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Tales of Xillia 2 |OT| Return of the Bazongas
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Hours Left
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Well, Xillia sorta lacks in both those areas. Graces has a way better battle system, and much more extra content but some of the characters are lame (the MC, particularly), and the story is a paint by numbers cliche.
Xillia alternatively has way better characters, story and production values, and Xillia 2 improves on a lot of the first game's faults. But you'd want to play them in order.
If your a Tales fan in general, they're all worth playing IMO.
okay i can still buy it then
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
Hopefully Leia stay away from Jude.
Honestly girl, you are awesome and you can do much better than a guy who doesn't even bat an eye on you, bah.
Honestly girl, you are awesome and you can do much better than a guy who doesn't even bat an eye on you, bah.
You won't have to worry about the ending stuff. They're pretty obvious and in no way Megaten-like on getting them.
And I hope preorders get the DLC, but I dunno. Kinda sucks since I missed out on ToX DLC in JP but got it in the US version, so it might be vice versa for me this time around.
dakkumauji
Member
You have choices to make but that's about it. It's not very good since the other characters talk to you, he responds to them, but you never hear it.
IIRC, it's mostly choices near the end and how much often you use your corpse shell mode. It's not as bad as something like an Atelier game.
BassForever
Member
Not sure when I'll get around to playing this, taking on 3 40+ hour JRPGs in a row BEFORE I get to Xillia 2 is gonna suck up a lot of free time (Trails in the Sky -> Persona 3 FES-> Persona 4)
Why would you do that?
Member
I was looking forward to the game but never cared to remember the release date because I knew I'd see this OT. 
Though reading the OP, the fact that you revisit all the areas really soured me... I really liked Xillia, but the one thing I didn't like was traveling the world, specifically those fields. I won't mind revisiting the game if the fields were different at least...
Eh, I'll still get it.
Though reading the OP, the fact that you revisit all the areas really soured me... I really liked Xillia, but the one thing I didn't like was traveling the world, specifically those fields. I won't mind revisiting the game if the fields were different at least...
Eh, I'll still get it.
Damn. Guess I'll keep my CE then. Not interested in anything in it besides the steel case and costumes though
With the side content it seems it's longer than Xillia 1 overall.
Spoilers (no actual story content though):
The endings you get are based on choices made in the last two or three hours or in post-game content and they aren't particularly vague. You can get every ending the game has in the same playthrough without having to do anything particularly elaborate.
dude man I think we're too easily pleased.
thanks.
srsly tho hate games with more than one endings. I give SMT and Atelier passes cuz they're like the highest echelon of gaming.
ShadowgeistX
Member
Count me in as one of the morons who preordered the overpriced CE. =(
I was compelled to do it, I have no idea why either. Nice OT though, can't wait for the game to arrive!
Disappointing. :/
I hope they don't continue with that then in the future. I find silent protagonists a bit annoying even in Half Life and LoZ never mind rpgs which has more focus on story and character interaction.
names2hard4you
Member
Although I'm not as hyped as I should for this, I want to continue the story. It's just that there's so much stuff coming out, I feel like I'm on a schedule lol. Still, if it's anything like Xillia 1, which I too wasn't that hyped for, I remember I played it the first day thought it was ok, then the more I played the more I got into it.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
I was looking forward to the game but never cared to remember the release date because I knew I'd see this OT.
Though reading the OP, the fact that you revisit all the areas really soured me... I really liked Xillia, but the one thing I didn't like was traveling the world, specifically those fields. I won't mind revisiting the game if the fields were different at least...
Eh, I'll still get it.
It seems like I am the only person in the whole wide world that actually rather enjoy Xillia's world map system, especially with all those treasure chests and glowing things and stuff; marvelous stuff for an collect-a-thon crazy like myself, hahahaha.
It's nice for leveling up too.
Oh and we're still at page 2 of a fresh new thread and we already get black bars. Geezz louizeee.
Hibiki Kurosawa
Member
GIVE! ME! THIS! NOW!
I have my CE pre-ordered from months ago and I'm more than ready for it! This is my most anticipated game of the year, so give it to me now, dammit!
I have my CE pre-ordered from months ago and I'm more than ready for it! This is my most anticipated game of the year, so give it to me now, dammit!
Hours Left
Member
I'm so mad at myself. I kept putting off ordering the CE because I was hoping for a confirmation of the DLC being in the standard edition, but when we got no word, they'd already stopped the CE pre-orders in Canada.
