It's nothing major but it's still often relevant to the fight or story event that led up to the fight. It's a shame there's no subtitles for those.
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Tales of Vesperia "Definitive Edition" |OT| Yeah, that one....
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It's nothing major but it's still often relevant to the fight or story event that led up to the fight. It's a shame there's no subtitles for those.
Replaying the first part of the game has made me come around a little bit on Karol, because in hindsight this stuff is so obvious but when I played it the first time I couldn't get past how annoying and unnecessarily boastful Karol always was. But Yuri sees through all of it immediately and understands it for the kid insecurity it actually is, and it makes me feel like I should've been a better person and figured that out myself.
I'm still looking forward to Rita roasting Karol constantly, though. I'm only human.
Karol runs a fine line between being a well written kid you sympathize with, as well as an annoying little twerp where it's fun to watch him suffer.
and yeah Yuri and Karol deepening brotherly relationship is one of the highlights of Vesperia's writing.
Yup and he was the 360 demo boss as well l never get why this is like that.
One question, does the game have any sort of affection system with the party members like in Symphonia, and if yes does it matter like with the Flanoir scenes ?
Despite my lavish praise for Vesperia's OST earlier, yeah, the standard battle themes are just standard Sakuraba fare. (You'd think a track called "Furnace of War" would be more...imposing? Oh well.)
I rather like the boss themes, though -- The Wise One and the standard boss theme come to mind.
(Also, what is with them reusing that Giganto Monster theme? lol)
No, it doesn't.
That's the one omission I always have found strange from Team Symphonia. Why didn't they try and re-integrate the affection system? It made subsequent playthroughs much more interesting in Symphonia. I also hardly see anyone ever really mention it, so maybe fans don't care as much?
The end-of-battle scenes are much more interesting to me than the skits have been so far. Just hit Nordopolica, grinding out new weapons skills outside.
Yea its a shame, I enjoyed the idea in Symphonia.
Also yea Estelle and Rita are totally a thing I don't care.
Honestly Rita is just the best, I love that snarkiness, poor Karol.
I cannot believe they didn't adjust Gattsuo for this expansion (or the PS3 one, I guess) -- even when switched to easy it's a doozy.
Running short on time here so no regrets on my difficulty switch. One day I'll overcome those poison fangs/absurd rushes/dizziness bouts on Normal. One day.
Running short on time here so no regrets on my difficulty switch. One day I'll overcome those poison fangs/absurd rushes/dizziness bouts on Normal. One day.
Lmao I only JUST learned that after the fight.
By far my favorite Yuri arte.
Wow also re: Gattuso. Playing on Hard, lvl 13 and stood no chance. Just used one of the +5 lvl DLC items so I'm lvl 18 and I managed to take out the cubs easy but I still lost, tho managed to take down half his health this time. Taking a break but I'll be back at him.
Thats exactly what i did as well. It is also important to set up the right strats and formations for your ai.
Hard mode of this game kinda sucks in the second half. I enjoy it well enough in the first half and it's not frustrating or really even hard at all, it's just that HP values start to scale up significantly for whatever reason (encourage more Fatal Strikes?) and you basically have to fight through waves of damage sponges.
Unknown kinda sucks for the same reason really and basically pushes the HP value problem earlier into the game. A moderate inbetween setting would have been perfect for this game.
I've gone through it at different difficulties, on fresh files, ng+ files, etc. and never thought it was that bad personally.
Unknown kinda sucks for the same reason really and basically pushes the HP value problem earlier into the game. A moderate inbetween setting would have been perfect for this game.
I've gone through it at different difficulties, on fresh files, ng+ files, etc. and never thought it was that bad personally.
it has framerate issues, can crash from time to time, but if it's your only choice or you really want it portable is passable from what I heard.
Yes, and sometimes it will crash after you select a language when starting it.
I was hoping Digital Foundry would compare all the different versions since this is the first time a Tales game has released on so many platforms simultaneously.
I don't think I've ever played a an Unknown mode in this series that didn't suck.
Or they could've simply made the enemies harder without multiplying their health pool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQKDy9hOOOo
It's hovering at ~50fps in towns and never reaches 60fps.
It's even worse in overworld map, but it's way more stable in combat and manage to hold 60fps.
I thought outside battle it was 30 FPS? Any way to cap frame rate?
Destiny remake and Graces probably have the best hardest difficulties due to all the subsystems making some fun ways to break the game.
Subsystems aside it also helps that you get more EXP and better drops rates for upgrades in Graces. Man I'm really starting to miss playing Graces after 25 hours of this lol.
Never played Vesperia before but just got my game delivered today from Amazon. I've played Symphonia, Legendia, Abyss, Xillia 1&2, and Berseria so I'd say I'm experienced enough with the series. I'm really liking it so far. It has a kind of charm that was definitely present in the Team Symphonia games that hasn't really been there in the last few Tales entries. Also the music is definitely in that older style and makes me feel pretty nostalgic.
