Eeeep, I've been busy the past couple days! I'm in an extremely good mood today! I think it's because the sun has finally been out, and it seems like it's here to stay for awhile. (Now it will rain tomorrow)
I finally finally finished "Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World". I think I finished it on Sunday. I was severely disappointed with the ending. I'm a huge fan of the "Tales of ..." games habit of giving a bitter sweet ending. You're happy, and sad, and sometimes a little confused, so you have to think about it and (especially with Abyss) kind of come up with your own theories on what happened. The ending was cute, and it was nice for the characters to be happy, but it was just a tad too cheesy for my taste. I'm not putting any spoilers up this post. I might do another entry where I go into detail and elaborate, but I'll leave this one safe for anyone to read. Right now, I'm just going to stick up some of my opinions on the game in general--
The good--
+The battle system is fun and pretty easy to learn (If you've played other Tales games, it's the same as those)
+Story is good enough to keep you interested
+The new characters are pretty entertaining, especially the villains
+Graphics are good, a little choppy at parts, but overall enjoyable
+Z skits are FINALLY recorded, instead of having to read them
+Lots of monsters to choose from and level up for your party
The Bad--
+Some of the voice actors were just plain annoying. If fans of Symphonia pick this up it will be a hard to get used to some of the new voices
+You can only level up Emil and Marta. The other characters level up automatically, and you can't change their weapons
+Took away the ability to skip through cut scenes.
+Short. You'll be lucky to get 40 hours of gameplay.
+Flashbacks to things that happened 5 minutes before.
Really, this game was made for the fans of the first "Tales of Symphonia". If someone new to the Tales franchise picked this game up they probably wouldn't bother to get another one. Overall I'd give the game 7.0 on a scale of 10. Just because I know the Tales games are a lot better than this. So I would tell fans of the first game that it's worth playing just to see our beloved characters again. If you've never played Symphonia, or a Tales game for that matter, I'd tell you to go pick up Abyss, or Symphonia. Both are much more worth the money, even though they're harder to find now that they're a couple years old.
I started this post on Friday, and I'm only posting it up now on Monday, so it's going to be a little shorter. I'll do a post a little later today, with more stuff I've been doing so that I don't confuse myself. Mostly I just wanted to talk about "Dawn of the New World" in this post, so it's all good. =)
And remember kiddies, courage is the magic that brings dreams to real-*bricked*
Later~!
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