Ill keep spamming this thread until someone else talks about it with me. Im replaying it now and forgot how great it is.QRD:>excellent fast pased combo heavy 2d action combat where every character has a different style but everyone is fun to use even the mages>some of the best looking fully 2d artstyle you will ever see in vidya>charming cast with surprisingly competent voice acting for a ps1 game>loaded with content and difficulty modes to keep things interesting>better then average story that is better than most tales games>packed with sovl at every turndaily reminder FUCK namco for deleting literally hundreds of skits for both english releases.
>>737028879It is easily the best 2D Tales in the franchise, which is kinda sad given it was only the third game. Coming off of PS1 Phantasia and Destiny, its combat and craymel system was incredibly fun and advanced, the setting had a comfiness to it, Reid stood out as a protagonist because he refused the call to action and just wanted to sleep all day while Farah was the one actually wanting to get shit done, and it had plenty of minigames to break up the pace which I always appreciate. Seriously, what Symphonia did for 3D Eternia did for 2D, only the former was superseded in my humble opinion by the likes of Abyss and Vesperia while Eternia still, just... reigns supreme. Great, underrated PS1 JRPG. If only they didn't cut the skits, the fuckershttps://youtu.be/T-_6NeHmeM0
>>737029146>man just wants to sleep, hunt and eat but the foid keeps pushing him to do shit he doesnt wantvery realistic and refreshing take on a protag, I agree.>not one but two hot brown girlsthis was based as well.
the artstyle is so so much better than the ps2 2d tales.
Have a bump OP the game is actually good
Eternia is such a good game. Even after all these years I can still remember Farah's "No problem" and Max's "Yeah"s
>>737028879>Tales of Eternia releases>oh shit our Western audience are too fucking stupid that they won't be able to relate this to Tales of Destiny>let's call it Tales of Destiny 2!>actual Tales of Destiny 2 comes out>let's memoryhole it and pretend it doesn't exist
>>737032204DEMON LIGHTNING HAMMER is burned into the deepest crevice of my soul
>>737028879>Ill>pased>no punctuationWhat the fuck happened? Remember when RPG fans used to actually know how to read instead of just staring at pretty pictures?You fucking suck, retard.
>>737032291That, plus Master of the Universe and Mattel.
>>737032361>getting this mad over contractions and typoskill yourself
>>737032309I always thought it was great they re-used those attack names when Reid showed up in Abyss, instead of changing them to the standard names they started using in Symphonia.
>>737032446>reid showed up in abysswait WAT?!! I need to play abyss
>>737028879The craymel battles and spell combinations were some of the most fun I had with ps1 jrpgs
>>737028879You better be translating the Melnic like me!!!!
>>737033226damn this is cool, would love to see a romhack with translations
>>737028879Bro look like he gonna launch a beyblade
>>737028879after playing all the 2D Tales games i can say with certainty Eternia is the best oneit's also the most innovative title in the series it laid the foundation for all future games (including 3D starting with Symphonia) that follower
>>737032204YOU BET!!!
>>737028879As a 19 yo, I thought the idea of 15 yo girl being kicked out of house and told to find a guy, as very strange.Now I think this should be the government policy.
>>737028879I finished it for the first time just last week actually. It's in my top 3 Tales entries for sure. Has the coolest setting by far as well. I do have one question about the world though. When you ascend to the relay point from Celestia, you pass upwards through the Orbus Barrier, so Celestia should be below you from here. The Observatory is only able to be accessed from this side. Yet, the view from the Observatory has Inferia below you and Celestia above. Is this a mistake or am I getting something confused?
>>737037713While you're on Inferia, Inferia's Up is Celestia's down
Best 2-D one by far. Some of the PS2 games might have better battle mechanics, but Eternia delivers WAY more in everything else: two cool explorable overworlds, vehicles, Craymels, a lot of Hi-Ougi, minigames, etc
>>737028879I remember reaching the final boss and being unable to kill him because the final blow required some motion bullshit I didn't really understand how to do
undine on hard mode is an absolute cunt. gonna have to actually grind
>>737037812Here I whipped this up to visualize what I mean. When you ascend to the Orbus Barrier you always pass through it and sail on top of it relative to where you ascended from if I'm not mistaken, since you see the ship pass upwards through the Barrier at the relay point
I wish more ps1 rpgs just went full on 2d pixel art like this game instead of prerendered backgrounds or low poly 3d (even though I love those looks too). its aged incredibly well. its tough to find even a single area in this game that isnt super comfy.
>>737028879I tried playing this in Japanese and the skits filtered me. They have no subtitles, they speak too fast, too quietly, it's just impossible to understand what the fuck they're saying. And of course, you can't replay them without saving and reloading. It's to the point where I wonder whether the Japanese themselves were truly able to follow this shit. But it's probably just me being terrible at Japanese.
can someone remind me of the plot? I beat the game so long ago I remember only the last minutes
>>737039052hot brown girl wants BWC feebreel
>>737039052heroes from the old games are bad guys now and you have to kick them asses!
>>737039135I need to do a farah main playthrough, she looks fun. I usually play reid until I get max and then spam his ult
>>737039135damn I only played tales of eterniaI should play the previous ones
>>737039306Why stop at one character?
Currently playing Destiny 1 should I go for the PS1 or PSP version of Eternia?
>>737041107PSP lacks any kind of enhancements IIRC, they just lazily changed the aspect ratio, but everything else is the same. If you have an actual PSP you can play it portable, that's about it. On the other hand Tales of Phantasia got an enhanced PSP port not once but twice, the second one was never translated officially, but now has a patch available: https://github.com/lifebottle/Tales-of-Phantasia-X/releases/tag/v1.0
>>737028879I got stuck at some point on the 2nd disc as a kid, I need to visit it again and finally finish it
>>737041295I heard the PSP version has better loadtimes but I wanted to check if there was anzthing else.
>>737028879i don't play jarpigs, darkie
>>737041604darkies play gun and ball games though
