[TALES] of Berseria

Raijin Quickfoot

Yes my friends... It's a Tales thread. The conversation about Tales of Berseria has overrun the JRPG thread so we can move the talk to here.

There have been approximately 254 Tales games.

The least famous of them was simply called Tales of Bill.

Tales of Vesperia was the best of them until now.

Now Tales of Berseria is the best.

Magilou demands your respect.

EMEOWCIPATE

Radius

Oh

the sale ended once I had the time and money to play Berseria

who wants to talk about Luke's character arc in Tales of the Abyss?

Maximum

I should buy this.

Is it on Xbox? My PS account was hacked and I don't feel like dealing with their customer service department ever.

Radius

Facebook is letting me know you can now buy maid costumes for Berseria

to go along with the schoolgirl and idolmaster costumes they let me know about last week

Yukira

Radius wrote: »

Facebook is letting me know you can now buy maid costumes for Berseria

to go along with the schoolgirl and idolmaster costumes they let me know about last week

It's like it's pandering right to you.

Blackhawk1313

I'm hard pressed to think of a set of characters I've enjoyed more, I was reasonably sure I wouldn't see a Tales game I liked more than Vesperia but damn...

Chincymcchilla

I am not sure I've EVER played a JRPG where I liked every character until this one

Raijin Quickfoot

I fucking love Velvet. Talk about a strong female lead. Never expected it from a Tales game.

Chincymcchilla

Raijin Quickfoot wrote: »

I fucking love Velvet. Talk about a strong female lead. Never expected it from a Tales game.

Millia is a good female lead

But she's not velvet

Dragkonias

I like Velvet cause she's stern but also pretty considerate.

I hate how straightforward and frank sometimes leans into jerk for no reason for a lot of video game characters.

Madican

What I really like about Berseria is how the entire party is doing this whole thing for personal and selfish reasons and they are perfectly okay with that. They're not good people but they are excellent characters who all grow and develop over the course of the story. They have their reasons for why they do things and they won't make apologies for the path they walk. This is not the team of Heroes and it's not a team of Villains either. It's a group of people who all share some common goals and have decided to work together to reach those goals. It's not to save the world or restore balance, if anything they're making things more chaotic, it's because they want to do it for themselves. A very, very atypical JRPG mindset.

vagrant_winds

And now the poor JRPG thread will getburred and we won't convince more JRPGers to pick up this game.

Blackhawk1313

vagrant_winds wrote: »

And now the poor JRPG thread will getburred and we won't convince more JRPGers to pick up this game.

Talk about other good JRPGS and then toss a subliminal (buy Berseria) in with each one.

Baroque And Roll

Radius wrote: »

Oh

the sale ended once I had the time and money to play Berseria

who wants to talk about Luke's character arc in Tales of the Abyss?

I'm about 20 hours into Berseria

I still like Abyss' characters more.

Chincymcchilla

One of my favorite things about the game is the theme of free choice

Late game spoilers

every character craves free will and the ability to do what the want for different reasons, and then at the end it turns out the entire thing is that the badguy wants to steal free will. It's great.

Kai_San

Still love Luke. He is a great character warts and all.

They all are honestly. I want to play Berseria so bad, but the amount of love people have in describing Berseria's characters is how I always felt about Abyss'

They were all done really well and don't always quite feel like they are all there for each other, just with each other. Well for most of it anyway.

Jars

my impression of velvet is still she is forcing herself not to care about other people but she really wants to. I just left islegard

Wyvern

I wish I was playing non-Velvet characters more. But when enemies in chain battles have like a 95% proc rate on stuns and status effects it's hard to justify. Status immunity is a hell of a drug.

Jars

I'm trying to control magilou because I prefer mages but I end up spending fights running my ass away from everything

ph blake

Magilou is fun to use in caster heavy fights where she can just eat everything and then nuke them all into the sun.

KetBra

This game is pretty fun. I kinda stalled out on it on

return to the prison island

but combat is probably the tightest it's been in 3D tales and Velvet's a great character, so I will be back. How far along am I?

silence1186

So I've never played a Tales game before but I grabbed the demo for this based on the praise.

I don't mind jurpy characters or story at all, but I'm worried I'll get bogged down button mashing in the action combat. I'm used to slower jrpgs with menus, I suppose, though even FF is bucking the trend in favor of action.

Legit point of contention?

Any other tips and tricks to look out for?

Aistan

The combat is just ok, so far. Maybe i'll figure out how it works better as I go forward.

I wish maggie lou would stop shouting, but she's wandered off at the moment so it's fine now.

Madican

silence1186 wrote: »

So I've never played a Tales game before but I grabbed the demo for this based on the praise.

I don't mind jurpy characters or story at all, but I'm worried I'll get bogged down button mashing in the action combat. I'm used to slower jrpgs with menus, I suppose, though even FF is bucking the trend in favor of action.

Legit point of contention?

Any other tips and tricks to look out for?

Berseria combat is, with Velvet at least, a matter of making preset combo strings in the Artes menu and then hammering one of the four face buttons to pull off the string you think will hit the weak point of the enemy. No need to memorize inputs like a fighting game. If you need to switch things up while already in a fight you can do that too. There's more complexity as well once you work in guarding, guard charges, Break Souls, dodges, and other things that become second nature quickly.

No Great Name

Tales of Vesperia was a good game if you could get over playing as a murderer.

No thanks

Symphonia the best.

Are you murderers in this one?

LockedOnTarget

No Great Name wrote: »

Tales of Vesperia was a good game if you could get over playing as a murderer.

No thanks

Symphonia the best.

Are you murderers in this one?

Ha ha

hee

hoo boy

Qanamil

Man, yeah, this game.

KetBra

It's not murder if they're daemons

Radius

Yukira wrote: »

Radius wrote: »

Facebook is letting me know you can now buy maid costumes for Berseria

to go along with the schoolgirl and idolmaster costumes they let me know about last week

It's like it's pandering right to you.

if it could pander by being 30 dollars again that would be great

No Great Name

KetBra wrote: »

It's not murder if they're daemons

So like Batarians, acceptable.

Madican

No Great Name wrote: »

KetBra wrote: »

It's not murder if they're daemons

So like Batarians, acceptable.

It was a joke.

You kill a LOT of people in Berseria. Hell, in one cutscene with Rokurou you see

The pile of body parts from where he literally sliced and diced an idiot who claimed to use his sword style.

This is not Vesperia where Yuri tries the tough guy routine of "I killed people, but it needed to be done." Berseria is "You are in my way so YOU DIE!"

Chincymcchilla

No Great Name wrote: »

Tales of Vesperia was a good game if you could get over playing as a murderer.

No thanks

Symphonia the best.

Are you murderers in this one?

Yes, every single character

Blackhawk1313

And we love them for it.

KetBra

This is probably the closest Tales will ever get to Tarantino, essentially

Revenge is the name of the game

No Great Name

Ok, so they're upfront about it? It's not 30 hours into the game?

Blackhawk1313

Oh are they ever. It's actually one of the super refreshing things about. They don't try to justify their actions they have their goals and they work together because those goals happen to align and there is no apology about it.

KetBra

Velvet has a person she very much has to kill and if you get in her way she will run you over

Madican

KetBra wrote: »

Velvet has a person she very much has to kill and if you get in her way she will run you over

Also probably eat you.

ph blake

Berseria is Kill Bill, but even more anime.

Raijin Quickfoot

The Vester Tunnels are taking forever

Madican

ph blake wrote: »

Berseria is Kill Bill, but even more anime.

I think someone in the JRPG thread summed it up as "John Wick if he was a lady rage demon."