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Tales of Phantasia
Jul. 28th, 2011 10:29 pmA dozen years ago, a group of warriors sealed the evil king Dhaos using a pendent. Young Cress just received a pendent from his father, a well-regarded swordsman. In classic jrpg tradition, this doesn't lead to anything good. The first game in the Tales series of action-rpgs, Tales of Phantasia was first officially localized when it was remade for the GBA.
( At-length discussion of the game system and a digression about time travel. )
Overall: Gotta be honest, I didn’t really like it. Even if the combat system had grown on me more, the puzzles were obtuse and often kinda stupid, and the plot wasn’t different or special enough to justify the problems. If you want to play it, unless you have a strong aversion to emulators, find the fan-translated SNES version and play that instead. The graphics, sound, and play control are better; the additions to the GBA version were a couple of sidequests, a late-game bonus character; a fairly-useless cooking ability; and an extended bonus dungeon. And those are only really worth the trouble if you really love the game.
( At-length discussion of the game system and a digression about time travel. )
Overall: Gotta be honest, I didn’t really like it. Even if the combat system had grown on me more, the puzzles were obtuse and often kinda stupid, and the plot wasn’t different or special enough to justify the problems. If you want to play it, unless you have a strong aversion to emulators, find the fan-translated SNES version and play that instead. The graphics, sound, and play control are better; the additions to the GBA version were a couple of sidequests, a late-game bonus character; a fairly-useless cooking ability; and an extended bonus dungeon. And those are only really worth the trouble if you really love the game.
