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[olimario]

And these aren't even the best scenes I've seen in scans and such.
I hope Namco makes the choice to port this over to the GameCube and then bring it to the US so I can play it.

 

[Wario64]

BUY A PS2

 

[SolidSnakex]

You gotta realise what most of us have, the only way we'll see Tales games in the US is if they're ported to the PSP or if they decide to allow 3rd parties to publish it. NAMCO just doesn't want to do it.

 

[Soul4ger]

It does look amazing. I hope Namco localizes it or, worst case scenario, ports it and brings it over on another console. I love these games.

 

[olimario]

BUY A PS2

I'm seriously considering buying back

 

[jarrod]

BUY A JPS2

 

[belgurdo]

Nice looking game, but can someone PLEASE burn those character designs?

 

[BobbyRobby]

Beautiful Sprites there. I just hope Tales of Rebirth comes here on any platform. Hopefully if ToS sells well, ToR won't suffer the same fate as ToD2.

 

[neptunes]

man you're retarded!

you sell it off to want one later?

sounds like me.

 

[jarrod]

If Symphonia sells well, I think we'll just get the PS2 port and then Legendia (if it exists). The only way I see Rebirth coming to America is if it gets a PSP port down the line.

 

[Gorgie]

If ToS is as good as Skies of Arcadia, I'll get it.

 

[MetaKnight]

I'm seriously considering buying back

And this time, you won't return it, uh. Anyways, the enviroments look beautiful.

 

[Vargas]

The game looks great. Hopefully Namco will actually release the game or pass it off to someone who will.

 

[SolidSnakex]

The game looks great. Hopefully Namco will actually release the game or pass it off to someone who will.

Don't count on it. Several developers were known to be going after ToD2 (WD and UBI for example) and NAMCO wouldn't allow them. If NAMCO doesn't do it we won't get it. A PSP port is really our best shot.

 

[Bebpo]

BUY A PS2

I don't think that will help people since it's probably not coming here ^^;;

 

[Wario64]

man you're retarded!

you sell it off to want one later?

sounds like me.

lol

 

[Vargas]

But I want it on the PS2!! Start sending Namco appendages people. We will have this game on a console no matter the cost.

 

[Baconäger]

I think Symphonia looks better.

 

[duderon]

I think Symphonia looks better.

IAWTP

 

[Mumbles]

But I want it on the PS2!! Start sending Namco appendages people. We will have this game on a console no matter the cost.

Hmmm...can I go rampage through Namco US's offices with a sledgehammer instead? I don't know if it would help change their policies, but the fact that they didn't import Tales of Destiny 2 really makes me want to smash something.

 

[Socreges]

It looks they beat Symphonia with an ugly stick. Not very hard, mind you, but they did manage to make it look slightly worse.

 

[Kiriku]

Doesn't look that good to me.

 

[Zaptruder]

Looks kinda bad actually...

and those character designs are just... no.

 

[kiryogi]

Good ole' Inomata. I'm tellin' ya, Mao's gonna turn out ot be a girl.

 

[belgurdo]

Good ole' Inomata. I'm tellin' ya, Mao's gonna turn out ot be a girl.

I always wondered why Namco chose to have a femme-obsessed shoujo artist draw the character designs for what is essentially a fighting game with levels instead of giving those duties back to Fujishima or a more appropriate artist. I never really understood that.

 

[Bebpo]

I always wondered why Namco chose to have a femme-obsessed shoujo artist draw the character designs for what is essentially a fighting game with levels instead of giving those duties back to Fujishima or a more appropriate artist. I never really understood that.

Well at least it's something different. I found Fujishima's art incredibly boring. Full of by the book ( good guy/good girl/bad guy/bad girl), designs. I mean how often do you see shoujo art in games at all?

 

[cvxfreak]

Looking good.

 

[belgurdo]

Well at least it's something different. I found Fujishima's art incredibly boring. Full of by the book ( good guy/good girl/bad guy/bad girl), designs. I mean how often do you see shoujo art in games at all?

Most any PC hentai game comes to mind, as do a lot of other RPGs.

And it's not really "different" moreso than it is the same generic anime shit only the characters are colored in pastels and have dinner plate eyes instead of being clad in red/blue/black and frowning all the time.

 

[Defensor]

BUY A JPS2

 

[Shouta]

Screens need to be more active. Character design needs to be beaten with a stick. Bring back the general design feel that came with the original Tales of Destiny. Fujishima is boring. I just woke up so I'm talking in short sentences.

 

[kiryogi]

Well the game's still got a year to go.

 

[SolidSnakex]

They should just bring Inomata back to do the designs for the series. She's by far the best designer for these games.

 

[kiryogi]

........THAT IS Inomata ointing at Mao/Eugene:

 

[SolidSnakex]

........THAT IS Inomata ointing at Mao/Eugene:

That's her art? What happened then? They don't really seem to be her style at all.

 

[kiryogi]

If Mao wasn't a give away with his/her eyes, Veigue and Claire would have been.

 

[belgurdo]

That's her art? What happened then? They don't really seem to be her style at all.

Like I said, her character designs get lamer/fruitier every game. Don't know why though.

 

[SolidSnakex]

Veigue is a character design I actually like quite a bit.

I just don't really care for the other 3 that have been unveiled so far. Claire's isn't so bad but her eye color is just really strange. Mao's the worst of them though.

 

[Shouta]

That's why I said I wanted the design style from ToD back. They get fruitier/lamer every year despite being the same person -_-.

 

[ferricide]

after blowing through symphonia i'm actually really jazzed about the idea of rebirth, but it seems to me that the game is too 2D to make it through namco's internal approval processes. then again the plot has never been the strong point of tales, so if they pass on it, i might just have to play the import.

but i imagine whether or not they try to put this out here is almost entirely contigent on the performance of TOS. so buy TOS, if you want to see this game here. and also buy it because it's the best game in the tales series and a lot of fun, and gorgeous.

 

[shibbs]

Good

Bad

 

[belgurdo]

Good

Bad

The map itself looks fine, but the ugly chibi character destroys the look. Maybe they should draw him to scale or toss the map completely or something.

 

[human5892]

Meh, Symphonia looks a lot cleaner. This game looks like it's suffering from the infamous PS2 Nasty IQ (from these screengrabs, anyway).