well after many months of delays its finally crept in to us PAL gamers.And ahead of the yanks too :P
Never played any "tales" game before so its all pretty fresh for me including the battle system too,but more on that later.First off this came out as tales of destiny 2 for the psone back in the day however it only got a US release in the western world.The story follows the tale (lol) of Reid and a couple of his buddies on an adventure traveling the world and stoping evil etc etc.What happens is they find this freaky alien girl who crash lands on there land,infernia,this soon escalates into a save the world venture pretty fast as they do.
Graphically itsa beautiful game that looks like a cartoon in most places,all nice hand-drawn backgrounds too really helps it out.Youve got your basics fanatasy types in here, big burly warrior,mages,etc etc.Most major cut scenes in the game have full speech which adds heaps to the immersion factor even if it is kinda wooden at times.
Onto the meat and bones is the combat system,in a change from your usual turn based or action based this resembles more of streetfighter and a blend of the above,what happens is your can take control of one of your party members on a 2d background and then you have a few different attacks,a block and a selection of special skills.I admit I wasnt terribly keen on the battle system at first but it does indeed grow on yas,though until you get into the routines of the baddies it does seem a wee bit frentic.
On the whole Im quite enjoying this,I love the looks and battle system is a fresh of breathe air compared to others and most of all I love the quirky jpn humou.Also the be a fair few mini games included that Ive discovered so far which are quite fun in themselves.
On a side note there is minimal loading times and no loading screens just a brief pause betwen moments.
Im 4hrs in and I expect another 30 hours to go.Finally rpg goodeness for psp and about frickin time too
Never played any "tales" game before so its all pretty fresh for me including the battle system too,but more on that later.First off this came out as tales of destiny 2 for the psone back in the day however it only got a US release in the western world.The story follows the tale (lol) of Reid and a couple of his buddies on an adventure traveling the world and stoping evil etc etc.What happens is they find this freaky alien girl who crash lands on there land,infernia,this soon escalates into a save the world venture pretty fast as they do.
Graphically itsa beautiful game that looks like a cartoon in most places,all nice hand-drawn backgrounds too really helps it out.Youve got your basics fanatasy types in here, big burly warrior,mages,etc etc.Most major cut scenes in the game have full speech which adds heaps to the immersion factor even if it is kinda wooden at times.
Onto the meat and bones is the combat system,in a change from your usual turn based or action based this resembles more of streetfighter and a blend of the above,what happens is your can take control of one of your party members on a 2d background and then you have a few different attacks,a block and a selection of special skills.I admit I wasnt terribly keen on the battle system at first but it does indeed grow on yas,though until you get into the routines of the baddies it does seem a wee bit frentic.
On the whole Im quite enjoying this,I love the looks and battle system is a fresh of breathe air compared to others and most of all I love the quirky jpn humou.Also the be a fair few mini games included that Ive discovered so far which are quite fun in themselves.
On a side note there is minimal loading times and no loading screens just a brief pause betwen moments.
Im 4hrs in and I expect another 30 hours to go.Finally rpg goodeness for psp and about frickin time too
. But I would have loved to have seen an original size or even an upscaled 4:3 mode in the PSP version. 
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