Tales of Zestiria the X

I wonder how many times this question was asked. From now on, I'll count.

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Are Alishafriends happy she's getting more screentime?

>>143822154
Waifu

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>>143823911
Needs more Rose/10

>>143823911
I just want a decent story involving her.

>>143824353
Did 2ch permaban you, Baba?

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>>143824353
So what is so offensively bad about this "Rose."

Seems pretty cute tbqh

>>143826162
>>143824353
I'm on to you Baba

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>>143826162
She is a pure and virtuous young lady with an uncomprimising sense of justice

Sheltered children are intimidated by her can-do attitude and charismatic leadership style.

>>143826891
>Sheltered children are intimidated by her can-do attitude and charismatic leadership style.

More like japanese manchildren are scared of women that can't be tamed. That's why they like Velvet and not Rose. Velvet, despite being a general hardass, has a soft/motherly side when it comes to the shota, making japs believe that under her attitude there is a kawaii girl that loves headpats.

Rose on the other hand always has the same attitude, leaving Japs without openings to see her "soft" side, thus making her disliked by the fandom.

A girl without feminine sides is trash by them.

>>143826891
>>143824353
>>143826162

Why I keep seeing pics of this background character on zesty threads

>>143827242
Actually this is true but Rose a shit

>>143827242
In other words, Rose is a creepy sociopath and Velvet is a badass who doesn't act edgy towards children

>>143827242
Nah it's because Rose is fujoshit's self-insert character

>>143823911
Only if she keeps getting it.

>>143826162
Apparently, the game spends more time trying to convince you of how awesome she is than actually presenting a good story.

>>143827741
Alisha is the fujoshit self-insert character. Nip fangirls like to self-insert into kind, shy and useless girls, see every otomeshit and shoujoshit. Rose is Baba's waifu, the thing is Baba is a very fucked up man so he has fucked up tastes

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Rokuro and Eizen redpilled af

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09s7wFqnOns

>>143829054
What the fuck is this shit

>Tales of Liberal Arts Degrees

So was this a prologue episode or is it just incredibly badly written/directed?

>>143827856
Hmm, that is the basic gist of it really.

Her characterization doesn't fit the narrative of Zestiria, making her look like a God.

>>143829054
>that first skit
Wondrous.

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>>143829054
>Eleanor is "I'm not like the other girls" girl

So how high is the chance that we will get a new Zestiria version after the anime?

>>143830304
Tales of Zestiria F when?

>>143829867
It was a prologue episode that happened to be incredibly badly written/directed

>>143823750

It's practically just a meme at this point like most posts on /a/. I love that it's entirely okay to make OPs that are literally just people looking to meme and that those are the threads that actually take off. Watch this another round of bitch about a video game and it's chief producer on /a/

>>143830979
Good to know, hopefully the other episodes aren't as bad.

>>143827856

In short I've never played it but I'm still going to have an opinion about it on /a/. I remember when this board used to tell people like you to fuck off back to /v/ but now they just launch that bit out there at random people instead.

>>143829054
Eizen seems like a really cool guy.

Tfw you know he's going to be killed later ;~;

>>143829054
Dude hated women so much he turned into a dragon and had to be euthanized. Based

>>143830304
None, that probably was the plan but it would suicidal at this point.

>>143829054
>Velvet realizing she's getting cucked by Eleanor

The world is not ready for this level of /ss/

I knew Berseria was related to Zestiria but I wasnt expecting a scene with the MC fighting Sorey.
Hope that makes into the game too.

>>143822154
Isn't she the protagonist of berseria? Does the two related?

>>143829054
>these skits have better character interaction than all of zestiria

welp its good to know berseria will at least have a fun cast, it'll be nice if this anime can fix zestiria's cast from feeling so god damn distant from one another cause it really was the most shallow relationships in the franchise, no one really seemed to bond at all over the course of the game.

>>143829054
>Eizen essentially called normins normies

He really is edna's brother

>>143834272
I hope Bamco keeps calling them normies in the localization, "normalak" or w/e is nowhere near as good

/a/ secretly loves edgy characters

>>143834589
it's true

we love characters who are proactive

even if the result of that proactiveness is pain and slaughter

>>143834180
Part of Zestiria's problem was just a lack empathy between the party. Besides Sorey,Mikleo, and Alisha none of your party has any real empathy and in fact are often tell each other to stop caring and worrying about one another. Because of that with the exception of Sorey and Mikleo your keeps each other at arm's length.

That's what when you have an outspoken sociopath in your team, I guess.

>>143835639
If the game didn't outright tell you Rose was right, and if Baba didn't gush over Rose, do you think she'd be well liked?

>>143836597
She'd be an important side character at best so I guess she'd have a small but dedicated fanbase.

>>143836597
If the game stopped trying so damn hard to make her look "cool", and just treated her like an actual character. She'd be a side character, but she'd probably be more well liked.

>>143836597
Honestly, she is a good character. But she is in the wrong game if you get what I mean.

Like I said before, she felt liked a demi-god in Zestiria.

>>143837774
It's not a problem of her being in the wrong game, even if she was in a different game, she'd still be shit as she is in Zestiria. In any other game they'd treat her as insane character or villainous one.

>>143838009
Which in case characters there will call her out on her bullshit. No one could do that here in Zestiria because of "muh hellion" stuff.

Well in the end the world building is the problem anyway.

I really do hope without Baba now they can be free on what they wanted to do. Only beef is that Shiina isn't the composer.

>>143838140
Well, Velvet seems to be part Hellion

I have a feeling if Rose tries to put her down the result she will get will not be what she desires

>>143838140
But with her personality would she accept being called out? That's the question. She'd have to be pretty fucked up to have that belief to begin with.

>>143838347
When that happens, that will be the fun part.

She was too omnipotent in the setting of Zestiria. They should have just made her the protagonist really.

>Edna and Zaveid were the best Zestria characters and are both old enough to be in Berseria.

>>143838422
I bet Baba wanted to but it was already too late

>>143823911
>alisha gets more screen time
>it's mostly suffering

Sure, it's great.

>>143833888
Beseria is a prequel to Zestria. So Beseria is in the same world.

>>143823911
>best girl gets more screen time
>it's only to make her suffen even more
fuck you baba

>>143838422
Even if she had been the protagonist, she'd still come across as insufferable to the gamer. The game would also be considered shit due to our having an obvious case of protagonist centered morality.

>Never played a Tales games but super hyped for Beseria and I'm liking The X a lot so far
>See Xillia for 7€
>About to buy it
>Realize there's no nip voices

Fuck videogames.

>>143839230
Only Symphonia and Zestiria have japanese voices.

>>143838974
>The game would also be considered shit due to our having an obvious case of protagonist centered morality.
But that's every JRPG. The Tales franchise is especially bad on this

Getting really tired of people whining about Rose, there wasn't any issue when Yuri was killing villains but suddenly there is when Rose does it?

