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cwbys21 on 06 October 2008
Mirson said:
The game looks very beautiful. Great music, but I don't like the battle system. I kept pressing triangle the whole time. Also that kid's voice with the gun is very annoying especially when he yells Fire blast. I'm skipping it.

 

This is my problem with the demo as well.  It looked great, the music didn't stick out to me as good or bad, which is usually a plus (a small plus, good music is a big plus).  But I didn't like the battles, them yelling out their attacks annoyed me right off the bat and then I got my ass kicked by the pig at the end of the demo.  Not fun.  I used up all of the healing stuff I found and all of the healing magic and then he slowly killed me even though I blocked most of his attacks and I said f*** it.



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makingmusic476 on 06 October 2008
mrstickball said:
Skeeuk said:
game is same as 360 version but has more content in quests music story and chars. i played the demo and go killed by the bird things in the forest. mabey i will pick it up after xmasit should be cheap by then, either way its better than 360 version but i doubt its gonna sell very well jus as 360 version didnt sell well. i wonder if namco made thier money back on this one? the most off putting thing was the button mashing battle scenes i jus dont like it, thats why i wont get tales of vesp on 360 it has a similar battle style in that u mash buttons

See, this is why you've missed out.

Eternal Sonata isn't a button-masher...At least if you played it for any amount of time. The entire game (especially later on) revolves entirely around the usage of combos and harmony chains - massive chained attacks that do hundreds of thousands of points of damage per attack.

And beyond that, Tales of Vesperia is far less of a button masher. Tales of Vesperia is about as much of a button masher as Dead or Alive 4 is for a fighting game. Both are so insanely combo and intelligence driven, that I question if you'd understand it. Sufficive to say, a 30 hit combo that relies entirely on excellent timing and smart moves is what Tales of Vesperia demands you to do to have a shot at doing well in the game. It's impossible to play the game and get away with mashing the B button, as you'll die in 5 minutes.

Chalk up great gaming possibilities to someone that pigeonholes a game's first few minutes. You must have really hated cutscene-driven games like MGS and thought there was no game play involved :-p

 

So it is a button masher? 

Honestly, that was a horrible comparison. 

Edit: Aw, beaten by Outlaw.