There are a lot of collectibles and the game rewards you more for being more reckless. You have more options to explore(at least after like 30 hours you do). If you play on hard/intense/mania then your character will be about 5-15 levels higher due to the bonus xp to the last hit in battle and the xp penalty overall.Īs for the story of the 2 games I find Berseria to be better. I didn't feel it was that random or broken.īerseria has a larger focus on Grade and weapon mastery which allows you to have a character with every equipment skill at once and 2-3 bonus skills per equipment peice. After you found them in the world, you would find every drop you wanted after you lined up the Lords of the Land with them.

Magilou is definitely the best character.Īs for Zesteria, I actually really liked the skill board and having to stack or line up Normin skills. If you play on hard, intense, mania as they become available you will do 10-30% of the damage with the wrong element. The battle system only doesn't matter if you play on normal difficulty. If you understand the soul pool it can allow you to shoot out souls that your team can use to their benefit. If we're still following traditional console cycles in a million years when the chip shortage is resolved, maybe I'll turn to Tales of Whatever for my next generational acid test.I liked the dodge system.

So if you're looking for a game that can flex the new consoles in more subtle but equally important ways, or you just want a refreshingly modern JRPG with exhilarating combat, give Tales of Arise a try. I can't imagine Tales of Arise looking or playing this well in a world where we don't have new consoles, and I can't wait to see how other games, JRPGs and beyond, find ways to leverage the strengths of these systems. It's exciting to see the stellar art direction and eccentric design that JRPGs are known for elevated by today's hardware rather than limited by it. Tales of Arise packs the whole new-gen package into a series that's frequently struggled to keep up with the times, and it just makes me happy to see it. The frame rate doesn't tank when you stack flashy special attacks, menus are snappier, character swapping is instantaneous, loading and saving is lightning fast – I could go on. Thanks to its greatly improved graphics, even reused, recolored enemies – a Tales, and indeed video game tradition – look more distinct and feel less same-y. It's able to switch between gameplay, cutscenes, and stylized vignettes without pace-killing load times or quality dips, and this makes the full-fat anime scenes feel more special. It's a great example of how new-gen muscle can benefit all games, not just the AAA bigshots. Tales of Arise is more than just pretty, too.

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