Tales of Zestiria, PS4 (Tales Retrospective)

[@Eratisify]

Just wanted to say it's refreshing to see you giving these games that are somewhat unpopular a fair shake and giving your own opinions. When I played, I knew Alisha wasn't going to be in the party for the whole game. I guess I never really grew particularly attached to her as a result. I basically felt the same way about her as Rose - they were fine, nothing special.

[@agranosclem]

my only genuine complaints about Zestiria are the battle camera and the skill system. It's still a really enjoyable game despite that though

[@writerblocks9553]

I enjoyed this game, tales of bersaria too, the storylines were very interesting and the dialogue was great. The battles in tales of bersaria were better though.

[@xXSoulGeoXx]

19:35 Interesting fact about the Opening situation at least outside of Japan it actually had the Vocal Track included on release for all platforms, on Steam Forums and Reddit, there's people who can confirm the Opening was included also as an aditional file where the game was installed, but with updates, it was taken out of newer installations of the game there's a solution for PC at least to replace the Opening Video file with the one from PS3/PS4 as it is also a video file that can be player using RAD Video Tools Idk why this happened though, as Berseria didn't have the same situation happen (the problem over there were mostly the weird censoship done to certain scenes honestly, which is part of the reason there's exist an English patch for the PS3 release, using the translation from the PC port, but no way of restoring that scene from the Opening hours of the game on PC yet)

[@jdog91q1]

I played this game recently and my biggest issue with it is I feel like they were setting up characters like Sergei and Alicia to eventually be able to see the spirits on their own they deal with their personal challenges that spiritually blocked them. I really thought that was gonna happen when the two countries generals, and the mercenaries helped you take down that hellion I don’t like the whole if you’re born pure, you can see the spirits and interact with them, but if you’re born society, basically you just inherently corrupted, and you can never see them. The only reason can Rose can see them is because she was manipulated from a very young age basically Alicia always believe in them and she fights with them, but she was raining as a burden to sorey basically just leaves the bad taste in your mouth

[@Hyp3rSonic]

I love the gameplay of this one

[@kuraihikari5785]

I feel like this game definitely benefits from a second playthrough when you know more of what to expect. I can enjoy the gameplay well enough, but what puts the game down the most for me is the story. Pretty much all of the characters just aren’t very interesting to me, and the plot overall is quite simple. I tend to always enjoy Tales gameplay, so my attachment to the story and characters is often what I focus on the most when deciding my favourites, and it’s a shame Zestiria just wasn’t very ambitious in that aspect.

[@pralenkaman8105]

I feel like there were meant to be more human party members, I'm replaying zestiria right now and it doesn't make sense for sergei not to join the party, lailah mentions he is pure, while not being able to see them, he senses the seraphim, being able to deflect an attack from dezel and he's the only person in rolance to want the help from the shepherd even though he is considered the empire's enemy Not sure if there's anymore outliers like sergei, I'm still replaying through the story, the closest second would be lucas, but I definitely feel like there were more human party members planned for the story

[@nielsdeschacht3823]

I realy liked tales of zesteria .

[@aoto8897]

I love Zestiria, it’s a great game.

[@Chelaxim]

Sorey is a good shinto boy.

[@basman2006]

This was easily my least favourite tales game from the ones i played. I mostly played for the characters and these just weren't great. I couldn't get with the fighting system and the enemies looked pretty boring and standard. Then my ps4 died with the disc in it and i couldn't finish it. Sad because i heard things would pick up. But i'm not doing all that again.

[@rockhyde7775]

To me, the Tales franchise is still going strong, regardless of what fans say about the newer entries. I won’t let any negative opinions deter me from enjoying the stuff I like. I love the characters though.

[@xenosanctum2531]

If Tales is going strong, why have we not heard a peep since Symphomia Remastered came out?

[@calvinmatthews1527]

While Zestiria isn't as bad as it's made out to be, it's certainly NOT better than what came before or after.

[@aoto8897]

It’s definitely better than many Tales games. It may not be the best, but it’s not the worst.

[@ThatIckyGuy]

Zestiria is my third Tales game (after Arise and Berseria)...unless you count Symphonia but I never finished Symphonia. (I plan on remedying that.) I was curious to see why this game is so disliked. I'm about 13 hours in and I'm enjoying it so far. A big part of that is because I just came off of Berseria and I'm enjoying seeing the ties with that game. (I did know going in that Berseria is a prequel, but chose to play it first anyway.) I don't know if it's because I knew about the controversy or not, but Alisha's absence doesn't bug me and I do like Rose quite a bit. The only thing that puzzles me is that they seemed to have given Rose all of Alisha's costumes.

[@xenosanctum2531]

The skill system gets real tedious as the game wants you to got equipment farming which is kind of dumb. Also Sorey being handed a power to see and work with Seraphim where as other people with good hearts like Alisa just feels wrong from a plot point. Again, I like this game but I thought I'd give you 2 big reaons why this game gets hate.

[@nanamikado999]

Great video

[@retroislandboy9708]

Tales Of Zestiria was a good, fun game. I dont care what anyone says.

