[Multiplatform] New Tales coming to PS2, PSP, Wii and DS in Japan

The GBA port's slowdown during battles is terrible, and is the main reason that I've barely played it at all. I haven't tried the SNES version for comparison, but on the GBA it feels like you're fighting in slow-motion most of the time.

I'm really hoping that the Tales of Rebirth PSP port will get a North American release. The clips I've seen of the original looked pretty spiffy, so it might be enough to finally force me to buy a PSP.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Tales of Legendia is one of the worst RPGs I've played in a long time. I made it up to Chloe's character quest chapter before I just couldn't take it anymore, though I do intend to eventually go back to finish it. Senel and Shirley were both incredibly annoying, Stella's name made the only truly dramatic scene of the game hilarious, the character quest chapters felt like a cheap way out of developing anyone aside from Senel and Shirley during the main quest, and the jumping in battle was a complete joke. Of course, I still could've stood all that if every character wasn't dumber than a pile of bricks.

I didn't care for the plot past chapter 4 either. It might've been good if they'd started to expand on other people during the main quest, or at least added new dungeons for the character quests. Still, I have to give it some credit. Despite how frustrated I felt throughout playing ToL, for some reason it kept me playing.

How ya doing, buddy?

I disagree that healing eres are the only useful spells, actually. Grune's spells/crystal eres are typically pretty handy since most of them hold the enemy in place while hitting repeatedly. Will and Norma's attack and stat boosting spells are fairly useless though, and they rarely try to heal on their own. They almost never heal the people who actually need it.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.