What's so great about this game?

What's so great about this game?

Nothing. Weebs have low standards and the jrpg genre isn't what it once was, so they'll be enthusiastic about what they still get. Same as what happened with Nier. Same as FFXV. Same as Star Ocean.

I can pirate it and fap to Magilou.

/ss/

If you're not into anime, then you're not into Tales. If you are, Tales is 100% for you.

Especially Berseria. The shota is actually cute and badass, instead of an annoying, insufferable midget. Half the cast gets good character development.

Tales games always feel like "full" RPGs, too. Traveling places, sidequests, minigames, blahblah.

that shit, predictable ending tho

Wasn't entertaining in FFXV, wasn't in this game either.

>that feel when you grow out of you hobbies

cute girls

Velvet's feet

Posts like yours is what I predict out these kinds of threads.

5 hours into it I still don't have a single good thing to say about it, I guess it really is weebs having low standards.

velvet

Can you explain how this is wrong? Honestly curious, haven't been part of the jrpg scene in years. This phenomenon seemed especially apparent with Star Ocean 5, where anyone with even two brain cells to rub together would've realized it wasn't going to be a very good game. The other four games were bargain bin games, too, and yet there were quite a few hype threads.

Am I the only one who thought the combat was trash. You mash one button until you run out of gems, then you run away until you get gems.

Though that too. On higher difficulties stronger enemies never drop their defense so the fight just drags on forever. Maps outside towns also were really lazy, didn't really add to the game.

Anyone have the DLC costumes for the PS3 version in PKG format?

More like Magilou's armpits

Good J-RPGs are Nier, Persona, SMT, Xeno, maybe even Final Fantasy. But Tales is shit tier, along with every other anime game (most of them are Steam/Vita/PS4).

>one button
nigga you press multiple buttons.

Yeah, you have to use break souls to extend your one button mashing.

So it's more of an
XXXXX R2 XXXXX
rather than just straight X mashing

Don't forget the rest which are Square, Triangle, and circle!

woah is this legit?

Not really. The shota character has a crush on velvet but she doesn't reciprocate anything other than platonic love

Characters who actually have some development, for starters.

Most modern game developers are too afraid to contaminate the 'badass' (read: boring-as-watching-paint-dry) of their by-the-numbers stock characters, so that alone sets it above 99% of what the industry has produced for the last fifteen years.

You can definitely make the game braindead easy if you wanted it to be by playing as Velvet or playing on lower difficulties. You don't get to call the combat system bad when you do so, though.

On higher difficulties, regular random encounters can easily one-shot your characters. You then actually have to consider things like positioning, finding openings, crowd control, blahblah.

>"I'm number one."
>"W-Watch out for the older girls."

Is there romantic tension? Yes. Is there a needless gratuitous BDSM rape scene? No. They're saving that for DLC.

>You can definitely make the game braindead easy if you play with the main fucking character

Maybe they should have balanced the fucking game instead of letting you faceroll insanity/chaos with Velvet.

>You then actually have to consider things like positioning, finding openings, crowd control, blahblah

You don't have to do any of that shit with velvet.
She can skip every mechanic in the game except for reflects. SG management? Fuck that, velvet doesn't get punished for low SG while therionized. Status effects? Don't give a fuck when in therion form. Boss spells, desperation attacks, or mystic artes? Just tank them to the face in Therion form and keep on mashing.

They even made it so that she's the only person that can do weakness chains on humans.

Velvet, Magilou, Phi, Rokurou, Aizen, Eleanor, Zaveid, birds, confessions, plot. Shit was enjoyable. And that was first jrpg in a long time that i play through to the end.

The most alpha male in the history of gaming.

>haven't been part of the jrpg scene in years
How can you form an opinion of something when not having experienced it?

And yes, i especially love this motherfucker.

>Tales game
>single button
Yea you play on diaper mode. Tales combat is designed with juggle in mind.

How do youeven do shit like this. Every time I throw an enemy up, they just fall down like brics and never get juggled

I'm not certain, but maybe all the moves being used have a chance to knock upwards and that chance is being buffed enough to proc all the time.

The characters and their interactions are some of the best the series has ever seen
They make you care about them and what happens in the story, even if some plot points seem typical of a jrpg
The combat isn't amazing but it's not bad, it's enjoyable and every character is viable and useful in battle
Honestly, those over hyping the game are dedicated Tales fans and they are losing their shit over actually having an good Tales game after the past few years of mediocre to bad games
On it's own as a jrpg, it does wonders for those who are fans of the genre and should be tried out at least

that vid is NG+

you need to setup your artes properly (varies per monster), then when you have full stars, you expand combos with RT

Fucking hell, I miss when juggling enemies in the air didn't require a NG+ and a crazy skill setup.

I hate this battle system. Hopefully they go bac to the Vesperia/Hearts R one in the next game.

Dyle.

It's more like certain moves have definite juggle properties attached to them.

Most attacks are only capable of minor juggles, like Swallow Dance, Avalanche Fang, Twin Whip, Slag Assault, etc. They pop enemies into the air a little bit, but things fall back down before you can continue the combo.

You can still use them for juggle combos, though, by using it after the enemy's already launched into the air by a stronger juggle.

In this clip, Avalanche and Twin Whip are capable of keeping the enemy airborne because
1. They're preceded by moves that launch the enemy high enough
2. They're followed by moves that hit fast enough to catch the now barely-airborne enemy.

Eh.. Actually, a lot of people are just ill-informed of battle mechanics.

You can definitely do things in fresh games. The real limiter is your Focus stat vs the enemy's, and it's mostly only relevant on something like fresh Chaos-difficulty runs.

Other than that, an ungeared character can do the same sort of stuff.

>press R2 to devour
Thanks for feeding Velvet.

Name one Tales girl better than Magilou

Protip: you can't