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Review - Tales of Symphonia
By Ravenhawk | January 25, 2007
Ahh, Tales of Sypmhonia. Ever tasted perfection? ToS is a mainly single player RPG made by Namco and licensed to Nintendo. It can be multiplayer, but I have not gone in depth in multiplayer modes. As far as I know, its on the Gamecube, which is what I have it on. In this miracle of a game, you go through adventures as the main character, Lloyd Irving, a boy outlawed by his village for breaking a non agression pact with the Desians, the bad guys here. But are we here to summarize, or review? This is almost like FF with the same battle system, except you dont take turns, its all at once. And you dont take 10 minutes choosing the move you want to use. The game is more complicated, with two types of players. T and S. You can control what Lloyd and the other party members turn to, but T moves are different from S moves. The game gives you much freedom.
Grinding/Leveling: 8 Grinding isnt as important in this game, you do level though, but there are no Skill points to set to improve your attributes or anything. You basiclly just gain a little strength, agility, defense, hit points, ect.
Graphics: 9 Its hard not to fall in love with the graphics in this game. I mean, the monsters, people, everything is just shown so clearly. Of course, they arent the BEST, but come on. Cut the game some slack, ehh?
Sound: 7 The battle music on this game is like a Japaneseish twist thingy. It’s pretty catchy, you might find youself humming it after hearing it. All towns have a different tune, but it’s mainly almost like elevator music, a little more exciting though.
Features: 10 There is a cooking feature on this game, which I think is pretty cool. Also, there are little skits once in a while. Depending on what you do, it might trigger a skit. A skit is a bunch of words exchanged between the characters, like a cut scene.
Fun: 10 This game is beyond fun with 80+ hours of gameplay. I can play for hours straight and not notice. It’s very addicting.
Overall: 9 Although this game is overshadowed by FF, it is by FAR the best RPG on my list. Try it out, you’ll be playing day and night.
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