The Official TALES Thread (Sword Rain Alpha) - Tales of Berseria Coming!

So are there actually costumes/outfits you can unlock for free in game or are they going the typical route of you gotta buy them?

Game feels just like any other tales game to me. In otherwords, underwhelming.

I always thought of Tales games being RPG comfort food. Berseria isnā€™t going to blow me away but it will be a fun RPG I will enjoy sinking time into.

Demo didnt sell me. I actually didnt like the combat. Prob due to me preferring the 2D Plane-ish older Tales combat

I mean the combat isnā€™t bad, but I kinda enjoyed having having basic attacks with 3-5 variations, and then a bunch of Arte shortcuts, then having fun making my own combos on the fly by chaining stuff.

I also really donā€™t like the soul gauge. Main problem being that Arte costs are depicted with numbers in the Arte list, but I donā€™t know how that equates to the little gems. I would much rather just have a mana bar like before. Also the fact that you have to let it regenerate forces breaks in combat where youā€™re running around waiting to attack again.

Just bought the game. Got about 2 hours in.

Iā€™m still not a fan of the battle system. While they do tell you that one soul gauge is 30TP is doesnā€™t really help me gauge my attacks or save TP for another combo (cause you donā€™t see how much each arte really costs you).

I kinda miss having standard attacks and linking them to artes, rather than having all artes and just mashing buttons for whatever works. Hopefully, it grows on me.

I do like that our main characters are mature-ish from what Iā€™ve seen so far.

I donā€™t have the game but I even noticed in the demo that you can change buttons mid combo. So you could be two presses into one combo, then press a different one and get the third arte from that set. It really isnā€™t the same though. Also yeah the soul thing is completely arbitrary. Is there not an option to change it?

No, I think itā€™s a core mechanic.

The enemies have these soul gauges too and they can steal yours by inflicting some statuses, apparently.

Iā€™m sure someone else has pointed this out before but i didnā€™t realize that Berseria is a distant prequel to Zesteria. The Eizen thing should have typed me off right way. Iā€™m sort of salty now because I like Eizen.

Finally finished the game. Much much better than Zestiria. Not only that, the lore building was well done.

Man ive been playing the Tales mobile game. pretty fun. also been playing Graces f. loving the hell outta the combat

Finished Graces Fā€¦great game. Idk what it is about the game, I felt the OST was weak, and that the plot was straightforward(Tales arenā€™t deep but yeah). and I never felt tension in the plot. Usually these things would bore me in a game, but it didnā€™t hinder my experience at all. Debating on which Tales to get to next, I got Vesperia, and Hearts R

http://tov10th.tales-ch.jp/

Yooooooo
Finally!!!

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Here are the tidbits:

  • ā€œWe are planning Tales of series remasters and remakes based on [fan] requests.ā€
  • ā€œ[Tomizawa] will be working on [ Tales of series] console games as the new producer, including the new title announced at Tales of Festival 2018.ā€
  • ā€œWeā€™re putting our focus first into putting out a game on console, which we havenā€™t done in a while.ā€
  • ā€œ Tales of Crestoria has no direct connection to [other Tales of titles]. It will have a completely new story that is a clear distinction from an ā€˜all-stars gameā€™ (Editorā€™s Note: Tales of the Rays , etc.) and serve as an entry point to the series.ā€
  • ā€œ(In regards to Tomizawaā€™s new development structure) Itā€™s not something I can talk about. But it is something I have been involved in behind the scenes since the beginning.ā€
  • ā€œDevelopment is being handled by Bandai Namco Studio, with reliable staff members who built up the series.ā€
  • Higuchi: ā€œIā€™m working on other titles.ā€
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The remaster we need is Destiny DC.