Re: Tales Series
Posted: Sat May 04, 2013 3:33 pmSo I just beat Tales of Vesperia. I know I've said it before, the whole deal about "sure, cliches, but still fun, yaddah yaddah..."
But that opinion has been totally reinforced having beaten this one.
Actually, it's raised my opinion of the series even higher, because along with all the cliched fun, Vesperia actually manages to present things I didn't expect as well.
Dare I say it, the ending was actually inventive and legitimately compelling, conceptually. The cliche that often gets brought up about the series, the one involving the spunky young girl who happens to be the sacrificial "chosen one"... it's present here, but it pretty much becomes moot at a certain point.
Instead, the ending deals with something much more interesting and dire:
It's a really interesting concept, and the still pictures shown throughout the ending credits do an excellent job of portraying the events that happen afterward.
There are other things I could go on about too (such as Yuri being a really different kind of character for a Tales protagonist, or the fate of the main "villain" being a little different than you might expect), but I think it's easier to just say it was a great little experience, and it's just made me love the series even more than I did before.
Before this year, I'd only actually beaten two games in the series (Symphonia and Abyss), but I'd played enough of the rest of the series (about half of Phantasia, roughly 15 hours of Legendia) to legitimately qualify it as something I love. But now having beaten both Tales of Destiny and Tales of Vesperia in the same year, it really has elevated into one of my favorite series.
Trying to decide whether I should start in on Tales of Graces f, or if I should just try something else entirely at the moment (Ni No Kuni is still sitting there waiting for me).
Oh, and a question for Segata specifically (since I figure he might know, having played so much of the series and being generally knowledgeable about it):
Are any of the Tales games supposed to be related to eachother, like in a "Zelda timeline" kind of way?
I feel like I've heard that idea before, and it seemed plausible having finished this one now, and seeing how
Just a thought. It'd really add something extra to the series as a whole if they were actually meant to be connected in some way.
But that opinion has been totally reinforced having beaten this one.
Actually, it's raised my opinion of the series even higher, because along with all the cliched fun, Vesperia actually manages to present things I didn't expect as well.
Dare I say it, the ending was actually inventive and legitimately compelling, conceptually. The cliche that often gets brought up about the series, the one involving the spunky young girl who happens to be the sacrificial "chosen one"... it's present here, but it pretty much becomes moot at a certain point.
Instead, the ending deals with something much more interesting and dire:
It's a really interesting concept, and the still pictures shown throughout the ending credits do an excellent job of portraying the events that happen afterward.
There are other things I could go on about too (such as Yuri being a really different kind of character for a Tales protagonist, or the fate of the main "villain" being a little different than you might expect), but I think it's easier to just say it was a great little experience, and it's just made me love the series even more than I did before.
Before this year, I'd only actually beaten two games in the series (Symphonia and Abyss), but I'd played enough of the rest of the series (about half of Phantasia, roughly 15 hours of Legendia) to legitimately qualify it as something I love. But now having beaten both Tales of Destiny and Tales of Vesperia in the same year, it really has elevated into one of my favorite series.
Trying to decide whether I should start in on Tales of Graces f, or if I should just try something else entirely at the moment (Ni No Kuni is still sitting there waiting for me).
Oh, and a question for Segata specifically (since I figure he might know, having played so much of the series and being generally knowledgeable about it):
Are any of the Tales games supposed to be related to eachother, like in a "Zelda timeline" kind of way?
I feel like I've heard that idea before, and it seemed plausible having finished this one now, and seeing how
Just a thought. It'd really add something extra to the series as a whole if they were actually meant to be connected in some way.