>>143839604
Because Rose is female and Yuri is male. Females aren't allowed to perform evil acts. They all have to be sweet pure virgin angels and be ready to have the D

>>143839604
Just ignore the 'Rose dominates the game' retard circlejerk.

>>143839604
Because Yuri himself acknowledges that he's wrong, and his game calls him out on it and doesn't treat him as though he's right either.

>>143839604
>tfw there will never be a Tales of VS. where you can beat up Rose with Yuri

>>143840094
>Yuri
>wrong

Nah.

>>143839604
It's almost like execution and context matter or something.

>>143840094
Yuri wasn't wrong.

>>143839604
>>143839875
>>143839785

She doesn't properly fit the narrative of the story.

If we are going for the root of the problem. She isn't the problem. It's the world building of the story. The reason people are saying she's a problem, is because she is a part of it really.

I like her character, but not in Zestiria. She's wasted on it. If there's a character that I hate that would be Sorey.

Context is the key here in what you are saying. There's a big difference on how Yuri was portrayed in Vesperia, compared to her in Zestiria. If you are just gonna look at them standalone characters, of course you'll think that people are just whining about one and not the other.

>>143829867
What was so bad about it?

>>143840248
>>143840378
But the game days that he is.

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>>143829867
>Tales
>Badly written

>>143839230
But there are. At least, in the PC version. The only thing that's missing by default is the vocals of the opening video, but you can fix that manually too.

>>143840722
*says

>>143840747
He said Xillia anon

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>>143839230
>Not have a CFW to play all tales of undub and ToV in english

>>143840540
Thing is Sorey suffers primarily because of the worldbuilding.

The problem with Rose though is that even if the world building hadn't been so fucked up she still wouldn't fit in. Case in point why are people pointing out that Velvet would likely kill Rose if they met.

>>143835639
You know that makes alot of sense as to why the cast felt so bizarrely distant, one thing you could always give tales even the bad ones was you always got the feeling that the party were friends or comrades but zestiria made them feel like they were just not there for the others.

i also noticed that this only became a problem after alisha left, which coincidently is when the game's entire plot and lore started to become a mess and is rumored to be where those last minute rewrites were made 8 months before the games completion. I'm wondering if maybe this anime is going to incorporate the rumored original script that was scrapped.

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>>143824120

I actually didn't think much of Velvet at first, but I've started to warm up to her after seeing the cover art for the game and her status menu art.

>>143827242

Velvet kind of comes off as a big sister to me. Recent interaction with Laphicet seemed to be pushing him around for doing what others tell him instead of using his free will. Could be wrong though, my memory is somewhat hazy with regards to what has been revealed for Berseria so far.

>>143839342
tales generally has a good use of morality though, most of the time the protagonists are more or less in a gray area with their intentions, especially abyss hearts and xillia 2 where the characters pretty much are forced into a scenario where its them or others. Its been portrayed as not a great thing and all 3 of those games end on a bittersweet note.

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Edna > all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1lA_GdLsos

>>143840540
Agree about the worldbuilding. Not a fan of Rose, but in Zestiria she has no reason to be as absurdly powerful as she is. She is faster, stronger, more proactive, more willful, and worst of all, more resonant with seraphim than Sorey. From the moment she's introduced she completely eclipses the main character. If she had been the main character from the start (and genderswapped) she'd end up being Yuri 2.0 and not receive nearly so much hate.

>>143841002
It would be the other way around. Sorey would mindlessly beat Velvet within an inch of her life because she's a hellion and then Rose would finish her off because there's no way Velvet would let some crappy Shepherd purify her. She'd go down just like the Cardinal/Medusa boss.

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>>143841353
Great taste Anon.

>>143830304
If Berseria is successful, then we'll have a tales of zesteria X the game with velvet and Alisha being the new characters
Also a shit ton of more DLC costumes

>>143841353
>Insufferable cunt who wants to fuck her brother
>Best anything

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Convince me to finish Zestiria. The game is awful.

>>143841086
It became a problem because the thing is Lailah, and Edna are naturally cold, distant, and apathetic. Once Alisha the only other empathetic left the party, she was replaced with another naturally apathetic character, whose just fine with everyone keeping each other at arm's length, and with her came Dezel another naturally apathetic character. By Zaveid joined the party it was too late, Ave the party just never formed that bond.

>>143841783
How far in are you?

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>>143841792
Another reason why I can't understand why anyone cared about the cast. They could barely give a shit about eachother.

>>143841544
You talking about Sorey? The same character who has a problem in killing hellions? Actually willingly picking a fight with Velvet? A person who wouldn't attack him unless he attacks her first? Keeping in mind that Sorey himself never mindlessly attacks intelligent hellions unless they threaten him first or they do something to warrant his action.

Sorey picking a fight with Velvet would be OOC for him. Rose on the other hand...

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>>143829054

Huh, here I was thinking Laphicet was going to be all meek and shy. While I don't think I would have had a problem with that, I'm liking his portrayal here as well. Voices for him, Magilou, and Eleanor are nice. Overall those skits seemed pretty good and they reinforced my like of the aforementioned and helped me warm up more to Velvet, Eizen, and Rokuro.

Bien's speech tic wasn't bad and I like the Normin racism, though like the Anons above I hope they keep it as normie since that sounds better. Bit at the end with Velvet being a bit jealous was cute. Laphicet and Eleanor also seem to have possibilities. The overall animation present in the skits is very nice as well.


>>143841353

Gotta admit her cute act here and the quick change sounds good, possibly better than the dub.

I like the dub voice for seraphim guy though since it makes him come off as more of a sleazeball.

>>143842068
The assumption is that Velvet would pick a fight with him because he's a Shepherd. Sorey wouldn't go out of his way to go after her but he'd certainly defend himself. He'd still jump in to protect Rose even if Rose started it, because Rose Is Never Wrong.

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>>143829054
>Laphicet sleeps inside Eleanor

L-lewd. Now I'm expecting them to be the ones who invent Kamui.

>>143842173
Thing is that Eleanor is kinda a Shepard too, so it's likely that she won't just attack him when she sees him. As for Rose, well Velvet actually has more plot shield than Rose right now.

>>143841783
Symonne's sequence near the endgame and the part where you put the final blow in the villain are pretty good. Though the story never stops expecting you to play it with only 25% of your neurons firing.

>>143829054
Eizen and Rokuro sound like they're going to be best bros.

>>143842517
Velvet and Eleanor fought when they first met too. Whether or not Velvet puts Sorey to task for his "involvement" with Shepherds depends on what stage her character growth is.

>>143841939
Thing is the Zestiria party needs more warm characters just Sorey and Mikleo agent enough.

>>143842667
Zestiria is a sequel to Berseria, and Eleanor was blindly following Arthorius at the time.

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I like what I've heard of Lunarre referring to Alisha as his prey.

Pity that from what I understand he basically has no role in Zestiria.

