Tales of Symphonia: DotNW - "Transformed" Music Video

Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World ships today, so I thought I'd share this video as a tribute to one of the greatest RPGs of the last generation. The music video is essentially a mash-up of the animated scenes found in the first game and its spinoff/sequel. It's also interesting to see how the art styles differ between the two games, seeing how the art director changed.

The song in the background is called 'Transformation (Transformed)'. Anyone who's played the DS rpg The World Ends With You will recognize it as a remix to the track 'Transformation' found in the game. I'm not sure if there is a specific band that the song is credited to, but I do know that Transformed comes from the game's OST entitled 'It's a Wonderful World + The World Ends With You' (hence the IWW+TWEWY in the subtitle)

To be honest, I didn't plan this video out like my other ones - I was more or less just messing around with the clips to see if I could match the timing of this specific song. For that reason, I wasn't concerned with theme at all, but if I had to attribute a theme, it would obviously be "undergoing transformation": Lloyd's suspicious change of heart, Tabatha and Martel fusing to become the summon spirit of the World Tree, Emil's green/red personality swap, and overall the transformation of the Great Seed into the Great Kharlan Tree. It turned out a lot better than I had expected and definitely good enough to warrant an upload, so enjoy.

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Song: Transformation (Transformed)
Album: It's a Wonderful World + The World Ends With You
Video Game: Tales of Symphonia
Publishers/Copyright: Namco Bandai, Square Enix
Display Resolution: Medium
Note: All my music videos are fan-works and in no way lay claim to the clips used or the music in the background. All third party content is copyrighted by their respective holders.

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• richter
• ratatosk

[Kathanis2068]

1: More than half of these clips are from the original ToS

2: This game was a complete let own, original is way better

[azzurri4star]

1. Hit 'more info' under video information. First paragraph.

2. Symphonia was a stellar game, and considering that DoTNW was under-budgeted, I think the team did a pretty good job with the sequel save for some odd technical decisions.

[ThePurpleMeteor]

Yeah thats Video its cool

[Nightken91]

TOS was a great video game to play hours on end and its funny seeing Zelos and Presaea in formal costumes.

Graet job on the video hope I can make a video any were near as good as this video.

[herio907]

Yeah. The effects are confirmed. I heard that Emil's attack pattern will alter depending on the masks. But, I'm not sure about that. All I know is that it will cause them to react differently in battle and there will be new victory poses.

[azzurri4star]

Have those effects been confirmed? It wouldn't make sense to rehire the VA just for a few lines of new dialogue, and I'd be surprised (though pleased) to see new victory poses. I was thinking the effects would fall more along the lines of element arte changes, and maybe some new skill options.

[herio907]

That's why I put costumes in parenthesis. It will alter their appearance and add in new dialogue and victory poses and such.

[azzurri4star]

Aren't the costumes just masks? Maybe Emil will get to equip Lloyd's "tacky" mask. PAL players should be happy about the skit viewer and art gallery additions, despite having to wait an extra half of a year for the game.

[herio907]

The PAL version will have "costumes".

[azzurri4star]

I wouldn't say total...Legendia still takes the win for that.

Namco just screwed up with level capping the Symphonia cast, though adding costumes and a cameo battle wouldn't have hurt either.

[SilverStoneX28]

This video is fantastic- too bad the game was a total disappointment.....

[a7xdudeluver1]

kkool

[wi9up4gm]

u amv are the best make more plz 0.o

[azzurri4star]

There are no extra scenes in ToS2. The only anime cutscenes in the game are the intro and the credits. The clips you're mistaking for extra scenes are cutscenes from ToS1.

[odeliah101]

I have the game but where did you get those extra scenes, I am only on chapter 3 lol

[LuciusYatagerasu]

Oh TWEWY song! I knew it sounded familiar! Great video!

[powerdrillXD]

Fabulous as always =] 5* and faved

[LegendWindReturns]

Love it! I loved TOS when I still had it!