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saspa posted...

I have to say I'm really surprised at quite a number of the posts in this topic. Before it was widely available on all consoles, Vesperia was constantly lauded as one of the best Tales games ever, and I always wished we'd get it localized back during the ps3 gen and even early during ps4 gen.

I specifically remember tons of posts on this board talking about how it was one of the best Tales games ever and that made me want to play it. Now that it finally came out there are all these posts itt of people saying they got bored of it and didn't like it so much? Just kind of blindsided me.

This is a thing with the tales of community on gamefaqs in general, lol. I have always called it the tales of cycle...I was around posting or lurking on each board back when each tales of game was getting localized, and on the message boards for the games it was pretty common for dudes (most of the time importers) hyping whatever tales of game that is stuck in japan only as being the holy grail, but when the game is finally localized, some dudes do a complete 180. Tales of graces f, xillia, xillia 2, and hearts r has been through it. Vesperia's ps3 port was definitely crazy hyped over the years. (Although there was still a good bit of us that was telling it like it is when it came to the story, because the story has always been meh/fell off a cliff in the last act. The vast majority of tales of stories is not really that good honestly). The game is still pretty fun to play (at least when you start getting all the passive skills and artes that really lets you have fun), but the hype can get out of hand for vesperia imo.

Tales of xillia 2's situation actually kind of pissed me off when it came to this. If you go back to the oldest topics on xillia 2's boards, the ones from back in 2012, you can spot a lot of praise in general for the game, how it fixed a lot of issues that xillia 1 had, the hype for the three new playable characters, the character development being sooo good, the gameplay being amazing and far greater any tales of game at this point, blah blah etc. etc. Fast forward to the localized release in 2014, and you can spot some of those same importers or whoever else praising the game back in 2012-2013 now pulling a 180 and absolutely dumping on the game. Its now the worst tales of game ever released, the plot makes no sense, the gameplay being absolute trash (with this one making no sense whatever...its actually an evolution of all the "team symphonia" style games at this point. This gameplay style has never been as fluid, combo friendly for every single character for these type of tales of games), the debt cripples the game, etc. etc.

I loved the game myself, with it still being by far my favorite tales of game because of dem combos, but man this game got absolutely trashed for awhile. Ever since tales of zestiria released, the hatred for xillia 2 kind of eased up a little, lol. In general, the hype and dude's expectations can definitely get out of hand when it comes to japanese only tales of games it feels like.


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