EEVILMURRAY Posted August 27, 2024 Posted August 27, 2024 Mine. Mineminemineminemineminemine. Fucking. Mine. My all time favourite of the series. I was just thinking yesterday whether to fire up the PS4 so I could replay this, and this comes. Whatever special edition exists, I shall aim to obtain it. However though, with the Switch on its way out in comparison, I may get it on PS5 instead. Either way, I'm a happy EEVIL. 4
Hero-of-Time Posted August 27, 2024 Author Posted August 27, 2024 I was trying to remember which person on here loved the game. Now I know. 1 1
Dcubed Posted August 27, 2024 Posted August 27, 2024 (edited) So… it’s a remaster of a remaster then? Graces is alright, but it really is basically just a glorified arena combat game, because there’s precious little noteworthy gameplay outside of its (admittedly excellent) battle system. As an RPG, it’s incredibly threadbare; with glorified corridors for dungeons. Edited August 27, 2024 by Dcubed
Hero-of-Time Posted August 27, 2024 Author Posted August 27, 2024 Performance chart for all the different platforms. 1
EEVILMURRAY Posted August 28, 2024 Posted August 28, 2024 14 hours ago, Dcubed said: So… it’s a remaster of a remaster then? Graces is alright, but it really is basically just a glorified arena combat game, because there’s precious little noteworthy gameplay outside of its (admittedly excellent) battle system. As an RPG, it’s incredibly threadbare; with glorified corridors for dungeons. I think the story is better than more recent ones, built upon the greatness Symphonia gave us, and as you said, battle system is awesome. If it's glorified corridors you're after though, check out Tales of Arise, I swear some of the single corridors are a longer trek than some of the areas they've got instead of a traditional overworld, and half as uninspiring. My glasses are so rosey I can't even remember if Graces has an overworld map.
Hero-of-Time Posted August 28, 2024 Author Posted August 28, 2024 1 hour ago, EEVILMURRAY said: I think the story is better than more recent ones, built upon the greatness Symphonia gave us, and as you said, battle system is awesome. If it's glorified corridors you're after though, check out Tales of Arise, I swear some of the single corridors are a longer trek than some of the areas they've got instead of a traditional overworld, and half as uninspiring. Easily my most hated Tales game that I have played. Game just dragged on for ages and a lot of the bosses were damage sponges. 1
EEVILMURRAY Posted August 28, 2024 Posted August 28, 2024 3 hours ago, Hero-of-Time said: Easily my most hated Tales game that I have played. Game just dragged on for ages and a lot of the bosses were damage sponges. Symphonia 2 takes the worst title crown for me. I'm not sure what the logic is for the Arise battles, hit for ages then do a special attack, which either drags out the menial battles against weak stuff because of the cutscenes, or chips a little from bosses, which was all hardish to see with all the shiny effects they smacked on too.
Dcubed Posted August 28, 2024 Posted August 28, 2024 20 hours ago, Hero-of-Time said: Performance chart for all the different platforms. So they somehow made it run worse than the original Wii & PS3 versions of the game on Switch? Only Namco... 1
Glen-i Posted August 30, 2024 Posted August 30, 2024 On 8/28/2024 at 5:21 PM, Dcubed said: So they somehow made it run worse than the original Wii & PS3 versions of the game on Switch? Only Namco... The optimistic side of me is hoping it's like Tales of Vesperia where it's 30 outside of fights, but 60 in battles. But then again, they also did the Tales of Symphonia "remaster", so I'm not too hopeful...
Hero-of-Time Posted October 30, 2024 Author Posted October 30, 2024 A new trailer has been released that highlights some QoL changes made to the game. 1
darksnowman Posted 6 hours ago Posted 6 hours ago Everything already been discussed on this over a decade ago, then? Always been under the impression I'd missed out on something fairly special with this, but having now played through it, I'd say it is just okay. When I went to buy ToGfR the other weekend, I was pleasantly surprised it was on the cheaper side like Ys Memoire: TOiF the week before. More of this, please. Then when I started into it I immediately felt like I'd made a mistake—it was so naff that if the opening 3-4 hours were a demo I reckon I'd have been happy enough to take a pass on it. Thankfully, it picks up a little after that and I can look back on the beginning as a sort of charming stage setter. I'm still going to go back for the bonus scenario but it'd have to reinvent the game a fair bit to elevate my opinion of it after playing the main game itself. On 8/28/2024 at 10:28 AM, EEVILMURRAY said: battle system is awesome Deplete CC, wait for it to replenish, deplete CC, wait for it to replenish, deplete CC... oh, +2 CC from a dodge, wait for the rest to replenish... 1
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