So, I decided to start hyping Arc Rise Fantasia.

[Words Of Wisdom]

emilie autumn said:

Words Of Wisdom said:

Soriku said:

Because I believe I can make solid judgments :P Plus I've already watched the OVA...the story doesn't seem as good as the others.

And because most Tales fans wouldn't agree with that.

Just a small clue, Tales games don't have very good stories.  They're normally very flawed, full of cliches, card-board cut-out character personalities, random angst, and stupid localization mistakes.  Localization mistakes annoy me greatly though as they completely destroy the atmosphere.  Why does the guy who specializes in selling all manner of sharp, pointy killing instruments introduce himself with "Cats are cute" anyway?  Sorry but quality writing is very much lacking in the Tales games I've played.

 

i was talking about the stupid localization yesterday and how i hate hearing the horribly mistranlated words, " darkness devour ain soph aur", do guys who do the localizatoin know no english, why do the guys who do the dubbing don't correct what they are saying? and tales stories are indeed superficial, but the villians usually have a good story such as mithos or dhaos.

I agree.  The villains are usually the most interesting characters in the game for me.  While the heroes usually feel wishy washy and somewhat boring, the villains are quite interesting.  I really liked Dhaos as a villain though I can't say the same for Mithos. Mithos (and ToS in general) suffers from the fact that I played ToS and Xenosaga relatively close together timewise.  The result is that Mithos gets compared to villains like Albedo and pretty much annihilated in every area.