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>>143823911
As long as ufotable will make this the True Zestiria.
>tfw nips call Alisha "The girl bought with 1300 yen"

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>>143842772

Those skits posted before kind of gave me traitor vibes from Eleanor.

>>143842891

Shame they wasted Maltran too

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>>143842878
Alisha's the main dish, but you gotta whet your appetite first.

>>143843008
Yeah, the part where the guys are like "So you don't lie?" and Eleanor's like "Uh... yeah!"

Either that or some story event where Eleanor has to lie and they're giving her shit.

>>143839230
I think Xillia had a really good dub, none of the voices were especially offputting to me or anything. Only voice I didn't like that much was Elize's

>>143843399

>lisp

>>143843008
Well Maltran was connected to Alisha.

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>>143843031

Lunarre has great taste

>>143843113

I think the surveillance jumped out at me more, but that could also be a good point. Originally and still sort of do think it could be Eleanor trying to cover up that she doesn't lie over anything. Thinking it over now though, I wouldn't be surprised either if Eleanor is a false flag.

Also, Laphicet not wanting to get in the bath with her is cute.

>>143843449
I didn't even notice it until someone else pointed it out, and even then it doesn't sound that bad.

What are the new things in the Battle System for Berseria? What I'm just sure of is that they removed the fusion stuff.

The OP is absolutely awful, jesus christ

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>>143841165
she looks great

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I want to have sweaty, unprotected, passionate sex with Alisha!

>>143843904
She isn't even that cute

>>143827242
Rose is trash.

>>143843812
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NamdLxUjJ5o
We have four buttons to assign artes this time. Which arte follows the chain depends on the button you press. It's something similar to the A/B artes except this fully custom.
All characters have unique abilities.
No linking/armatization nonsense.

>>143843973

But I have this feeling that her pussy smells amazing

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>>143843904
If you enlist in the Hyland army, you too can sleep with Alisha in the barracks.

>>143843973
And you'll never rescue a 8/10 princess from a ruin, introduce her to your senpai, teach her how to hunt, discuss mythology and literature, and plow her no strings attached every night for three nights while your bitter bff stands outside.

>>143844353
I'll rescue that armor from that garbage Princess

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>>143843449

That was an audio glitch I think, don't recall it being that bad.

>>143843848

I kind of like that her tattered clothing kind of has a reasoning too it or at least seems that way and isn't just an excuse to show skin.

>>143844288
It's a shit taste feeling.

>>143844353
>and plow her no strings attached every night for three nights while your bitter bff stands outside.
Fuck off with your projections.

>>143844353
Except the princess really isn't interested in exploring ruins with you, and frankly finds your interest to be too much. She also has no interest in actually studying the book just worshipping it.

She also comes with strings attached to a corrupted council, which means that if you want to fuck her you have to be their mindless drone, which means that you can kiss your dreams and goals goodbye.

>>143844735
>if you want to fuck her you have to be their mindless drone, which means that you can kiss your dreams and goals goodbye.
Except for the part where you tell the council to fuck off, beat the shit out of their knights, and still get explore Alisha's ruins until you go blind

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>>143843973

She kind of is

Plus it's appealing to imagine beating her in combat, stripping her of her armor, and ravishing her in all sorts of ways.

>>143845229
Which was immediately followed by
> you needing to leave her behind
> her getting captured and you being forced to fight in a war you want no part of.
>then getting your ass kicked by the Lord of Calamity.
This isn't even forgetting the fact that she's not even as pretty as your water seraph childhood friend, nor is she as good a cook, or as interesting to talk to.

>>143842990
>>143842891
What do the comments say?

>>143845408
She isn't real.

>>143844735
More proof that the Rose narrative succeeded in distorting the perceptions of Alisha. Her dream was also to explore ruins like Sorey, but due to her royal responsibility and the dire state of the world, her country now comes first. Also like Sorey she has read the book multiple times and studied it, that's how she ended up in the ruins in the first place. The skits with her were obviously setting her up for a close friend/love interest(as much as Tales has those) role which got thrown out when Rose showed up.

>>143845408
Alisha is for gentle loving only.

>>143845643
She's real in our hearts.

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>>143845850

>Alisha is for gentle loving only.

Getting captured and having unpleasant things done to them is the fate of all princesses. Those who style themselves as fighters only succeed in prolonging the inevitable.

>>143845850
You're discussing what could have been, not what it was.

>>143845850
>The skits with her were obviously setting her up for a close friend/love interest(as much as Tales has those) role which got thrown out when Rose showed up.
All this delusion. You act like Rose became Sorey's love interest in her stead.

The devs already confirmed Sorey was never to have any romantic connections with ANY female in game as to retain his purity. He's factually incompatible with females, but especially Alisha whom he literally does not care enough to say goodbye to at the end of the game before he fucks off to sleep for 1000 years.

>>143845850
It wasn't, Alisha's dream was always peace in the continent. She only traveled with you because it was a means to an end, different goals same means. She never saw the Celestial Record as anything other than an holy book to be worshipped. The same thing went for the ruins, Alisha was never interested in studying them merely in believing them to be places of worship and nothing else. In fact when Sorey starts to really get into studying the ruins she gets annoyed by it.

It was only Mikleo who shared the dream to explore ruins with Sorey, not Alisha. Sorey also wanted to eventually leave the continent, Alisha did not. Hell even Sorey's only interest in her came from the fact that she was a human, and not in Alisha herself. The most that Alisha and Sorey could ever be is friends, they were just too different in their values, goals, abs desires. Had Alisha stayed that would have likely been more obvious that her and Sorey weren't a good match and she most likely would have ended up being closer to Mikleo.

>>143846155
In game, Alisha tells Sorey that's what her dream was and her reasons why she couldn't follow it. That's actually what it was. If not for Rose it could have been more.

>>143846172
>love interest
>(as much as Tales has those)
Just because Sorey doesn't have a love interest doesn't mean that the devs don't set up waifu bait aka all the skits with Alisha and Mikleo. Rose could never be a love interest and doesn't have any bait because she belongs to Baba.

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>>143846549
>all the skits with Alisha
I've read every skit in game. None of them ever imply Sorey sees Alisha romantically and there is only implications for the opposite. Alisha was never meant to be a love interest, and if so, she would've still lost to even Mikleo in terms of having a relevant and mutual bond with Sorey.

I'm surprised at the budget this show got

Wonder if they're gonna shill Velvet

Kinda hope they do tbqh

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>>143846549
So Alisha is a princess, huh?

One thing that's notable about Velvet is that she's just some bumblefuck peasant who got fucked over by Werewolves. Yet there seems to be a bunch of Princesses in Tales...

>>143846549
Thing is neither was Alisha, Sorey has never interest or attraction to Alisha herself, in all of her skits, even in the one that Alishashippers like to tout as "evidence" was just Sorey being interested in her armor rather than Alisha herself. And yeah the developers have confirmed that it wouldn't have worked out even hypothetically.

