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playing this game cuz my brother told me it was good just got to the snowy area not as into it as the older games tbh

Thats part of the good. It gets slightly better and the battles open up a bit more with a second set of skill to link up, but.....it takes a nosedive at 70%. So if you dont like it now...might as well give it up.

if you don't like it now you won't like it at all. every area is the same (except the third) and then you have the absolutely atrocious final 1/3rd of the game.

Never

The first like 1/3 of the game, then it falls off a cliff.

I thought the Demo was fantastic, but I hear nothing but bad things about the game. Which is weird because when the game came out, I kept hearing nothing but praise of "10/10" and "GOTY" stuff. The last act must be really really bad for this to happen.

It doesn't

Game has the worst bad guys in the series...even Dhaos from the first game had more going on then what we got in Arise, the game is all flash and no substance sadly.

tales of arise utterly fails at being a tales of game

tales of has sympathetic and complex villains

and deconstructs story tropes in creative ways

arise lacks both of these

and the protagonists you have are all rather bland and forgettable

The 1st 3 regions are the best parts of the game. After that, it starts to slowly get worse until it takes a sharp nosedive in the final 3rd of the game. So if you arent enjoying it now, you most likely wont be enjoying it later either.

Are you paying attention to the skit prompts? Are you camping out? Give this a try if you have not.

It is silly to say the game will not get better because many players prefer controlling spoilerA or SpoilerB and you do not unlock them until later in the game.

The party members are different in fighting styles. Peeps saying the game will not get better are saying they did not get better.

Have you gotten the fishing pole yet?

The game gets good as you get more elements, characters and skills.

The ice area? There is a good boss fight at the end of it. It is worth beating the ice area just to unlock the battle. May as well. You are already there.

Is the story not progressing for you? The map can show you where to go next if the story is not progressing.

Is the mechanic that you collect skill points by doing jobs?

EDIT There are maps in the ice area that you must unlock through puzzle solving and the puzzle vary.

• Some puzzles are locational - find the prompt
• Some puzzles are story related - talk to the NPC and complete their request
• Some puzzles make you beat some enemies ir collect some drops.

I consider it bad because I've been told that all of the boss fights have hyper armor and that alone makes it a terrible Tales game imo. What's the actual point of a post-Synphonia Tales game where you can't style on bosses?

When you eject the disc and put the game away/go into storage and uninstall the game.

The only Tales games I DNF'd. Bland boring cast, a plot that makes the prior games stories seem amazing in comparison, and a meh combat system. It's not a coincidence the franchise has been all but dead since Arise released.

Prestoff posted...

I thought the Demo was fantastic, but I hear nothing but bad things about the game. Which is weird because when the game came out, I kept hearing nothing but praise of "10/10" and "GOTY" stuff. The last act must be really really bad for this to happen.

Imagine beating the elite four, then you gotta listen to 6+ hours of boring exposition until you end up in victory road that's just a bunch of geodudes, ratattas, weedless etc with a shit ton of HP, that you fought thousands of times before

1st region was good

2nd region was very good

3rd region was good, but the formula has become apparent. By this point in the game you have encountered 90% of the enemies in the game, and anything you fight is a reskin, including bosses.

4th region is meh

5th starts good then falls into meh, this is also the climax of the game and roughly 50-60%

61-90% is cutscene, backstory, skit bombardment with the occasional dungeon fighting things you have been fighting since game start.

Final dungeon is enemy/miniboss reskin HELL.

All the bosses suck too, cuz they ignore p much the entire gameplay loop and mechanics

IMO it peaks in the literal first arc where the concept is interesting and the writing is very tight.

It falls off pretty hard after that, with the game pretty quickly veering into very generic territory as the subsequent arcs just feel very same-y without any of the tighter writing of the first. It feels much more like a very standard, if even very forgettable, JRPG adventure with almost nothing notable about it and the writing just getting a little worse with each arc.

Then in the last chunk, it absolutely craters with some of the worst writing that I've ever seen.

If you aren't enjoying it in the earlier bits, I'd jump ship. I think it very firmly gets worse and worse as it goes until it completely falls apart at the end.

Tales of Arise never gets good

holy shit :(

Well I liked Tales of Arise. I started to enjoy it a lot more once you get a second set of artes to use.

For me the game got fairly decent about halfway through. That said, it wasn't amazing per say. There are two storylines that I enjoyed, but the conclusion to both of them wasn't the best.

My biggest gripe with the game is probably lack of characters. I think they could have done a lot better with that, especially knowing the plot.