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http://games-download.awardspace.com Game for Video Games, PC, PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, PSP, DS, GBA, PS2, PS3, PlayStation 3, Wii, Xbox 360 Battles occur in real time and are mostly button-mashing affairs against easy foes that require almost no strategic planning short of running behind an enemy and slashing it in the back. You simply mash the attack button to perform combos that raise the attack gauge, which enables powerful unison attacks with allies. Artes, the game's special attack and magic system, include a healthy slew of options for those who enjoy spamming devastating magic between extensive combo strings. Your AI teammates are usually intelligent enough to back you up, but when their behavior turns idiotic, you may have to issue tactical orders via the battle menu. What's disappointing is that you're unable to set general targets for your party; this lack is quite vexing when you encounter healing enemies because it's impossible for you to order your teammates to attack the healer, and battles are significantly lengthened as a result. You can also combat your party's stupidity by switching between allies, thereby seizing direct control, or by enlisting up to three friends to follow your lead, which is great fun and eliminates any targeting fuss.
The new pact system offers a refreshing twist to the battle system but quickly becomes irksome and meaningless. Each battlefield emphasizes an elemental grid consisting of one primary and five secondary elements; to form a pact with a monster to enlist its services, you must defeat it by matching the primary to four of the secondary elements via artes, which have elemental attributes. This can be a very frustrating process because your initial access to artes is limited; it's also difficult to keep your allies from adjusting the grid without ordering them to stand down, but it gets easier as you acquire more artes. You may even find yourself accidentally befriending monsters, of which you can store more than 200. Unfortunately, forming pacts is largely unnecessary because you quickly gain more-powerful human allies and rarely travel without them, which makes monster hunting a moot point.
A few miscellaneous features provide a miniscule amount of depth, including side quests activated at the katz guild, though most of these are short, boring adventures that restrict you from saving the game until they're finished. There is an item-synthesis system for turning the most banal of objects into awe-inspiring gear, but money and items are so easy to come by that it should be of interest only to item enthusiasts. Cooking is paired with the pact system to enable you to feed your monsters, which improves their stats and may even evolve them into a tougher form, but on the whole you're left with little other than trivial side quests and needless monster management to pass the time.
Although the game is graphically superior to its GameCube predecessor, it's still only mediocre visually; the character design isn't as adorable as the original's cel-shaded style, and jaggy edges haunt many an environmental object. Fortunately, a vivid color palette and flashy spell effects keep things lively and are supported with soothing village tunes and the traditional fake rock battle music typical of the genre. Cutscenes, the staple of the Tales franchise, are perhaps the game's most bothersome aspect because their overemphasis constantly interrupts the flow of play. Gameplay is plagued by annoying flashbacks or lengthy discussions in which characters repeat full lines of chatter to reinforce the simplest of objectives. Likewise, optional party-member chat skits, which provide character insights if you're lucky, more often than not culminate in cliche cooking comments and romantic quips. All cutscenes except skits cannot be skipped, forcing you to trudge through them. They're also frequently spaced back to back within mere footsteps of each other, and the annoying, exaggerated voicing only accentuates the poor, cheesy dialogue, though there is an option to turn voice-overs off.
You should barrel through the eight chapters in about 30 hours, but much of this time is spent enduring lengthy, cliche cutscenes or engaging in tiresome leveling sessions at previously completed dungeons. You could up the play time significantly by acquiring items for synthesis, completing all side quests, and collecting every monster, but it's much more fun to take advantage of the four-person multiplayer, though it's still restricted to battles.
Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World should be enjoyed by anyone who appreciated its progenitor's unique characters, but its overwhelming amount of distracting cutscenes, overbearing linearity, pointless pact system, and general lack of depth severely limit its appeal.

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  • does it really have a pc ver? finnally a awesome game

  • I played and beaten and still own this game, this is like a HUGEE scam :/

    I don't know how to use emulators very well but i still understand this wouldn't work anyways

  • this is a scam.......i hope Bandai will give a PC game for tales of symphonia....

  • I know my "Tales of" Games, It's only for the Wii, Tales of Symphonia is for the Ps2 but only in Japan, also Gamecube *English Version* Verperia is only for the Xbox360 for the time being, Nobody even knows if Bandai will give us Ps3 users it *its in japan for ps3 though* which sucks, But yeah, This is just a SCAM! Soooo don't waste your time guys.

  • @tempestblade123 Tales of Symphonia 2 is not RARE, Tales of Symphonia and Tales of Abyss are more rare, Damnit... Tales of Abyss is SHIT ass hard to buy BRAND NEW I want mine New but the cheapest is $100

    Used games are up to 60 -.-

    But I'v been searching for weeks, I'm going to find a good price sometime.. Hopefully.

  • @CrimsonPureLight would'nt it make more sense to put it the same game on all the systems at once

  • is this a motion game or just played with buttonS??

  • @gorillazhead Wow, a cool game only for the wii, those type of games are rare, but yeah its only for the wii, cant wait to play it

  • @iaznZfighter Same voice actor, I think.

  • wo that sounds like ichgo O.o

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