Tales of Symphonia

[Destai]

So in the storylines time line, Which came first? Phantasia or Symphonia?

[Black Mage]

Storyline wise, Tales of Symphonia comes way before Tales of Phantasia.
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Sylvarant was a continent/kingdom in Star Ocean. Sylvarant, and Tethe'alla for that matter, are just moons in Tales of Phantasia.

But, I do agree the connections between Tales of Symphonia and Tales of Phantasia were rather well done. It was a very nice treat, especially because I had no idea when I bought the game. Though, it's a shame a lot of that is lost on those who haven't played Tales of Phantasia.

And yeah, the Treant - Torrent was a rather sad mistake, though I guess understandable, from the Katakana. Also, I thought I'd clear something up about Kratos' last name. It's actually Aurion, and not Alvein.

クラトス・アウリオン
Kratos Aurion

クレス・アルベイン
Cless Alvein

[Lindy]

Yeah, I see that as boxes not as Japanese, even though I have language support on my computer, fantastic.

I did say it was Aurion, but if you think about it, it could easily work to Alvein.

A L V E I N
A V L I E N
A U L I E N
A U R I E N
A U R I O N

PLUS, Cless wields the Eternal Sword in ToP, doesn't he? Sneaky link there, if you remember how it worked in ToS.

[Carl the Llama]

Locke with Terra and Celes, just that it's cleared up without either of them dying. Heck, the whole thing with Aeris and Tifa is horribly similar to Terra and Celes, even the characters are similar, Terra and Aeris that whole kind, sacrificing thing hiding ultimate power, and Celes and Tifa being the "tough one hiding a kind heart", etc.

1. Tifa isnt a "tough on hiding a kind heart" she is always affectioate to cloud and the party and 2. there isnt a love triangle with Locke as his love is that sleeping woman (anna i thnk her name is) and he doesnt ever want to fail again or somthing like that (i haven't played the game in ages) and 3. Areis wasn't hiding her power she jus didnt want other people to suffer her fate and... ya know.

Rebel groups and world spanning empires, much of the "stealing the power of ultimate beings to be all powerful" too, though Kefka actually manages it while Sephiroth just sort of tries to do it...slowly.

the life stream is not a sentinent being therefor he isnt trying to steal the power from it, rather he is trying to become a god through the power of the lifestream

Major event, then you're left to run around the world saving various people and places, until you're finally reunited with the main character, yup happens in FF6 and FF7, of course slowly gaining power for all your characters as you do so.

one of the main things i loved about 6 was the fact that Terra (altho she was important) was not the main character: the was no main character you could actully complete the game without haveing her in your party so that to me says the she was not the main character
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The splitting into three parties to take on three boss parts is something that started in FF6 and then spread onto FF7 and FF8.

in Final Fantasy VII you did not split into 3 partys and in VIII you didnt either (when a character died they were replaced with another random charater) so no its nothing like that

A lot of the general concepts and styles were taken from FF6 and used in FF7, not just the story copied but a lot of other things as well.

an age old saying goes somthing like this "if it aint broke dont fix it"

[Summoner _Sheena]

I love it. It's my all time favorite game.

[Destai]

I passed it three or so hours ago. It was very good for the most part. Does anyone know what was the kharlan tree renamed as? And when Lloyd united tethella and Sylvarant are the people who flash on the screen during the anime cut scene the people from Tales of Phantasia? One of them look similar to the pictures of Cless I googled.

[crashNUMBERS]

Yeah. ToS rockz. But I don't own it. I borrowed from a friend so I never finished it...

[StarlightAngel]

Does anyone know what was the kharlan tree renamed as?

He named it Yggdrasil. After all, the tree of life in... I think its Norsh mythology? Either way, the tree of life was Yggdrasil, so... XD

[Crossblades]

I love this game. I love Tales of Phantasia as well