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I love being alone in a game ... if the game's narrative/atmosphere/etc. is building that. Demon's Souls definitely does. You're in a world thrust into a nightmarish scenario and there is no hope. It's a bleak and dreary world. Most the NPCs reflect that. Hell, your tutorial in the game [hide]ends with the death of your character[/hide].

>> PSP2's [hide]tutorial mission (which is odd to phrase that way since up to Act 3 still feels like a Tutorial) ends with your character dying. With a later "SORRY YOU DIED" conversation to point out that, yes, you did in fact die. It's okay though, you get better.[/hide]

Man, I can't put a . That makes me sad.

Good thing you put that under a spoiler for people who haven't played PSP2 yet.

And yeah, the mini-tutorial things continue for a while, every time something new turns up.

So, what kind of character are you playing?

I probably should unspoiler some part of it to so people know whether or not it's safe to try reading it >> Like, maybe the game title.

[spoiler]Reminded of a GAF topic of "Games in which the main character dies" and the TC failed to see the flaw in the spoiler warning. Yes, there will be spoilers ... but stating the title of a game [hide]like this[/hide] doesn't really help >> You check it and hope it's a game you know? Man, many a game was spoiled that day~

Edit: To clarify, the game titles themselves are the spoilers ... so you either just had "Crisis Core" or [hide]Crisis Core[/hide] posts. Was basically a "you will be spoiled in this topic the end."

Note: If that was a legitimate spoiler then I hate you. Not because <3 FFVII or anything like that but it's a fucking prequel involving a guy that was DEAD IN THE FIRST GAME. 'course, if you haven't played FFVII then oops but I'm pretty sure it's old enough by now to be common knowledge grounds T.T[/spoiler]

Anyway, made a Female Cast Hunter since it seemed pretty basic "hey guyz, starter character" and Humans are "generic", Newman look like casters and I couldn't make one I liked, and I didn't contemplate Beast when I made her. Well, barring changing your race.

Fairly sure Female has better PP from some goofing around with the demo so I went that route. Since you can switch [s]Classes[/s] Types whenever you want really, I don't see a huge reason to make another character unless there's something I missed.

My only gripe with the Tutorials is that the timer keeps going when they pop up. I haven't had any timed mission not get S-Ranked yet so I doubt those ~20 seconds matter but ... sheesh.

Yeah, Forces are too hard now in PSP2. I haven't read anything about rebalancing yet, but there's still hope.

Tales related news, go!




- Mira is gorgeous, and yup, them fan artists are very fast.
- Apparently, "Xillia" stems from the word, "Xillion". Clever, Bamco, very clever.

[spoiler]Character Design: Mutsumi Inomata (ToG), Kosuke Fujishima (ToV)
Animation Production: ufotable
Music: Motoi Sakuraba
Theme Song Artist: Ayumi Hamasaki

Lead Game Design: Yoshimasa Tanaka (ToH)
Battle Game Design: Kenji Anabuki (ToV)

Lead Programming: Toyokazu Endo (ToV)
Sound Programming: Shuji Ikegami (ToV)
Lead Scripting: Satoshi Kohama [sp?] (ToG)

Lead Character Model Artist: Masahiko Musha (ToV)
Lead Monster Model Artist: Satoshi Nakamura (ToV)
Lead Map Model Artist: Yuko Kajihara (ToV)

Lead Event Demo Artist: Hisato Ito (ToG)
Lead Effect Artist: Natsuko Taki (ToV)
Lead 2D Graphic Artist: Yuri Suzuki (ToV)

Scenario Writer: Daisuke Kiga [sp?] (ToG)
Storyboard & Event Direction: Yasushi Shibu (ToG)

Art Director: Daigo Okumura (ToV)

Director: Naoto Miyadera (ToS/TotA), Asana Inoki (ToS:KoR)

Production Producer: Shinichiro Okamoto
Producer: Hideo Baba[/spoiler]

Yup, looks pretty good so far.

Too fast. They thought Jude would be taller.

Little did they know, the only main male shorter than Jude is Kyle. Even Luca is taller.
Still think Luca is awesome, or I just see too much of myself in him. Especially after this:

Ruca's pretty cute and his development was probably one of the most significant in a Tales game, but my favorite protagonists will always be Veigue Lungberg (those KURREAAA jokes are so flippin' annoying) and Shing Meteoryte, the punching bag of the Tales series. Probably Asbel Lhant after, but I like Ruca better so he's my fourth favorite.

My least favorite would be Yuri Lowell. I think the Tales studio tried to make him seem bad ass, but to me, he was just a static, boring character that pretty much annoyed the heck out of me. Luke fon Fabre and Lloyd Irving slowly follow, though...