The End Is In Sight! VGC Let's Play: Tales Of Symphonia!

[Platina]

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Road to Platina

Symphonic Adventure
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Chapter 1: Our Adventure Begins…!

 
I will be posting a LOT of spoilers so if you don’t want to be spoiled, turn away now and play the game!

Also, I am playing the GameCube version and I do use glitch exploits (2 of them) but to be fair, I didn’t use it on my original run as well as my 2nd run.


Introduction + Battle System
So we begin our grand adventure in the world of Symphonia! Beginning in Iselia, we meet Lloyd, our hero covered in red with suspenders. We get introduced to the battle system, which is one of the best I’ve ever played. Really simple and easy to learn, but at the same time, interesting and fun to play, so you won’t get bored. The biggest flaw, is that the camera only follows player 1 so when you are playing with other people, they cannot see what they are doing. Also, though frame rate is at 60 for the GameCube version, by casting a big spell that has huge amount of hits, (Cylcone, I’m looking at you!) the frame rate drops like crazy and lag is intense. But even for other big spells, it’s not a problem. Another issue, is that there isn't any free-run. This makes you have to move in a linear fashion, even though the battle area is 3D. Not a huge issue but it would be great to have a bit more freedom to dodge attacks rather than having to block it

 
Who listens to rules? We go where we want! To Martel Temple!
We meet this really suspicious mercenary.. and is it just me, or did I hear his voice before? Anyways, really straightforward first dungeon, where we push some blocks around and we get introduced to the Sorcerer’s Ring. This ring is used in most dungeons and can also change type, but I’ll talk about that some other time. Using the ring, we can get to the top and we are tasked to regenerate the world.

 
Well that about wraps up chapter one as we all need to go home after a hard day’s work..

 

Recap:

We meet up with Lloyd, Genis, Collet and Kratos to begin our quest to regenerate the world

Duration: ~30 minutes

Favourite Song: Hometown Scent of Iselia

Main Character Used: Lloyd

Button Binding:
B: Sword Rain
Side-B: Sword Rain Alpha
Down-B: Tiger Blade
Up-B: Sword Rain Beta
Up-C: Demon Fang
Down-C: Tempest

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