Board 8 > Tales of Arise demo out now.

(+) Yeah! (+)

https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1427844346418581508?s=19

GET IT WHILE IT'S HOT

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It doesn't force you to since you can switch whenever in game, but the demo is encouraging you to play it 6 times once with each character.

Here's hoping it actually makes me want to do that!

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Direction are gone. There is an arts set to Triangle, Square, and X, with a for the ground and a set for the air, 6 Artes total. Abilities also specify if they have a jumping into the air effect or a crashing to the ground effect. Looks like moving between the two is a big part of this.

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Normal attack is on R1? Interesting.

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Oh.....this feels good.

There's actually a second Arte attached to each Arte if you hold that uses the other sword, draining HP for a heavier hit, so it's actually 12 Artes total.

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So they say the demo is an hour, but you could beat it in 15 or 20 I imagine the hour claim is assuming you just keep getting into combat and fight the optional super enemy on the field...which is absolutely the case. This gameplay is a God damn BLAST.

My only issue with is I think the camera is pushed too far in, and it doesn't look like you can pull it back. I was upset at in-model skits at first, but then realized that likely means that costumes and accessories will show up in skits.

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RED ALERT: RINWELL SAY BLAH BLAH BLAH SOMETIMES WHEN CASTING A SPELL

So not only does Rinwell let you walk around while charging a spell, you can also bank a spell and it will automatically combo with your next Arte or spell. OR, you bakna spell and cast the same spell, and get an upgraded version of it.

Looks like when yoi have a banked spell your basic attack becomes that element as well.

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Unlocked a secret super boss that kicked my ass after beating the normal demo boss. Maybe it's based on completion time if it appears?

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good posts

I'm probably not demoing. I've got it on preorder anyway

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To buy the collector's edition or not hmm.

colliding posted...

I'm probably not demoing. I've got it on preorder anyway

You get an attachment <_<

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Might try this out a bit later.

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Finally, some bad news. The collab outfits suck.

https://twitter.com/TalesofU/status/1428008796765425664?s=19

Didn't even go out of studio. This is the franchise that gave us Madoka, Code Geass, and Evangelion plugsuit!

Although I guess they don't have to worry about these ones having to be delisted forever a year later.

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Well they've done well with the visuals and that field music is amazing. Other than that just feels like a run of the mill Tales game. Oh i like the new way skits are done as well.

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I'll probably also skip the demo. I have it on preorder and can wait

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The demo is really short for anyone skipping. Just a field map with a few enemies and a mini boss.

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Yeah there's literally no plot here. If you told me this area wasn't actually even in the final game I would believe you. It's just here to get a gameplay feel.

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Can you change attack from R1 to a different button? Cant imagine R1 being too comfortable

It feels pretty good honestly, but I am going to try messing with the controls after work when I play the other characters, didn't look. I always swap Artes and basic attack between X and O in Tales games to begin with, didn't have that instinct here since the entire combat setup is different.

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Played Kisara. Blocking based character obviously, seems like "charging" is an actual. Battle mechanics and she is especially good at countering it. She has no dodge, just the big shield. Perfect parry is absolutely a thing.

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Messed around with this for like 20 minutes. Combat feels fine, though R1 to attack is definitely something that's going to take getting used to. It'll probably be alright after some more time with it.

Game looks nice, though there is hella pop-in. Hope that's ironed out a bit in the final release.

Agreed that the camera in general feels a bit too zoomed in, both in combat and on the field. Would be nice if there was a way to adjust that.

Alphen seems like a real dingus. Both him and Shionne seem to be lacking any kind of personality, but it's a demo so I guess I can't put a ton of stock into it when this is devoid of any real story stuff.

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Will check out soon to see how it feels. Rinwell is probably the character I want to try first. I think that was her namenot positive

Played Dohalim. It's definitely not time that unlocks the secret boss because I did that one fastest.

