Tales of Symphonia Game Discussion

[Ending]

One downside to the US release, apparently none of the in-game skits (triggered when you hit the Z button) have audio in the English version. All of those skits (of which there are 300+) had voice acting in the Japanese version.

Is it completely disabled or can you choose between english and chinese audio? Original is always the best, and I'm pretty disappointed to the regular, english voice-acting. Would be shame to miss it...

[Draikan7]

i got this game a few days ago, great great game. one of the best fighting systems out there.

[Kaka]

I believe the battle system of TOS is similar to Star Ocean 3 right?

since TOS is the only one that has a 3D battle out of all tales so far

[Dark Zero]

Originally Posted by silentpixel

ARGH now i have a reason to get the GC. I wouldnt get the GC if it was coming to the PS2 NA but it isnt

The game looks good to. Especially the battle video i seen. I want this bad.

Um, it IS coming to Ps2, its been confirmed long while ago, even comes with a limited edition DVD feature DAMN THEM!!* Or so I've heard and seen it for pre-order, but we all know how those things go I'll try to dig up some info, as rpgfan don't have it anymore.

As for what Navi said, this the only 'good' rpg on gamecube? Go pick up Skies of Arcadia Legends

[Kaka]

Originally Posted by Dark Zero

Um, it IS coming to Ps2, its been confirmed long while ago, even comes with a limited edition DVD feature DAMN THEM!!* Or so I've heard and seen it for pre-order, but we all know how those things go I'll try to dig up some info, as rpgfan don't have it anymore.

releasing on the 22nd of September.
of course, Japanese version ^_^

u get the dvd if you preorder it in japan
I am asking local game store to see if they can get me the game+dvd too

http://www.namco-ch.net/talesofsymph...ign/index.html
■予約特典「SPECIAL DVD」収録内容
●PS2『テイルズ オブ リバース』プレミアム映像
Tales of Rebirth premium clips
●PS2『テイルズ オブ シンフォニア』プロモーション映像
Tales of Symphonia promotion clips
●PS2『テイルズ オブ シンフォニア』設定資料集など
Tales of Symphonia Settings etc.

[perth]

sorry i know this might be spam but i just had a really weird thing happen

i watch a show called x-play where they review games and the moment i went to the forums and saw the tales of symphosia thread in the last posted part a review started at the very same time.

[Dark Zero]

Originally Posted by Kaka

releasing on the 22nd of September.
of course, Japanese version ^_^

u get the dvd if you preorder it in japan
I am asking local game store to see if they can get me the game+dvd too

http://www.namco-ch.net/talesofsymph...ign/index.html
■予約特典「SPECIAL DVD」収録内容
●PS2『テイルズ オブ リバース』プレミアム映像
Tales of Rebirth premium clips
●PS2『テイルズ オブ シンフォニア』プロモーション映像
Tales of Symphonia promotion clips
●PS2『テイルズ オブ シンフォニア』設定資料集など
Tales of Symphonia Settings etc.

I ment the ps2 in USA I saw it somewhere and can't locate it any more. Maybe it was claimed to come to the USA, but then just decided not to go along with it. All the better, GC needs its own exclusive RPGs ^_^

[Kaka]

o, US ver.? @_@
I have never heard anything about TOS will be releasing an US ver. on PS2
and even if it was going to, there would be a very very very very little chance the dvd is featured lol. besides I give no expectation to US ver. ^^bbb

[Proto]

Tales of Symphonia is a prequel to Tales of Destiny (PSX), the second instailment of the series, not to Tales of Phantasia.

About the similarities, I haven't played ToS but Namco has this tendence to include similar techniques for the main character, similar basic items etc. BTW I don't believe Midgard would be an equivalent to Asgard. Midgard is usually your supper uber technology city

Spoiler:

In tales of phantasia they built the mysteq cannon, the best weapon ever

While Asgard is usually a frozen town or empire.

