems pointless.

            Tales has had three sequels over the years and the other two are Xillia 2 and Destiny 2, both of which are pretty good, so I don’t agree that DotNW gets a free pass just because it’s a spinoff.

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   deathcake

   November 2, 2013 at 3:49 pm

   great game, man it’s been ages since i played that (gamecube laser died, doesn’t read any discs any more :/ thanksfully though there is Dolphin emulator 🙂 )
   Might have to whip it out again (the game I mean) and fire it up at 1920 and full AA

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4. 

   avsky

   November 2, 2013 at 4:15 pm

   so glad it’s shipping with the japanese audio!

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   1. 

      whitepointer

      November 2, 2013 at 4:21 pm

      The video showed the Japanese PS3 version.

      When it releases here, it’ll likely be in English.

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         thrasher

         November 2, 2013 at 5:04 pm

         Actually the english release has Dual Audio.

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            rock_m

            November 2, 2013 at 6:19 pm

            And from what I gathered the release will also have all the extras added on from the PS2 rerelease!

            Hooray for hidden Hi-Ougis! 😀

            Edit: Oh and for a dub the original release on the GC wasn’t that bad xD

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   thrasher

   November 2, 2013 at 6:53 pm

   wasn’t that bad? what devilry is this you speak of the dub was amazingly well done

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6. 

   freakshow198

   November 2, 2013 at 9:15 pm

   I can’t wait for this remake. Tales of Symphonia is one of my all time favorite games!

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7. 

   pylgrim

   November 3, 2013 at 9:40 am

   Maybe I’m just a bit nostalgic here but I can’t help thinking that the black outline they used on 3D objects in the GC version to alleviate the low resolution and aliasing issues make the characters look more like a cartoon you’re playing rather than just plain old 3D graphics.

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