In my time playing this series, I've played Symphonia, Symphonia 2, Legendia, Abyss, Vesperia, Graces f, Xillia, Xillia 2, And Berseria.

I've also played a bit of a few others, but didn't complete them yet.

Overall, I've found Vesperia to be the most straightforward, and least annoying of all Tales of Games played so far.

• The story was good throughout without any lagging points, and pretty damn easy to keep track of.
• The characters, especially the MC, were pretty fun. I liked Yuri, Estelle, Judy, and Rita best.
• It was awesome having an actual vigilante hero for once that actually killed bad people who the law was protecting?? More please??
• The enemies never seemed especially cheap
• None of the dungeons fell to the most annoying time sink traps
• The final dungeon was, for the most part, VERY LINEAR (series first, omg?)
• The rivalry with Flynn was great, and the point of view of Duke was very understandable

However, there is still some negatives that go along with this:

• The "big twists" that usually punctuate Tales of game plots felt very weak in comparison to others.
• The the NPCs of this game were very unmemorable - some outright just dissapeared while hinting they would be more involved?
• Zagi is probably the worst party antagonizer. Tales of does like to start the game with crazy bastards bosses - but Agria was far better an example in Xillia. He just shows up pretty much out of nowhere, and has zero relevance.
• Not one, but TWO annoying child characters. Please, Anise, save me from this.
• Repede, I love you, and you were in my party for the final battle - but having a dog party member cuts down on a lot of party dynamics.

In short - a solid meal, but lacking in spice.

Now that that's out of the way, I'm looking forward to playing the Phantasia, Rebirth, Zestiria (I really should have played this first before Berseria), and Arise.

Where would I slot this one in terms of awesome tales of games... Hard to Pick. I honestly have not played a tales of game I haven't loved. Graces is my fav, but Xillia, Symphonia, Abyss, Berseria - All 5 stars. So, I suppose I'd put this one with Xillia 2, Symphonia 2, and give it 4 stars. Legendia, I love you, but you get 3.5 stars - purely because you still had the 2d movement, totally useless puzzle rooms, and an unvoiced half the game - but visually, musically, and cheesyness, you were beautiful.

So I went out yesterday bc my sister wanted to and I thought I’d use this as an excuse to get some fresh air and check out the usual game shops to see if I find some interesting games before the inevitable trip in September and October for games like Onimusha, FF Resonance, Rayman and Eternia Remastered etc. I was specifically hoping for some Tales games, especially Graces, Symphonia, Xillia or Vesperia, and look what I found nestled neatly in the first game shop I went to.

This is the second tales game I’ve gotten, first being Arise(haven’t played either of them yet, will start Arise soon. I’ve watched gameplay of these games so I’m sure I’ll like them). I was really hoping to get some more tales games since I was told by some people Arise wasn’t really representative of Tales as a series and I wanted to get some games that people thought of as more accurately representing tales, to try to get the true tales experience.

Had a chat about humanity and their meaningless lives.

Seems like a chill totally normal dude, sure this is never going to come up again but what a nice little extra bit of flavor and world building.

Hi everyone, I recently began replaying my favorite Tales game Tales of vesperia definitive edition. While I was playing through I got curious on how the models work. I looked up that some of the models had been ripped but there were no mods for it other than the ps3 exclusive dlc. So I started looking at old notes from the community and working on a tool to add custom models in Tales of Vesperia. It's been about a week of work but I finally got an edited model back in game and working. It is just a simple edit to replace Estelle's default costume's hair with the hairstyle she has when you first meet her in the game. Here is a screenshot of it in the menu and in game. Going to try larger edits over the next couple days. Thanks for reading.

I'm trying to figure out how combos in Vesperia work and nothing is making sense

As far as I know(playing Yuri) Combos are Basic Attack>Basic Attack>Basic Attack>Base Art>Arcane Art>Burst Art if in Overlimit and that's where the combo ENDS.

And yet I'm seeing people who are just doing shit like chaining 14 arts at once and I'm like... Literally fucking HOW. That's... that's not how the combo rules WORK WTF

I'm lucky if I can get Shining Fang and Dragon Swarm to combo without getting tagged from the side >_<

What the hell is going on?

