Ayen
is a Level 80 Dancer
Resident Critic

Out of the bunch, I think Xillia has the strongest story, and Graces F has the strongest combat. I haven't played Symphonia 2 yet, but I haven't heard too many great things about it . I enjoyed Symphonia 1 back on the gamecube, though.

Xillia is reasonably old, with a sequel coming out like next month, so I don't expect that to be very expensive. Graces F is also pretty old, a bit older than xillia, and is a PS3 port of a Wii game, with some extra content. The tales of Symphonia collection is a HD edition of the PS2 version (which again was a port of the original gamecube version, but previously only released in Japan) of Tales of Symphonia, together with a port of the sequel, which was previously only available on Wii. If you don't want to buy the Symphonia collection, you could always try emulating the GC and Wii versions of those games. There isn't any significant additional content for those two games on the PS3 version, except like a few bonus costumes and stuff.

you should review tales of graces and tales of xillia. or the new HD collection of tales of symphonia 1+2

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Damn, you Tori!

GET OUT OF MY HOUSE, TORIJ!!!!!

I'd always spam bouncing betties in the tunnels for when nukes went off and tried to teleport while staying above ground to avoid the damage. Can't ever trust those tunnels with Hydras and Goliaths running around. >: |

You said you had the PS1 version of Global Assault? I guess there were some tanks in that game that weren't in the N64 release: the Bulldog, M-80, and Shredder. :o How were they?

SH is more about atmosphere than anything else. Not to mention that you tend to use Melee weapons more often and they are breakable...

RE just suffered the same fate as any Capcom franchise that did really well, it got whored out so much in the beginning that people started to lose interest. I mean I know tons of people love RE2 but RE3, Code Veronica, and RE0 didn't really expand the series as much as fans wanted it too. Not to mention that After RE3 the series kept jumping to different platforms which also killed interest cause I don't know too many RE fans who wanted to buy a Gamecube back then. Like Street Fighter and Mega Man, they just ran the franchise into the ground and had to reboot it which brought in new fans but alienated old ones, same with SF and MM. Its Capcom's main issue as a company.

Changing games to make them have mass appeal has probably destroyed many a franchise, including Silent Hill which never really recovered from being sent to western developers after SH4.

SH in general is not for everyone and it is similar to RE in design. I love SH2 but if I am to be honest, it is a terrible game, its just that the story and atmosphere work best in a video game format as opposed to a film or novel. It wouldn't feel the same without them.

Well I was never impressed with Resident Evil to begin with to be honest. More of a Silent Hill fan.