He was shaping up to be my favorite character, this is good news that he will likely be in my party anyway
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Tales of Zestiria Tokyo Game Show story trailer (+pre-order Mystic Artes)
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He was shaping up to be my favorite character, this is good news that he will likely be in my party anyway
Sorey/Alisha/Mikleo/Lailah master race
keisuke999
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Maybe I'm thinking of when you take the wagons to a new location, but I think it was free.
Anyway, I think it depends on how much they charge, too. I mean, money isn't exactly scarce in Tales games.
GaGaGariya
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We believe in gender representation around here, even though that means no POOR HUBERT GOTTA HEAL skit.
I prefer main healer character to be a cute girl. Oh, well.
VanillaCakeIsBurning
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I think when they say you have 1 human and 3 tenzoku with only 2 partcipating in battle, they mean that you can only have one tenzoku out but you can switch them out in the middle of battle. I'm pretty sure there is footage of them doing this.
Hours Left
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I hope there's at least one other decent healer, because Mikleo is at the bottom of my list of characters I wanna use.
I think Graces is what they're taking from for shops. As far as I've seen they're unique. I didn't really like the idea though because shops only have so much stuff, you end up having to buy swords over and over or something to level them up. :/
Cooking is also kinda weird in this game because there's two major categories of food. There's the stuff you eat at inns, and party members can also make snacks which I assume works anywhere. The Inn food seems to work like in Graces, where it'll activate before/during/after a battle depending on its activation conditions, their example of a snack effect is a stat buff. Doesn't sound as fun to set up as recipes in the Eleth Pot, but we'll see if they manage to get the two to work together in interesting ways...
VanillaCakeIsBurning
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Just the tenzoku/seraph members it seems.
Considering that Xillia was released unfinished, I assume that mechanically Zestiria will automatically be better since I'm assuming it's a finished product.
Xillia's world was way more appealing to me, though.
I'm waiting on import impressions on this. Then again, the localization is probably far enough out to give me plenty of time to decide on whether or not I want to get this.
Yeah, there are some real stinkers in that list.
Shop ranks are dumb, but I'm interested in that item fusing system which sounds a bit like synthesis in Graces f. Same with that eating can only be done in inns nonsense. They need to provide massive bonuses to entice anyone to keep up with that nonsense. That "Can only have a balanced number of humans and Tenzoku" party is super dumb and artificially restricts party composition (best hope is for a Grade store item that turns that shit off). I wonder if that also means there won't be any Nakariki dolls?
Battle Acts and Support Talent seems like it could be good, but I'd have to see it first hand to confirm. And now we get 2 (3?) gauges to juggle so that's nice.
Shop ranks are dumb, but I'm interested in that item fusing system which sounds a bit like synthesis in Graces f. Same with that eating can only be done in inns nonsense. They need to provide massive bonuses to entice anyone to keep up with that nonsense. That "Can only have a balanced number of humans and Tenzoku" party is super dumb and artificially restricts party composition (best hope is for a Grade store item that turns that shit off). I wonder if that also means there won't be any Nakariki dolls?
Battle Acts and Support Talent seems like it could be good, but I'd have to see it first hand to confirm. And now we get 2 (3?) gauges to juggle so that's nice.
The battle system is sounding really, really tasty (aside the whole broken multiplayer/2 human + 2 Tenzoku limit mess):
- Spirit Chain allows for anything between (at high SC) an defensive (strong defensive, weak offensive, fast recovery rate, high activation rate of bonus effects) or (at low SC) offensive (vice versa) approach.
- Blast Gauge is like a "you do too bad, so you get to do cool stuff" gauge, so there is the choice in exploiting the battle system correctly (an advantage in itself) or doing badly but (potentially) getting more access to Fusion and Battle Acts bonuses.
- Consistent linking is being rewarded: Reduced SC consumption for linking Tokugi attacks. Increased damage for linking Ougi attacks. Increased stagger time for linking Tenkyoujutsu. Any linking additionally reduces casting time, so casters should gain immensely from an unbroken chain.
- Hitting weaknesses reduces spent SC by 30% and increases damage, hitting a resistance on the other hand lowers damage and slows down the SC recovery rate.
TVCM part 2
http://youtu.be/5zHl5zYRL3E
http://youtu.be/5zHl5zYRL3E
Doesn't Zestiria have multiplayer? I always play my Tales of Games with a friend.
Falk, you glorious troll. =D
Edit: Forgot to mention, Warner Music, that is publishing the soundtrack (http://vgmdb.net/album/49509) to the game in February, is advertising it with a video interview with one of its composers (I expect them to do one with the other one as well): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R23f0Vughk4
Ever played Xillia 1/2 battles with more than 2 players? Zestiria's broken multiplayer is already predictably even more restricted than X1 and possibly comparable to X2.
