Guessed by @drbunnig
Lloyd, don’t die before I do.
Other than praising its incredible characters and amazing story, it’s hard to write about what makes Tales of Symphonia so special. It has that same hard-to-describe quality that makes it hard not to love Ghibli films or Avatar the Last Airbender, a kind of genuineness and atmosphere than few other games can match, maybe a few Zelda titles but that’s about it, and the story here is so much grander than anything in the Zelda series. It’s a shame the game didn’t gather as big a following initially because admittedly it can be a hard game to get into 20 years later, it takes a while for the story to really dig its claws into you. I liked it at first when I initially played it but there was a certain section that blew me away and which I still consider one of the greatest turnarounds in a game. After that I was hooked until the finish and afterwards, immediately starting a new game plus. The last time I played the game (on PS3, which as we’ve established, I used long after the PS4 had released) I had originally intended to play a few hours a day, but then my PC broke down and had to be sent to repair and since it was during vacation I ended up once again binging the game and loving it just about as much as I remember. Yeah, it’s a special game, I don’t play it as often as others but it will probably forever be my favourite adventure with some of my favourite characters and music, and it all started with an absolutely exceptional opening sequence:
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