Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition

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They managed to release a worse game than Symphonia in almost every single sense years later! Wow! There's a lot to say just on combat gameplay, though, so I'll focus on that here. You start out the game with one character available, which just so happens to be perhaps the most useless mfing protagonist in the entire series. I introduce you to Mr. Swirl-Sword-Lots Lowell that always suffers from an awful case of huge vulnerability windows after every single attack thanks to unnecessary, asinine end-lag animations. Poor man can swing his sword a couple times, eat whatever sharp stick the enemy swings back at his face right afterwards and hardly do anything else. Soon after, you're pitched against your first boss, who is practically a ninja by comparison (bosses here are never playing the same game as you) and will shove how much of a worthless tank your character feels to control on your face right away. And for Tales veterans, I HOPE TO ♥♥♥♥ you didn't let your experience with the series get to your head and switch to hard mode right away because it almost TRIPLES enemies' health amount and turns said first boss into a nigh insurmountable barrier to overcome (if not through difficulty, then through the sheer tedium of getting that number down to 0 that early in the game). For comparison: Zagi 1 on hard mode has 11250 HP, from 4500 on normal. Vidarr, the first boss in Symphonia, meanwhile, has 6000 on hard mode, from 4000 on normal. AND you have 3 more party members available for that fight. AND Lloyd doesn't control like a dementia patient who suddenly forgets he's in the middle of a fight and decides to juggle his sword for 5 seconds for his own amusement. All in all, amazing difficulty balancing there. Made me outright refund the first time I tried it and I only went back to it after a generous friend gifted me the game after I told him I'd only give it a chance again for free. Besides the abysmal start, the rest of the combat system doesn't fare much better. It's restrictive as hell. A lot of mechanics you'd take for granted in earlier games are locked behind skills you have to grind for and equip to unlock. Wanna use an item with a character on a different party member? It's a skill. Wanna (♥♥♥♥♥♥) backsteps? It's a skill. Wanna chain 3 artes in a combo string? It's many skills! And I hope you have enough points to ♥♥♥♥♥♥ the combat, because you can't equip those for free! Oh but before that you gotta remember that an entire category of artes is also hidden behind skills that changes certain artes you already know and you have use these altered artes enough times to actually learn them without needing the skill. It's not needlessly convoluted, you just don't get it! One hilarious thing is that you can actually cancel the end-lag animations on attacks, but it requires 3 (THREE) different simultaneous inputs every time like ????????? Who designed this ♥♥♥♥??? (and cancelling still feels much slower than it should be. most of the time I don't even bother.) Less hilarious, though, is that the game makes little to no effort to actually tutorialize you on that or other nuances of the battle system. Anything relevant gets put into the "Battle Book", which is just a lazy list shoved in an option under an option on a menu. No practice mode or spots whatsoever. Aerial enemies are a disaster to deal with, especially during the first half or so of the game. The vast majority of your party is very poorly equipped to handle them, and some of the flying boss enemies you encounter are only even barely tolerable thanks to your spellcasters. Anti-air melee options are either only unlocked later in the game (Tiger Blade) or entirely absent (Tempest). Guess what artes are also available very early in other games? Lastly, there is Overlimits. It's the most interesting part of the combat, which in this context merely means it's a two-steps-forward-two-steps-back kind of deal. It's an effect that gets enemies off you and lets you chain attacks without stopping for while. Cool! It's a good way to turn the tides on a difficult encounter by tanking through enemy blows and unloading— Wait no, you can't tank attacks anymore. In fact, you can easily get staggered through the entire duration of the effect, as it only lasts very few seconds. B-but the payoff of unleashing a super cool Burst Arte at the end of an OL chain makes up for it, right? It's super strong and you'll be unstoppable once— You can just as easily get staggered in the middle of a Burst Arte animation. It's perhaps the strongest feeling of cockblock I've ever had in this series, and it'll happen to you several times. The BAs aren't even very strong anyway. It's all right, though! You can get hyper armor for them! THAT'S A SKILL AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Definitely a fun game, but it has some major weak spots, and I really don't understand why so many people claim this is the best in the series. Most characters were really good, combat pretty fun, ending was unsatisfying. (7/10)

Glad to have a protagonist that isn't a pacifist while mowing down hundreds of NPCs. Has enjoyable characters and an adequate story.

Беспощадная японщина. Да, для экспертов, это конечно не классическая JRPG, но для остальных поверьте, думаю хватит и этого. Десятки часов гринда, пустых диалогов, мир изучение которого подразумевает не единождое возвращение в посещенные точки без особых причины, а вдруг что то появилось. При этом, основной сюжет, достаточно приятный и местами увлекающий. Не могу отговаривать, но и рекомендовать тоже рука не поднимается.

