Current Events > Abyss is the best Tales game, change my mind.

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gunplagirl posted...

Okay? We at least got a us release and it isn't like the other half dozen titles we never got.

It's not that it was exclusive to a system I didn't own. It's the reason they didn't localize. Which was...

The port was released on September 17, 2009.[5] It was later re-released as part of Sony's budget series release on August 2, 2012.[40] Speaking in January 2010, Namco Bandai announced that they had no plans to release the port overseas.[41] Later that year, Yuri's English voice actor Troy Baker said that he had been recording new English dialogue for the PS3 port.[42] A report from a Namco Bandai employee sparked speculation that the reason behind the lack of a localization was due to a deal with Microsoft to keep the game as an Xbox 360 exclusive in western territories. Later, she retracted this statement, apologizing for creating false impressions.[43] Series producer Hideo Baba later said that the main factor in this decision was the strain put on the team with the simultaneous release of the original, meaning a Japan-exclusive release was chosen to lessen the burden. This also coincided with poor marketing feedback for the series in western territories

a part of the game wouldn't be voiced, or else it would have to release a little after the Japanese version.
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Could be worse you could have to deal with the BS Europe has had to deal with over the years.... Still waiting for Crono Cross btw.
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gunplagirl posted...

The one you can't avoid is a one time "this boss only uses it in the second highest or highest difficulty as they get hit to 50% HP" type of attacks. That boss being the final fight against the clone of ion, something the tempest?.

Sync

Also if you're on Unknown, he (and all other God-Generals) will use their Mystic Artes in every battle they're a part of (so he can use both his Mystic Artes while fighting alongside Largo just after you have received Natalia quite early on in the game, as well as the following 2 battles, one of which he uses one MA no matter the difficulty, and the other he uses 2 based on his HP). Of course, you can't get Unknown (or Very Hard) until beating the game once, but it's something I wish they would do more often with other recurring bosses. I loved how Symphonia would have bosses do different moves based on the difficulty, unfortunately the difficulty in the more modern games effects idiotic things like "not allowed to use items for longer" or "hp from healing arts is basically nothing" which I find a tad silly.

Even without free run (which I have beaten the entire game on a couple of times, even on Unknown with almost all AD skills turned off), about the only boss who can be a real hassle is optional, and because she hits like a damn truck.

Tfw I just infinite combo her with Luke and Guy. That light spear cannon and something where guy jumps up, gotta swap between the two characters manually but it's easy enough to set up. Mess up though and you can get screwed on unknown. Never tried past very hard seriously just because either you're using a party of 4x9999 boosted fonic weapons, or you're hitting her like 1.5 million times.
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