[Multiplatform] Tales of Vesperia announced, next main Tales

Originally Posted by Bigblah

So, what is the difference between paying cash for extra levels, and paying cash for a walkthrough guidebook?

(And don't tell me it's "effort")

Your parents are less likely to pony up the cash for the former.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Picked mine up today, played through about 5 hours of it just left Halure: No spoilers aside from what's in the manual.

Like:
- Battle system is great. I'm new to the Tales series and if this is anything like what previous ones are, I'll probably be replaying them.
- Cell shading is ballin'. When the hand drawn cutscenes kick in it is not much of a context switch.
- English voice acting is pretty good, actually. Yuri and Estelle are not horrible. I absolutely detest Karol.
- Local multiplayer is a LOT of fun. Seriously, if you have a friend handy try it out.
- Good tutorial system without any of the characters actually saying shit like "You can find out more about your gear by choosing Equipment from the Main Menu!"
- Repede is fucking awesome even though he does not smoke.
- So far, Yuri does not seem to be either Tidus, Cloud or Squall.
- The Skit system is pretty cool too. Unsure if this is something that's in other Tales games.

Dislikes:
- The first boss was tough to beat. I think on my second play through I won't have much trouble, but at that point I was still pretty new to how the battle system worked and he had a LOT of HP. Grinding on the guards for about half an hour and leveling up helped. Were I play testing I'd suggest triggering the cinematic event in that fight earlier, or giving players a mini-boss to fight to get their sea legs a bit, or just bringing Estelle in to the fight from the beginning and ramping up the difficulty even more.
- The manual is full of engrish and is fucking useless. Often leaves you scratching your head and only more confused when trying to figure out a particular screen or battle command. For example, still have not figured out how to target healing spells to other player characters. Setting Estelle on auto fixes this, but it's still annoying.
- A couple instances of some pretty bad engrish in the Strategy system.
- Repede is a horrible translation of the name "Rapido" (hez fast geddit)
- Karol is fucking annoying and I want him to die almost as much as I wanted Junior in Xenosaga to die.



So far, a 4.75 PREPARE TO DIE EGGBEARS out of 5. Perhaps the TL errors and Karol will be removed in a future patch. I would definitely recommend this game to anyone who likes anime, RPG fan or not.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Miles

I got my premium edition today. Still at work so I haven't played the game yet. But I can tell you what is different in the US premium edition copy:

*No French text on the back of the game or inside the manual. I like because bilingual manuals are suck
*Cover art is much much better. The original cover art can be seen inside the tin case under the manual
*Manual has nice artwork after the credits that go on for 14 pages
*Back of manual has track listings that are inaccurate. An additional sheet of paper with corrections is inserted
*Soundtrack cd of course. 3 tracks were removed which the correction sheet explains why

Worth the extra 10 bucks? For me, yes. I hate crappy covers and bilingual cases\manuals and the packaging is 10 times better. Soundtrack includes remastered and extended versions of the listed songs for a higher quality music.

Man, if the terrible Gamestop droolmop had told me there was a premium edition for only $10 more, I definitely would have gotten it.

Fuckers.

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