Tales of Vesperia

**Rumpy** · 15 Jul 2008, 02:32 PM

I don't understand how the battle system works.

**Mikhal** · 15 Jul 2008, 02:58 PM

1st off, switch your control to manual. That way you can move around more freely. I believe you go to Artes and press the back button to switch from semi-auto to manual. Use the B button to attack. X to block. A+direction to do a skill you assigned in the Artes menu. LT (or LB, I forgot which one since I haven't played since the JP demo) will let your character move around the field without having to stick to a line.

Combos mostly follow a chain of command. Normal Attack -> Base Arte -> Arcane Arte. Burst Art or Mystic Arte can also be chained at the end of the combos in Overlimit mode, but you can worry about those later after you get accustomed to everything else.

So basically, Mash B, then follow it up with an A button attack! Yuri has a lot of lagtime between attacks when not in Overlimit so try to time the attacks a little.

**taloony** · 15 Jul 2008, 05:22 PM

Originally Posted by Frogacuda

ToD is the worst game in the series, imo, so we're on two different pages. Also ToD had a worse localization (cut out all the voice acting entirely, and in so doing much of the story).

Tales of Eternia has the best battle system in the series, the craymel system with two mage characters is interesting, and the level design is fan-fucking-tastic. Every level was different, clever, novel. And the hand-drawn backgrounds were great.

The voice acting was abominable, and it made the characters less likable then they should have been, but the gameplay in that game is just so much fun does anything else really matter in the end?

Legendia is my least favorite in the series, but Eternia's a pretty close second. I need some kind of attachment to the characters/story in an RPG to continue playing, and the job they did with the voice acting was enough to distance me. I did end up finishing it though. :/

I'm really liking what I've seen of Vesperia so far though. I'll probably give the demo a try this weekend.

**Rocca** · 15 Jul 2008, 11:15 PM

Originally Posted by Frogacuda

I kind of thought Destiny was by far the worst game in the series. Easy, no story, no character development, weak graphics... Cool level design, but really a very disappointing sequel.

I could agree to some fault, but you seriously need to play the PS2 remake, as it turns the original into a decaying joke.

**Busu-Otoko** · 16 Jul 2008, 11:55 AM

I downloaded the demo recently and i do agree that yuri movements lag like hell. None of his artes moves were really helpful at all, everytime i use them; i'd get hit while executing them. For now, its just a demo and i'll have to wait and see what the final product looks like, all and all, the game looks promising.

**animegirl** · 16 Jul 2008, 03:41 PM

It looks beautiful. The voice acting was terrible, I hope you can turn it off.

**Busu-Otoko** · 17 Jul 2008, 10:20 AM

Originally Posted by animegirl

It looks beautiful. The voice acting was terrible, I hope you can turn it off.

Agreed, the voices were bleh, i hope the game allows us to change the english dialogue to japanese. If Nis can do it for atelier iris, namco bandai can do the same for Tales.

**Rocca** · 26 Aug 2008, 08:57 AM

This is out today! And it's been getting some pretty sweet reviews.

http://www.metacritic.com/games/plat...ria?q=vesperia

I'm picking it up. The LE comes with a dinky artbook and OST of Tales tracks from all the past US games (Phantasia, Symphonia, "Destiny 2", Legendia and Abyss, I think).