Apart from that I wouldnt be surprised if they shared other minor things, but I'd rather attribute it to the lack of imagination of the game editors

[max201]

Well anyone els geting the god of all RPG's (yes even beast Final fantasy if u ask me)

The 1st of the series to be released in the west.
But god this game is good over 80hrs gameplay , sweet cell shaded GFX , ang amazing anime cut sceens.

So anyone els get it and what do you think ?

[microlith]

There's actually only one anime sequence, and that's the OP and the ending.

There are two FMV sequences in the game, both CG not featuring the characters

All other cutscenes are engine-generated.

After playing it about this time last year, I really liked it a lot. it took me about 60 hours to finish, but I was playing slow cause it was in Japanese and I didn't bother leveling my characters to 99.

It's a really fun game, and I like the battle system a lot. Not a bad choice for what is effectively only my 3rd RPG, first one outside of Final Fantasy. I guess you could count Golden Sun, but it played so much like final fantasy it was almost the same.

So play, enjoy, if you have the english version you also have my sympathies as Namco USA didn't bother recording audio for the skits.

[Sides]

i like this game, just finished it last week
it is pretty fun, my favourite bit is to beat the Sword Dancer
and the colosseum battles

still hoping Namco will release Tales of Phantasia for the GBA
in the PAL or NA region

[Benoit]

I'll finally be getting the (for me) US import version of Tales of Symphonia in about a week.
Why import? Because Namco removed the 60 Hz option from the game for the EU release, making it only in 50 Hz! >_< And this while their previous game, Soul Calibur, did have it!
It's a crying shame to me.

[Ranko]

Got it back in july games like this make me happy i got a Cube rather than a PS2, it really takes advantage of the Cube's 4 player ports. Still havn't finished it but then it also took me 6 years to finish shining force 2 for the gen.

[DarknessFox45]

i'd recommend that game to any RPG player.....it is indeed awesome and i agree its battle system is great.

The Game has amazing Anime Cut-Scenes, and the WHOLE Game is Anime.....amazing huh?

I Havent played the whole game im still working on it but so far its been my favorite GBC game!!!


-DarknessFox

[Benoit]

GBC means Game Boy Color.
GC stands for GameCube.

[The Elf]

That game certainly was my best surprise of 2004. I hadn't bought any new game for over a year and I really needed to get something new. I bought this game thinking "wow! 'looks cool !" In fact, that game was so cool that I played well over 100 hrs in a few weeks I love the anime style and the battle system, and I really liked the story, which is quite more complex than it looks like.

I can't imagine how a RPG player could skip this one...

[Benoit]

I got the game the 24th, and started playing it yesterday. I'm now almost five hours into it, and it's pretty cool.

Is it completely disabled or can you choose between english and chinese audio? Original is always the best, and I'm pretty disappointed to the regular, english voice-acting. Would be shame to miss it...

Chinese? What the hell have you been smoking? This is a Japanese game. And no, you can't switch to the original.

I don't mind the skits not being voiced. The game features a lot of voice in other areas, so I think they did a big effort to voice those in English.

I've heard the original Japanese voices, and the new English ones are almost the same voice. I think they did a great job.

[Tokimemofan]

This is the only reason I have a 'cube. My other titles are 2 Dreamcast remakes and one Pok'emon dust collecter.

[Tokimemofan]

Tales of Symphonia is a prequal to Tales of Phantasia, not Destiny as evidenced by numerous references in ToP

Spoiler:

Many of these links are subtle but are far beyond a traditional cameo apearance or unoriginal location name, these include the Goddess Martel (ToS) and the tree spirit Martel of the mana tree Yggdrasil (ToP). Yggdrasil is what many fans believe Lloyd and company renamed the The Giant Kharlan Tree (ToS) (its been awhile so I hope I spelled that right as well as the next one ) At the final confrontation with Dhaos he mentions "Derris Karran" (ToP) which is very similar to Derris Kharlan (ToS) and with my pathetic experience with Japanese I know about the L vs R in translation so that could explain it. ( Screw these stupid names).