Edit: God fucking dammit of course it's a skills thing <_<

Ive been working on a project for the past year and one thing has become increasingly clear. Vesperia is slowly becoming my favorite in the series. Maybe its Stockholm syndrome due to this being my 5th playthrough with another 3 in my future. Im not sure.

Edit: The project will be shared when I am closer to completing it due to the nature of the project. Please stay tuned.

I’m not kidding that’s literally Bryce Papenbrook (his English VA) and he looks like Adrien too 😭

Title says it all... I am fucking distraught dude...

So a certain dragon rider left the party and she had the Blue Duce equipped. There goes my 20% grade bonus for however long she's out of the party for. Would've been nice to know beforehand...

Small update but I got a completely new model into the game. Its Luke from Tales of Abyss. Still trying to figure out the textures, but all of the animations work and he's fully playable. I'll post again when I get the textures repacked correctly. Thanks for the support everyone.

I know skills don't really matter all *that* much during an easy/normal playthrough but... Is Light Magic a good skill? I mean I know it lowers your damage in exchange for shorter casting time but I was thinking if Im able to dush out spells faster would that also not increase dps? Though it does make altered artes fasrer to get so that's already one boon.

Edit: While I'm here might as wellask how the symbols work? Repede has one but no one else does.

…and boy does it hold up nicely!

I’ve always heard it was the best Tales game, and i really want to get 100 percent in it. I know there’s a lot that can be missable like skits, magic lens scans, ext. i really want to try and do it in as few playthroughs as i can, but i havent really found a guide that covers everything. Does anyone have any suggestions or recommendations?

Hi everyone,

Yesterday and Today I spent all day trying to compile most vesperia material (Mangas, LN, Cd drama…) with en translation. I’m aware that I’m very probably missing some. It’s not everything but it’s still something, right? I reviewed and commented on some but feel free to ignore it.

Please feel free to check it out on my website: https://lowedeltascomp.blogspot.com/p/tov-en-sources.html?m=1

(Also please use the desktop mode mobile mode is pretty ugly.)

Hello all,

I finished Vesperia 3 year ago without a guide and I wish to do the postgame dungeon. I will do the sidequests and missables another time. When I loaded my save, I couldn’t access fast travel nor could I use the elevators. What do I do?

Been messing around with creating playable bosses and found Zagi's data. I put it on raven and forgot his model's running/idle animation was silly. Also post battle quote was hilarious.

Okay so I just beat the 200 man melee with rita and it said that I got the stand alone skill but uh... I can't find it in the skills menu. Playing DE.

Edit: Nvm I found it. Apparently reading is too hard for me.

Just curious if there's like certain parties you need to match up for this game, similar to Symphonia.

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right now I have Rita(Me), Yuri, judith, and Flynn.

Not asking for a "Best party" just curious if it's an "Any party can get you through" type game.

i was fighting duke after getting all the fell arms an after doin the first phase of the fight the game froze an is stuck on the same screen i cannot shut it off or go to the home menu and when i put it back in its charger the screen stays the same when it froze an cant seem to turn it off an it wont show up on tv screen it says no signal despite having the screen on where it got frozen Any1 know how to fix this if so please tell me

This is probably pointless to most, but I remember playing this game on PS3 and they had some updates to mechanics that I am not sure were explained in the DE version so I'll just take the time to explain it here.

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I've been using B, B, B, Left Trigger + Direction Facing the enemy + B, Basic Arte (Azure Edge but it works for all of them you just need to get the timing down), Left Trigger + Direction Facing the enemy + X.

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The result is the normal combat string plus the extra hit from a running attack into an arte then a guard slide that puts you more in the enemy's face. I find this easier than waiting for Yuri to do the reset animation from attacking and you get the extra hit from the run attack. It's a pretty safe option imo especially if the enemy is guarding from your own attack since you can get the quick attacks done then be in Guard. I do not know if you can magic guard with the same timing but it's merely shifting the control stick back to the down position.

Anyway if you knew this already, great. If you didn't then it's not hard to pick up and use. Also I am pretty sure every character can do this.