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batheon2012-03-07 03:53 pm
rainbowarch) wrote in batheon2012-03-07 03:53 pm
I HAVEN'T USED SPARKLETEXT IN LIKE, YEARS
Levi, what is this?
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TALES OF VESPERIA
... anyway.
TALES OF VESPERIA
Which is special because in both Japanese and English, it has the same opening song! A MIRACLE. No Starry Heavens -> Instrumental -> Soshite boku ne dekiru koto for Vesperia! The singer they got sings in both english and japanese, so the songs are the same! just.. different language.
of the localized ones, at least.Ah, so Graces F will be the same.ANYWAY. Vesperia, according to TV Trope's "Better than it sounds" is boy goes to get stolen item back, ends up fixing everyone elses troubles. His best friend disapproves.
... Only Yuri Lowell isn't really a "boy", as the oldest Tales Hero he's solidly at 21, and there's a bit more than that to the plot But really, that's pretty much it...
The game is divided into three parts;
Part one! Catch thief. Yuri sets out to go get... what more or less is the bucket for his slums well back. No, no other bucket will do. It's a very special bucket. He gets thrown in jail for b&e, his dog(Repede) runs off with money, and he helps a princess(Estelle) break out of her castle... so she can warn his best friend(Flynn) about something... that's.. never explained..., and gains himself a
rabid fanboy who loves Yuri so much he wants to cut him upstalker with a bloodlust problem(Zagi). They collect a little boy who looks a lot like Lloyd in terms of hairstyle(Karol), a prickly mage-girl who really likes her fireballs(Rita), and run into the corruption that comes from being in an Empire where the emperor's been dead for a decade and the country's ruled by knights / a council ofoldnobles. Yuri spends most of this time more or less keeping the party all running in the same direction, while helping Karol commit more b&e when they can't use the front door. They meet this shady old guy in a purple coat(Raven) who helps them, then nearly gets them caught, then teases them, and turns into Rita's punching bag for later parts of the game. They also finally find Flynn, only to argue with him and not get him to join the party. All of the sads. Zagi shows up again, and they kick him off a boat.No, even though he's gotten from the center of the main continent to the edge, something people don't really do due to MONSTERS, he hasn't found his bucket, or his thief. So they head to the next one!
And get arrested. Apparently, there's a
really flamboyantly gaynoble knight who really doesn't like Yuri, and so he thinks he should try to kill him. But then again, Yuri does do a lot of minor crimes. All over the place. which another knight tells us when he arrests them. Then they get pardoned by Estelle, because she's a princess and can do that, the commandant of the knights(Alexei) tries to take her home; things explode, the party reforms, and they head on to the next town! Well. City. Still haven't found that thief.They don't get arrested this time, because now they're not in the Empire! They try to talk to the head of the Guilds, only monsters attack and the guy leaves town to kill them. So they head into the forest to look for the monster nest, meet up with a fishy old Raven The smell was kinda coming off him in ~waves~, and go to defeat monsters. Only there's too many, and a weirdo with way too much white hair and a funny glowing sword saves them(Duke). He tells them to just go away already, more or less, and heads off without explaining anything useful. So they head out of the forest, end up meeting with that Guild Leader - and Flynn gets arrested.
No, they still haven't found that thief. Yuri swaps places, and they go to kill off a guildmaster who was causing trouble, and meet a really pretty elf lady who fights in a bikini(Judith). THEY GET YURI'S BUCKET BACK, but Yuri isn't happy that some guy said he'd go to hell. Raven and Judith head off, because they're special like that.
Everyone can go home now, right? RIGHT?! Rita decides she's not waiting for the answer and heads out.
Wrong!
Back at the Guild City, a giant fiery chicken tells Estelle that she's a poison to the world. So now she wants to chase it to find out why.
Oh. And then Yuri murders someone in the middle of the night and dumps them off the bridge . BEST HERO EVER, RIGHT?
Part Two: Chase down Phaeroh and get answers. Also known as "Estelle is a princess and wants to do ALL THE THINGS". Judith rejoins the party, and they make a Guild of their own! the
SUPER ULTRA COURAGEOUS BRAVESBrave Vesperia, because fortunately Estelle has better taste in names than Karol. Even if she's not part of the guild. They head to the next city, regain Rita, try to beat up the creeper knight and deal with a guy with a german accent instead. Who wields the most awesome thing ever, a crossbow-rifle-scythe. They run to the next town chasing creeper knight, and Raven joins!Now to take a boat to the desert continent /o/ On the way there they get a box from a ghost ship. There, they take part in a coliseum fight, because some other Guildmaster says someone evil is trying to take it over, only it's Flynn, and he's lawful stupid so someone is lying. Zagi proclaims that Yuri should know he hates waiting, and gets beat up for his trouble. They get their box stolen by said guildmaster, then book it after him! Into caves! A big dragon shows up to scare them by eating red light, the guild master turns out to be Mr German Accent, and they fight a giant bird-Ghastly that turns into a lot of little bats.
