Skye 先輩
Oracle Knight
You know a good idea? Making me AC's Asbel Lhant
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Post by Skye 先輩 on Nov 9, 2009 1:52:11 GMT -5
It would have been epic if it was a fighting compilation, we should totally do that.
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Post by taleena on Dec 15, 2009 2:38:59 GMT -5
Well, as long as I'll like the characters and the storyline, I have no problem if the gameplay and everything else sucks. I already like Cauis after see him in Tales of Innocence:Voice Adventure DVD. So Cauis and the others don't EVER have cut scenes where their voices are heard? Oh well... I'm planning on buying it after ToH & ToI.
I hope they have a remake of TotT before I can get the DS version though; I mean, TotT was a stepping stone, right? If so, they should go back later and refine it into a better Tales title.
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Post by ranako on Dec 28, 2009 21:05:33 GMT -5
though TotT was a stepping stone they still could have done a bit better.
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Post by Flamzeron on Dec 29, 2009 17:54:05 GMT -5
I'd say a little of both. The game had some faults, but the game is still fun, and the characters are kind of cool.
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Post by Shin Izanagi Rizki on Sept 5, 2010 13:13:48 GMT -5
it's not underapreciated per se, it IS bad. that's teh reason why Bamco moved Tempest to be Escort title beside, it was a short game, 10 hour is enough to complete the game, which is really short by Tales standard (just look at recent Tales games like Abyss, Vesperia and Hearts. they all have playtime over 50 hours)
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Post by daspaxkaruha on Nov 3, 2010 10:11:51 GMT -5
the opening song's video... it's a little off don't you thinks so?
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SummerWolf
Half-Elf
Playing Tales of Xillia
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Post by SummerWolf on Aug 30, 2013 6:55:44 GMT -5
i found this tales game to be less of an epic then the games before and after it being too short and not enthralling enough to fit as a main title
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Post by DreamSword on Sept 4, 2013 15:50:57 GMT -5
It's main problem was that it was clearly unfinished at the time of release. The battle system had some good ideas(like attacking from other lines), but were executed poorly. It's probably why the game was so short too. I did like the music and characters if nothing else. Hopefully Tempest R will fix everything that wasn't exactly handled all that well with the original.
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Post by bigkahuna on Feb 11, 2015 5:44:56 GMT -5
It was pretty much a cheap and phoned in system launch title squeezed out by Bamco in order to make some quick cash when the ds was first out and super hot. It is definitely pretty bad. But if you play it and go straight for the end it's going to be just barely less than 10 hours to complete (my clear time was about 9:40). I would consider this to be a marginally better experience than most other 'kusoge' since even though Tempest is objectively very bad it is so short and forgettable that it isn't nearly as painful in comparison.
There were actually a few parts about the game I liked. I thought most of the character designs ranged from decent to pretty good (Rubia, Forest, and Aurelius look pretty great imo), and even though the game is super short and you barely get any skits I enjoyed the party member cast. I never found any of the characters to be very offensive or annoying for me. I thought Tilkis and Forest had cool backgrounds, and wouldn't have minded learning more about them if the game was more fun and longer.
My biggest grievance with the game isn't even about the game itself, but moreso the fan translation. I think it was an April Fool's joke in very poor taste when the translation team for ds Hearts had been spending up to 6 months on Tempest and not touching Hearts at all in that meantime.
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Post by Viktor Forslund on Feb 11, 2015 9:42:23 GMT -5
I never really got into it all that much, but if it ever got a remake I'd be down to give it another shot, for sure. There's some stuff in there that's decent (like the character design and soundtrack, mentioned by a few people above) so if the flaws were ironed out and the game was polished (and lengthened) it could be pretty good... though I guess that'd be a case of "change it all and then it'll be good," huh.
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Post by Moonlit Intermezzo on Feb 13, 2015 22:04:42 GMT -5
Dimps...
All joking aside, it's bad for many reasons. Cliched story and characters, battle system is a beta version of Rebirth, the Arte system is garbage (Combining artes takes up more TP than just using the base arte, seriously the hell?)
But it could be better if it was seriously worked on and wasn't just phoned in just to have a DS Tales game right out of the bat. I could barely pay attention to it, it was...boring. Not cringey, not frustrtating, just boring. It was hard to relate to any of the characters and development. Soundtrack was average, nothing special, and the character designs seem off to me. If there was better writers and direction from Tales studio, Dimps would have made a good Tales game.
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Post by jizzle701 on Feb 19, 2015 18:57:17 GMT -5
I have never played this one but I have watched enough YouTube videos to know it's bad lol.
The music was good but as everyone else has said it looks like a rushed mess by Bamco it looks similar to Kingdom Hearts 358/2 days.
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