Current Events > Tales of Zestiria is ass *Minor spoilers*

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Characters are bland, environments are bland, battle system is boring. And I have the sneaking suspicion that the only good character(Dezel) is leaving the party since he only has one Mystic Arte and there's conveniently another character who keeps harassing the party with the exact same element and fighting style. I mean I have very tempered expectations for Tales of games but even with that I was highly disappoint.
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well, I've been liking it so far, but my expectations of it weren't very high. The only thing that really bothers about it is the nonsensical skill system that I still don't understand after 20 hours.
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OpheliaAdenade posted...

well, I've been liking it so far, but my expectations of it weren't very high. The only thing that really bothers about it is the nonsensical skill system that I still don't understand after 20 hours.

I honestly have just ignored it for the most part. The game isn't that hard.
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Funny, Dezel is the only party member I didn't really like. >_>
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Tmk posted...

Funny, Dezel is the only party member I didn't really like. >_>

I mean that makes sense if you and I are complete opposites and I don't like any of the other party members.
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Sorey is adorable and that's all I need. That and Soymilk.
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berseria is much better
unfortunately its connected to zesteria by being set like 1000 years in the past
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RomanReigns posted...

OpheliaAdenade posted...

well, I've been liking it so far, but my expectations of it weren't very high. The only thing that really bothers about it is the nonsensical skill system that I still don't understand after 20 hours.

I honestly have just ignored it for the most part. The game isn't that hard.

Yea, I've just been taking whatever has the best stats and rolling with it.

But you don't like the rest of the characters? :u I've found them all to be pretty likable except for Rose. Something about Rose just bugs me. Especially the idea of her being this "pure-hearted assassin." That doesn't make any sense! You kill people for a living! Just because they're bad people doesn't make murder any less bad!

And plus I'm saddled with this bitch for the entire game because of how seraphs work. :u I want the princess knight back. At least she was likable.
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Sorey is completely bland. He somehow makes Jude look like a man.
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that fucking equipment system
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OpheliaAdenade posted...

Yea, I've just been taking whatever has the best stats and rolling with it.

But you don't like the rest of the characters? :u I've found them all to be pretty likable except for Rose. Something about Rose just bugs me. Especially the idea of her being this "pure-hearted assassin." That doesn't make any sense! You kill people for a living! Just because they're bad people doesn't make murder any less bad!

And plus I'm saddled with this b**** for the entire game because of how seraphs work. :u I want the princess knight back. At least she was likable.

I thought Rose was cool in the beginning when she was still masked but after that she was all down hill.
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Anyhoo, the main problems I had with Zesty Tales, is:

- the equipment skill system is bafflingly over-complicated. It's like they were trying to do a Diablo style loot system (for some reason) but thought, "You know what Diablo style loot systems need? A lot more complications and menu-time trying to make sense of what to use to be effective" not that it seemed to matter a ton. I think I played on...hard, and didn't seriously grind it out or anything and was able to clear the EX dungeon even. I did spend a total of like 2~3 hours in menus/loot managing though, but that's really not nearly enough to make true full use of it.

- The game didn't seem to balance the armitization dynamic well. It's possible I just never truly learned how to play in the system well but it pretty much felt like whenever I wasn't armatized, I was just doing pretty poop damage and was very frail. I mean, the difference between being alone and being in that mode is such a giant stat boost that it seems really hard to design encounters that work well in both cases.


But overall I didn't have any huge problem with the game. Maybe that's because in part I didn't find any party member super grating, which alone is like a gift to me considering that while I haven't played a ton of Tales games, I have played some with characters I cannot stand, and it really drags things down for me. So when I get one where at the very least I find everyone relatively inoffensive, I breathe a sigh of relief.
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Zestiria was fucking garbage. Berseria tho :weary: :ok_hand:

@drunkmuggle
READY TO DIE?
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Pics_nao_plz posted...

Zestiria was fucking garbage. Berseria tho :weary: :ok_hand:

@drunkmuggle
READY TO DIE?

WHATEVER COMES NEXT, THIS IS JUST THE FIRST STEP TO KILL YOU

HOWLING DRAGON
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I actually liked Zesty's story more than Bessy's. Though I like Bessy's combat more. I really enjoyed Velvet's style. It was pretty strange. It kind of reminded me of Bloodborne of all things, because it rewards aggression, but many times it felt like less rewarding it and more like "you better be really effective and aggressive or we'll literally take you from full HP to dead in 2 seconds"

Though I do think Bessy's combat system revolves too much around stuns. Stuns are so hugely important in that game, and coupled with the ease of chaining mystic artes it leads to a lot of silliness. If you go into a fight with everyone topped off on BG all you need to do is stun the boss and then you're entitled to fill that potentially <1 second stun duration where they take extreme bonus damage with like 8+ mystic artes and it's very lol.
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Soery is OP as fuck in Tales of the Rays.
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