Board 8 > The Official Tales of Graces F Topic [tales][angelo][ltm][spoilers]

(+) Yeah! (+)

I think only me and you and maybe another person are currently playing it, it's like everyone else has already beaten it.

And I'm currently taking a break from it until my semester ends in two weeks.

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I'm nearing the end of the main story in my second playthrough. I've still got a long way to go to master every Arte.

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Booted up Graces for a while today because I had no convenient way to follow along the Abyss guide I'm using at the time.

3 and a half hours.

Richard just put on the throne.

SPEED RUNNIN'

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Looks like there was no new DLC for Graces f.

I hope they still put up the Geass costumes eventually.

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I don't think we'll ever see the Geass costumes. :(

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I think I might give this another shot. As good as Xenoblade is, I feel like I quit too soon after the children section.

It was just SO DRAINING.

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Was having trouble with Lambda on evil difficulty in chapter seven, so I set it to moderate instead.

Ended up killing it in under sixty seconds for the trophy.
Didn't expect it to be that much easier. >_>

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Well you did just jump down 2 difficulties.

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So for people that have finished it, how is the plot/characters compared to Symphonia/Abyss/Vesperia?

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Characters are good, great group dynamic. Plot is probably the least interesting of the 4, but it's...harmless? Like, it's got the least going on, but you're never going to be smacking your head or something.

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I'm getting close to getting every title for every character. The last character will take a while, though.

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"Chiri to kashinasai! Kore de... owari desu! HIEN MESSHOUJIN!!! Toki wa modoranai, sore ga sizen no setsuri." ~Presea Combatir

"Look at all those apples!"

"Apples?"

"Apples!"

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Or maybe not that close to getting every title. The last character is going to take a long time.

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You could dish out some cash for extra SP gain!

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No purge for you!

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SP isn't really the problem since I have Triple SP. It's getting the titles that takes a while. I still need to hit Weaknesses 10000 times with 5 characters.

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"Chiri to kashinasai! Kore de... owari desu! HIEN MESSHOUJIN!!! Toki wa modoranai, sore ga sizen no setsuri." ~Presea Combatir

Beat Chapter 8. Still have the future arc to go.

Asbel is probably one of the worst protagonists in a Tales game ever (no one can be worse than Emil though) and the plot was just a complete and utter mess. The battle system was the best thing from this game and I really would like another game using this system released over here. If not for the battle system I would probably have just pushed myself to beat it like I did for Symphonia 2.

The title system is an interesting way to gain stats, but the problem is my characters kept running out of titles to gain skills from (Played mostly on Evil difficulty, so SP gains were very high). The worst offenders in this are Cheria and Malik, as they both refuse to use any A-artes unless you control them yourself. I mostly used Asbel, Hubert, and Sophie throughout the game, so they mastered many titles while waiting for new ones to appear.

All in all, it's a great game to play, not so much to listen to. Hopefully it at least brings new Tales games over here. Expect a bigger writeup later if this makes my top 10 of the year, which it probably will.

Ranking for the Tales games I have played:

Vesperia > Symphonia > Graces f > Phantasia > Symphonia 2

One of these days I'll get to Abyss. PSP Eternia, as well. Maybe.

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Man you should really play Abyss.

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Or Xenoblade.

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From: TheRock1525 | #369
Or Xenoblade.

After my spring term finishes.

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Good man.

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Man I want to play this game but I refuse to pay more than 20 bucks for games anymore and these games never drop that low in price.

Goddammit.

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1000 battles to finish getting all the attribute titles. That didn't take as long as I thought it would. Now I'm down to the Lv200 titles and finishing the item and monster books.

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Man I don't know if I would even bother getting every title, I would just want my platinum trophy.

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No need for words,
Just cast Luminaire and be done with it.

It's probably not really worth it to bother with getting every title. Because I was doing that, I'm only just now getting to go through the Zhonecage and I've still got a few bosses to beat before getting the Platinum.

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I picked it up today, and I'm enjoying it quite a bit. I got to the point where

Hubert kicks my ass and kicks me out of Lhant. Is that a winnable fight?

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You can't win that fight. When his HP reaches 0 it just changes to "?".

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Still enjoying it quite a bit... though I'm curious what crawled into Richard's ass and died...

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I'm done with classes for the year so I finally am able to continue with this game when I'm not working. Free time, get!

I'm in Fendel now. Really liking Hubert's play style, but god damn is he squishy on Evil difficulty. He dies in about three hits from any enemy, which happens a lot because things can stun you and then swarm you. :\ And it's much harder to build CC with him than Asbel. I unlocked Chaos, too, but that's pretty much NOPE territory for me.

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Jeeze, what's with all these bosses that summon infinite reinforcements to back them up? Kurt is impossible for me on Evil, even with All-Divides.

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The summoning bosses are pretty annoying yeah

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bumpo

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I've finished up with collecting items from Zhonecage and most of the trophy bosses. I'm currently collecting Soul Orbs for my Monster Book before going to finally get the Platinum.

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hahahaha

zhonecage

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Farming these items to make the dolls in the future arc is pretty annoying.

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From: Articuno2001 | #385
Farming these items to make the dolls in the future arc is pretty annoying.

Though I finished making all of Sophie's dolls, and I finished getting all the titles on one character (Asbel). Shouldn't take too long now...

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My 200th PSN trophy is 100 titles with Asbel. Got four of the final title-based trophies, just missing Hubert, Malik and Cheria.

Needles of Extinction refuse to drop. I've gotten one through about six runs through the Strahtan ruins, and that's with the book that doubles drop rate.

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Hey this Magic Carta game is kinda fun, got the Yuri costume from it.

And now I fix my sig knowing that it's of coldest steel.

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From: WhiteLens | #388
Hey this Magic Carta game is kinda fun, got the Yuri costume from it.

And now I fix my sig knowing that it's of coldest steel.

Wait until you get to hard.

(it's still fun though, but the stupid game kept forcing the Emil card in =| )

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You'll have fun trying to get a perfect game under Hard.

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Rita costume is probably Cheria's best costume.

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From: Articuno2001 | #389
(it's still fun though, but the stupid game kept forcing the Emil card in =| )

Hey at least that one's easy to remember!

And I'm currently at the cocoon dungeon, think I'm finally near the end of the main game.

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And now that time where all I do are side-quests before going in the final dungeon, and it doesn't help that I didn't a whole lot of them throughout the game.

But oh man, that play in Velanik was funny!

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If you care about trying to see as many skits as possible, some of them only show up at the places you are about to go to after you reach a certain point in the next dungeon. You can either go into the dungeon and get far enough to trigger the skits or you can just do the side quests now and go reexploring for skits later.

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The Zhonecage is pretty fun so far. Only two floors in, though, and I'm assuming it gets harder from there.

Making sure I get the Soul Orbs from every enemy before moving on. Grade is important.

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The only thing I don't like about discovery skits is that they only show up if you're in that area for the first time.

I mean that would make sense for the childhood part or if they involve Richard, but it's kinda dumb to have them suddenly not appear just because you're too far in the game and if there's no mention of the plot.

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Rita costume get!

It wasn't so bad to get, though I guess it helped that I had a relatively low amount of cards making it easier to remember the quotes.
Though I still had to mass pause to slower find the placement of the cards.

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Woah this topics still up

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Of course, I'm still playing the game!

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And now just about to face the final boss, guess I'll fight him tomorrow.

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