And also the Nips have checked there's no indication that Alisha was ever going to be a love interest. So claim that she was is just the wishful thinking of a shipper.

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Velvet a cool.

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>>143846796

Princesses have lots of trope material

>>143846985

The cover art seriously is gorgeous.

>>143846985
I've always been interested in Berseria

Female protags don't have to be a meme

>>143846549
I get what you're saying Alishanon but the fujos are here now and anything that even slightly implies that Sorey's weren't constantly fixed on Mikleo's ass will be torn to shreds. There's a lot of assumptions being made about Alisha's admittedly poor storyline that were never touched on in the game, but that's the nature of fujos and their desperation to cut down all competition to their ship.

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>>143847027
It's also a throwback to PS2 era Tales covers.

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>>143846796
>>143846985

just wanted an excuse to post this ;_;

>>143847162
there were many rose posts in this thread,no need to go after Velvet

>>143847198
Rose is canonically pure tho. The only one who's been inside her is Dbaba.

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>>143847090

Berseria has me wanting to complete Zestiria before it comes out.

Feels kind of weird that they don't consider Milla the first female protagonist just because she shared the game with Jude. I least I think that is what they said,

>>143847104

I was wondering if they did something similar before. I'm only familiar with Symphonia on where they seemingly went with the cast on the cover, which isn't bad either. I like the art style used on Tales covers in general and I'm glad Namco US finally got around to dropping what they were using before.

>>143847102
Anon at this point in time its more desperation to assume, that there'd be anything between two characters even after the creators themselves pointed out that it wouldn't have worked out. Hell the shit that was cut for Sorey was him getting more involved in his dream to create a world where seraphim and humans could work together.

>>143847284
Well Milla is a bit of a joke even if you pick her as the PC

She basically gets her leg caught in a bear trap

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>>143847102
>muh fujo boogeyman
Why are you so scared of little grills? They don't exist on /a/. But it's just as you said - it's all speculation with no basis.

If what your saying about Rose being off limits was right, then Alisha could've still been the love interest. Not every Tales hero goes after the title heroine after all. Yet it still didn't occur. Why? It was never intentioned.

Bears got the better FLOW song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoMGoTXVXmI

http://richardxasbel.tumblr.com/post/145415209101/event-tag-richassweek2016-if-youre-not
Remove fujo.
>>143847284
It's all for marketing reasons. Even then Mel predates Milla by many years in that regard.(Narikiri Dungeon has both Dio and Mel as the protagonists.)

>>143847277
>Baba D
>pure
>implying he's not pure malevalence

>>143847438
>Tumblr
Stay there next time

>>143847413
How many Tales games have MCs who actively pursue anyone to any success? Bamco puts in love interests for the fans to argue themselves to death over, while never confirming anything or saying there isn't one. It's not new.

>>143847795
Stahn and Rutee.

>>143847284
>>143847348
Yeah there's not much difference gameplaywise, a different intro and some battles are changed during points in the story when Jude is split from Milla. FWIW Milla and Elize are protagonists for the Xillia story segments in the mobile game.

>>143847413
>If what your saying about Rose being off limits was right, then Alisha could've still been the love interest. Not every Tales hero goes after the title heroine after all. Yet it still didn't occur. Why? It was never intentioned.
Basically this, nothing was stopping them from putting Sorey and Alisha in a relationship if they really wanted to. But they didn't why because it was never planned to begin with.

>>143847795
Except not really, Tales games are obvious with the characters are the Canon love interest, the real question though is whether or not they had any chemistry.

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>>143846549
Peace princess clearly has a lust for Sorey but it's completely one-sided. I wouldn't expect anything from the anime with how it's retconning shit and moving Alisha more to Rose's side and making Sorey and Mikleo even more close.

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Give me Edna or give me death.

>>143848065
Estelle started out with a crush on Flynn and then Yuri, only for her to end up with Rita at the end.

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Mikleo needed an idol costume too.

>>143847480
>randomly stumble upon something funny
>must mean I am a regular at the site I am making fun of
Kill yourself.
>>143848160
>Estelle started out with a crush on Flynn and then Yuri
You have a very loose interpretation of the word "crush"

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>>143847955
>never planned to begin with.
I don't think we'll ever know what was planned to begin with desu

>>143848240
We have an idea, part of the reason why Baba was caught was because people did find out the original plan.

>>143848216
You do know that having and being in love are two different things right?

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>>143848216
>randomly
>saying you aren't a "regular"
So you use the site and that anon was right.

>>143848216
Rita is to Estelle as Mikleo is to Sorey. Rita/Mikleo are both thirsty af and Estelle/Sorey are too pure to care.

>>143848314
You know, people keep saying this but iywould be easier to believe if there was any actual evidence of this so-called original story instead of nip hearsay. What is widely known is the advertising changes and the seiyuu casting weirdness.

>>143848513
Because no one wants to search through 2ch archives. You want that shit search for yourself.

>>143848513
>>143848593
It's made up anon, don't bother

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>>143848513
Half of it is probably just lies made up to spice up the controversy.

Apparently pic-related was found in the disk but it seems more likely to be photoshopped due to the fact that it looks even cleaner than the actual final product. That and I can't find a direct source but a japanese site that posts parody shit like this.

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Goodnight, you faggots. Remember that so long as malevolence is within your heart, you can never see this doujinshi.

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I just watched and, let me see if I got this right

The anime is canon but the game isn't
That's it?

>>143849066
Only if the anime deviate from the game story.

>>143849066
Anime prologue was not in the game, it could be expanded canon but thats it.

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>>143848996
Yup, definitely a shop. Look for comparison's sake. They completely fixed Sorey's face in the edited Alisha one.

>>143849066
This anime is confirmed a crossover with another game, so I think by the end, it's possible it may be considered an entire different continuum altogether.

>>143849066
>The anime is canon but the game isn't

Let's hope to Allah (PBUH) that is the case, because holy fuck was the game terrible.

Alisha best girl

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>>143849066
The anime will end with everyone being made to forget everything about Velvet, thus causing the game the still be canon alongside the anime. Mark my fucking words. They're going to salvage the holes from the game by making it all some meta shit. Feel like something is missing from the game? Bam! There is. Her name is Velvet.

>>143849221
Alisha is garbage, and you dont't use PBUH for God.

>>143849066
>main villain isn't even in the opening, probably not even in the game
>alisha in the story
>is conected to Berseria

looks like it the new canon

>>143849221
Why do muslims have such bad taste.

>>143849410
*Not even in the show

my bad

>>143843399
The thing is that you're missing Sawashiro, Sugita and Tsubasa by playing the dub.

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Posting best protag

>>143849461
furryman is not in the opening either, doesnt mean he is gone from the story.

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>>143849410
>main villain isn't even in the opening
He was behind Symonne. Only big change so far is Velvet and the prologue.

