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White Wishes - Tales of Graces F (Spoilerific) Import Thread (now with more PS3!)
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kiryogi said:
The ones in Graces remind me a lot of Destiny 2's, where they go over-the-top with the speed, camera movements, and effects so that even the party's best ones are pretty short, but they're super-extreme.
Kinda preferred the slightly longer, but still speedy ones of Destiny PS2, but oh well.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
Proven said:
They did one for Dragon Quest IX and another for Monster Hunter 3 tri
Wops, didn't notice this thread and posted in the info thread instead.
"Small update from the official website: Looks like you'll find a download code in this weeks issue of Shounen Jump (a weapon for Sophie), and a new challenge battle."
"Small update from the official website: Looks like you'll find a download code in this weeks issue of Shounen Jump (a weapon for Sophie), and a new challenge battle."
Yup, plenty of explanations just like in Vesperia.grandjedi6 said:
MidnightScott
Banned
I guess we'll see this in November 2010 (maybe)
Mockingbird
Member
Proven said:
Just a creator's voice, not an Iwata asks.
As in a basic introduction? How about this? Found it quite insightful for myself even without understanding the text.mugwhump said:
Not sure yet, but I think it's the Blast Caliber gauge rating your offense/defense playing style (increases on successful attacks and defenses, decreases on being hit and running around, depends only on the active character unlike the Arles Gauge). When in Arles Rise (occurs on full blue bar on the left, giving you unlimited CC for its duration) and your BC gauge (or whatever it's officially called) is full you're allowed to make a BC (also called Hi-Ougi or Mystic Arte in past games). The gauge seems to be able to go through multiple levels later one for different BCs where available.mugwhump said:
The multi player footage won't look different from single player ones really. The player will just want to adapt the camera setting (can be done on the fly in battles) which allows to change focus between active characters, all characters (I guess both behave the same if four players play the characters) and whole field. Additionally there's the ability to change the zoom level freely anywhere between close up and bird view-ish.Proven said:
There's some codes out there to get the preorder BoA and ToV costumes, I could post those if it's allowed.
You can't unlock the Hatsune Miku or the Idolmaster costumes without buying the DLC in the in-game shop because they aren't on the disk.
Quick question, what does the "CC+5" or whatever mean when I dodge right when an enemy hits me? I don't think it actually recovers that much CC, right?....I can't tell since I'm still at the beginning of the game.
You can't unlock the Hatsune Miku or the Idolmaster costumes without buying the DLC in the in-game shop because they aren't on the disk.
Quick question, what does the "CC+5" or whatever mean when I dodge right when an enemy hits me? I don't think it actually recovers that much CC, right?....I can't tell since I'm still at the beginning of the game.
FSLink said:There's some codes out there to get the preorder BoA and ToV costumes, I could post those if it's allowed.
You can't unlock the Hatsune Miku or the Idolmaster costumes without buying the DLC in the in-game shop because they aren't on the disk.
Quick question, what does the "CC+5" or whatever mean when I dodge right when an enemy hits me? I don't think it actually recovers that much CC, right?....I can't tell since I'm still at the beginning of the game.
Correct you are actually recovering that much CC. As I said before, they reward you for using Around Step. I mean heck, if you start off battle and just dash up and around step to their back, you get CC+1 right there. I need to explain CC further more but I'm back to work again. But I'll update the OP on friday. One thing to note though. your character has a minimum and maximum amount of CC. You always start off battle with that minimum. So let's say Asbel is usually 6~12. Asbel will start off with 6 CC. As you use tactical maneuvers and counterattacks, you'll regain CC and break out from that minimum. Which can eventually hit that max of 12 CC.
FSLink said:
And a little more, that also answers a previous poster's question.
The blue bar below your battle portrait is the critical gauge. It determines how much CC you can regain from your actions. The gauge goes up and down depending on how you're doing and if you're at the lowest point, you actually drop down 1 CC. Also, considering it's name, you can also get a free critical with it.
I'll add this, groovy chat and other bits I missed tomorrow sometime.!
OK OK so A-style attacks have 4 levels, each level has 4 attacks you can do, and you progress linearly through the levels right? If you throw a B-style attack in there do you stay at the same A-style level? How does that work?
And for the critical bar, when it fills it raises your maximum CC for that battle by 1, until your CC reaches its... maximum maximum?
FFFFFF I want this so bad
And for the critical bar, when it fills it raises your maximum CC for that battle by 1, until your CC reaches its... maximum maximum?
