I think of this video at least once a week

A bit late, Sorry.

Anyways, Im not the biggest fan of Hilda in gameplay. Pretty interchangeable with Mao TBH. But in the story and as a character I like her.

In general, half of rebirths party is full of introverts who stand on business. I think its just funny to see them interact.

With Arise 5th anniversary happening next week, I'm going on a post marathon about topics discussing it. Anyway, I'll with why Beyond the Dawn shouldn't have existed to begin with. Not only because it's a thoroughly underwhelming & overpriced DLC but because of what it did. I mean, it came out in the same year as the fairly maligned Symphonia Remaster. Some of us were willing to let that slide (me included) but with the release of this, Bandai Namco had fumbled the momentum Arise gave the series.

Moreover, it represents of one the many bad sides of Bandai Namco corporate philosophy: "Too little for too much & not enough effort". This one of the things that put the fanbase into it dark spiral we still find ourselves in now. For real, had Beyond arrived maybe a year or had a lot more to it, it would be understandable. But since that's not the case, nothing but earned flak.

Furthermore, it's Switch 2 edition does not help its case. It's still overpriced. Doesn't really give an experience that's better. The combat is still in 30fps. And it came way too late. I mean, just put it on the Switch at that point.

Overall, it was better that they left the Story of Arise be and not have it take away what the series did have at that moment. Instead, it made it clear; Bandai Namco had no clue what to do with the series after Arise. Nearly five years and not so much as a leak. Sorry if this was such a downer but I needed to air all this out before I really get started. Your thoughts?

Be it a town, a field a dungeon or anything that can be considered a "location"

I'm very happy with how it turned out ✌️🤩

Please show me your favorite merch displays!

Wondering if anyone is going through the same thing

I'm looking for a game to start, i'm think between tales of Vesperia ir tales of berseria, i like a darker story but i heard that Vesperia cast of characters is the best of the franchise and i love a story with a great cast (like persona 4) but i don't know what to choose can you guys help?

¿Tales of xillia Remastered o Tales of Graces f Remastered como punto de partida?

Hace un rato probé Tales of Vesperia y me gustó bastante, pero me pareció un poco lento. Estaba jugando otro juego al mismo tiempo, así que al final lo dejé por ahí cuando empezaba, poco después de salir del primer pueblo (recuerdo más o menos haber llegado a un árbol grande o a un muelle).

Después compré Tales of Symphonia en Xbox, pero tampoco es que me metiera de lleno.

La mayoría del tiempo juego en PlayStation, y he visto tanto Zestiria Remastered como Graces f Remastered en oferta. Como todavía no he tenido un arranque bien hecho con la saga, ¿cuál me recomendarías como mejor punto de entrada: Zestiria Remastered o Graces f Remastered?

Sé que Berseria a menudo se considera de los mejores, pero ahorita está demasiado caro en mi región, así que mejor me quedo con los remasters que están en oferta.

Tytree is cool! I think i mentioned this in the Mao post but rebirths humor is a bit hit or miss for me. Tytree is THE comic relief character, but he's also Stahn Aileron and Lloyd Irving. He's really cool, but I don't know if the game would still hit for me if he were the main character the way Lloyd and Stahn are.

As for Gameplay. He's never in my party.

Anyone got any feelers out?

Reid sounds like Sean Chiplock, while Keele sounds like Ben Balmaceda

I just finished the game (minus DLC or postgame). But keep coming back to the skit below:

What exactly is this in reference to? I don’t remember any event where Alisha (or anyone) gets turned down by Sorey.

Tvtropes also says at one point this ‘rejection’ happens. Is there a cinema or skit I missed around this? Any links to it if so?

- “Rose: Boy, he didn’t waste any time turning her down. Right there in front of him, the perfect date! No wonder girls don’t dig Shepherds.
- Mikleo: Well, what can you do?
- Lailah: Yes. We’re talking about Sorey, after all.
- Edna: Seriously.
- Zaveid: Haha! There ya have it.”