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>>143847348

Isn't she basically supposed to be like a demi-god at least at the start of the game?

>>143847027

Japan especially gets it up for princess characters. Also you know Bamco.

>>143849410
It's going to be funny when Alisha still leaves just with alot of episodes dedicated to her in order to justify it.

No seriously, the show will EXPAND canon, but I don't think it will differ from it very much at all. Same plotline, hopefully execution and more expansion on them, especially in relation to Berseria.

>>143849295
Infidel

>>143849434
Faggot infidel

I'm actually agnostic, I was just poking fun. >inb4 fedora

>>143849599
>>143849581
Explain that dragon in the openning then

we got only 2 dragons at Zest game
one born right in the war, and the other one is Etna's brother who does nothing and stays in the mountain

my bet is they are changing the main treat to that new dragon

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>>143847104

It's just Mutsumi Inomata original character art.

>>143849726
Dragon must be Eizen. If they are connecting this to Berseria, which he is in, that gives more possibility to his part being expanded.

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>>143849410
>>143849581
>>143849599
Heldalf is probably the most fleshed out, sympathetic, and motivated character in the game, which tells you how bland the party is. And then the DLC reduces his motivation to pic related.

>>143849616
Yes.

>>143849875
he was a terrible villain

Evil loli has a cool desing, but is a failure as character too

damn, I miss Gaius

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>>143849875
>And then the DLC reduces his motivation to pic related.
I never finished it. Explain?

>>143849875
He was just as underdeveloped as the rest? Atleast explain your claim.

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>>143849648

Honestly it's just something you kind of expect out of JRPG heroines. Japan just loves putting cute/hot princess characters on the pedestal, tearing them down, reconstructing them and possibly having the MC play out the power fantasy of rescuing or helping the princess in some sort of mutual quest. Also put a sword or spear in her hand and have her sing or fight also but not too well obviously so the hero doesn't end up upstaged in his own story. Honestly I half expect Velvet to turn out to be some disgraced princess of a country that had to flee Cross Ange style because she's a hellion or something. She just has that sort of vibe about her, especially when you see the hair down not crazy wild bitch costume.

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>>143849875
Nothing is wrong with wanting to make the Sorey your sonfu.

>>143849738
I had no idea this guy was tied to brain powered and gundam seed
The more you know I guess

>>143850209
>sword or lance

dude, Princess most cliche weapon are wands or magic
expecially healing magic

>>143849648
I can think of more super popular female characters that aren't princesses than those that are.

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>>143850249

It's a she

>>143845936
>Getting captured and having unpleasant things done to them is the fate of all princesses. Those who style themselves as fighters only succeed in prolonging the inevitable.

Ohh, you tried

>>143850266

Historically but lately they're trying to make them more cool fighter types in a lot of things or at least fighter/healer hybrids. Granted there's some scenarios like say FFXII where you can literally make Ashe anything you want

>>143850344
How many of Tales top ten female characters are princesses anyway?

>>143850266
Estelle was pretty cliche.

>>143850478
I am curious. The first who come to mind are Vesperia but Rita/Judith were more popular and with Abyss, Tear was more popular.

>>143849673
There isn't much to adapt there, Zestiria was mostly just fluff, that went like this, here's the really long introduction, are you strong enough to fight Hedalf yet? No? Git gud? How about now? No? Get gud.

>>143850609
Not to forget Millia is the most popular Tales female.

>>143850478
Girls love princesses. See the Disney Princesses

>>143850738
That's true. It is just a long ass empty filler arc. That's why they're patching it up and expanding on the lore, connecting the characters in a way that should've been in the game.

For example, in episode 4, Mikleo will actually start showing signs of being hurt by malevolence while fighting.

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>>143849995
He had the potential to be a good villain about as much as Zestiria had the potential to be a good game.

>>143850081
Most of the game is dedicated to piecing together his backstory and motivations, which is more than Lailah, Edna, or Zaveid ever get.

>>143850005
Throughout the game you learn that a Shepherd put a curse on Heldalf to grant him immortality while causing everyone around him to meet awful deaths. Heldalf spends a long time watching everyone around him die eventually tries to kill himself a bunch of different ways to end his suffering, but he's immortal. Eventually he lets the malevolence take over and decides to turn everyone into a hellion just like him, his justification being that everyone will be free from suffering when they give into their desires or get possessed by malevolence. At this point he's gone off the deep end, and is stockpiling and generating massive amount of malevolence everywhere he can to achieve this goal. It should be noted we never find out if Heldalf is actually aware of who/what cursed him or why.

However when Sorey rejects Heldalf's offer to join him, Heldalf dedicates the rest of the game to actively fucking with him. Everything Symonne does from then on stems from Heldalf's desire to corrupt him, as well as the endgame. Obviously he never gets close to succeeding because Sorey is too pure.

Then in the DLC Edna says Heldalf did all that just because he wanted Sorey to be his friend.

>>143850738
Git too gud? Here, have a bad ending.

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Redpill me on the anime, if the fanbase considers it way better than the steaming pile of shit that was the video game then I'll watch it.

>>143851073
>episode 4
Can you give some more info on the next 3? How much more is added?

>>143851221
Fuck off.

>>143851289
Are you telling me to fuck off because you actually liked the video game, or because I'm asking you to redpill me on the anime? If it's the former then you can go fuck yourself because the video game was GARBAGE, FROM KING GARBAGE, OF THE GARBAGE DYNASTY.

faggot

>>143851367
You're being told to fuck off for being an obvious crossboarder.

>>143851221

Somebody clearly upset that we're finally having a low blood pressure conversation about this show and the games it's based on and trying to restart the same old shit in response. I'll refer you to >>143851289 and agree with him

Why is blatant shitposting so okay on this site anyway and why does there seem to be a crowd dedicated to trying to make this shows threads awful anyway possible?

>>143851443

Blatant Shitposter. Crossboarder is giving him too much credibility

>>143851221
Is it so fucking hard to spend at least 10 minutes checking a fucking cartoon and decide for yourself if you want to continue? Why must people spoonfeed you your opinions?

>>143851073
It's easy to add in shit because there really wasn't much to it to begin with.

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>>143851221
>redpill me
>saying this outside /pol/

this isn't /v/,but anyway the game's alright I guess,it was honestly my first tales, but I'm familiar with JRPGs and in my honest opinion it wasn't that bad.
The story played it really safe with a traditional plot,but I liked the skits and character interactions.
The battle system relies on armatization though,so if you want more strategic gameplay utilizing all characters you won't find it here, and sometimes this feature can really hamper you in combat because if you get killed that's 2 characters down at once.

Exploration is alright,there's some spots for you to look at and expand on the world and the world building is mostly done through skits although it's not something too memorable.
Also the game's leveling felt weird although it could've just been my playstyle,at some points if you weren't a high enough level it was difficult to proceed.

There's a decent amount of side content though, oh yeah I almost forgot the weapons system is attrocious, I couldn't figure that shit out so I just forgot about it.