A lot of people say this game has an awful story that meanders and then isn't present, I have no idea what they're talking about, as the story is the only really good part of the game. The synthesis and skill systems are horrible, the combat is mediocre to awful. It's a guide-bait game for all of the stupid particulars, where things exist, how to progress things, the existence of missable quests, the existence of failable quests, literally none of it is tracked anywhere, there are no hints, it's just good luck, idiot. Hope you like visiting towns just to talk to everyone to see if there's a quest active. Oh, wait, you forgot to sleep in every inn? Too bad, you missed something. There are quests that wont even tell you that there ARE requirements to complete, let alone hint at how to complete them. You can even see the complete failure in level design, presenting a fast travel system in a dungeon that just does not work, and then put it right next to a save point, and it still not work, so you think that you missed something in the dungeon and waste time trying to figure out what you missed, but then it turns out you have to go into the NEXT ROOM where the fast travel system also exists, and then it just starts working if you interact with it. Even has this really cool bug where controller confirm input, and literally only that input, will stop working, unless you restart your entire computer. Don't listen to anyone that recommends this game for "exploration", not about this game, not about anything. Not even the party comp is good, you get one single good healer (the other one can only do it in melee, and if you tell the AI to heal, it'll use up all it's TP 10x faster than anyone else in the game), and then, at some point, they take that healer away from you for a stint. And it's just awful. It's so awful. The protagonist is almost good enough to subvert all these issues, so if you can stomach this atrocity, it's worth it for the narrative, but it has no reason to be 60 hours long, none.

I LOVE THIS GAME. This is was my first Tale series game I've played and fell in love on the Xbox360. it has some noticeable issues but the goods was so good that it stopped mattering to me

[h1]ゲームパッド (F310 モード:XBOX) を認識させた手順[/h1] レビューの低評価の理由の多くが、ゲームパッドが認識しない点で、作品自体は良いので、実にもったいない。 ナムコは早く自動認識の部分を改善してほしい。 初回起動時にゲームパッドを認識させた手順です。 そのあとは、起動時にゲームパッドで操作すると反応するようになりました。 以下を要約すると Steam 入力を有効にしてからゲームを起動して、Ctrl + Alt + Del キーでタスクマネージャを開いて閉じてゲームに戻れば認識しました。 [olist] [*] Steam のライブラリで、このゲームのページの右上のコントローラボタンを押す。 [*] Steam 入力を有効にする。 [*] 最初に選択されているボタンレイアウト QLOC Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Editionーゲームパッド公式レイアウトを選択して保存。 [*] ゲームを起動する。 [*] まだゲームパッドは認識されないのでキーボード Enter キーで言語の日本語を選択する。 [*] Enter キーで OP などをスキップしてタイトル画面へ進む。 [*] Tab キーで Config を開き、キーカスタマイズを矢印キーで選択して Enter キーで開く。 [*] 入力を矢印キーで選択して左右キーをおしたらゲームパッドが選べることを確認する。 [*] Esc キーでタイトルまで戻る。 [*] Ctrl + Alt + Del キーを押した後、タスクマネージャを選択する。 [*] タスクマネージャを閉じる。 [*] マウス操作でゲームに戻る。 [*] ゲームパッドで操作すると入力が可能になる。 [/olist] [h1]ゲームのセーブごとに初めにやっておきたい DLC[/h1] 持っているだけで移動速度を上昇させたりする便利アイテムを DLC から取得すると少し早く動けます。 [olist] [*] ゲームのフィールド移動中にアイテムのページを開いて RT, LT キーで DLC タブを選択します。 [*] 便利セットを入手します。その中のアイテムは持っているだけで移動速度が少し上昇します。 [*] 他にもガルドやコスチューム、Lvアップの DLC があるので好みのタイミングでしようしましょう。 [/olist] [h1]初めの所感[/h1] 他の評価についてはゲームをクリアしてから行う予定ですが、数時間の所感では、動作も軽快で、アニメの世界でキャラを動かしている楽しさがあります。 キャラクターも良いです。 とりあえず期待をこめて高評価を押しておきます。クリア後、レビューを更新予定。 [h1]攻撃力減少のスキルに注意！[/h1] 装備した武器などから覚えられるスキルには、与えるダメージを割合で減らしてしまう1ダメージ、ハーフダメージ、クオーターダメージがあります。 これを習得すると自動的にセットされて、攻撃力が 1 になったり半分になったり 1/4 になります。 ダメージが減ったなと思ったらスキルをチェックしてみてください。 これは、ちょっと不便だから、通常の戦闘で不利になるスキルはお知らせするとか、自動設定はやめてほしかった。

Peak JRPG. I played through this game extensively back in my Xbox 360 days, but recently had the urge to do another quick playthrough on Steam. I thought I would just blast through the main story (and for the most part that is what I did), but I was surprised how much I was drawn to doing the side content. It’s just a testament to how good of a game Vesperia is. It’s full of terrific characters, a deeply complex battle system (that I am still not very good at), and an adventurous story full of twists and turns. But perhaps most importantly: to me the aesthetic of this game is timeless. It still looks so good with such a beautiful and colourful artstyle. The characters, environments, enemies - everything still looks so incredible, even playing this in 2025.