tales is a hit or miss series,though i guess the miss are more than the hits...
- the original tales of phantasia for example is a decent game,colorfull, full of stuff to find, a lot of nice music,with character that are actualy tolerable... the best way to play it is the fantranslation of the psx version, there is a snes fantranslated version but not only you have to deal with the super high encounter rate but the translator took some liberty (mostly infamous a line where a character says "i bet she fucks like a tiger!") there is an official gba version too but not only the conversion is awfull, the translation is hilarious-bad with the war of ragnarok being translated into
"the war of kangaroo"
- tales of destiny would be the sequel on psx, back in the day i wanted to try to get into this but i really couldn't get past the graphics which somehow looks WORSE than tales of phantasia and the horrible load times
- tales of eternia is a lot better, bigger sprite, decent load times... the character tend to whine a little and the story is a little clichè (stop me if you hear this one! an amnesiac girl fall from the sky!)
but really look at those 2D backgrounds, so lovely
there is even a section where the character go underwater in a submarine
one pet peeve i have with the game is that the final boss take forever to kill, after you kill him he pulls a final move that you need to counter by making a special motion on the joypad BUT THE GAME NEVER TELLS YOU
- tales of symphonia really got more attention for being a gamecube game than anything else but even then,it's a decent game as long as you don't look too much at the character talking considering half of their dialogue is either HYPER-RACISM (something that will plague tales games for a while) or lloyd worrying about colette, the colorfull cellshaded graphics and combo-centric system are what makes the game worth playing,i played this back on the GC days (when namco didn't want to bother translating the skit resulting in the character flopping their mouth like dead fishes) but ehy it got a recent ps3 release!
- symphonia 2 is TRASH, avoid
- tales of rebirth is one of the games that never came and never got fantranslated, i kinda want to play it because it looks like a cool 2D rpg but on the other hand...
this is so stupid that even namco itself poke fun at itspoiler (click to show/hide)
by the way he says "claire" around 250 times
- there is a tales of destiny 2 in the same "cool 2D tales that aren't in english" too, one curiosity about the game is that the villain is voiced by a VA called norio wakamoto, i know he's pretty famous but i have absolutely no idea what he ever did...
youtube to the rescue!- tales of legendia... fun fact: tales of legendia was my contender for "worst rpg ever" before i played neptunia
- tales of abyss, i guess hidden here there is a decent rpg but i really hate every single character in this game with a burning passion, the way the game over-dramatize everything is really dumb and the combat system has this dumb system where spell you cast leave circle behind which you are supposed to abuse by standing in them and using special move while inside but it never works properly
- the DS titles... tales of innocence and tales of hearts are translated, i tried innocence and tought it was garbage
- tales of vesperia is the best tales game out of them all, if you ask me it's also the best JRPG to come out of the ps3/360 generation
- tales of graces has awfull dungeon,boring character,a really tacked on crafting system, basicaly the battle system is the only saving grace (pun not intended) of the game
- lastly xillia... i played it for 3-4 hours and then walked away bored... there was nothing that was clearly awfull but on the whole it was just generic and it had really empty enviroment, so yeah i guess recently the number of stinkers increased
I guess we're forgetting that Hyperdimension Neptunia and Ar Tonelico exist.
the first 2 ar tonelico games are decent if you can somehow get past the notion that anything that feature fanservice is pure poison, it's the third game that's awfull as fuck
There are worse things, sure. There are worse things than Kemco games on mobile. Tales is *just* good enough that you'll reach for it if you're hungry. Whereas most of the garbage from NISA and Marvelous shouldn't be touched unless you have a shit-eating fetish.
i had fun with the god and fate paradox, witch and the hundred knight was awfull... i haven't heard anything good about that princess arcadia game either... i guess they at least they haven't run disgaea into the ground (well i guess deeper into the ground) by announcing disgaea v yet
