This story is told through in - game cutscenes and storyboard portraits, which, like
previous Tales games, gives the story and characters a lot of depth.
Berseria is a much darker game than
previous Tales games and ditches the cheerful, blithesome tone in favor of a calamitous one that at times can be a tear jerker.
A vastly improved system over
previous Tales games.
The fields themselves have been condensed by consist of a more varied landscape than
previous Tales games.
Unlike in
previous Tales games, characters in Berseria have no default «attack» command.
You feel the higher difficulty is worth the extra challenge in Graces, and in most
previous Tales games that had a difficulty toggle.
One of the major complaints from
previous Tales games has always been the lack of content available in the fields and dungeon maps when moving around.
Additionally, Tales of the Heroes Twin Brave will feature both a playable cast from 15
previous Tales games and bosses from the same.
Cooking is back but you'll be learning new recipes as you level up and not from a certain chef that usually likes to hide behind everyday objects as in
previous Tales games.
Having played some of
the previous Tales games, I can definitely say that Tales of Berseria is the best title in the series.
One thing that I found interesting is that there is definitely some recycling of environments from
the previous Tales game (Tales of Zestiria).
Not exact matches
It's creepy enough to give you sleepless nights and the story's better than that of
previous games, but you'll have to put up with occasionally clunky controls if you want to enjoy this
tale.
When it comes to its technology
Tales of Zestiria is a
game tied to the
previous generation of systems while at the same time it suffers from some camera glitches.
More importantly, anyone can play
Tales of Berseria regardless if they've played or not a
previous game in the same series.
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Traveller's
Tales previous LEGO Star Wars
games were shallow, though multiplayer and a plethora of modes more than made up for the
game's shortcomings.
But it must be said that while the
tale of Ezio is enjoyable and action packed it's not quite up to the standard of the
previous two
games, but it is important to remember that this is not Assassin's Creed 3, it's a spin - off in many ways.
The new
tale takes place in the familiar world of Endoria featured in the
previous games, but begins in the Viking lands.
While the
previous game always use in -
game cutscenes to tell the majority of its story, Peace Walker has opted for a black and white graphic - novel style to tell its
tale, with some quick - time button presses thrown in for good measure.
Tales of Berseria is the latest iteration in the
Tales of series, but is in fact a prequel of sorts to the
previous game,
Tales of Zestiria.
Cory talks about how his choices arent truly his own in Batman: The Tell
Tale Series, and how the
game somehow runs even worse than
previous Tell
Tale Games.
In this
game, there's no noble or «good» characters like
previous Tales series protagonists Yuri, Lloyd or Sorey.
Like Telltale's
previous game The Walking Dead, you will still have to make choices to progress in
Tales.
Pink confirmed that, like their
previous games,
Tales will be episodic (but not word on how many episodes there will be total), and that the fist episode is definitely coming out this year.
An RPG with lush cinematics and quirky random battles, Squaresoft's modern day
tale of transformation and deceit ticks a lot of boxes when compared to similar
games that surfaced in the late 90s;
games such as Final Fantasy VII and
previous ICFJ entries Vagrant Story and Xenogears, for example.
It's also not a worthwhile standalone
tale, as players will definitely need to be familiar with the events in the
previous game.
This will be the first story DLC for the
game, following the
previous releases of several updates and freebies, such as mini-
game A King's
Tale.
The world of the
game is actually shared with
Tales of Zestiria, a
previous game in the franchise, which technically makes it a prequel of sorts.
Telltale usually recruits lots of talented voice - over artists from their
previous games such as Adam Harrington who voices Bigby Wolf and The Woodsman having already voiced LeChuck and Moose in
Tales of Monkey Island, Matches in Back to the Future, Foreman Isaac Davner and Repairman Scruffman in Puzzle Agent 2, Andy St. John in The Walking Dead: Season 1 and Jerry and Leland in The Walking Dead: 400 Days as well as Melissa Hutchison who voices Toad Junior and Beauty with Melissa Hutchison's adaptable voice acting having already featured as many other characters such as Stinky in the Sax and Max seasons; Trixie Trotter in Back to the Future; and most popular of all is the role of Clementine The Walking Dead: Seasons 1 and 2, amongst other videogames, alongside Dave Fennoy voices Bluebeard who perfectly voiced the lead protagonist Lee Everett in The Walking Dead: Seasons 1 and 2 opposite Melissa Hutchison and has voiced Dr. Montrose in Law & Order: Legacies and many videogame and television characters.
I'm probably going to split my
tales across a few entries to cover the
games from
previous years that I've been playing this year...
Pikmin 3 takes place some time after the
previous games, and instead tells the
tales of three new explorers named Alph, Brittany, and Charlie, who have come to the Pikmin homeworld in search of a new food source for their ailing planet.
and
Tales From Space: Mutant Blob Attack, Severed provides an experience like no — ne of their
previous games.
More importantly, anyone can play
Tales of Berseria regardless if they've played or not a
previous game in the same series.
While I was expecting even more of the same from developer Traveller's
Tales there are actually some new elements not found in other Lego
games, but unfortunately the rest of the
game lacks the depth of
previous games.
With Uncharted 4, developer Naughty Dog took everything it learned about character development and narrative delivery from its
previous game, The Last of Us, and applied it to treasure hunter Nathan Drake's potentially final
tale.
Not a fan of what we saw of other japanese developers like Capcom and Namco though, only showing Ultra Street Fighter 2 really means nothing (I know it's beloved and all, but at least USF4 would have been something more current and alive, and I heard horrible rumors of that having a price of 40 $, which is completely nuts if true considering how cheap SF2HD was on
previous gen), and saying «a
Tales game is coming» is awfully vague too.
Combat is less arcadey and button mashy than
previous iterations, and akin to a more approachable Dark Souls in some ways, while the storytelling is focused on telling a more human and emotional
tale as opposed to the nu - metal rage of the
previous God of War
games.
Though the
tale is epic and the cinemas are excellent, the story is missing the emotional core that drove the
previous games - even if their stories made less sense.
Like
previous XV supplementary's Kingsglaive and Brotherhood, King's
Tale follows a part of the XV's story that isn't really explored in
game, King Regis's similar adventures in his youth.
Like in
previous games, in story, you choose a faction and play out that faction's
tale.
The gameplay in
Tales of Berseria, as with most
Tales games, builds off of
previous entries.
This will be the second video
game to be directed by Josef Fares who you may be familiar with from his
previous title, Brothers: A
Tale of Two Sons.
Some art assets from
previous games were reused so it keeps the same graphical style, while the deviating from the
Tales formula in terms of gameplay.
Don't worry if you haven't played the
previous game before (Yomawari: Night Alone) because Yomawari: Midnight Shadows is a stand - alone
tale that requires no
previous knowledge of the series.
Velvet is unlike
previous main characters in
Tales as she has a much darker side that continues to get explored the further you progress in the
game.
As the first 3D
game in Namco's
Tales series, Symphonia took the fighter - turned - RPG inspirations of the
previous entries and added a new layer of depth to the proceedings.
Berseria seems like a darker
tale than the
previous games, but I hope it maintains the trademark levity in its skits and that Velvet's ultimate techniques / over-drives / bursts are more interesting than Sorey's.
I'm probably going to split my
tales across a few entries to cover the
games from
previous years that I've been playing this year as well as the
games from 2016 that I've been playing.