Board 8 > Tales of Arise: Beyond the Dawn

(+) Yeah! (+)

Really feels like this is getting no fanfare, and I can see why

It's difficult to get back into the swing of things after 2 years. It's basically a Tales of Graces F style post-game, except we got that on release in the west. The combat isn't coming back to me yet, really feels like I'm missing something.

I still haven't gotten the base game. All Tales games go like 75% off eventually!

Was kinda shocked that I was browsing the PS Store the other day and saw this available and that I hadn't heard anything about it. Something looked off about it but maybe that's how it always looked, I dunno. Arise was fine and I liked it but it didn't leave me with a strong desire to play this but I am curious if it's good!

like persona 5 tactica, this is a victim of there being too many games right now

colliding posted...

like persona 5 tactica, this is a victim of there being too many games right now

Nah, this one actually seems like it deserves to be ignored.

No new playable characters, no new mechanics, no new skills, not even any new artes, and apparently all that is there is entirely rehashed and recycled from the main game. Sounds like all that's really here is some extra story, which was the worst part of the base game. The Graces F Arc completely clowns on this in terms of adding meaningful content to the game. Absolutely bonkers and just bizarre that they're trying to sell this for $30 when it seems like they didn't even try to do anything here.

Yeah I'm really just...not feeling this at all.

I do not know why this took 2 years, other than the supposed 20 hour length. Arise was a perfectly fine mid-tier Tales game that helped bump op the series' presentation quality, but I don't think I want to spend 20 hours running through an epilogue with little actual new content.

Xiahou_Shake posted...

No new playable characters, no new mechanics, no new skills, not even any new artes, and apparently all that is there is entirely rehashed and recycled from the main game. Sounds like all that's really here is some extra story, which was the worst part of the base game. The Graces F Arc completely clowns on this in terms of adding meaningful content to the game. Absolutely bonkers and just bizarre that they're trying to sell this for $30 when it seems like they didn't even try to do anything here.

Okay, I actually didn't know this. I assumed it had a new character and new skills at least.

The price of the base game dropped to $40, and Beyond the Dawn took the game's original $60 price tag.