>>143851570

Also a very valid point. I find it hard to believe for obvious reasons that there's this many people on this site that genuinely want to experience shows this way and have anything resembling good intentions to kindly fuck off after getting what they apparently came here to ask. It's obviously fake as shit lead-in to shitposting and getting replies to counter with more shitposting.

>>143851246
A friend to the episode airing in Japan, so take it wth a grain of salt.
Episode 2
>Alisha focused: normin helps her navigate her way to the ruins while she dodges Zenrus' thunderbolts
>Sorey and Mikleo ruinhopping
Episode 3
>Same shit as the game
>Lunarre battle is supposedly really good
>Maizen doesn't die, just injured
>Sorey uses a bow while hunting
Episode 4
>Sorey becomes Shepherd yadda
>Dragon attacks the palace
>Rooftop fight with Lunarre
>Rose tries to kill Alisha
>Zenrus is shown with the assassins

Yeah.

>>143851443
>>143851478
Big deal, I compared the anime to the video game, get over it. I'm aware the anime is probably nothing like the video game, but the video game was abysmal and I was really disappointed by it. I'll just go ahead and take an educated guess that the anime is 100x better since it's been hyped up for a while, I know a lot of the fanbase was in agreement that the game was trash.

Sorry you get so offended by crossboarding, I'm not really trying to crossboard. I just felt like I had to mention the video game since it was so bad, I actually frequent and post on /a/ everyday.

>>143851607
>Not saying redpill on every board
>Explaining the game when I didn't ask for an explanation of the game

I played the game, it was shit. Also it was your first Tales Of game so you have nothing to compare it to. ToZ wasn't the best Tales Of game for a first timer, I would recommend going back and playing some of the older Tales Of games. You'll see a major difference in quality and entertainment, but I digress.

>>143851628
>Maizen doesn't die, just injured
DROPPED

>>143851693
Yeah I plan on playing through either the destiny series or Abyss next

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>>143851367
Fuck off because there's one fucking episode out that is nothing but prologue. Main characters haven't even been seen outside the OP.

Stop being a faggot and expecting us to spoonfeed you opinions, watch it yourself and make up your own goddamn mind.

>>143851711
>wanting to see based Maizen suffer again
I hope you succumb to malevalence

>>143851628
>dodges Zenrus' thunderbolts
>Zenrus is shown with the assassins

wat

>>143851693
You give yourself too much credit to say you're taking an "educated guess". You have literally no idea about anything. It could be just as bad and you might know this if you took time to actually watch anime you seemingly want to know about rather that shitpost and waste people's time.

>>143851628
>Rose tries to kill Alisha
Again? Not a yurifag but Rose and Alisha are starting to resemble Heero Yui and Relena

>>143851823
Assassin guild and the seraphs are shown chilling together in the ED. Gramps included. Dunno why.

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>>143851693

You come in here with a haughty attitude and caustic tone and expect not to be treated in kind? Anon, think a little before you post next time.

Zestiria definitely wasn't the worst (that definitely belongs to Tempest) but if they're relying on an anime to fix some of its issues then it could certainly be better. It's quality kind of puts it between a mothership and an escort title for me. Great ideas and obviously had somewhat decent resources behind it, but poor execution and early marketing.

>>143851834
Why is Rose trying to kill Alisha anyways?

>>143839265
they all have jp voices you retard they're made in japan

The game's plot is a piece of shit.

Episode 0 was significantly better than anything in the game. It was melodramatic at times (child-killing tornado) and pacing sucked (tried to cram way too much into 20 minutes), but overall it was solid. If this level of quality keeps up, it'll easily be AotS.

also, if nothing else, we'll get Maltran doujins from this

>>143852026
Because Sorey won't give her the dick and he'd rather give it to Alisha.

>Inb4 Makoto x Sorey yaoi shipper faggots.

>>143851950
Well at least you were the first person to give me an actual answer, and at least you agree Zestiria wasn't nearly as good as it should/could've been.

>>143852087
>Episode 0 was significantly better than anything in the game.

That's all I needed to hear, gonna go watch the first episode now.

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>>143852026
No reason

>>143852140
>Inb4 Makoto x Sorey yaoi shipper faggots.
>Makoto
Anime-only fag please

post butts

>>143852210
You know I meant Mikleo or however the fuck you spell his name, I typed his name wrong, but you knew who I was fucking talking about.

I played the game when it first came out and beat it, I know all about ToZ and it's fanbase, especially the Sorey and Mikleo shippers.

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>>143852224

Is it only half gay if Sorey is armatized with Lilah or Edna?

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>>143852276
Whoa whoa whoa, no need to prove yourself to me.

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>>143852354
Lilah and Edna are best girls, why did they have to make Edna so cute? Goddamn it.

>>143852359
Well I spelled Mikleo's name wrong and you implied I was an anime-only fag, obviously I had to correct myself and explain the error since you would have never known if I hadn't of told you.

Not like you give a shit either way, but I feel better having corrected the error.

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>>143852224

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>>143852472

Goddamn, Graces had some of the best skits. It definitely had the best end-of-battle scenes as well. Asbel's "We are...!" attempts were too funny.

>>143852472
Well, Sophie wasn't wrong.

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>>143852565
Agreed, Tales of Graces was comfy as fuck. I just felt really relaxed when playing it, the music and areas you travel to where really relaxed. Overall I didn't really hate anything about Graces, the title system was kind of excessive and tedious but the combat system was fun. The only really criticism I hear/read from fans is the plot was kind of mushy and stupid.

POWER OF FRIENDSHIP!!! MUST SAVE RICHARD WITH POWER OF LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP!!

>>143849995
i think the worst part about heldaf is how little his plan makes sense, one thing ive liked about tales of villains is that aside from a few exceptions they are all pretty much justified in what they are doing even if they are extremist, van wanted to create a world based off free will broken from a vicious cycle of war, creed wanted to end war but wound up doing more damage than the war itself and was just desperately trying to reverse his previous actions, gaius was trying to protect his kingdom , and so on.

heldalf wanted to basically corrupt everyone in the world and turn them into monsters so that they would be free from the risk of turning into monsters, hes literally just a rip off a van but with a plan that actually makes no fucking sense, with van he was committing genocide and he knew that but he was doing it in an attempt to create a more or less utopia with replicas, if van succeeded while it would of killed everyone the world arguably would of been better off in the future, if heldalf succeeded everyone would just be at eachothers throats and lack any empathy.

>>143852654

Well, no game is perfect and Asbel did get annoying after a while. Sophie irritated me too but that's more a problem with not liking her archetype. They handled her well I think. The rest of the cast more than made up for Asbel's shortcomings, especially in the afterstory. Richard and Malik are the best trolls, right alongside Jade.

