2009-11-06, 09:05 PM
Symphonia really wasn't that great and symphonia 2 was so horrid (for me at least) that I don't count it as part of the "tales of" series. (Notedly there are those who like it.)
Abyss was truly wonderful. i loved the gameplay and it's still my favorite game. While vesperia doesn't beat Abyss, I can't say that Abyss truly beats vesperia either. The two games play remarkably well. Since you're used to tales of the abyss, let me describe tales of vesperia in terms of abyss:
1) Much more abuse of near infinite combos. But it's a bit necessary since it's harder.
2) The Ai is quite smarter. If you'll let your team mates use overlimits they'll actually go and try to bust out their burst artes (kinda like FoF changes... loosely, but can only been done while in overlimit) and will definitely do their mystic artes.
3)Shared overlimit bar. I didn't like this part so much, but it's at least useful that you can have your main character build up the bar
and then have your mage or healer go into overlimit pretty quickly.
4)Instant cast during overlimit. 'Nuff said. it saves your ass a ton of times when your characters start getting hurt too much.
5)My spellcaster's strongest spell is FIREBALL. That's right, the VERY first spell she learns is the one I stll have her use against bosses. Luls. Starts at two or three and gains an extra hit every 500 uses maxing at 10 hits. Almost all of the spells have really good uses though.
6)Spellcaster: I don't feel like casting... *flying punch to the enemy face* win.
You can easily be cheap in this game with the spell instant casting though. But it's tons of fun when you dont.
Abyss was truly wonderful. i loved the gameplay and it's still my favorite game. While vesperia doesn't beat Abyss, I can't say that Abyss truly beats vesperia either. The two games play remarkably well. Since you're used to tales of the abyss, let me describe tales of vesperia in terms of abyss:
1) Much more abuse of near infinite combos. But it's a bit necessary since it's harder.
2) The Ai is quite smarter. If you'll let your team mates use overlimits they'll actually go and try to bust out their burst artes (kinda like FoF changes... loosely, but can only been done while in overlimit) and will definitely do their mystic artes.
3)Shared overlimit bar. I didn't like this part so much, but it's at least useful that you can have your main character build up the bar
and then have your mage or healer go into overlimit pretty quickly.
4)Instant cast during overlimit. 'Nuff said. it saves your ass a ton of times when your characters start getting hurt too much.
5)My spellcaster's strongest spell is FIREBALL. That's right, the VERY first spell she learns is the one I stll have her use against bosses. Luls. Starts at two or three and gains an extra hit every 500 uses maxing at 10 hits. Almost all of the spells have really good uses though.
6)Spellcaster: I don't feel like casting... *flying punch to the enemy face* win.
You can easily be cheap in this game with the spell instant casting though. But it's tons of fun when you dont.