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Tales of Phantasia
3
Rating: 3,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User
For the first game in the series, this was quite the bang. It spawned an entire series, and with good reason.
Back in the SNES days when it was released it was quite fun, but since then it has had a number of remakes made, including one for the GBA. Tales of Phantasia is a great RPG to have for your GBA simply because it is fun. The battles may seem slow and clunky when compared to more recent Tales titles, but there is still much fun to be had. The spell and summon animations are quite nice, and overall the graphics for the GBA are too shabby. It's not hard on the eyes at all.
The game, of course, includes a number of side quests and other staples of the Tales series, such as cooking. So even when the main quest is over, the player still has a number of things to do.
Additionally, the game has an exceptional soundtrack given that it is from the SNES era. Motoi Sakuraba and Shinji Tamura both worked on this soundtrack to make some quite beautiful musical that helped to make the story and game a much better experience.
The story itself may not be something that will blow the player our of the water, but it is still interesting. The characters are also interesting and it's amusing to watch them interact with each other in this adventure as they all learn about each other.
Overall, I give this game a 3 because it doesn't do anything spectacular, but it is good enough to stand on it's own in today's day and age of gaming.
A great Tales game gone bad...
3
Rating: 3,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User
Before I got Tales of Phantasia in March 2006, I didn't know anything about it. This is the first game in the series, and of course it's a port of the original SFC version. Coming from that, you'd think it'd be alright, but it's not.
To start off with, the "voices" in this game are horrible! Absolutely the worse. You can't understand what they say half the time, and they just sound really bad. It wouldn't have killed whoever localized this to get a few decent VAs. The story was a good one, but with a few errors, this also includes the "voices". It changed Ragnarok to "Kangaroo". Wow...what a mistake. To make things worse, they butchered Klarth's name, changing it to Claus. EWW!
The battle system is a fairly good one. Sure, you don't get Maunal mode until late in the game, but it's alright. Some of the tech names are wrong (Glaive and "Judgment"), and of course there are those darn spell pauses. If you can handle that, then it's ok.
The characters are pretty good. You have Cress, your traditional knight, Mint, your traditional healer, Chester, your archer, Arche your primary spellcaster (among other things...), Klarth, your other spellcaster, and Suzu, a ninja, but she's optional. Personally, I absolutely fell in love with Mint. This may be a crappy English port, but at least they did SOME things right.
Overall, it's not a bad game. If you can endure the horrible "voices", kinda slow battle system, and horrible dubbing then it's pretty decent. So, I give the English version of Tales of Phantasia a 3 out of 5. It's something a new Tales fan should try out. After all, this IS the sequel to Tales of Symphonia.
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