![]() ![]() Here, I just let it roll without ever batting an eye. With JRPGs I tend to get interested, then get annoyed at the stupid(unless I never got interested in the first place). The entirety of the story is fine but it can't pique my interest in any way. I don't care for the childish relationships of the characters, I don't care for any of the plot devices or emotions expressed. It's a refreshing change to have something else than teenage, but this is even worse Not in a sense of annoyance or stupidity, but in a sense of constant disinterest. Here, the closest thing we get to a romantic relationship is a shy talk about mundane things on a hotel's balcony. A simple example: like all JRPGs, you need your hero to have some sort of flirt or love interest in the party. First off, the entire game is exposing a story that is for all intents and purposes your typical JRPG story but with characters that are even more childish than usual. Let me be blunt and say that this is a terrible design choice. ToS doesn't aim for the teenage crowd, for once. I've lost count of the JRPGs that did this, some of them with incredible talent and success(Persona 3 FES), some which end up as a giant pool of silliness(Final Fantasy X). Everyone can somewhat agree that JRPGs tend to be 99% teenager oriented with lots of cheesy drama, poorly made simple character relationships, and since the late 90s, silly emo villains who want to destroy the world because it's just such a bad world to live in. I've lost count of the JRPGs that did this, some of It'd be great if it weren't for its target audience being young kids. ![]() It'd be great if it weren't for its target audience being young kids. Small details that shouldn't stop anyone playing this game. The other thing is no free roam ability in battle like Vesperia and Abyss. I am doing a co op run with a friend and he keeps getting lost off screen. They get the mix of serious main arc and plot twists with funny conversations and running gags such as Colette always falling over and Raine slapping Llyod and Genis upside the head! My only issues with the game are the camera only follows player 1 in battle. The story is classic JRPG but it is very interesting as it has heavy religion based dialect (at the beginning anyway) which doesn't bore you thanks to the way the story is told. I have played several other Tales games and I always find myself comparing them to this one, and they never quite get there. The cel shaded graphics are brilliant and the gameplay is some of the best for an action RPG. The characters are well developed and interesting. You must buy this game! Tales of Symphonia was one of the first RPG's I ever played and got me hooked on the genre. In one Tales subreddit, when u/guccyjuicy asked if the game is a bad experience for new players, the majority of fans complained that the Switch version is a botched port of the original GameCube version due to severe performance issues, frequent crashes, long load times, and framerate drops.This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. However, those updates won't be enough to satisfy players, especially those who own the Nintendo Switch version of Tales of Symphonia Remastered. Fixed an event where the background music would be interrupted when moving to the world map after a battle.Fixed an event where the screen would black out and become inoperable while navigating certain world maps and towns. ![]()
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