Poll of the Day > Beat Tales of Vespiria for the first time. ToS>>>ToV

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CyborgSage00x0
05/18/19 6:37:01 PM
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I remember this being a fun debate back in the day when ToV first came out but...I'm just not seeing it. ToS has a way more interesting plot and themes, cast of characters, big moments and surprising twists, and just overall cohesion. Heck, while the battle system is definitely better in ToV, I'd take the fun of unison attacks over the over limit system any day.

Still a fun game though, but I feel it was a bit of a let down compared to what I was expecting.
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Greenfox111
05/18/19 6:38:28 PM
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Which were you less surprised about, duke being the big bad or little mithos being yggdrassil
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CyborgSage00x0
05/18/19 6:41:54 PM
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Greenfox111 posted...
Which were you less surprised about, duke being the big bad or little mithos being yggdrassil

Probably the first one. Random enigmatic stranger who is powerful and mysterious and looks like your typical Shonen eng-game boss anyways. Then again, he appears so infrequently and you know so little about what he's doing that I barely cared about it. And when it's revealed he's the final fight, all I do was shrug. It was anticlimatic.

Compare that to Yggdrassil, who you know you are gunning for since mid-way through the game at least, and the story does a great job of building up reasons to take him down...as well as showing him to be a sympathetic character. Once a hero, now willing to die for what he believes. It was far more impactful.
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Entity13
05/18/19 6:46:56 PM
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Right. You could see the reveal coming for ToS's big bad, but he resonated more for sure. ToV's big bad was just... "Oh, we're doing this. And we beat him so now he's going to try things our way for now. Yay?"
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dragon504
05/18/19 7:35:59 PM
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It's not, Vesperia > Symphonia. Both are good, but ToV was better.
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CyborgSage00x0
05/18/19 7:38:34 PM
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Entity13 posted...
Right. You could see the reveal coming for ToS's big bad, but he resonated more for sure. ToV's big bad was just... "Oh, we're doing this. And we beat him so now he's going to try things our way for now. Yay?"

Exactly. It was way lame overall. You could feel like they just wanted it to be Alexei, but then realized the game wasn't as long as they liked, so they threw him in instead.

I would have been more bothered if the overall plot wasn't a boring series of loosely connected plot threads that appear and are resolved too quickly, with little consequence to the overall story.
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Bulbasaur
05/18/19 9:39:54 PM
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hahahahahahahaha

you are wrong.
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CyborgSage00x0
05/19/19 5:50:40 AM
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Bulbasaur posted...
hahahahahahahaha

you are wrong.

I mean, at least come with an argument if you're gonna make a bold statement like that.
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Bulbasaur
05/19/19 9:19:06 AM
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my argument is that you're wrong
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SilentSeph
05/19/19 11:19:54 AM
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Symphonia has a more impactful story and better villains, Vesperia has a better everything else. Both have wonderful soundtracks.

I prefer gameplay over story so I prefer Vesperia, but Symphonia still has a special place in my heart.
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