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28.11.2014

Ok so for the record - I have never actually played any of the Tales of series before. Mostly just due to my not gaming much as a kid. So I come into this game with no reference of the series as a whole. As another note: I've not finished the story yetm in fact im only about 20 hours in so bear that in mind when reading this review.Overall I have enjoyed the game so far. While the characters are somewhat cliched, they are nether-the-less well fleshed out as characters. The story is a intresting spin on the usual JRPG theme of teenagers-using-the-power-of-friendship-to-kill-God thing, with the main plot device being the restoring of a young womans soul after it was shattered and spread throughout the world.The plot is well written, and its well paced with the story talking its time to explain things without dragging on for too long.As for the gameplay, after a bit of research it seems quite similar to the other Tales of games. The battles enable you to freely move the main character around the battle arena while chaing combos and skills. Your party characters are controlled by the computer, with you setting up their behaviour by altering each characters "stragegy". This lets you set NPC behaviour, so for instance you can set characters to mostly heal your or go on the offensive. This enables some flexability, but you can only change these stragegy's outside of battles. Like a lot of RPGS, there are random encounters along with scripted boss fights, and a world map screen that you use to transverse between the towns and major locations.The leveling system is based on a characters "Soma" which forms their weapon. When you level up, you gain points that you can then allocated to the characters Soma. There are 5 attributes you can focus on, and 5 skills for each attribute. You can gain additional skills by balancing the attributes you level, although I'm not 100% clear on exactly how this is worked out. I have done this more by luck than planning, mostly because I tend to play with balanced characters. It does allow you to customise your characters however, since you can choose to level some attributed over others, enabling you to build characters with varying attributes. It's a nice bit of customisation, which is usually pretty rare for JRPGS (where characters tend to have attributes fixed to their class).I have noticed a few performance issues with the game; with the game occassionally freezing and taking some seconds to initate the random encounters. I have also noticed some lag in battles along with some unstable framerates when you have a upwards of 4 enemies on the battle field. But these are only minor complaints, overall it plays very fluidly and well. The game looks very nice on the Vita as well, with good textures and colours.Another minor issue is with the subtitles. The voices in this game have not been dubbed, so instead the story is subbed with the orginal japanese audio. This is not a problem in itself, but I have noticed that in most cases the audio and the text don't seem to match up very well. I can only assume this was for age-rating issues, but it is a little jarring when the audio and text don't match. I imagine this not be a major issue for most people however.Like I said before, I can't say how this stacks up in the series but, a few performance issues aside, it's been a pretty fun game. If you are an RPG fan, theres lots to enjoy here. I may check out more of the Tales games after this.

28.11.2014

Tolkien once said that all art is grown from the leaf mould of the mind, that is to say that every story out there owes a debt to its predecessors, how great that debt is depends on many factors. Not least of which just how blatantly one narrative is prepared to rip off another. While there is a debate to be had as where influence and or homage ends and simple theft begins, in Tales of heart R the debate runs more along the lines of: Just how much of One Piece can we cram into this sucker.Oh I don't mean that it's storyline or setting is anything like the world of Luffy and his Pirate crew, but the characters, the art style and many of the relationships are dead cert, unapologetic,

16.11.2014

I'm not going to say the Tales series is necessarily predictable, but when you put one of these games in you know pretty much what you're getting. The characters will be variations on classic Anime tropes as you navigate your teenage protagonist through a series of battles based on a combination of button mashing and tactics. In terms of design and style they all follow a pretty tight formula. The main variations come from the plots, which (while they always share features like multiple worlds and a powerful church) are all unique and clever with a lot of enjoyable world-building.Since the elements that make up a Tales game are so standard there are really only two major questions that need

14.11.2014

I've never played the original but after playing just 2 hours im very happy with this game. The animated cut scenes are great, the gameplay is easy to get the hang of and its pretty damn funny as well. The story starts off pretty abruptly after the opening cutscene but that just means you can get to playing the game faster than a lot of other JRPG's that might have up to an hour of messing around before you can really start or even save. Only complaints so far are that some of the audio doesn't sync or have subs to go with it and the subs are too take for a game that's rated 16. eg instead of pervert they used rapscallion.

30.12.2014

I love Tales games and was really excited that this was finally getting released outside of Japan.The gameplay is similar to Tales of Symphonia and Vesperia with a new twist on levelling up your characters and creating new wepons for them using Somas.If you're a fan of the series then you will get many hours of great portable gaming fun out of this, the only reason I'm giving it 4 stars is because it has no english dub only the original Japanese voices.This has made it harder to get engrossed in the story and characters as with the english dub you start looking forward to the skits and can enjoy them without having to read along,

16.11.2014

I downloaded thIs off PSN.Ive played just under 12 hours of this game and its really good. The characters are great and its so refreshing to have a little girl character (Beryl) who doesn't have an annoying squeaky voice. The main character (Kor) is also great too as he is really dumb in an adorable way and fodder for his team mate, Hisui who bullies him mercilessly. The combat is excellent and I found my self grinding just so i could perfect my combat form rather than for level and gald. If your a fan of the story and characters of Tales as well as its combat you will love this!

19.12.2014

just like the other tales games however slightly different with the annoyin Japanese voices and it bein on the vita but I didn't mind it worked well with the vita and was very enjoyable, great story the main 2 characters r fantastic and the story telling gets better as the game goes on the anime cut scenes r great, the skits r funny to watch and a lot of flirting goes on which is even funnier overall fantastic game if u can look past the Japanese voices if u don't like them turn them off :)