2006-12-25, 11:50 | Link #1 | |
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Tales of Symphonia OVA Discussion
Doesn't seem to be an actual thread for this yet, so I thought I'd create one, since I'm a huge fan of the Tales series. I imagine this will be something like the Tales of Phantasia OAV, with a fairly truncated story. The entire story could easily make a 100+ episode series, so it'll likely be a fanservice trip for us fans (and damn I'm looking forward to seeing Sheena and cute Presea fully animated )
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2006-12-26, 16:25 | Link #6 |
Sexy Tornado
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Haven't actually played TotA yet since I don't have the appropriate console (I'm a GC man), but I'd agree that more than 4 eps would be nice. Phantasia was good for what it was, but Tales of Eternia The Animation was better from the point of view of having 13 episodes (that and I love Meredy )
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2006-12-27, 09:19 | Link #8 |
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the problem would be : how will it cover Kratos' and Zelos' story and character development?
until the possible animation crew create another story which will grant them justice without any disaster Spoiler for end game spoiler:
it would be rather awkward to animate the end of TOS (would they be able to correctly portray how twisted is really the "villain" of the story to begin with?) while zelos has the best character mojo, kratos is the most interesting character, plot wise, even better than the Spoiler for another end game spoiler:
*sigh* anyway, yeah, TOS deserve an anime ^^ note : i can't understand why in the hell every TOS summary, even from namco/nintendo spoil the 2 worlds plot. the mana balance shouldn't be that obvious at the beginning of the story.
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At least they don't spoil it to any really serious degree though, as such. |
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2007-02-07, 08:51 | Link #12 |
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well the First Trailer is out.
http://www.animate.tv/pv/detail.php?id=pvd070125a so far it looking Great cant wait for it to come out. |
2007-02-11, 08:35 | Link #14 | |
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On the subject of the anime it looks nice and fluid, just like an OVA should. But theres no way it'll even come close to covering all the important plot points before ending. Lots of stuffs gonna be cut and it may ruin the experience for fans of the game while seeming shallow to those that aren't familiar with it. I myself never beat it, got all the way to the end then went back and did all the side quests. Did the same thing with FF8-got to the next-to-last dungeon about 4 times but never actually beat it. I really need to stop doing that with my RPGs. |
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2007-02-11, 13:26 | Link #16 |
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I remember seeing the first episode of Tales of Phantasia which if I recall started right in the middle of the 2nd act with the attack on Dhaos's castle and by the end of the 1st episode they were already back in the present and starting the 3rd act. They just flew through 2/3 of the game in 1 episode and I decided not to continue even though it was a nice fan treat (basically if you hadn't played the game you'd have absolutely no idea what was going on). Also I wish they had gotten Satomi Koorogi as Mint instead of the one who did her in the full voice version and her cameo appearances.
Tales of Symphonia is also and I swear this a 50 or so hour game, so how they are going to do this in a 4 episode OVA without repeating the Phantasia formula would be quite a feat. Unless each OVA is at least an hour long and they cut any scene that isn't absolutely 100% critical to the story, they are screwed. Also if they replace Ai Orikasa as Genius Sage they die. (edit: Oh thank freaking god she's there. I know how they're desperately trying to retire my favourite voice actors. This is already an improvement over Tales of Phantasia which had maybe half of the original cast. You can blame Dhaos's new voice on the fact that Kaneto Shiozawa is dead, but Satomi Koorogi being replaced was bullshit.) Logically, you would also expect them to use Starry Heavens for the opening, but if that happens I will eat my hat that I'm not wearing. It hasn't happened before, though a lot of H-Games are moving down that path, I can't see them throwing me that bone. Oh and with ToE they actual did a completely original story which was a great way to go about things and it ended up working really really well, making it the only Tales anime I've enjoyed to date (well it was the only one besides Phantasia). Star Ocean wasn't half bad either, but that was 26 episodes and it only got through the first disc of the game. Last edited by Kaioshin Sama; 2007-02-11 at 13:37. |
2007-02-14, 03:38 | Link #18 |
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What's funny is that the puzzles are the only thing preventing me from playing the game all over again. I got all the titles, then I farmed out all the Grade to buy titles, extra grade and pretty much everything else. But meh, I have better things to do than trying to get a fish to move a fruit for me.
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Anyway, looks like I was right in my summise of this being another 4 ep OAV like ToP Keeping my fingers crossed, and I'll be watching it for sure simply to see Sheena and Presea animated Quote:
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As for VA's... anyone will be fine really, since absolutely any Japanese seiyuu will be better than the hideous american 'actors'. I switch voices completely off while playing, it's a much more enjoyable experience (seriously, who the hell wants to hear 'RISING FALCON!!!, TEMPEST!!!, SWORD RAIN!!!, BLEH BLEH BLEH being shouted 17 times every battle? Certainly not I.) Quote:
Ah well, I'm still looking forward to this, even if it only turns out to be a ToP style fanservice trip. With Sheena in there, fanservice is fine by me Though I would of course prefer something with a bit of substance, like the game itself |
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