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10 month later, still haven't figured out you mispelled the game title.

How to kill the video: speed up your speech, mumble like Joe Biden and add some loud background music. Done. Totally incomprehensible.

This year I bought Vesperia and Arise for PS4 and never played any Tales of game before. Loved both, did all the side quests, got best weapons etc, just because wanted to spend more time in these worlds. But when I hear from some that Arise is 2/10 and Vesperia is 9/10 games I am surprised, because if looking at any other competition, like Dragon Quest VIII, XI or Xenoblade Chronicles (1st) both games feels unpolished in comparison. Looks like only true fan of series can tell difference by such margin, since series as a whole is mediocrity lacking in at least some aspects in every iteration. Vesperia is far from perfect, even far from really good, and Arise is a tad weaker. There is not that much difference to celebrate one or banish the other.

Not Gonna Lie. Been Playing this Game since I first Pre-ordered it. And Yeah, Bandai-Namco is getting OUT OF HAND With the DLC! The Fact that this Game Has Several Titles That are Purposefully Left off and are Locked Through DLC makes this Entry such a Problem! I Hear there are Even Special Quests that I LOCKED Through DLC! Thank God that isn’t the Case with The Devil Arms Weapons! (But those do need a New Game+ to be unlocked). What Makes this DLC Barrage even Worse is how it Impacts Leveling Up! I Get that the game Needs to Pace itself, but it really Doesn’t help! The Enemies in the game feel like Damage Sponges! So you have to find ways to beef up your levels and Stats to get through Mobs of enemies! This isn’t made any better when you have to struggle to get through Mobs that hit like a Truck while trying to earn levels, SP (skill points), and Materials for crafting. Same for materials. The Other problem is how Expensive By Using Skills and passive powers are when looking at them from the Title boards! And when they start dipping into the Thousands, it forces you to start participating in more Combat. Right Now, all my characters are At LEVEL 55! And I’m at the End portions of the game! Everything is around level 55 to 60+! But this only extends to certain enemies in specific areas! Right now, the Homeworld Rena has the Majority of Strong monsters to Level Gring on. This game has an Accessory/buff item that helps to Beef up each character’s stats with every kill. But it comes in so late. You really need to Craft it early on. But this item is hidden for a Large majority of the game that it’s practically hidden from New players! The other Necessary Items that Need to be Found are Artifacts! As getting those greatly speed up the Level grind! It’s good that these items are included, but this game gets so dull after a while that I found myself falling asleep! The game is interesting when it starts. But by the Time you get into the Second Half after ALphen’s Rival Boss. It becomes a real Drag to get through! As you are Facing off against Bosses and Mid-Bosses with Tanky Hp pools! All While Bamco Continues to Come up with some Really Stupid Ideas! Like Putting some Essential TRaining Arena DLC on THEIR GODDAMN WEBSITE! That is NOW INACCESSIBLE!!! 😮😡

One of the my favourite things about Vesperia is also its visuals. I remember back when it was released on the Xbox 360, I was so entranced by the bright colours and magic (which in my opinion, Vesperia has the best magic in the series by far) that I bought the platform specifically to play this game. Then for years and YEARS I held onto the hope that I’d get to play the full PS3 version. And when the definitive version was announced? I rejoiced.

Phantasia being in D tier has to be bait.

With Abyss the real issue is needing a guide to not miss the titles and sword skills for Guy and Luke. That's so annoying. With Symphonia, probably just like Abyss, the unvoiced skits don't help much. They were voiced in Japanese so what the hell.

The Tales series turns 30 next year, and still no news? That is sad....

Tales of vesperia story was lackluster

I've only currently played Tales of the Abyss, and I loved it. As you've put it towards the top I will listen to your words and play Vesperia next 👍

The fact that they paywalled shit is what makes this Tales of the worst for me, and the people defending this shit are just holyshit braindead. Same take about the boss part, I also think that this battle system is just bad, and that makes me think this game is hardly Tales of Series, I understand some people might enjoy the battle system because they played on easy difficulty, but this on max difficulty is just super spammy crap, and I know Zestiria is also spammy, but at least I got to do cool spam, unlike this one. For the story, if they think that the destroyed Rena planet reveal or plot twist makes me the player surprised, nope, I am utterly disappointed. And don't get me started on the fkin Story DLC. But anything else, like graphics, character design, and their 3d expression overall is a massive improvement.

