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Phew, I just finished Tales of Symphonia for the first time in 5 years and man... it felt like I experienced the game again for the first time again. All the feels. I was actually surprised by how much I forgot. Also the PS2 content is a great addition, especially with making Abyssion 200x harder and Nifelheim becoming even more of a pain in the ass to clear.
It was getting painful to finish it, when I got to the endgame, because I wanted to hang out with the characters more, because I enjoyed their characterization, personalities and when I got to the end, all that was left was optional stuff. Also, shoutouts to Scott Menville, Jennifer Hale and Cam Clarke for being absolutely amazing voice actors - literally couldn't imagine those characters without those voices. *cough Symphonia 2 *cough*
Now to forever ingrain Sheena and Lloyd as my eternal head-canon pairing - FIGHT ME!
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I keep thinking about grabbing this up since it's so cheap on the Steam sale right now. I've just never gotten into the Tales series which is surprising. I love anime, and I love JRPGs. I really dig the Tales games art-style. It's just seems that I keep falling off every Tales game I try. Now, to be fair, I've only ever tried Vesperia on the Xbox 360 way back in the day, and Zestriria on the PS4. Maybe I'm just not playing the right ones?
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Zestiria is a mixed bag. For me, I wasn't all too fond of how obvious its recycling of past plot-devices from previous games were. Vesperia PS3 is the definitive version that people should play, but thankfully they are localizing that amazing game for the PS4, XBONE, and Switch - would highly recommend this version to play.
Symphonia is the best place to get into the series from, but don't get the steam version, since I heard it was an awful port. Get the Chronicles version for PS3 as it has everything the PS2, Japanese version has, along with its bastard sequel that no one likes aside from its fan-service. In most people's opinions Symphonia is the best, mostly for its heavy themes, amazing plot and equally awesome characters and its battle system that encourages... technical... skill, ewwwww! (sarcasm) Highly recommend Symphonia to start with. Its easiest to get into and its battle system is still excellent to this day. Also, this game does not suffer from RPG Syndrome, where the beginning of the game doesn't follow the standard trope of RPG's being simply awful in the first 2-3 hours.
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