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Tales of the Abyss

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: September 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game has excellent graphics. Lots of adventures. 6 playable characters makes the game more challenging. It is a 4 player game so your friends can play also.

Starts OK, gets better, then gets worse

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: June 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I don't ask much from a game, but button mashing is one thing that drives me nuts. The game seems to stop for scenes all the time. What is the point in giving me control over the character to take two steps to start a movie, then get control and take three steps to start a movie. That is how this game starts (and many others) and then that is how this game ends. The middle is pretty good but about 30 hours into it I could not wait for it to end and even skipping anything extra it still took another 15 hours to finish. It was not bad enough to just give up but darn close.

Another Superb Tales Game!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: November 01, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I've played Tales of Symphonia great game. I never had a desire to play Tales of Legendia. But I was very interested in Tales of the Abyss. Whats not to like. It's like a great epic anime movie and an RPG combined. The characters and so likable. I recomend this game to other RPG fans or fans of the Tales series.

This could have been so much better...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: November 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'll start out here by saying that I couldn't finish this game. Its negative points just dragged it down too far for me to feel inspired to work through them. First off, and I don't know why more people haven't mentioned it, but there is an unacceptable amount of slowdown and ridiculous loading times in this game. On the world map, if you try to rotate the camera, what you get is extreme lag that wouldn't be acceptable this day and age in an online game, let alone a single player title. And then, once you get into a battle, the load times are beyond the pale of acceptability. There's no excuse for such shoddy programming--it makes Suikoden V look absolutely sprightly, and that is a condemnation and a half.

Aside from the technical problems, the battle system is simply garbage. They attempt to introduce a third plane, but if you want to use it, you give up the ability to strike opponents while you maneuver. If they couldn't allow you to attack while maneuvering on the field of battle, there really isn't any point in including the ability to move sideways in the first place. The rest is just button mashing, and sparrows can do you more substantial injury than bigger monsters, simply because you can't hit them or guard against them properly. It's truly a ridiculous setup. And for all intents and purposes, the battles are all 2D, which doesn't jive with the rest of the game design.

Also infuriating are the skits. The text is presented much too small, and it shouldn't be necessary at all, as the Japanese version of the game has these interludes fully voice acted. Guess it just wasn't worth their time in the NA version of the game. Well, you will excuse me if I'm not thrilled to be getting sloppy seconds.

The most frustrating thing (aside from me having bought this game--never again, on a Tales title, I promise you that), is that it could have been an excellent game. I liked the characters, I liked their designs, the whole thing looked decent enough--but it fell flat on its face when it came to game play. One of my more unfortunate purchases, of late. I wouldn't recommend it, at all.

The Greatest RPG, But...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 10
Date: November 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

It's the Greatest RPG game!! SO FUN and AWESOME story~

~But I disappointed about No Vocal in OP and No Screen Chat voice.

Poor

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game has poor graphics. The storyline, dialog, and voice acting are all very lame. The music is unremarkable. The gameplay, while fast paced, I found mundane.

This game is a hybrid of sorts between an adventure game with JRPG cliches and a fighting game such as Street Fighter or King of Fighters. The fighting game aspect is really like a poorly made fighting game, though. It features gameplay from both adventure games and fighting games, but excels at neither. Tales of Legendia has this same problem.

One of finest RPGs I have ever played

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 24, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have played many RPGs, from the original Dragon Warrior to FFXII and there are only a handful of games that left their mark. This is the best RPG I have played since Star Ocean: Till the End of Time.

> The graphics are little rugged but the overall bright anime presentation helps you emerge yourself in the world. The personality of each character along with their interactions will keep you entertained and will make you laugh once in while.
> This plays a little faster than SOTET so you can find yourself button mashing. You can assign basic button combos to perform special moves and string them to make powerful attacks. You can use anyone out of your party, so you are not limited to the main character which is primarily a melee fighter.
> The story is fairly rich; having a good vs. evil plot but having enough twists to keep you guessing. The also does a good job in giving each character a solid history and how they intertwine with the others.
> Unlike other games that require you to take several hours building your characters, the majority of the gameplay will be along with the story and almost feels like you are playing a movie. Your whole party gains experience so it is easy to switch party combinations on the fly. The games have multiple sidequests including an ultimate battle and "collect them all" recipes, costumes, etc. You also earn points when you play and get to spend them for a new game (includes keeping your old items & x2 Exp). Promotes replay and may be required for some sidequests.

I have beaten the game once (~80 hours: Spent extra time to reach the extra towns & dungeons); I'm closing it out a second time and plan to run through it again with the guide. The lively story with the interactive gameplay is what really makes this thing a hit.

Kiddy but fun.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

A cutesy little game that was surprisingly well written. Some of the retreading is a bit annoying, as the sidequests will consume enormous amounts of "go this place, watch cutscene, go that place" but the additional information and pathos is its own reward. Where this game also shines, for an action RPG is that is has a really fun battle mechanism.

Amazing!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Honestly I was surprised by this game. I've played Tales of... games in the past, namely the original Phantasia and semi-recent Symphonia, and while I enjoyed them, I wouldn't say they were brilliant.

However Tales of the Abyss amazed me with a good story that wasn't completely obvious from the beginning, brilliant characterization (all the characters were really memorable, even a good majority of the npcs that only have a few speaking roles).

Speaking of, the voice acting is amazing par the course for the Tales of series, and only those who for some reason consider Japanese voice acting to be inherently superior will prefer it to the English localization.

The game is fairly long and gives you reason to play through it many times. Sometimes you must trigger a certain quest to trigger later quests, which by itself might warrant a second playthrough, but there is a bunch of content only available in subsequent playthroughs.

The battle system is very interactive, it's action-based rather than turn based, and with the Free Run ability it feels like you truly have control of the characters in the fight. (Free Run allows you to run anywhere on the screen, not restricted to certain planes of movement).

I'd highly recommend this game to anyone who enjoys RPGs, though to the incredibly conservative RPG player it may not be their cup of tea.

SUPER GAME ... LOADS OF FUN!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Thanks for such great service. Item was well packed and shipped quickly. I will be back!

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