FFFFFF I want this so bad
I think I'm at least 2/3s thru now :lol Seems like the typical finish time is around 30-35 hours or so. Typical Team Destiny otherwise. Of course, for me, you add like an additional 20 for exploration and sidequesting. I'm @ the 40 hour mark myself. On another note, it's nice to see Sakuraba revisiting celtic style again. There's also a celtic battle theme in Graces, something he hasn't done since Rebirth I believe.
JustAnotherOtaku
Member
Just got this earlier this morning and, before I start into it, I've been looking for an menu/options translations to get me started. I found a short options translation and was wondering about the difficulties. It seems to be simple, normal, second, hard. What is normal difficulty like? I played Vesperia on its lowest difficulty and was able to comfortably get through it. As this is in Japanese, I would like a similar experience so was thinking of starting on simple but not if it changes anything such as taking over control of my character during battles and so on.
tl;dr: About to start the game, does simple difficulty still give me as much control over my character/party as normal difficulty?
tl;dr: About to start the game, does simple difficulty still give me as much control over my character/party as normal difficulty?
Is this your first Tales game? Control of characters doesn't depend on the difficulty level. Instead you can set manual/semi-manual/auto for each character (semi-manual being standard for the player character, and auto even allowing you to make the computer take control of all characters). Difficulty is the difficulty of enemies in battles as well as the amount of rewards you get for beating them. ToG's standard is normal, but many people (likely Tales veterans) called even hard easy. I wouldn't set difficulty to easy unless you absolutely have to (you can change difficulty at any point in the game, so get comfortable with the battle system, set it high and subsequently lower it until the battles feel fun to you without being too hard or too easy). Also the menu layout is mostly the same between all Tales games, and being able to read Katakana pretty much gives you an interface mostly in English.JustAnotherOtaku said:
A setting in the options typical for Team Destiny (and sorely missing in Team Symphonia games) is the second one which makes speech text bubbles proceed in a natural way (in the speed people talk) without user intervention (default is off, I suggest on unless you can read Japanese but not fast enough to keep up).
JustAnotherOtaku
Member
Datschge said:
Nope, I've played 5 before Graces. I'm familiar with the manual/semi-manual/auto setup but thanks for clarifying
Thanks, that's good to know as I started Vesperia on normal and changed to easy when I felt it getting a little tougher.
Will do, cheers!
grandjedi6
Master of the Google Search
The most appropriate example being when ONM listed Mother 3 in their GBA list just like Graces appears here.Firestorm said:
Sohter.Nura
Member
mugwhump said:
Possible localization? :0
Oh holy mother of all that is good please make this come true >(
ToG bring it on.
Seriously, I want to play this game really badly as I LOVED Vesperia and Ratatosk
JustAnotherOtaku
Member
My copy of the game arrived about 2 weeks ago but now that I've finished some other games, I finally got round to starting this today. Put just over 4 hours in and so far, I'm very impressed. I'm enjoying the battle system a lot, although I'll not be able to get too in-depth with it until (if?) the game gets a release outside of Japan.
Just wondering how I can buy the DLC costumes? Haven't poked about the main menu too much so I assume it's there somewhere?
Just wondering how I can buy the DLC costumes? Haven't poked about the main menu too much so I assume it's there somewhere?
JustAnotherOtaku
Member
doomed1 said:
Think it was 140k or so in its first week.
JustAnotherOtaku
Member
Bebpo said:
Thanks
Gonna have to try and resist buying everything iMAS/Miku costumes are definite though CruxisMana
Member
I gave up any hope of ever actually playing this after it tooks Vesperia a year to finally reach the UK.
JustAnotherOtaku
Member
Been playing this a lot this week and am around 13 hours in. So far I'm really enjoying it. Vesperia is my favourite RPG of the generation and this may become my number one after I finish it. Although at the moment, while it's enjoyable, the combat, music, locations etc are, IMO, not quite up to Vesperia standards. Cast is better overall though, mainly due to Pascal who is definitely my favourite Tales character and one of my favourite in any JRPG.
As I don't know enough Japanese, the intricacies of the combat system are lost on me, so I would definitely re-buy this if/when it comes to the US so that I can fully benefit from it and the story.
For those that have played this, where would you rank it on a list of your favourite Tales of games? Favourite Graces characters?
As I don't know enough Japanese, the intricacies of the combat system are lost on me, so I would definitely re-buy this if/when it comes to the US so that I can fully benefit from it and the story.
For those that have played this, where would you rank it on a list of your favourite Tales of games? Favourite Graces characters?