What the heck is up with this dude? He has hard buy hitting spells, healing an rezes, big melee combos and HE'S the character with the perfect dodge mechanic? Causes his attacks to all get a huge range increase for crowd control and gives more armor break. He's the all roundingest of the all rounders.

As for the battle controls, completely customizable. You can do whatever you want with them.

One more issue that maybe I'm just missing, but I don't think I see a way to tell a different character to use an item?

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Alphen has a Mystic Arte and this, but haven't figured out how to use it yet. I definitely went into the "mode" several times when I was playing as him but don't know what triggered it.

One battle into Law, hey we heard you liked Jude.

Not surprisingly I can already tell this is my main. Super fast and agile, attacks quick, gets a continuously rising damage buff the higher his combo goes, elemental attacks cause his standard attacks to get increasingly more elemental affinity.

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From what I can tell, you can change his element affinity mid combo and changing it doesn't require the other to drop or anything. Honestly he feels kind of close to Velvet in a way?

The control situation is clearly going to depend on who you decide to main. For Dohalim I felt better after changing attack to square, flipping all the Artes over to the right, and setting R1 to jump. With Law, absolutely sticking with the default.

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I've played everything now, with Shionne being my last, and lroba my my least interested. She's a zoner/healer focusing on ranged hits, and some of her ranged aeriel stuff feel good, but even with a big fucking gun she's definitely still "the healer". As far as healers go, though, definitely more than viable as a player character.

Unless in mistaken, the way items and active healing in this game works is it auto targets and assigns. If you use an item the first character available to use that item will use it. If you heal in active combat, you automatically target the lowest health party member. This, alongside the shared mana pool, implies they're trying to keep action going constantly if possible. Of course, if you go to the menu you can manually select healing targets, just like when using items. have been unable to find a way to do so otherwise.

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In terms of how I would rank playing the character just from this demo...

Law > Alphen > Dohalim > Kisara > Rinwell > Shionne

Shionne is the only one I would not feel great about using personally, though. Even Rinwell in 5th I still like playing, just wouldn't main.

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Played through it last night as Alphen and quite enjoyed myself, though I definitely agree with the camera concerns and the control scheme feels very odd. I tried for a while to find the options to customize it but couldn't - am I just an idiot?

I like the small glimpses of the party dynamic we got. None of the characters feel super special yet but I'm sure that'll come; they're all likeable, at least. Shionne gives me some Tear vibes for some reason, which is high praise from me, and I'm always here for an Erica Lindbeck performance.

Will likely run through with another character or two before release. Hyped.

Oh, yeah - I do have a few concerns about some of the finer quality points. The text has way more typos than I normally like to see and sometimes it doesn't actually even match the dialogue. Hope that's not indicative of how the whole product is gonna look.

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I've replayed through quite a bit more now. Still haven't figured out what's triggering the boss.

My generally positive feels haven't changed. I think the one thing that's bothering me most is the general de-animefication of a lot of the visuals, reminds me of Star Ocean 4.

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Which secret boss are you referring to?

Kisara is my favorite by far.

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In looking up a video for it I actually found the explanation for how to activate it, lol.

https://youtu.be/ol6aGOsKGNg

His thing about having to open all the chests I know for a fact is wrong, assuming the rest may be on point.

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Messed around with some of the characters. Kisara is easily my favorite. Rinwell is cool but I dunno how much I like playing her just yet. Choose Alphen first and he didn't feel as smooth as Kisara for me but I was probably just figuring out the controls so I might go back through with him again.

Trying not to get too hyped but this definitely feels and looks like it could be the best Tales yet. Makes me want to get that collector's edition but oof that price. Steelbook would be nice as would be the artbook and figure but an extra $100 for it? I dunno about that.

can't be the best game with those ****** skits


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Having played the demo, I fan safely say the following.

The updated gameplay from old Tales of games is nice.
Kisara is my favorite character design and I am absolutely going to main her.
This voice acting is atrocious.

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