Tales of Vesperia

[Pumpkin]

Just started this! A few things and questions if anyone wants to help please

The opening scene had a few moments that were a bit too graphic for my liking. Especially when I'm trying to eat :/

Okay so is there anyway to change my on screen character like in the other Tales games I've played? I've figured out how to change my in battle character and I'm using Estellise right now but I still have Yuri on screen

Speaking of, I am loving Estellise right now Is there any way to change her hair back to the way it was at first with the little hair clip thing she had? It was adorable

I'm not super familiar with Xbox controls so its been a bit awkward, but I have it on easy mode which so far has been easy. This makes me happy. I hate when games have an easy and then it isn't even easy

I do have a bad habbit of triggering scenes before I want to and missing stuff already. Unhappy with that

Any general tips or advice?

Thanky

[Fox]

If you want to change your party leader, you're going to have to synthesise an item (the "Special Flag") that will allow you to do it.

I believe the original design document called for a mechanic that was "pointlessly convoluted and dumb" which is why that is a thing. Go to a shop and select 'Synthesise' when that option is available. You can find the required ingredients there. You do get it as a drop later in the game but we're talking 20 hours in. If you want it earlier, you gotta synthesise it.

Re Estelle's hair: you can get various costumes with certain 'titles' throughout the game. As far as I know, none of them have her original hair style.

[Pumpkin]

So I just got Rita and went to those ruins. She's my favourite character to use so far, but Estelle is still my favourite overall. I loved Halure, I thought it was really pretty.

I am liking how the characters interact with each other and they all seem to be well written, although I obviously like some moe than others. The ability system reminds me of FFIX.

The skit portraits mostly look kinda ugly to me though

[Dat Matt]

Rita and Estelle totally make out later in the game.

It's hawt.

[Vyk]

They got a lot of flack for the skits. I'm not entirely sure why they made such a drastic change from past games' skit styles. But at least they're voiced :3

I'm not entirely sure what was graphic about the opening. I'm.. actually having trouble remembering the opening. Might need to YouTube it

I had trouble getting into this game early on, because outside of Yuri, all the characters only had 2 hit combos. Maybe 3? I know Yuri had the most, everyone else felt like they were being held back. It made me sad because I too loved Rita, and it was hard to get a good combo going with her. I realize she's supposed to be a mage, but you get your points back faster if you do a combo now and then. Maybe I'm just picky, but Yuri was the only one I could get into in combat for the longest time, until one of the late game characters joins. Sorta stunted and restricted my interaction with most of the cast. Which was sad. I let my girlfriend have Yuri until her character showed up. So it was a chore for a long time

Other than that I really enjoyed the game. And then she lost interest because she'd beaten it before, and we moved on to Graces lol

[metagloria]

Yuri is awesome. Rita is cool. Estelle's not bad. Everyone in this game kinda blows. But I really liked the story and gameplay.

[Pumpkin]

I'm not getting as in to it as I'd hoped, honestly. I mean, I still enjoy it and I'll keep playing it, but the beginning bit had me like WOW and now its less exciting. Other than Estelle and Repede, I don't really care much for the other characters so far. I don't mind Yuri but

And I'm pretty sad that I don't really like Rita because I want to because I think her outfit is adorable and I like Black Mage type characters and I enjoy using her in battle, but I just don't like her that much. I don't hate her but I certainly don't like her. Ocassionally she'll say or do something to give me a glimmer of hope towards liking her and then it kinda gets shot down and I'm back to where I was. Karol is growing on me, though. At first he really rubbed me the wrong way but now he's okay

I did get my character leader flag thingy. As if they won't let you make Repede the lead character

So I just got to that port town and met up with Flynn. Flynn seems like a cool dude. I maintain that Yuri has a massive crush on him.

Why does no one mention the pipe smoking dog? The closest they've been was "Why does he use weapons?" BUT NOTHING ABOUT THE PIPE because that's normal

I know what the story is, just strikes me odd no one else is wondering

[Fox]

Why does no one mention the pipe smoking dog? The closest they've been was "Why does he use weapons?" BUT NOTHING ABOUT THE PIPE because that's normal

Um it's because he's sophisticated, k? That's all anyone needs to know. It would be incredibly rude to ask about it.

I had trouble getting into this game early on, because outside of Yuri, all the characters only had 2 hit combos. Maybe 3? I know Yuri had the most, everyone else felt like they were being held back

I have only ever played these games as protagonist. Maybe I'm missing out on some good stuff, but generally I feel like they're always just the best balanced for combat.

Yuri is awesome. Rita is cool

Given just how awesome Yuri is, to say that I prefer Rita is saying something. I mean Yuri is one of the best vidya game protagonists ever in terms of his personality. Yet I love Rita more. Pumpkin, I hope you come around to her. I'm not sure where you are in the game if you just haven't seen the best of her yet or if you're just not keen on her type. Hopefully it's the former because if you get into her she'll have you smiling every single skit.

[Dat Matt]

I prefer mages and ranged characters, so Rita is my jam. She has such game breaking magic later on. She's also tsundere, so she warms up in late game.

Karol is still awful.

[Pumpkin]

[Polnareff]

Karol has the coolest Mystic Arte in the game, so that balances him out some

[Pumpkin]

All I hear when Flynn talks is Jude

[Fox]

All I hear when Flynn talks is Jude

I never realised they had the same VA! I'm going to think better of Jude when I get to Xillia again.

[Vyk]

Yeah, that totally threw me off, because we went straight into Vesperia after beating Xillia. Also, I've played all these with my girlfriend and I always let her have dibs on characters, or just let her play the protagonist. She's more into the series as a whole as I am, so whenever we need to do a quest or something she has a better handle on where to go and what to do. Especially if I wasn't paying attention when the quest was given lol

It was also really weird because Troy Baker's portrayal as Yuri sounded almost exactly like Matt Mercer's portrayal as Alvin. So it was like having Jude and Alvin constantly arguing with each other throughout a new game. It was really jarring. But a pretty good game. Though the girlfriend opted to take a break when Xillia 2 came out and then wanted to move on to Graces since she'd already beaten Vesperia and Graces was still an unknown. But ended up losing interest in that eventually too. I was still willing to play either. Maybe I'm the better Tales fan xD

But nah, we all get burned out and/or lose interest in games for various reasons, and I'm guilty of doing that with way more games. So I don't hold a grudge or anything. And not going to finish them without her. So they'll just be on the back burner for a while

[Fox]

Yeah, that happens even with the best games sometimes. Doesn't mean it's a bad game, life just gets in the way!

Hell, I got burned out on Final Fantasy IX once. It was only like... the 6th time I'd played it as well so it wasn't even getting old or anything.