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Jahanzeb
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| Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World Preview by Jahanzeb |  | | Wii Preview: Another great Tale heading to our shores. | | [View Article] |
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| Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 6:50 am Post subject: |
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i heared the PAL version will have new contents for this, just gallery and stuff..
still every new thing is welcomed =D
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| Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 10:34 am Post subject: |
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I just imported this from Play asia. bummer if they did indeed added new things but so far i'm having fun. I want Vesperia on PS3 and in English, but i'm sure it won't ever happen
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| Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 11:29 am Post subject: |
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Chances are that there will be an Asian version of Vesperia released in English, after all, they had one for the 360.
Hmm... This might actually convince me to dust off the Wii... Tales of Symphonia after all was the first game I reviewed for PALGN 
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Namco hates the PAL territory. Missing out on their good RPGs and only getting the mediocre or crappy ones is their usual game. I'm still surprised we even got Tales of Vesperia.
Additionally you've got to question why it has taken so long for this to release here. Japanese release was June 26, 2008. US release was November 11 2008. PAL release is November 13 2009. A year and a half has to be one of the longest waits for a PAL release of a JRPG ever.
Thing is, the game's pretty heavily flawed. Symphonia for all its popularity is certainly one of the better Tales games, but both Abyss and Vesperia are far better. This sequel ends up focusing too much on their silly monsters-in-the-party mechanism and not enough on building their actual characters. The difficulty is very inconsistent and spiky, and the leveling feels like it hasn't been tuned properly. Tales games are usually designed such that if you don't actively avoid battles, you will generally never be underleveled or overleveled for a given area, without any real need to deliberately grind extra levels. In Dawn of the New World I've been feeling significantly underleveled for quite a while.
Also there's the fact that the main character is irritatingly weak and pathetic. I'm assuming that at some point in the game he'll man up and grow a pair. Hopefully sooner rather than later.
Something not mentioned here is that all the skits in the game are voiced. It's not a half-assed localisation like Tales of Symphonia or Tales of the Abyss, they've actually dubbed all the dialogue that was in the Japanese edition for once.
The PAL version will have some minor extras but not anything to get wildly excited over, it's nothing like the enhancements being made to the PS3 edition of Tales of Vesperia.
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| Quote: | | Something not mentioned here is that all the skits in the game are voiced. It's not a half-assed localisation like Tales of Symphonia or Tales of the Abyss, they've actually dubbed all the dialogue that was in the Japanese edition for once. |
Right, I just mentioned that the game is "fully voiced" but I could have been more specific.
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| NegativeZero wrote: | | but both Abyss and Vesperia are far better. |
Ugh, Abyss was the first, and only, RPG I could not bring myself to finish. I was soooo bored and irritated by the cast.
But Symphonia is def in my top 10 RPGs. I'll buy Vesperia soon once I'm done with Star Ocean 4.
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| stick_theory wrote: | | NegativeZero wrote: | | but both Abyss and Vesperia are far better. |
Ugh, Abyss was the first, and only, RPG I could not bring myself to finish. I was soooo bored and irritated by the cast. |
I really enjoyed Abyss and Luke was a character I could relate to..
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I suspect your 22/04/2009 (Confirmed) release date is a little inaccurate
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WTF - wheres the PS3 version !
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