[DS] Tales of Hearts - 2D Tales returns

Namco Bandai showed this off the other day, and a trailer's finally popped up. Bask in the character names that are so bad they're almost good (Shing Meteoryte, fuck yeah), as well as the awesome return of sprites and 2D battles. The non-battle sprites are kind of meh, though. Reminds me of Xenosaga I & II's sprites.

Here are some shitty screencaps I took of the already low-res youtube video.

YouTube Video

Here's the video on the official site. Haven't watched it yet, but I can assume the video quality is much better.

Looks good! Considering they got it right with Tales of Innocence, I'm feeling confident that this will turn out pretty good.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

The only thing good Radiant Mythology's got going for it right now is that Veigue, Tales of Rebirth's protagonist, is in it.

But yeah, I'd encourage you to make a thread anyway. Who cares if it doesn't get as many posts as the Final Fantasy XII thread?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

This game, along with Suikoden Tierkreis, got leaked early.

The battle system is a modified form of Destiny 2's, where you have a stamina system to curb how much you can act before you need to back off and rest. However, unlike Destiny 2, there is no clear end to an attack chain nor a pause in between attacks and tech/arte usage, so you can go fucking apeshit on enemies without much fear of reprisal. I wonder if they have something to discourage that, since it seems like it'd be pretty easy to abuse (and this is coming from someone who still only has one tech/arte).

Not very far into the story. Shing Meteoryte, who still has the dumbest name ever, is dicking around for the first few minutes, but then stumbles upon Kohaku and Hisei washed up by his house. Blah blah blah, they come to a shrine, get what will eventually be Kohaku's weapon, baddie appears, etc.

The graphics are fine. The 3D backgrounds are a little ho-hum, but are pretty colorful. The field sprites are terrible, however, as they have that awkward Xenosaga I & II look to them. The monster sprites on the field look even worse and seem to be pretty vague on the field map before seeing them in battle. Cringe worthy stuff in some cases. Battle sprites, however, are very good. Monster designs are pretty standard fare, but they look interesting enough. The quality and detail of the character sprites are probably between Eternia and Destiny 2-- good, but the animations are a little choppier than the PS2 iterations.

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