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Tales of Destiny: Director's Cut JPN
(Open beta fan translation) Started Leon's side and'm pretty much off to find a stolen Eye!

Updated about 3 days ago

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TimeSplitters: Future Perfect
Story: 2/13 Challenges: 21/21 Leagues: 27/27. Mostly Gold with 3 Silvers, but it's time I stop monkeying around & beat Story Mode.

Updated about 8 months ago

Now part of my 10 games I committed to beating this year.
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Grandia
Now on Disc 2 and at Cafu Village. Certainly took a while for me.

Updated about 9 months ago

First on the list of games I made commitment to beating this year.

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about 1 week ago

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Consider Yourself a Hero: Majority of games are beaten
Treasure Hunter: 1000+ games
I had no plans to change my theme (in fact, I was fine leaving it with Gemini Sunrise indefinitely), but since I'm finally going to do Leon's side in Tales of Destiny Director's Cut & with what I already brought up in my previous comment, I decided to change it, at least for a month.
about 1 week ago

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Consider Yourself a Hero: Majority of games are beaten
Treasure Hunter: 1000+ games
Being that I'm the Tales fan here, I'm just wanting to say this. Mutsumi Inomata, character designer for a good amount of the Tales games (most stand out being Tales of Destiny and Eternia), passed away.

I loved her artwork. It was very lovely. Also, well, I did start off Tales with Tales of Destiny back in 1999. Despite at one point watching Windaria, I would mostly know her for Tales. Most installments would be her doing.

Not to mention, Leon Magnus has been that one Tales character I think of, even jokingly, as that one character I could never escape from (Even with me stealing Cless Alvein's first name and Stahn Aileron's last name). I may have also dressed up as Leon Magnus during San Diego Comic Con 2008 and 2010.

I know a lot of people felt sad after Akira Toriyama passed away recently. Hearing another one, especially someone I admired, also passed so soon was a big gut punch. I think I'll do those EX Points grinding in Tales of Destiny: Director's Cut tonight at the time I post this just to play something she did.

RIP Mutsumi Inomata. I'm going to have the same angst as Leon Magnus for now.
about 1 month ago (edited)

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Minion of Bak'laag: 100+ unfinished games
Master of Unlocking: Majority of games are completed
Treasure Hunter: 1000+ games
Oh, I can see what you mean. The last few games are just a weird hybrid between hack n slash and usual tales of and it isn't working whatsoever, and the extra HP just makes it boring because you're supposed to abuse the mechanics or something. Like how Velvet was just R2 spam, and Alphen was same arts spam forever. It doesn't feel fast or snappy either, so it's just meh. A friend of mine swears that tales of graces has some of the most stupid story in a videogame but the gameplay is super good, so I really want to give it a try someday.

Why would anyone say that about tales of phantasia? lmao ToP is the exact definition of being extra solid in every department, especially the PS1 and later versions. It's not too long, all the characters have very good development and the cast is just endearing, the story gets interesting from the get go, the villain has depth and he's not really bad it's just a story of either you or us and that's how war goes, and while the setting is kinda grim the characters try to make the best out of the situation, and there's plenty of goof in the game without really straying from the overall tone. Is it a masterpiece? Hard to say because there are other games that shine more in some things, but finding another good rounded game like this is actually super hard. And I really don't think I'm talking from nostalgia here, there's really not much to complain about ToP. People can obviously not like it or think something else is better, but really I feel what you mentioned is just complaning for the sake of complaining, to undermine it because it's the first and the classic so it doesn't get the reputation that it can't be outdone. Which is weird, because that spot always was for Symphonia, as that's the game that pulled a lot of people to the saga.

On the other hand, I never really liked how everyone praised abyss. Because the story twists in abyss felt cheap to me. Why was everyone so hard on Luke when he was also a victim? sure he needed a wake up call but they really treat him as trash when, that thing in particular, was not really his fault. He was groomed to be a tool, so what could he really do by himself when he's not even aware of what's happening because NOBODY tells him? I can praise Luke's change of mind to better himself even if it was too late, but everyone else was just... meh...

also fuck people complaining about mint, there's nothing wrong with liking vanilla stuff

and I should beat destiny too orz I like stahn a lot
about 1 month ago

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Consider Yourself a Hero: Majority of games are beaten
Treasure Hunter: 1000+ games
Unsolicited advice from left field: different perspectives are what make people interesting. Try not to worry about it.

And there's certainly nothing wrong with being capable of enjoying something. Even something flawed or outright bad. I feel like internet discourse too easily fluctuates to extremes. Don't let their negativity rob you of something you enjoy.

P.S. Congrats on the new PC.
about 1 month ago

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Minion of Bak'laag: 100+ unfinished games
Master of Unlocking: Majority of games are completed
Treasure Hunter: 1000+ games
You're describing peer pressure, and you're probably seeing the same stuff that I do, but from the inside, which is way worse because they want you to just repeat the same stuff everyone says and if you don't you're wrong. And that's not true.

Tales of Legendia is enjoyable, especially since it's basically the only 3D game that still tried to be like the 2D games, while everything else just followed the standard set by Symphonia for the longest time. Is it good? idk, imo tales of games aren't that great to begin with, they're usually in the 6-7/10 range. The OST stuff is also just personal opinion honestly, but I don't think people praise it because it's not Motoi Sakuraba, but because Go Shiina is actually a pretty great composer, but overall I agree it's not that great, you really can tell that he got his own style once he composed for God Eater. Which shows for the tracks he composed for Zestiria, absolute bangers.

I honestly do not see the problem with enjoying stuff and ignoring problems, that's just... what the average person does? I wish I could do that honestly. I kinda complain a lot, but I assure you that I go 100% open minded to every game, knowing as little as possible. But I just have a hard time playing a game that feels that is wasting my time. Really poor writing, boring padding and lack of QoL (like really long unskippable animations) are the regular offenders, and out of these 3 tales of usually has the first two, with really bland characters that stick to one thing forever and show little growth because there has to be 8 characters in every game, and the usual elemental temple stuff that is just a predictable chore at this point. It's unironically the reason why I enjoyed Symphonia 2 so much more than 1, I didn't mind the characters' personalities because it made sense to me, and the focus on only 2 characters made for a much better and tight story.

Like really, give me good character writing, plot writing, or just good game progression and I usually won't complain. Berseria for instance could've been REALLY good, if it only were like 25 hours shorter, because the characters were good and the story was pretty cool.

But I digress, complain all you want if it helps you sort your feelings! I can at least tell you that every opinion I read about tales of from the "community" makes me facepalm real hard, so there is that.

man I just love tales of phantasia to death and the closest thing to that was the dead gacha