Switch performance is okay, can kinda chug along outside of battle and I had one crash right after a skit after like 3 hours of playing. But portability is super nice.
Switch performance is okay, can kinda chug along outside of battle and I had one crash right after a skit after like 3 hours of playing. But portability is super nice.
Considering how widespread the crashing issues seem to be, I'm surprised I haven't had a single one so far. The game does hitch up a bit whenever I put on some of the DLC cosutmes, but other than that no noticeable issues.
This is true. A few of them like Rebirth, the Destiny Remake, and Graces show more effort in that the difficulty settings are more about testing how much you understand the mechanics than overcoming massive HP/Defense stats, and they'll even give you different abilities and bonuses that alter or speed up character progression, so that can be fun if you're into the RPG side of these games. Destiny in particular also throws in a bunch of extra challenge modes and bonuses on top of that so you can test your skills without touching stats and open up some cool tricks and combos you couldn't do otherwise.
Overall though yeah, in most of the games it just feels like overinflated stats (some being bigger offenders than others, Abyss...) and even in the ones that put in some actual effort they inevitably have a handful of fights where the balance is pretty much totally busted and you need ridiculously good precision and execution to win.
I cannot stress how much being able to backdash is a game-changer. Feels like I can actually *move* now.
Ah, I need help! :( I somehow messed the combat camera all up and there seems no way to reset it back to normal, or I'm too dumb to.
It happened when I was trying a few things out with character combat strategies, formation and camera settings during combat, as a result the camera is now zoomed out far each battle and if I try to zoom back in with with square L2 or reset the camera with square L3 nothing happens. Strangely, changing the camera angle with square R2 works. I reset all character combat strategies and formations in case I messed up something there, but no use either. I went into the game options and reset everything and I closed the game and started it again, but I am still stuck with the zoomed out camera and being unable to change anything but camera angle. Is this a bug? I'm already thinking of starting the game entirely anew. :(
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It's even weirder now, it only applies to Yuri, with every other character the combat camera works normal.
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Here's a pic of how far the camera is zoomed out with Yuri, even though I stand right next to the targeted enemy:
It happened when I was trying a few things out with character combat strategies, formation and camera settings during combat, as a result the camera is now zoomed out far each battle and if I try to zoom back in with with square L2 or reset the camera with square L3 nothing happens. Strangely, changing the camera angle with square R2 works. I reset all character combat strategies and formations in case I messed up something there, but no use either. I went into the game options and reset everything and I closed the game and started it again, but I am still stuck with the zoomed out camera and being unable to change anything but camera angle. Is this a bug? I'm already thinking of starting the game entirely anew. :(
Edit:
It's even weirder now, it only applies to Yuri, with every other character the combat camera works normal.
Edit2:
Here's a pic of how far the camera is zoomed out with Yuri, even though I stand right next to the targeted enemy:
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I'm kinda glad that newer Tales games don't have the segments where you're by yourself and have to go track down all the team members 1-on-1 to have a conversation with them before the story advances. I didn't mind it back in the day but it seems unnecessary now.
Try opening the battle menu then pressing startAh, I need help! :( I somehow messed the combat camera all up and there seems no way to reset it back to normal, or I'm too dumb to.
It happened when I was trying a few things out with character combat strategies, formation and camera settings during combat, as a result the camera is now zoomed out far each battle and if I try to zoom back in with with square L2 or reset the camera with square L3 nothing happens. Strangely, changing the camera angle with square R2 works. I reset all character combat strategies and formations in case I messed up something there, but no use either. I went into the game options and reset everything and I closed the game and started it again, but I am still stuck with the zoomed out camera and being unable to change anything but camera angle. Is this a bug? I'm already thinking of starting the game entirely anew. :(
Edit:
It's even weirder now, it only applies to Yuri, with every other character the combat camera works normal.
Edit2:
Here's a pic of how far the camera is zoomed out with Yuri, even though I stand right next to the targeted enemy:
In that picture, did you make Repede set to 'Manual'? (I thought this meant it would put a '2p' by his icon, but maybe not??)
I love the boss theme, though i don't remember it being looped so strangely in the original version.
Anyway I just finished Keiv Moc, and I can't quite tell if Raven's original VA returned. He sounds a little rusty if he did (in the scenes with Don as you're leaving).
He did. I think everyone seems to have gotten back in the roles pretty well even if you can sometimes hear octave differences.
Judith didn't come back which is the only other big one from what I can tell. I'm pretty sure Repede is also different since his growls and stuff are totally different in new scenes/skits, but idk who "voiced" him before, lol.