Then they're at the desert. Judith knows the place, so she more or less guides them to an oppressed little town with knights standing about everywhere. Estelle tries to lose them by dropping their quest to her, but they say they can't do that. Into the desert to find some kids parents! And the giant flame chicken named Phaeroh.
Turns out they aren't good at desert travel, and after beating a sky mantaray, pass out. Only to wake up in a village from a thousand years ago! And Duke's in one of the houses! He breaks the shiny they got out of the box, then tells them that Estelle is a Child of the Full Moon, and Entelexeia - which Phaeroh is - don't like Children of the Full Moon. See? He can be helpful...
They go back to the other desert town, Yuri scares a guy into walking into a sandpit, and Flynn calls him out on murder! Estelle isn't scared of him though! Even if he kills people in the middle of the night! they were assholes anyway. And now she wants to find out more about Children of the Full Moon, but since Phaeroh would want to eat her, they go to deliver Raven's letter. Turns out someone else is an Entelexeia, and Estelle gets some answers, only she heals the Entelexeia and the party is forced to kill her. Yuri convinces her she's not a poison by nearly cutting his arm off. YAY TALES HEROES. Yuri gives Flynn a death-threat if he does something stupid, Judith breaks a boats engine and leaves, and they sail back to Guild city.
No, we're not at half way yet. The Guild-master guy runs off to beat up the german one, but ends up committing suicide because the Entelexeia in the coliseum city was a guildmaster and his grandkid was the one that causes it. Karol gets depressed. Yuri tells him to grow a pair, they're going to go find Judith. Karol does, and Raven rejoins once again!
They go find the destroyed mountain range where most of the Great War took place. Craters everywhere. Judith explains why she broke the engine, and they get to witness spacewhale evolution! Now the spacewhale carries their boat through the sky~
And then the really bad stuff starts happening~
because I don't remember what happens directly after this I'm just going to stop no- oh, wait, I do. Still stopping.
YEAH. IT'S NOT ACTUALLY THAT LONG, if you don't hit up all the sidequests. I just like to TL;DR. and there is a severe lack of backstory.
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/might go and do character information between tags now :|a
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Yuri Lowell is pretty much the coolest guy in history?? LIKE WOW. HE'S REALLY COOL, he was like, he grew up in the slums and he's a real down home brother who doesn't forget what his roots are even when he does all this totally AMAZING crap (not a spoiler because DUH!!11 this is a tales game, COOL STUFF IS GONNA HAPPEN!) But it's like, wow, he's the hero but he's not like, a super goody two-shoes?? Like Tales poster child for Chaotic Good!
Repede is the most badass dog and is like, Yuri Lowell's best friend. Best dog friend. Whatever. ANYWAY, it's like, Repede, he smokes a pipe and he fights with daggers! THE DOG FIGHTS WITH DAGGERS I MEAN COME ON. Also wow look how cute he was a puppy!
Flynn Scifo is Yuri Lowell's ACTUAL best friend or whatever and he's really cute but also really REALLY Lawful Good, and you are like, WOW Flynn, Yuri how the heck can you even be friends what is UP with that. But Flynn is a really good guy and REALLY CARES ABOUT THINGS a lot. He is a HUGE SWEETHEART. Okay? Okay.
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okay, maybe I will do characters.
TO START WITH, YUUUUURIIII LOOOWWEEEELLLL
Yuri is a badass. Gameplay wise, he is on TVtropes as a One Man Army. Not only does he have
wonderfulhair to his shoulderblades, but his shirt is open to his navel and he enjoys teasing all his castmates, from things like terrifying Karol due to making eggbear noises behind him, to 'Ristelle'. He fights like a flashy-show-off, all flips and handstands and completely ambi, using both swords and axes. He's more or less a jerk with a heart of goldno subject
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it would be wonderful~
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He's the one who officially trapped someone in game? There's an NPC who asks if the pretty lady would like to share a drink. Wait, You're a guy? CUT YER HAIR
Duke is pegged with "far too handsome to be a hermit" at sight.
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AND THEN
AND THEN!!
HE SPOKE ; A;
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OH. THEY MEANT THE RUSSIAN VERSION.
But Troy Baker has such a wonderful voice!
For me it was more "La de da OOO, PRETTY GAME, WOW HERO HAS A DEEP VOICE" Yuri is no Lloyd or Luke, that's for sure...
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...But Repede is still my favourite character. You just can't compete with a dog like that.
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NGL, best part of ps3 version, aside from Flynn and all of his adorableness? Repede as onscreen character /thumbs up? Thumbs up.
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The english voices are better than the japanese ones, exceptions being Yuri and Raven >.>
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...though none of us know enough Japanese to pick apart a conversation, let alone a video game like ToV sob. WHELP looks like the next 4player gaming session is gonna be Graces |3
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even if I understand absolutely none of the plot, aside from what can be understood from tones of voice and watching things happenConversations are hard ;A; They all speak in all sorts of different levels of politeness, and there's all of these Tales-only words... But they did change the color of the text for all the areas and important people names. It's like they know that people will import it XD XD