They wanted to make a Tales game become Dark Souls, and if I wanted to play Dark Souls I'd you know...go play Dark Souls. I personally will not buy another tales game since they seem content on going further down this path.

I've only played about a 1/3rd of the Tales games, but I know whose advice to take when they rank Arise as low as I do. xD

I have to disagree with a lot. The music is fine in both games and the story is still good. But 2's character models are terrible to look at. The combat system in 2 is the worst of the 3. I much preferred 1's over 2. The pacing of, well everything in 2, just wasn't as smooth (as in the mix of story and the side missions. It never felt good to do any of them, but as a completionist, you want to do them...). 1 had such a classic and iconic look and I enjoyed the battle system more. If you played the mini games (which you said you didn't really get into), the mech game was just okay in 1, but really cool it was something you could do. But the card game was actually quite well made for anyone that enjoys TCG's like me. It was really sad to see that left out of 2. KOS-MOS, the best character in the series, while both her 3rd games designs were the best, the 2nd games version of her is by far the worst looking. 1 being a classic and almost as good as the two in 3. I play 2 because it's needed in context from playing 1 and 3. Again, the story is good, but the combat is meh and the sidequests feel like a chore. Note though that this is from someone that still really loves the series and has played the trilogy 4 times thru (and the first game more than that as there were points in life when the sequels were not out yet).

Tales of the Abyss is S Tier… best in the series still

I hope this game gets a rerelease so we can finally play it! Or a fan translation which I am shocked hasn’t happened yet.

I noticed you don't have a Retrospective for Xenoblade Chronicles 3. It feels kind of lacking watching all the other retrospectives for the Xeno-series games only to end and not have the latest game shown. Are you planning on making this?

Did you know. 90%+ of game makers have been involved with hentai. This doesn't just include Japan, but game makes all over the world. Most, especially the older ones, have worked on 18+ content. People finding out about it is just kind of silly and makes one go, "oh you sweet summer child..." If you want to know more of this, a great video to watch is one called "The Real History of Rule 34". It's really good and I recommend looking it up.

I've heard of Xenosaga Freaks before, because I went looking for every Xenosaga game out there. It's sad that Xenosaga Freaks is a Japanese only game. And Xenosaga 3 is a very expensive game. Trying to finish this series for people getting into the franchise nowadays is gonna be hard for them.

I enjoyed tales of arise, bith gameplay and story The thing I don't like about arise is the boss mystic artes mechanic

I need to play more. I played part of Symphonia back in the GameCube day and never finished it and decided to pick up Arise randomly when it came out. It got me through having Covid as no other game could hold my interest at that time. Sad to see it at a C, but agree with that you said. I liked what I played of Beseria and don’t know why I stopped because I liked it.

I 100% agree about Arise combat. Awful

I like both Emil and Marta. Speak for yourself haha. Laura Bailey did a great job once again

Berseria: combat (hi R2 claw spam) Zestiria: equipment system Xillia: nothing Xillia 2: debt system Graces F: nothing Symphonia: EX system Symphonia 2: elemental field system Legendia: random battles, no mini map, combat Abyss: Field of fonons Vesperia: nothing Arise: everything

I think Alexei in on hard mode is harder than Gattuso, he's so much more BS. Alexei will just use Guardian Field and heal chunks of his HP whenever he wants. I fought him for like 15 minutes. Gattuso on hard is beatable at least, I have NO IDEA how to stop Alexei from healing, and worse yet if he goes overlimit, you can't stun him and he might just use Guardian Field and there's nothing you can do about it. I've seen him go overlimit and immediately use Guardian Field or his mystic arte. Barbatos does look completely unfair though, but he looks easier if you use the right strategy. For Alexei you're just praying he doesn't heal himself too much.

Maaan I hated tales of hearts r but it's good to hear that the ds original is better

I absolutely love the graphics...the PS1 and PS2 had some games with a beautiful artstyle, like Legend of Mana, SaGa Frontier, Atelier Iris, Mana Khemia, Ar Tonelico and this game... It would be so wonderful if they would return to this graphicstyle, I can't stand 3D that's why I can't get myself to play the newer Tales and Atelier games no matter how many good things one hears about them :(

I tend to disable voice in Tales of series. Hearing everyone screaming their attacks names kinda ruins my immersion IMHO.

