21:13, Oof that scene of Velvet balling up. For such a strong character with very edgy design, hard to imagine how she can still invoke childish fragility just as effectively. And then there's still that mommy side of hers. Anime characters at it's finest.

RIP to Mutsumi Inomata. She helped design Velvet Crowe and did art for alot of other tales games. She'll be missed.

@tvoyager7

3 ай бұрын

heard she was another victim to over-work in some form. the 2020's is not going to be kind to our legends, considering practices long since notorious in the industry

Great review dude. Love the history analysis of this game's development you did. I love this game!

Berseria has my favorite cast of characters for a JRPG! 😄

Tales of Berseria LET'S GOO

Forever my favorite Tales. Best story and cast in RPGs for me too. For the battle system, i get gripes from folks used to older games, im not knowledgeable enough to give comparisons. But it's still fun to actually learn for me ignoring how much Velvet steamrolls lol. The other characters are fun too plus those Mystic Arte chains are cathartic as hell. And thanks for highlighting Berseria's love for older titles.

This is easily my top fave Tales game.

Maggie Lou might be my favorite Tales character. I didn't like her at first, but she quickly grew on me. She has some of the best dialogue. In game, I just take her hat off and give her what is basically "deal with it" shades, and she is easily top tier in the cast

I tend not to follow what others say about certain entries in different franchises. Spoils my enjoyment if I’m being honest. My bro and I being big Tales fans don’t know about these takes but we tend to judge them for ourselves and I’d say pretty much all of them are worth checking out. Yeah, some entries have flaws here and there and somebody’s gonna rip it apart but that’s the internet for ya I guess.

Somewhere in bandai namco Mika from tales of Breaker is crying over being Forgotten as the ACTUAL 1st female Tales protagonist Breaker is a mobile game, Mobile Tales games never end well

@jasonhollingsworth7392

4 ай бұрын

Why can't we get one 😭

A very tiny nit-pick in your summary: Celica is Velvet and Lephicet's older sister, and Artorius is her husband, Artorius isn't Velvet and Laphicet's brother directly.

@xenosanctum2531

3 күн бұрын

I said older brother in-law. Thats what you call someone who is married to your sister.

@Hey-Its-Dingo

3 күн бұрын

@@xenosanctum2531 I guess I just didn't hear the "in-law" my bad.

I'm giddy with anticipation

The fact that Beseria came so close after Zest shows they really doubled down on being one of the best stories in the series. The only small issue I have is how Rokurou 's true motives were revealed to late. For most of the game your given the impression its a Sasuke Itachi thing where the older brother wronged him...then it turns out that his brother was the better person and he was just a petty asshole and hardly any time is even given on that. Oh well, still rather intense and unique, which is why its a damn shame we went from this to Arise being one of the most bland generic games in the series...at least now you can cover the DLC to it as well lol.

@xenosanctum2531

7 ай бұрын

Yes the DLC... hmm... more Arise... yaaaay.

@ZannacrossG1

7 ай бұрын

@@xenosanctum2531 For me I feel they REALLY wanted the DLC to get the same feel as the Future arc Graces had in Arise but, it just fell flat to me. I suppose we have a TAD more nuance for the enemy in the DLC but like, when the main game's enemies nearly are as fleshed out as 8 bit bad guys that's not really that much to be proud of...doh.

I just bought tales of arise, but what really annoyed is that the dialogue is too much forced, its not natural, the characters are not natural. Every time they start doing the smart dialogue I eventually start skipping. Now, Berseria was the better game, everything was too me much more natural. But the ending of Berseria was well lame, i am not saying that it should be a good ending but that ending we got was really lame.

@happycompy

3 ай бұрын

Agreed with everything you said here.

I really look forward to you ripping Arise appart. I don't consider it a Tales of game really. About Berseria... I don't agree with you on the combat and I consider it one of the better ones although Velvet was indeed too easy and no Line in the LMBS was very disappointing.

@Basileus127

Ай бұрын

Yeah, people really underestimate Berseria's combat system. It's got the usual Tales staples like knock-up, juggling, knockdown, pick-up, and combo extenders, on top of things like making status ailments useful, great spellcasting mechanics, and Switch Blasts to change characters while seamlessly continuing your combo. Even stuff like loading everything onto one button isn't actually that effective - once you get a power combo going there is no benefit to spamming the same artes since everything counts as hitting a weakness, so you're better off switching to higher damage artes (even ones the enemy would normally resist). Berseria is the only Tales game where I actively use dark bottles just to have more enemies added to fights, on top of using link encounters to level enemies up.

"I will drag myself back to this game in an attempt to see if I can find out why so many people love it." Because they like the game's combat, characters and story. Not looking forward to your next video since it's obvious that it's going to be overall negative due to your own dislike of the game.

@xenosanctum2531

6 ай бұрын

They say that yet never seem to give details to back those comments up. BTW I do have quite a bit of positives to say about Tales of Arise.

@user-wd4rq2cd3g

5 ай бұрын

@@xenosanctum2531 Because you don't want to listen to the details that they do give. You'd just prefer to dismiss them and stick to your "Tales of Arise is a bad Tales game and I don't get why a lot of people like it" viewpoint.

I love berseria. This is a unpopular opinion but i hate laphicet. Screw him.

@goncaloferreira6429

6 ай бұрын

so you dont care about the story i would guess?