QUOTE (Kit-Tsukasa @ Jun 22 2006, 11:59 PM) heard about the news on ANN a couple days ago and finally it is coming. After 3 years of waiting and the first announcement, it will finally happen. Let's just hope it doesn't get licensed like phantasia or eternia (currently unlicensed again though). Anyways, yeah the plot was awesome and the battle animation was one of the best out of all the tales games. I can't wait to see it! The only exception game is tales of the abyss, which seems a lot better, even though i've only seen a lot of japanese trailers and recordings (can't wait till that comes out this year in us).
Although i haven't played the ps2 version, i heard it was much better than both gamecube versions, esp the fact that namco fixed the bugs in the games (ie eternal sword glitch, tech glitch, etc...), made a lot of the enemies harder such as abyssion and the tales trio, the addition of the kratos, mithos, and yuan trio in the underworld sidequest instead of undead armor, and the addition of even more hidden techs. aww man everytime i think about it i want that version more. Well gotta wait till the ps3 comes out, and then im off on to a shopping spree for international games
The only thing u may not like about symphonia (don't know if it occurs it legendia and pretty sure it doesn't occur in abyss) is symphonia follows the phantasia, eternia, destiny/II linear motion style, meaning although the game and battle motion is 3D, it is almost impossible to move vertically, esp when playing multiplayer. You would have to push against the edge of the battefield and slowly move your way across sometimes. It really bugs me that namco kept that battle style in this game.
wait wait even though it is 3d you can't completely control freely on how you move? I dunno but the way you describe it sounds like any other tales series but 3d which sounds crap if you can't move as freely as it should be.
the battle system is ok for most of the tales series but they should've done something like eternia where you have hidden moves that must meet certain requirements and I love the stand by summon where you can ezily chain it into a combo.
regardless I have to play symphonia before commenting about it, though any word when abyss is coming out?
also to my knowledge for america has only release these games:tales of phantasia, tales of destiny 2 aka eternia, tales of symphonia, tales of legendia only?
cause I know there is tales of phantasia, tales of destiny 1 ps version, tales of destiny 2 aka eternia, tales of destiny 1 ps2 version, tales of destiny 2 ps2 version, tales of symphonia, tales of legendia, and tales of abyss.
I don't know the japanese version of ps2 destiny 1 or 2, but I know there is a ps1 and ps2 version of destiny 1 and 2.