>>143852654
my issue with graces was the pacing was way to slow for an already uneventful storyline which unforuntately led to the comfiness ending before the journeys end

i also think graces wasted potential since i thought the entire first act was phenomenal all the way up to richards betrayal, i think the sudden tonal shift from a pretty grim story to mushy happy as fuck friendship almost immediately after hurt the story alot too.

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>>143852654
Graces was fun and hilarious, I loved it.

>>143852920
I wanted to do things with Pascel so badly, it's like she acted autistic but I found her personality to be a turn on for me, I don't know why. Cheria was boring but still thought she was attractive, Sophia had her cute moments as well but it was all about Pascel for me.

She was so bubbly and awkwardly retarded that I couldn't help but find her attractive, also Pascel was kind of attractive, I don't know, maybe I'm weird.

>>143852762
Thing is though the whole system of malevolence makes Heldalf's actions make sense from a meta perspective. With the way how malevolence works everyone is doomed to turn into a hellion no matter what, so why fight it? But that's only because the world building for Zestiria is so broken to begin with.

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The tv poster is pretty good. It is the same ol' ufotable "look left + look right, ominous sky and center hero". Still, I haven't even heard of TOZ until seeing this, and now I feel like trying it out at least.

I cannot be the only one who feels this way.

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>>143853018
Just waiting on that episode where they animate Dezel's death and I cry like a bitch for a few hours, just like I did when he died in the game. Of course the impact will be more forceful in the anime when he dies, I'm not ready for it.

>>143853005
but again if everything fell to malevolence there'd be no order and everyone would just start killing eachother till the few survivors or left turning into dragons and losing all sentience. Literally no one benefits from this at all even heldalf.

maybe berseria will throw some middle ground into the morality of this black and white game cause it looks like rokuro and velvet are both hellions or at least partially.

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>>143852224

>>143853018
>Still, I haven't even heard of TOZ until seeing this, and now I feel like trying it out at least.
dont, it is not a good game both plot and gameplay wise, there is a very likley chance that the anime will be far superior solely based off avoiding the game's broken combat system and poorly paced story.

the anime might actually if all things go well salvage alot of the messy parts of the game cause it had actual potential till it goes way downhill about 8 hours in.

>>143852762
>>143853005
>>143853112

See >>143851147, Heldalf is pretty much insane and his justification changes every time you run into him. He loves the idea of being the Lord of Calamity destined to clash with the Shepherd and strives to make it happen once he learns about Sorey's existence. Lailah calls him out for being a hypocrite by inflicting suffering on others when he's suffered himself so badly.

Hopefully the anime fleshes out Symonne's role, right now she is in the same "watch the world burn" mode as Heldalf but seems unaffected by his malevolence even though she's a seraph.

>>143853437
This, don't play it unless you want to be confused. The game story is missing a lot.

>>143853100
Dezel's development and death were poorly done. I can't see anyone cried for him.

>>143853548
I just liked Dezel, okay? Jesus get off my back, I agree his development and death were kind of lacking but I just enjoyed him as a character and I liked having him in my party.

I hated when he died.

>>143853548
Nip women like Dezel, they ship him with Rose because rape is a big turn on for women. See shoujo

>>143853112
But again the way how malevolence works in Zestiria makes it so that the Shepards ultimately fighting an uphill battle that they're destined to lose. Especially because only special people can purify malevolence and they're in short supply. It just looks as though Hedalf's goal was the ultimate fate of the world of Zestiria.

>>143853588
I liked Dezel too, he was a much better character than Zaveid. Didn't cry though ;_;

>>143853018

Try it out if you can get it for cheap, but if you want to play an actually good Tales game you should play Phantasia if you like or can tolerate SNES-era games and their design choices (there's a reason it started the whole series, though it hasn't aged very gracefully); patching with Absolute Zero's translation of the JP PS1 re-release that added skits and Suzu is probably the best bet. Otherwise you can start with the usual first, Symphonia. It wasn't very impressive to me but it's a solid game overall.

>>143853703
Zaveid was SHIT, compared to Dezel. I would gladly have trade Dezel for Zaveid in terms of who dies, I also hated Zaveid's voice actor in NA. I couldn't put my finger on it, but the voice sounded very familiar, like from a popular character of a popular show.

Ian Sinclair is his name, he's done quite a few popular roles in anime shows, well dubbed anyway.

>>143853588

Dezel was much, much better than Zaveid. I'd rather have a grumpy shark-toothed tsundere than a horny dude-bro.

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Would you a Sorey?

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>>143853765
Abyss will always be my favorite, but I started out with Symphonia and enjoyed it as well. I didn't care for Lloyd's character, I kind of thought he was a cuck in the first game. Colette wanted his dick so bad and Lloyd was just like "What's that Colette? I know you can't communicate because of angel sickness but I'll definitely protect you and save you." Like it wasn't fucking obvious Colette was trying to hard to flirt and show affection to Lloyd.

>>143853886
Looks like Mikleo about to murder him

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>>143853886

There are better protagonists to do that to.

>>143853949
>giving Ludger more suffering than he has already had
He just wanted a happy family with Elle,Uncle Julius and Alt.Milla, is that too much to ask?!

>>143853949
Ludger has suffered enough

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>>143847925

I'm guessing because they're some of the most popular characters from Xillia 1. If there is one thing Namco is good about with Tales it's using the most popular characters to their monetary benefit.

>>143848214

Agreed

>>143854309
Yes, he must die so his daughter from the future can live.

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>>143853886
Yes.

>>143853886
>>143853934
Looks like Mikleo is readying the noose for him

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>>143849066

I could see expanded canon like another Anon said, but not the anime taking the place of the game. In a way the anime is probably no different than the manga each Tales game seemingly gets and to my knowledge none of them have ever taken precedence over the games, only potentially added to them.

>>143849648

I can understand, princesses have an appeal to them and come in a variety of flavors. I'm somewhat fond of them myself.

>>143853949
Jude and Ludger are top boys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI4UYzr7oAU

Why do people think the first episode was bad? Sure there was a lot going on and it was chaotic, but that was the point, wasn't it? It's the beginning of the age of chaos. I'm pretty sure it was meant to be bewildering. I thought it worked really well to portray basically the start of the apocalypse of that world

>>143857614
I thought it was fine.

But then again I try not to judge a series until episode 3 or 4.

>>143857614
I never played the game and found it a good overall episode, it's not unusual intros that don't make sense until you're further in the story.

The hurricane coming back for the little girl seemed kinda over the top, but according to the thread sentient monsters appear as natural disasters to normal people so it doesn't seem that absurd either.

>>143857819
>sentient monsters appear as natural disasters to normal people

Correct! Helions, visually, exists as natural disasters to people that aren't magically attuned or pure of heart or whatever shitty reason Zesteria said.
At one point early in the game, construction workers see a bridge getting torn apart by a small tornado, but in reality from Sorey's point of view, it's actually a sea serpent helion.

So that means that to the regular people, they saw Sorey trying to slice apart a tornado.