I love Zestiria, it’s a great game.

I’m right there with ya man, I played it a short while after launch since all I heard were great things, and could not understand how it got so much freekin praise. Glad to see someone out there who’s not fawning over it. It’s got an interesting world, but to be honest I couldn’t really connect to any of the characters and felt that the story fell very flat. Seriously I can remember some chunks about the story, but so much of it was either forgettable or just poorly explained in general. That, combined with the fact that I really didn’t like the battle system (for many of the same reasons you describe.) Honestly, this is a game that I would think is mediocre at best as a very generic (albeit very pretty) JRPG. But I think I get additional frustration from the simple fact this is called a “Tales” game when it bears almost no similarities to any of the “Tales” staples… at least none of the ones that matter. Honestly the most “tales” staple that this game has is the skits, and even those were botched, as they made it so that many of the story moments are told via skit… and I just wanna scream, “that’s not what skits are for!! They’re for the simple conversation and interactions between party members as they’re walking down the road! They’re for character development! levity! Introspection! Reflection on past major events!” At the most, skits should show how individual characters are angry or upset about something major in the story - they should NOT be used to convey major moments of the story itself (Berseria also did this, which is why I didn’t care for that game either). At that point, the games more like I’m watching a visual novel, and THAT doesn’t feel like a tales game for me. Oh Sheeze, I went and ranted more than I intended - sorry.

It appears that Tales is in a quiet/uncertain state right now but it’s always on my mind. Rest in peace Inomata.🫡 At least we got a new illustration. I’m patient for the next mainline entry but I want remakes/remasters of all the 2D Tales entries (Phantasia to Rebirth) similar to Final Fantasy Pixel Remaster with many quality of life enhancements and a beginner friendly mode but not quite on the level of Star Ocean 2 remake or the upcoming Dragon Quest III remake, just being realistic here. The current state of Tales is like back in 2022 where barely any 2D fighting games were announced. I was starving for 2D fighter announcements given I’m a huge fan of 2D fighting games, especially the ones that feature an anime art style to it.

I absolutely hate zesteria but I can't deny it does have a good world when its not arbitrarily blocking you. Exploring in zesteria felt really good it's just a shame the combat and story was so bad.

Beseria was good but Xillia 1 and 2 are always top tier in my list. Had the most fun with those games, skits were always funny and hilarious and the characters are so memorable.

I think tales is really a series where each individual’s opinions and preferences are heavily influenced by when they got started. Like many, I got started with the series with Tales of Symphonia - and I think it’s due to my coming in around there that my favorites in order are Graces, Abyss, Symphonia, and Vesperia. The games from that era just all had a similar feel in terms of story, characters, gameplay, world building, etc. so I always feel right at home with them. Xillia was a rough one for me, but I went on to really enjoy Xillia 2. Zestiria ended up being a massive disappointment for me as I could not really connect with the story or the characters, and the gameplay just didn’t do it for me (I remember they made a lot of changes to equipment that made things really boring for me.) then Berseria came out and, for me, it was just as bad as Zestiria. At least the story seemed like it would be more interesting, but even with that, I couldn’t muscle through it because they made the decision to lean so much more into the skits for the story telling. Sure, there were still traditional cutscenes, but do you realize how much of that story is told through skits? And the skits are so looong!! Like minutes upon minutes of watching a visual novel - which, to me, just isn’t what I think of when I think, “tales series” I really hoped Tales of Arise would rope me back in, but for me it wound up being my all time least favorite entry in the series. I just hope thought it was so freaking boring. Couldn’t connect with the characters, wasn’t at all interested in the world, the plot twist kinda fell flat for me, they again went the route of telling a large portion of the story through skits (although not as much as Berseria from what I could tell) and holy man did I dislike the battle system. It was just a big swing and a miss for me. Now these are all my opinions, and like I said, I think for many it depends on where they entered into the series. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are many who came in with Zestiria and loved it, Berseria, and Arise to death. Who knows, they may hate the earlier games. And I’m sure there are plenty of people who just love all of them - shoot, I’m positive there are plenty of people who trash on Graces, and it’s my personal favorite. To each their own, different strokes for different folks. I’ll hold out for more remasters of my favorites.