Edit: Forgot to mention, Warner Music, that is publishing the soundtrack (http://vgmdb.net/album/49509) to the game in February, is advertising it with a video interview with one of its composers (I expect them to do one with the other one as well): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R23f0Vughk4
Well, I see the fusion system as an evolution of the links in Xillia. And I actually find it better. Inrstead of linking with everybody you only link with tenzouku.
So at least you should be able to play 2 player Co op without worrying that your friend would be kicked off you link with him.
Chaos2Frozen
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Did they secretly removed Alisha as the main Heroine? Unless they're planning to do a Hearts and have her absent for the first 1/4 of the game.
Speaking of Alisha, if she's unable to gattai with the Tenzoku, what's her special ability?
Yes, 2 players, if the 2nd player sticks with the second human, if there is a second human in the team at all, that is...
The team selection limitations a gross compared to Xillia 1 (which even allowed to swap char in and out of the team), doesn't affect single player much, but with more players you run into restrictions even faster now in Zestiria. Still somewhat better than the single player Chromatus in Xillia 2 I guess.
Nightengale
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grandjedi6
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coughshe'llturnintoadragoncough
She's the real traitor.
If there is something that I really liked in Xillia was being able to swap party members on the fly. I didn't like when Xillia 2 removed it.
The human characters are Sorey, Alisha and Rose, right?
Have you seen the OVA?
It finishes with Alisha leaving the Tenzoku village. Sorey and Mikleo deduct that the bad spirit that looks like a Fox is going after her and decide to follow her.
Maybe that dude
kidnaps her and the king, which could be his father, gives him the task to save her after he gets that magical sword that is inside a rock.
Chaos2Frozen
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Yes we played Xillia 1+2 together and it was fun. More than two people doesn't work with this system, but 2 players are fine.
I'm joking. But who knows, it might happen~
Schreckstoff
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So will the MC be just another total pushover?
No, he is Jesus this time around.
If he was Jesus the party could eat food on the fields. At least bread and fish.
lmao
Rose video official one by Bandai Namco
http://youtu.be/AnOTNdlj-MM
They also posted bunch of videos
http://youtu.be/AnOTNdlj-MM
They also posted bunch of videos
What's her weapon? Knives. My phobe screen is too small to see what she's using.
Dual knives like Yosuke in P4.
Looks like I know who I'm going to main. Always have to go with the dual wielders.
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Oh shit, only two days until release, almost forgot. I'm actually really looking forward to this because it feels like an eternity since the last Tales- game came out.
dakkumauji
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So it looks like Slay's and Rose's kamui forms just looks differently. What a shame though expected.
lol at the Tipo umbrella
Those Blue Exorcist outfits are too good.
lol at the Tipo umbrella
Those Blue Exorcist outfits are too good.
Man I can't get over how dumb that hat guy looks, him and the shirtless guy are really meh.
Pls no
Pls no
gamergirly
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装甲悪鬼村正;148158182 said:
Not too long
I can't believe it's been that long. I was studying for finals as a freshman when Graces came out!
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And two months! That's enough downtime to whet my appetite for another entry. Udo and Go Shiina should make this worth playing.
So I take it that the person who developed the Xillia/Vesperia combat is probably working on the game to be released after this one? They alternate and whatnot.
mfw I'm not a nihongojiner and will never be able to enjoy games unless they are translated while everyone else who knows Japanese/is from Japan will be able to enjoy them
Why live friends?
Real talk though, everyone who is getting the Japanese copy, will you share your impressions in a thread?
Why live friends?
Real talk though, everyone who is getting the Japanese copy, will you share your impressions in a thread?
I feel there is no real alternating anymore (though there are enough to create new groups).
The battle programmers of Vesperia haven't been seen since. Battle planning for Xillia 1 was done by the Vesperia lead planner (Kenji Anabuki) who returned as director for Xillia 2. On programming side battles had support by an newbie (Masaya Ito, possibly from Arc Rise Fantasia), the battle programmer for Narikiri Dungeon X (Masahiro Fuke), the assistant battle programmer for Destiny PS2 and Graces (Hirokazu Kagawa) and a long time Namco support programmer on Tales games (Takahiro Yamase). For Xillia 2 Fuke did battle planning, Yamase battle programming, the Nakiri Dungeon X support battle planner (Naoto Takizawa) was support battle programmer, and Tatsuro Udo was among the general support planners. Kagawa was likely already working on Zestiria at that point.
I blame you. WHY?!
dakkumauji
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Are you now going to import a copy too?
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