I'm going to be really pissed if that's the only way you can get them, but I asked a Namco rep about the possibility of the DLC being with the regular release, and I got no answer.
>_<
I'm going to be really pissed if that's the only way you can get them, but I asked a Namco rep about the possibility of the DLC being with the regular release, and I got no answer.
>_<
TheGreatLugia
Banned
Xillia is probably my favorite Tales game so I'm really looking forward to next week.
dakkumauji
Member
From what's been seen in Tales of Zesteria, it looks like they went with the most expressive main character I seen yet with SLAY.
BassForever
Member
But now 2 of the party members are always forced into the party
1 step foward 2 steps back
Tales of in a nut shell
Can you not just import it from Amazon.com? It says it can be shipped to select countries outside the US. However, I'm not really sure whether it has a block like some Amazon EU stores have on shipping to other european countries with an Amazon store.
Well, I figure the main series is pretty safe anyway in terms of those kind of changes, I don't think they'd ever do many drastic changes to that.
I'm still a bit worried about Zesteria's characters, due to different designers they all kind of seem out of place next to each other. xD
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
Hours Left
Member
Maybe, but that would be really expensive. The conversion + shipping for just some DLC costumes seems a bit silly, especially since that's all I really want.
I don't understand why Namco can't just give a confirmation on whether or not the standard edition will have the DLC, like it did last time, and like they're doing in Europe.
It's a really lame situation. :/
Jazzy Network
Member
Xilia was ok. Hope this is at least just as good.
I'm sorry, I'm kinda forced to buy PSN Gift Cards.
Finding US$10 cards is kinda of a pain
isn't that just the first print run?
Ah right fair enough. It doesn't seem like Namco is doing the day one edition in the NA for whatever reason. I don't particularly get why but I guess that's bamco for you. :/
If the Canadian Amazon store is anything like the UK one, I'd recommend you keep checking the page a few days before release. They usually release all the cancelled orders to be available again around the time they're about to start shipping them out. That's if you are interested in getting the CE just for the costumes anyway.
I think Xillia's is a good idea with lame execution. I'd prefer it to look more interesting and be more complex and interconnected, less like a Mario map I guess and more like a Metroid one. There were some hints of branching early on at least, but it didn't seem like that went too far.
Hours Left
Member
I'll keep checking, but I'd rather not have to buy it at all. I'm really hoping the standard edition as the DLC too.
If not, I'll look to see if anyone wants to sell their DLC codes for $20.
It's worth a try. I'm playing it now and the primary flaws are that the environment lacks personality and there are a couple infuriatingly annoying characters. Overall so far it's pretty good but not essential.
Laughing Banana
Weeping Pickle
No, no, I meant, is that really going to be the price for this game? 50 to 60 bucks? For some reason I am expecting more of a 40 or 40 something range... hmm.
If you don't hate Gamestop, you can have them print out 10 dollar codes there.
Xenoflare
Member
Uhhh this game is the $59.99 game in the US, just like it's predecessor.
All the other Tales games launched at full price, except Symphonia HD. European price seems to be a tiny but cheaper than normal, so maybe $50US if you're lucky.
They also price drop/go on sale reasonably quickly. Can always hold off. I bought Symphonia HD at full price, still haven't touched it, now it's on sale for like $10. Graces has gone that cheap and I think Xillia did $20.
Namco took a picture of the CE contents. They will have an unboxing video soon:
https://www.facebook.com/BandaiNamc...1.49054165628/10152599408560629/?type=1&fref=
https://www.facebook.com/BandaiNamc...1.49054165628/10152599408560629/?type=1&fref=
Symphonia Chronicles was 40, if I'm correct, but that was an HD Remaster game.
Just checked Amazon, and Xillia 2 seems to be full price.
BassForever
Member
I will say this, Xillia's world felt more realistic
When wandering around in the wilderness I mostly expect barren fields filled with odd bits of things scattered about
When wandering around in the wilderness I mostly expect barren fields filled with odd bits of things scattered about
ChickenHunter
Member
Completely forgot this was coming out so soon.
Anyone know how the soundtrack is? Is it more of the same Tales of stuff, or does it sound like how Elympios did in the first game? I'd really dig a jazzy Tales of Soundtrack.
Anyone know how the soundtrack is? Is it more of the same Tales of stuff, or does it sound like how Elympios did in the first game? I'd really dig a jazzy Tales of Soundtrack.
Xenoflare
Member
Yeah. Day one edition is EU only.