Legendia is so underrated. Genuinely my 2nd favorite tales game behind symphonia. The OST is the best in the series

versperia: the overall package. berseria: the story and story telling. zestiria: the sense of wonder and exploration.

Came back to watch this video and I wanna add something on 13:37 - The Project X Zone intro is the very first thing that Studio Trigger worked on, fun fact! That's because during the time of PXZ's development, Studio Trigger was newly formed during that time. It's thanks to Project X Zone that we got Kill La Kill and even the Dungeon Meshi anime!

My favorite part of Tales of Legendia is the OST, now that it's on Spotify I listen to it a lot to relax.

Vesperia at S? Nah man you're tripping

This game series is pretty awesome if you just look at the fact that this game introduces people to some niche characters that most people overlook. Hell project x zone 2 was the one to introduce me to the YAKUZA series since I thought kiryu and majima were cool and I remember getting Yakuza Kiwami on PlayStation plus. I do have to agree though that the game is SOOOO LONG to play and sometimes I have to put down my 3ds and do something else cause your either going to get sinked in on how long you play or you start to get drowsy with the dialog or repetitive gameplay. Excited to see your project x zone 2 video. Man what a journey you’ve had to go on for this series

The only chapter I remember hating back then was the one where you have to chase the goblins in the ghouls and goblins part. I remember when I was a kid that level was the hardest one until I realized I had skills that can give me extra movement 😭

I really liked this review For me learning about about how this game came to fruition was interesting and how they tried to make there own system more different from other tactical games was cool to see and listen to. I had a feeling the game was going to be a long play through but that doesn’t discourage me since I’m learning more of the obscure characters the capcom and banco don’t really show often about. I kinda wanna play it but idk where to get it lol

It really is sad that all the goodwill Berseria & Arise curried, Bandai Namco squandering it. Seriously, why are they so adamant in NOT giving anymore news or releases concerning the Tales series? And in an era were RPGs very far more prominent now. Like they're trying to lose fans here. Anyway, I agree with you in your few statements, if they could combine the best things from the last three Tales games, it'd be something truly amazing! But right now, Bamco has nothing but my ire.

Completely disagree with everything you said about dawn of the new world. It's not S tier but still good for story, characters, and combat. I loved marta and she was voiced by my fave voice actor too Laura Bailey. It's A tier for me That being said you at least put Xillia in S rank. My S rank is the holy trinity of Xillia, Xillia 2, Graces F

I recommend putting the list in the comments section, in order. Thanks for the recommendation

Funny enough I did exactly what you said for Xillia 2. Basically had a family friend going through hard times staying at my grandmas place and I brought my PS3 to play the Xillias with his kid and get him into the series. He didnt have as much time due to school so I just grinded through all the side quests and we played the story bits together. He ended up loving the games.

They need to remake Tales of legendia like they did with Tales of Hearts-R. Full 3d battles, HD graphics. Give Voice acting to the 2nd half of the game. Give the characters actual Mystic artes (one of the games which don't have them for some reason).

I only played Tales of Zestiria, Berseria, Symphonia and beat Vesperia yesterday (all on Steam). For now Berseria takes my top spot. Great Characters, more Casual friendly Combat System, good Story. Zesteria was a little bit all over the place, Vesperia's Combat was a huge step down and focusses more on doing insane combos by manual set up and cancelling, or you will die. Symphonia was really grind heavy and the combat was not fun at all. I still have both the Xillias and Graces F, left on my PS3 to play. As for Arise. I don't know if I want to play it.

15:49 it's funny I got into all of these series before finding out either of them were in ProjectxZone. Tales I've known about as a kid, a good bit before XZone came out. Sakura Wars i didn't find out about until Shin released a few years ago and while i definitely knew of Xzone by then, i didn't know Sakura Wars had characters in it till i was already a cemented fan (seeing Gemini standing next to Yuri was a trip for obvious reasons). And God Eater i also only recently got into like a year ago (still on 1st game) and didn't realize it had characters here until this very video lol. Same for Valkyria Chronicles, especially cool to see they went with 3's main trio, which does make sense since it was the latest at the time, but I'm used to VC1 cast being the darlings lol.