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04-21-2021, 06:35 PM
Release date 9/10/21 on current- and past-gen XB/PS and Steam.
7 min gameplay video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IaLC3rqK6U
My thoughts... Well, 1. it easily has the best looking environments of any anime JRPG I've seen or played (Atelier, SAO, God Eater, Neptunia, Trials of Mana remake, and even prior Tales games). One of my biggest (if not my ONLY) complaints about anime JRPGs is how "lifeless" the environments and towns generally feel and look. Usually due to low poly count, flat surfaces, lack of elemental effects or environmental movement, lack of PEOPLE or other forms of life, etc. Arise's environments look pretty well-detailed, up there w/ more bigger budget JRPGs or JP games in general like FF's, Nier Automata, Sekiro, MGS5, etc, tho still missing some "life" (is that much more expensive to put in some non-hostile animals here or there? some extra flora?, etc?).
2. The release date is cool in terms of giving me time to still work on my backlog and some other upcoming games. But it's also the same day as Life is Strange: True Colors and a few days before Deathloop - two games that will take priority over Tales of Arise. And just a couple weeks after Kena is released, which I'd say is about equal to Arise in terms of priority. So...it'll have lots of competition for my money and/or play time.
3. Combat looks great. I only played Tales of Zestiria and loved the combat. It was known to be one of the easier Tales games, but I got stuck on a boss I could not beat. And I did not feel like loading a prior save just to grind. Especially since it wasn't really my stats that were bad, just the design of the boss and its timing of attacks, inputs, etc (it was the heavily armored army/knight guy in I think the first big town you visit outside of your own home city, a fight in front of a church, iirc?). If memory serves me right, he was known to be extremely hard for that point of the game. Regardless, I still never played it again after that. Experiences like that are what make me lukewarm to playing another Tales games (along w/ the drab environments, but that's been addressed).
So overall, game looks cool and I'd love to play it. But just not sure if I will, at least not at release. What are your guys' thoughts on the game and series in general?
7 min gameplay video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IaLC3rqK6U
My thoughts... Well, 1. it easily has the best looking environments of any anime JRPG I've seen or played (Atelier, SAO, God Eater, Neptunia, Trials of Mana remake, and even prior Tales games). One of my biggest (if not my ONLY) complaints about anime JRPGs is how "lifeless" the environments and towns generally feel and look. Usually due to low poly count, flat surfaces, lack of elemental effects or environmental movement, lack of PEOPLE or other forms of life, etc. Arise's environments look pretty well-detailed, up there w/ more bigger budget JRPGs or JP games in general like FF's, Nier Automata, Sekiro, MGS5, etc, tho still missing some "life" (is that much more expensive to put in some non-hostile animals here or there? some extra flora?, etc?).
2. The release date is cool in terms of giving me time to still work on my backlog and some other upcoming games. But it's also the same day as Life is Strange: True Colors and a few days before Deathloop - two games that will take priority over Tales of Arise. And just a couple weeks after Kena is released, which I'd say is about equal to Arise in terms of priority. So...it'll have lots of competition for my money and/or play time.
3. Combat looks great. I only played Tales of Zestiria and loved the combat. It was known to be one of the easier Tales games, but I got stuck on a boss I could not beat. And I did not feel like loading a prior save just to grind. Especially since it wasn't really my stats that were bad, just the design of the boss and its timing of attacks, inputs, etc (it was the heavily armored army/knight guy in I think the first big town you visit outside of your own home city, a fight in front of a church, iirc?). If memory serves me right, he was known to be extremely hard for that point of the game. Regardless, I still never played it again after that. Experiences like that are what make me lukewarm to playing another Tales games (along w/ the drab environments, but that's been addressed).
So overall, game looks cool and I'd love to play it. But just not sure if I will, at least not at release. What are your guys' thoughts on the game and series in general?