There's also another point in the game where Sorey armatizes, and the people around him are flung around by perceived shock-waves rather than the boulders he's actually flinging around.

>>143857614
There are more nuance and effective ways to show an "Age of Chaos" than a little girl getting caught by a tornado that catches fire while the main character cries and screams

It caught fire because it was a dragon and magic, and it's not as if the little girl getting caught in it was the only thing that happened in this episode. I don't have a problem with it. Anyway what part of a little girl dying is not related to chaos and destruction? Everyone else died too

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>>143829054
>When that mascot with the top hat opens his mouth

>Being hyped as anniversary tales
>only sold less than 350k in it's first week, xillia sold 550k, even xillia 2 sold more than 450k in it's first week
>second week sales drop, the biggest sales drop ever in tales franchise, 94% more drop
>the most return game to the store ratio ever for tales franchise, it's also the most returned game for all games in japan for 2015 (you can buy it for 100 yen, roughly 1$ on amazon japan store)
>The most hated tales of ever, japan really rage, angry, disappointed, and disgusted about this game, outburst at 2ch, yaraon, 2chan, NND and other outlets, spamming countless insult, harrasment, and hatred. Namco had to release the DLC of alisha for free because of that (and scrap other scenario DLC, because the rage is only getting bigger)
>The lowest rating tales of ever in amazon jp (probably the lowest rating game in japan of 2015)
>Have a whole wikipedia dedicated for it's shortcomings
>Death threat and harrasment to fujishima (rose and sorey character designer) so much that he had to delete his twitter
>Death threat to hideo baba and his family, harrasment and an attempt of murder? (it's reported that he got a packet containing some sulfur/acid adressed to him), so much that he become afraid and paranoid, he never appear on public again since his last interview for zestiria in april, which he got heavy backlash regarding alishia situation
>At his last interview baba is quoted saying "The Zestiria team that worked days and months throughout the past three years were truly heartbroken by all of this.・
>Terrorism threat at tales festival, the tales fes is guarded by a batallion of army and police, with baba nowhere on sight, he's not even there to announce new tales of berseria (baba usually the one who announce the new tales)
>Voice actress of rose doing dogeza and apologized for the fans and quoted saying "please let me join the tales family too", which only further enrages the fans

Does one need to play Zestiria before Berseria considering its a sequel?

Is it like playing Crisis Core before FF7 which you should play after

Want to play but I hear it's kinda shitty and don't really want to waste my time

>>143852080
I'm talking about their localized version, you retard.

Tales of Festival is going on right now. Hopefully we get interesting announcements.
Zestiria's VAs are invited this year again and Edna's VA is the MC with Onosaka.

>>143855476
Dude, Jude reacted more after hear 'catcher' than 'bondage'.

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>>143861064

>>143855056
They'll probably adapt it so loosely that it'll be considered it's own thing.
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>>143853886

Yes, he's a cutie.

That the boys are on par with the girls is one of the things I love about the Tales series.

>>143860000

It's not really known yet, but since Berseria is being released right Zesteria, I would play the latter beforehand since the former will likely have at least a few nods and may even answer some questions.

It'd be different if they were separated by years like Phantasia and Symphonia.

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>>143829054
>that "thing" with the top hat

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>>143852988

I wanted to do very lewd things to Fourier and Poisson

>>143862592
Honestly, fuck mascot characters. They're never good. My hype for Berseria has died quite a bit after seeing that thing.

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What's your opinions about Sophie?

>>143857614
During the episode, there was a shot of CG crumbling rock that for five to ten seconds had no frame of reference, so it was impossible to tell what you were looking at. It's a pretty good comparison for what happened with the episode. There were a whole bunch of characters and plot points thrown around, but we weren't given a solid frame of reference to start caring about things. Yeah we can probably guess that there's some sort of big calamity going on and that all the bad shit happening is related, but that's not particularly interesting if we don't give a fuck about anyone it's happening to, just like how you don't give a fuck about the Chinese sweatshop workers that made your phone. The director didn't establish anyone enough for us to care.

so how are the characters in berseris able to see rock loli's brother?

are they all shephards?

>>143860000
Honestly just watch the show. Rumors are they are going to fix plot points in the story anyway. Also the battle system sucks ass. One of the worst in a Tales game.

>>143862810
Sophie is cute but she couldn't save her game asbell was fucking terrible that it tainted everything

>>143863622
I got Graces F last year because you fucks said it had a good battle system (it fucking didn't).

I think I'm 30-40% into the game. I don't even remember now where I am since I stopped playing it a long time ago. Does the story get better?

Threadly reminder that "Berseria" is an Engrish romanisation that came to be because Japanese lacks sounds. Correct name is "Tales of Verselia".

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You will be buying my game, right /a/?

>>143865057
Yeah, it really look promising.

>>143865057

how are the characters in berseria able to see rock loli's brother?

>>143863948
Proof of that? Even if they lack sounds, they wouldn't make a romanisation mistake for a game title.

>>143865195
Because there's no malevolence.

>>143865239

doesn't that imply that berseria takes place like thousands of years before zestria?

>>143865283
We knew this already.

>>143865283
That's exactly what it is they are pulling another Symphonia with the distant prequel thing.

>>143865371

but why is angry pirate lady in this anime?

>>143865421
We don't know.
People theorize both that she is the first Lord of Calamity and that she will time travel at some point in Berseria.(going by one of her titles)
Velvet is a direct antithesis of Sorey in personality so it's only natural that they would clash if they meet.

>>143865421
Well the anime is split cour so for all we know it might switch to Velvet half way through since the game comes out next month. Other possibility is a cameo fight in the area or something as other characters always show up as optional bosses.

>>143865057
Eizen looks fun

>>143865720
I really like how he is using a boxing style to differentiate him from the many other Tales brawlers.
I also like how Velvet incorporates kicks into her fighting style. I believe it's another subtle nod to older Tales games.(Cless and Stahn also did that.)

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Griffith!

>>143866032
His boxing reminds me of Edna's attacks when she's armatized.

>First episode of X
Is it supposed to be this incoherent?
Never played Zestiria.

>>143866082
>Sorey's motivation is to save the world and gain new perspective's
>Velvet's motivation is FUCK THIS ONE GUY IN PARTICULAR

>>143866175
We are going with the GunXSword/Kill Bill angle for Velvet.
I just hope the writers don't pussy out halfway through.

>>143866175
She will want to fuck Laphicet too.

>>143866253
From what masked girl says I assume Velvet's revenge is misguided.

>>143866105
I hadn't thought of that before, but it makes sense.

>>143841165
>>143843848
Is this r63 of Shadow the Edgehog?

>>143866347
This is Tales. Artorious is probably a well intentioned extremist. I just want Velvet to carry out her revenge even if would potential screw people over.

>>143866175
At least Velvet can think on her own.

>Laphicet tries to go inside Velvet
>can't because she is the demons

Lewd I know just how the final boss is going to go.