[@Hyp3rSonic]

@@retroislandboy9708 agree

[@zexalsrevenge511]

I didn’t know there fans divided on Zestiria. It also blew my mind Tales fans are divided on the newer entries of the franchise. My brother really enjoyed the anime of it though but I have yet to watch it. I read its manga adaptation which I thought was good but I have yet to play its game though. If I have a take on any of the Tales games, none of them are legitimately terrible (same with Kingdom Hearts and Star Ocean, two other JRPG franchises I like besides Tales) although there are wildly varying opinions on each entry ranging from despising it to absolutely loving it. There are just some things you don’t know about until you get internet, sometimes not for the best.

[@xenosanctum2531]

I don't think there are any genrally terrible games either, including Tales of the Tempest. But there are some pretty weak games.

[@zexalsrevenge511]

@@xenosanctum2531 That I agree with. Another case is Kingdom Hearts. I’m a huge fan of that intellectual property for instance (that IP similarly has no legitimately bad entries despite some fans dumping on Chain of Memories, 358/2 Days and what I’m about to talk about) and that IP’s weakest game from what I’ve heard is Recoded for the DS. It is similar to Tempest on the same system in regard to what fans say about it, both games are regarded as the black sheeps of their respective franchises and on the same system. I always thought the DS got the short end of the RPG stick.

[@xenosanctum2531]

@@zexalsrevenge511 Seeing as not one Tales game on the DS got localised.

[@Ekkolocationzz]

banger

[@SogonD.Zunatsu]

10 month later, still haven't figured out you mispelled the game title.

[@xenosanctum2531]

Call it a Mandela Effect. I have fixed it now.

[@at0micl0bster]

This game sucks. the equipment and combat triangle are needlessly convoluted, I've fallen off the game twice now (around lvl 40) Edit: :^) i did finish it around lvl 81-83 but holy shit the issues just got worse overtime

[@supercool1412]

The frame rate and the decisions they made in this game were horrible this game and arise are the only tales games I never finished and I played all of them even the Japanese ones Positives : Sorey & Mikleo are one of the best friendships I have seen in video games you could even say Mikleo is best Wifu

[@nanamikado999]

I think they removed the lyrics outside of Japan because the "I wanna be white" part may have been poorly received

[@Chelaxim]

In 2015? May have been poorly received is the understatement of the century. I can already see 2015 rantsonas screeching about it.

[@GenmuLVLX]

I was under the impression that it was too expensive to get the global license from superfly

[@almightycinder]

I found it boring and mostly a chore to finish. I normally really like the villains in the Tales games and the ones in here were just so dull. The main guy just didn't feel like a Tales villain.

[@ag9953]

There is no nuance to the plot, the bad people are just bad and that's it, except of course for Mary Rose Sue who literally breaks the lore so she can stay perfect and pristine.

[@almightycinder]

@@ag9953 both her and that evil priest broke the lore. Everything else was fairly straight forward, but since those two have 100% black and white morality, it doesn't affect them at all? Seriously?

[@alumlovescake]

The combat in this game feels like hell and as much I think the characters are more annoying then charming and find the story completely stupid. I can't hate this game

[@ZannacrossG1]

To me there was so many problems with this game. The plot had the most generic bad guy in the series till Arise...the way the cast worked meant that only Sorey and rose could show up in the field for mini games which limited options, the combat was to unbalanced, and of course the whole Rose controversy did not help either. On top of that the way that the cast was almost pro death like they were Yu Yevon in Final Fantasy 10, even if it was not QUITE the same still turned me off with the whole" Death is salvation" thing. There was the annoying way to travel, the very generic dungeons, this game just had so many problems, I still find it worst then Arise and one of the least liked Tales games to me, the fact that its 8 years old now is, horrifying to me lol.

[@ag9953]

Tales of Rozestiria a shit.

[@reinsama2.09]

Still better than arise

[@retroislandboy9708]

Agreed

[@Hyp3rSonic]

@@reinsama2.09 respectfully disagree

[@reinsama2.09]

@@Hyp3rSonic WOMP WOMP didn't ask

[@Hyp3rSonic]

@@reinsama2.09 you shouldn't had make that comment then. There will always be a change for comments like these. Yet, you respond like this? Also, you had the choice to either ignore it, or not respond to my comment. Just saying. Very silly, all I said was that I disagreed, and that I respected your opinion. Also, I wasn't being rude. All this does is make you seem questionable, 🤨🤔

[@veghesther3204]

No its PURE CRAP.

[@xenosanctum2531]

Care to elaborate?

[@veghesther3204]

The way you get the points for the post game Grade shop is PURE CRAP Zestria only you don't gain ANY THROUGH battles in game and it doesn't help that unless your doing a Easy/Normal mode run healing spells are USELESS Like Berseria in this one on hard and above mode healing spells restore 0 HP while the enemies on a 1st HARD run are likely to kill you IN 1 hit especially bosses.

[@superizillian957]

It’s the gamefaqs guy

[@Hyp3rSonic]

Respectfully disagree

[@sagepirotess6312]

Cant say i played all tales games. But all on pc, steam, yes. And tales if Z is my favorite. Tales of b second. Arise was meh, and sucky story, and to political off real world. Tales of S a chore to get through. Tales of V, so boring couldn't finish.