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Tales of Arise – Beyond the Dawn releases 9th November 2023.
Tales of Arise – Beyond the Dawn releases 9th November 2023.
Yes, it's an expansion.This is an expansion, right? Surely not the next major Tales title.
This is an expansion, right? Surely not the next major Tales title.
But why.gifYes, it's an expansion.
Same feelings. Make a new entry and move onOh, this news is kind of lame. Was hoping for a completely new entry. Although the game looked nice, I didn’t care for it as much as some last games, like Vesperia or Berseria. Was really hoping to go adventuring with a whole new group of people. I haven’t watch the trailer yet, so maybe it will be OK, but my initial reaction is that it’s kind of lame.
Oh, this news is kind of lame. Was hoping for a completely new entry. Although the game looked nice, I didn’t care for it as much as some last games, like Vesperia or Berseria. Was really hoping to go adventuring with a whole new group of people. I haven’t watch the trailer yet, so maybe it will be OK, but my initial reaction is that it’s kind of lame.
Have they fixed the shitty performance mode on PS5??
So the horrible pop in is still there lolThe game has not received any performance patches since launch, no.
So the horrible pop in is still there lol
I've only played the demo on PS5. I played the full game on SX in the Quality mode cause it's almost always within the VRR range, don't recall noticing any egregious pop-in, maybe that's different in Performance vs Quality mode. I cannot say for sure.
Arise sucked. The sooner we can leave that in the dust the better. Also the "I'm gonna make everyone equal" story has been played to death.
Mid on the whole (my ranking is Vesperia>Graces>Berseria>Zestiria>Abyss>Arise>Symphonia>Xillia or something close). The game does allot of stuff right and allot wrong. Off the top of my head:
+Presentation's on a whole other level. The world is so much bigger than before and the combat is as flashy as Tales has ever been.
+Sakuraba swung and hit this time. Most of his music is really good - particular shoutouts to the main battle theme and the dynamic tracks in major dungeons that switch gears depending on whether you're in the field or battle.
+Start of the story is decently exciting and the main duo have good chemistry. I dig the Utena callback and the fire sword in general.
-Ironically, the mixing is kind of garbage, making the awesome tracks not as easy to hear as they should be and somehow Bandai doesn't have individual volume sliders for different sounds (music/voice/sfx are the standard three).
-Some elements of the combat interface were annihilated. For god knows what reason, AI instructions for your teammates are not available in this title and you can't... say, instruct your party to attack other monsters on the field instead of the one you're trying to combo. Baffling.
-The rest of the cast did not land with me. Part of this might be related to replacing the 2D animated artwork in skits with their in-game 3D models which have... just so less personality.
-Story falls to pieces by the end, as is often the case in Tales games, but this one's particularly memorable for its mind-numbingly long and tedious cutscenes by the end. Middle section isn't great either.
After giving it a serious go, Arise only looks good imo. The balancing and boss scaling is all over the place. Enough to deter me from wanting to continue playing.I need to play Arise, game looks good and after HZD I'm in a need for non-western stuff lol