The Official Tales of Symphonia Thread

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

I have a video of the unaltered intro that's like 50 megs. IM me or something if you want it.

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Thanks, but my poor dial-up connection wouldn't be able to grab the thing in under three hours, and that's being generous. :sweat:

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Originally Posted by Roufuss

It's called "playing it safe". Look how many movies in hollywood, espically action movies, are just copies of each other save for a few details. Since the US loves action movies, we don't care, the Japanese loves rpg's, so they don't care.

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nice comparison.

I was hoping to like KOTOR for a change of pace, but there were certain areas that weren't "japanese enough" for me. I guess I'll never find the middle ground...

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Originally Posted by Tonic the Drunkhog

The battle system is so fun it overshadows all other shortcomings. I just wonder if japanese people don't mind when RPGs stick with the same general plot lines.

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Only the big series do this though. I wouldn't consider SMT: Nocturne, Namco's own Venus & Braves, or the Nippon Ichi games to have generic plots.

ToS doesn't really have a generic plot line though, it just starts out that way. Like ferricide said, it kinda goes nuts with the plot twists. Now wether or not you like it is another matter, but it's not really predictable or recycled.

Any tricks for getting high grade points at the end of combat? I'm like 10 hours in and just leveling up, still haven't unlocked team moves yet, but the most grade pts I've been getting are like 2... and that's a no damage (for my team) battle...

P.S. I like the way all members get exp points even if they don't fight...

ssb

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

Man, that art book goodie is a nice bonus. 80 pages, full size. I'm happy.

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The Undine and Luna art sketches are real nice.

Give me some infos.... encounter rate: low, medium, or high? Enemies visible on map, or no? Endless amount of random encounters in an area, or can you clear them out and then be free to explore?

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Originally Posted by shidoshi

Give me some infos.... encounter rate: low, medium, or high?

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There are always enemies but you can easily avoid 99% of them if you choose. You will occasionally have to fight as every once in a while an enemy will run up to you real fast.

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Enemies visible on map, or no?

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Yes, they're visible ala Chrono Cross.

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Endless amount of random encounters in an area, or can you clear them out and then be free to explore?

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Inside dungeons you can clear a room but if you walk into another room and come back they'll respawn. On the world map they'll continuously reappear.

About ten hours in now and lovin' it. I'm just now getting completely used to the battle system though. Of course, I tend to be pretty dumb about stuff like that.

One thing that pisses me off is how you'll get into a story fight without any real warning. They expect you to know that talking to this person or walkig down this particular hallway will lead to a fight or some story and a fight. Where's the, "Make the preperations you need and come back when you are ready to do whatever it is Im allowing you to do."? I've had to make up a bunch of time because of crap like that.

Still, battles are fun like whoa, I love the graphics(there's your #10 Roufuss), and its just really charming overall. It's just what I was hoping to be, maybe a little more.

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Originally Posted by MechDeus

Yes, they're visible ala Chrono Cross.

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Well, I wish monsters didn't respawn, but your saying this now gives me the ability to play the game. I might have no check it out.