I've never played a Tales game and I do want to get into the series. Especially because I hear that they have great characters. Currently those 2 games are on sale and I'm wondering between those two, which is better to start with. Chances are that if I like it, I'll end up getting more Tales games so I'll probably end up playing both games if I end up liking it. So which is better to start with?

Is PC better? Switch 2 is way more convenient for me, but if it's worse graphically and performance wise, I'll I'll PC

Im so lost right now, im near the end clearing the 6 element seperators. And ive noticed whenever i get a strike prompt, the damage does nothing at all. Water boss was at 67k hp, i hot a strike for 15k and yet the damn thing is still at 67k hp what is even the point of these?

The extensive voice work, revamped UI, upgraded QOL (like quicksave), upscaled graphics as well as some textures were redone but it's still the same PS2 game through and through. Oh and they reworked on some of the gameplay mechanics.

I've had 2 false starts with this game so my plan was to just "git gud" at the battle system so I can finally enjoy game. I was looking up tips and saw someone say you can use auto battle even for the playable character so I'm wondering if that could take me through even the more difficult battle? I hope not since it would make it feel more like a mobile afk game but it's still something I'm curious about.

Gonna rip the bandaid of, this shit means something to me: Annie is my second favourite character to play as in this entire series. For those of you who've played rebirth, you're probably thinking: "Why?!" And for those of you whom haven't, you're probably thinking: "Why??"

It's simple, this character is so ass that when things are actually going well, it feels amazing. Letting the CPU control Annie? Rookie mistake. Playing as this character with 3 CPUs? Terrible. Playing as this character with mf's who don't understand the mechanics? Torture. But when the stars align, and you get at least ONE more human to play with who knows how rebirth's battle system works and respects it... Annie is great.

I can place down a circle that deals damage, I can spawn one that follows me or follows the enemy. I can place one that won't go away immediately, I can place a BIG one. I can revive my allies. I can whack people, She's perfect! (for co-op anyways)

I could go on for another paragraph about why she's so fun- or even why she's one of the worst party members ever... so instead Im going to talk about her as a character in the story instead.

At first glance Annie's arc is pretty as it comes, (as in you get one small moment in a town, then maybe in the next, or maybe not) but if you dig a little deeper, and literally wait until you're in the middle of the final dungeon then you can read her diary. You get so much insight into her thoughts. 55 chapters of stuff like: 'what its like to be 1 of 2 women in a party full of men?', 'what's it feel like to travel with her father's killer?', 'her impression of Veigue, her impression of Tytree, her impression on Milhaust', 'Annie's thoughts on Major story events.' I believe the only other time, we've gotten a diary in this series- that we could *read* and has this much content is In Abyss with Luke. and its completely optional.

But what isn't optional is her role in the story- and i think they knocked it out of the park. Its clear that Annie is supposed to be the annoying racist girl, and I mean- she is... but not really. Annie hates Gajuma, but she actually hates Eugene... but she can't even bring herself to fully hate Eugene because well... he's Eugene. All of her racist acts and statements in the game happen because she's really trying to convince herself that she DOES hate Eugene.

I could go on for a lot longer but Ive already written 6 paragraphs (which I didn't think I could do) but I love this character more then I thought I did, so... here you go. TL;DR: Annie Barrs is a top 10 tales character.

Minus 3 games that is, I have Destiny coming in the mail on Tuesday and I have Legendia and Abyss in my storage unit somewhere.

How am I doing?

I've been playing TOB lately, though I still haven't finished it lol.

I spend most of my time running around🤪, but the character interactions are so cute.
Velvet is still my favorite, of course!

I also posted her on X and Pixiv! Hope y'all like this piece!

My friend wanted to play Tales of Berseria on his Thor and couldn’t get it to work. So, I used my Thor for testing and created this fix to allow playing the game on Thor via GameNative

https://github.com/KraftMacAndChee/Berseria-Thor-GameNativeFix/