This review contains spoilers
My second tales of game, considering that vesperia is my favorite game, i expected arise to also be very good, but fate wasn’t so kind, starting from the first realm, while it is the best part of the game and i don’t really have any complaint’s, it didnt gripe me as hard as vesperia did, but judging on its on its a very nice start, the second realm mostly mantains the quality, also no gripes with the third, the fourth was were the major issues i have with the game became more apparent, the cast, or more accuratly, how they are written
Rimwell has a character arc that does not work in a game like arise, while her arc of not judging people for the mistakes of their race is nice in concept, it really falls flat with the necessity the game has for a few comedy skits with her and the other characters, it isn’t that believable, in the fourth realm, after the almeidra thing, law tells her that she shouldn’t take revenge with such hate, but because the game needs a boss, they go on with her to kill almeidra anyway, while its volhram who ends up doing it, they had kiled two lords already, and they would probably kill her too, i ended up liking her most because of her design and running animation, and the fact that she kinda looks like me
Law has an ok arc on chapter 2, causing the death of zephyr is a strong thing, but more because of zephyr than law in a way, i like that he never quite gets over it, but the thing that killed him for me was some of the late game content about him, the entire point of his and zephyr tragedy was the unspoken words, the feelings that were never given shape, so why the fuck would they give zephyr two fucking opportunities to tell law everything, he can even talk to zephyr regularly if you finish the boss rush side mission wtf, its so dumb
Kisara and dolahim finish their character arc before entering the party, and they dont do anything after it, Kisara is a character that only exists for sex appeal, she is literally just the strong big ass and tits mommy gf, i really like her in menancia expecially for the voice acting, but dude she only talks about migal and her only dynamic with the party is superficially taking care of them
Dolahim repeats the same character arc in menancia, during the travels, and in lenegis, what is even the point, and like, the part of he just creating the menancia utopia because he didnt want to hear the screams dont really make sense if you take into account some of the later conversations he has, but okay
Alphen is just alphen, nothing to say
Now the bad one, Shionne, her character does not make any sense, she says that she didnt even saw dahnajins as people before mahaag saar, wtf????? She literally has a crush on alphyn since after the baselph fight, her character arc if you take that into consideration is so abrupt, why she sees the meaning of life on the party if she just started thinking about them as people like 5 seconds ago? Wtf
The game has no side characters at all, except zephyr who dies in the beggining of the game, the bosses have no personality, including volhram, and besides that, just nothing, migal is nothing, the other leaders nothing, the mahaag saar dictator is okay i guess but only him
The dialogue is also very weird, sometimes lines dont connect at all, most glarringly in the confession scene from alphen on the base, but the whole game is full of weird writting
The gameplay is okay i guess, not that good but not bad either, i prefer vesperia’s one
The side quests, with the exception of the wedge ones, the boss rush and the crossover are also nothing, while they do have some really cute character interactions, best than most skits actually, its only that, no big deal in gameplay or story, only minibosses and things like that
You know its bad when the characters with the most fun and interresting dialogue are the ones from other games
And the skits are ugly and while i wouldn’t say poorly written, they really fall flat and dont reallt sell the characters friendship most of the time, but there are rare cute ones
Did all the side quests and main story, the ending is cute, and the ops and eds too, left pretty dissapointed, the true tales of game of 2021 is scarlet nexus, a mess of a story, godly gameplay, and fucking amazing characters
Rimwell has a character arc that does not work in a game like arise, while her arc of not judging people for the mistakes of their race is nice in concept, it really falls flat with the necessity the game has for a few comedy skits with her and the other characters, it isn’t that believable, in the fourth realm, after the almeidra thing, law tells her that she shouldn’t take revenge with such hate, but because the game needs a boss, they go on with her to kill almeidra anyway, while its volhram who ends up doing it, they had kiled two lords already, and they would probably kill her too, i ended up liking her most because of her design and running animation, and the fact that she kinda looks like me
Law has an ok arc on chapter 2, causing the death of zephyr is a strong thing, but more because of zephyr than law in a way, i like that he never quite gets over it, but the thing that killed him for me was some of the late game content about him, the entire point of his and zephyr tragedy was the unspoken words, the feelings that were never given shape, so why the fuck would they give zephyr two fucking opportunities to tell law everything, he can even talk to zephyr regularly if you finish the boss rush side mission wtf, its so dumb
Kisara and dolahim finish their character arc before entering the party, and they dont do anything after it, Kisara is a character that only exists for sex appeal, she is literally just the strong big ass and tits mommy gf, i really like her in menancia expecially for the voice acting, but dude she only talks about migal and her only dynamic with the party is superficially taking care of them
Dolahim repeats the same character arc in menancia, during the travels, and in lenegis, what is even the point, and like, the part of he just creating the menancia utopia because he didnt want to hear the screams dont really make sense if you take into account some of the later conversations he has, but okay
Alphen is just alphen, nothing to say
Now the bad one, Shionne, her character does not make any sense, she says that she didnt even saw dahnajins as people before mahaag saar, wtf????? She literally has a crush on alphyn since after the baselph fight, her character arc if you take that into consideration is so abrupt, why she sees the meaning of life on the party if she just started thinking about them as people like 5 seconds ago? Wtf
The game has no side characters at all, except zephyr who dies in the beggining of the game, the bosses have no personality, including volhram, and besides that, just nothing, migal is nothing, the other leaders nothing, the mahaag saar dictator is okay i guess but only him
The dialogue is also very weird, sometimes lines dont connect at all, most glarringly in the confession scene from alphen on the base, but the whole game is full of weird writting
The gameplay is okay i guess, not that good but not bad either, i prefer vesperia’s one
The side quests, with the exception of the wedge ones, the boss rush and the crossover are also nothing, while they do have some really cute character interactions, best than most skits actually, its only that, no big deal in gameplay or story, only minibosses and things like that
You know its bad when the characters with the most fun and interresting dialogue are the ones from other games
And the skits are ugly and while i wouldn’t say poorly written, they really fall flat and dont reallt sell the characters friendship most of the time, but there are rare cute ones
Did all the side quests and main story, the ending is cute, and the ops and eds too, left pretty dissapointed, the true tales of game of 2021 is scarlet nexus, a mess of a story, godly gameplay, and fucking amazing characters