Got mine this morning and have been playing it. So far it's meeting and surpassing all my expectations as the true followup to my favorite rpg of 2005(4?). I didn't play the demo because of the bad word of mouth and I like going into rpgs fresh, but man the graphics are SOOOOO gorgeous. This game is beautiful. There's also a TON of polish. Does not feel rushed at all, but rather fine-tuned, which is a surprise for a next-gen title sadly.
Am SO HAPPY the d-pad AI shortcuts are in. Too many Tales games don't have these and it's ridiculous. I love Tales games where I can tell the party to CHARGE and then when you see the enemy windup a close quarters major attack I hit left on the d-pad and tell them to RETREAT and the AI doesn't get fucked up and I have to heal them like SO MANY STUPID GAMES where you hate your AI friends.
Also the battles have a little more depth and challenge than usual for Tales games. I am surprised! ...and it's fun! The secret missions by beating certain battles certain ways is pretty cool if your not an achievement crazed person who is going to try to get them all and instead you just get rewarded sometimes when you do something cool
Do titles do anything? I like when titles have real effects, but I don't see any.
Like always the sound mix is really bad on default and you can hardly hear the voices when there is music or sound effects. Luckily during music/SE down a notch remedies that.
My only complaint so far is that Yuri runs a little slow. I wish he had a turbo sprint like in LO. Also 60fps exploration would have been nice but...I'm really happy with the visuals so I'll take what I've got.
Next-gen TALES IS HERE!!
I'm really digging this right now. So far I really have no complaints and everything is just really good.
Definitely the best opening for a Tales game yet. Abyss's first few hours were kinda mediocre, so this is a very nice improvement.
The battle system is really great coming from the Wii KoR's molestation of the Abyss battle system.
Lo pone muy bien (demasiado bien)
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