So is Tales of Symphonia time, this would be my eight replay of this game, my favorite RPG of all time and one of the best games I have ever played. I’ll be playing with the Gamecube version by the way.
So anyways let’s get started, right after that beautiful opening (the orchestral suite is so good) and followed by the nice opening narration, our journey begins in the town of Iselia at a school, is all fine until the oracle light shines from a Temple that tells us that the Chosen one is ready to start her journey of world regeneration, in this case being Collete Brunel, friend to our protagonist Lloyd Irving, the professor, Raine, goes to investigate the light on the Temple, this is when a nice mechanic of the game opens to us, basically we get the choice of going there by ourselves or wait in the classroom, while it won’t change much of the progress in the story, it does change the affection levels of the characters towards Lloyd depending on your choices, in this case I decided to go there because “It’s research”, our best friend Genis Sage and Collete also want to go, so they join our party, another nice thing about this game are the skits, either informative or funny interactions between the characters.
Going outside introduces us to the battle system, simple yet effective, I like stuff like being able to change the positions and strategies of the CPU characters depending on the situation, when reaching the temple we see that Desians are attacking the temple, an organization that wants to stop the world regeneration from happening, after defeating a couple of them and being greeted by the always cool mercenary Kratos Aurion, which takes on the job of protecting the Chosen, we follow him and Collete into the temple because Lloyd is really stubborn 
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After a small puzzle involving blocks, we get the sorceress ring, an item that let us stun enemies and the like, and also let us open the seal in the temple, there we find Remiel an angel that grants Collete the Cruxis Crystal, and send us on our journey of world regeneration, unlocking the seals of the land and our final destination the Tower of Salvation, but Kratos and Collete family won’t let Lloyd and Genis go on the journey, oh well. Is time to go back home, going outside town we find Noishe, Lloyd’s dog, kawaii Noishe, and so we go to our next location, Iselia Forest.
P.S. You will thank my bothering later b00m, so shush.
