Trollkastell
2021
I expected so much from this game, picked it up day one and all and god is it boring. I mean the story kinda picks up 30 hours in but it's really nothing special. Characters are okay but that's all
Yeah Yuri is cool af but the story is sooo mid and Estellise is so goddamn annoying I can't. Tbh I don't get why this and Symphonia are so loved, kinda dragged them both because the story is awful
Random things happening for random reasons, characters and cutscenes are soulless and even the protagonist doesn't understand a thing about the story. They couldn't even bother to upgrade the cutscenes from the original, running at a solid 480p 30fps. The combat system is sad tbh, the final boss was a literal breeze, i just pressed a button. And the fact that you can't do more than 9999dmg is just proof that they couldn't even balance the game correctly, you also level up at random lol.
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gimme back the fox
2016
I think I can't ever explain the attachment I have to this game, but I think my 200+ hours can to an extent. I love love love the story and Velvet is just perfect in every way. Strong female main protagonist in a game? Give it to me all day. I'm so sick and tired of girl chars being damsels in distress or just pure wife material, there just to romance them or smth. This is the protagonist i want, you're not even the good guy who will save the world, hell nah, you're the bad guy, you bring death and destruction to everything and everyone wants you dead. I want more of this and I think I will never find anything quite like Tales of Berseria out there. 10/10.
just not my cup of tea
story and characters are a solid 10/10 but the gameplay and performance/graphics didn't do it for me. Lots of bugs and clipping and I don't like the combat as much, I preferred the more stealthy approaches, now stealth parts are hell given how many enemies there are.
2013
waste of my time