![]() Question: when the game industry comes along with a good thing, what will they do with that thing? Answer: milk it dry, and run the brand name into the ground. Though the Tales series is still going strong (Vesperia received plenty of good words from the gaming press), there was a time when I feared the good folks at Namco Bandai (well, just “Namco” back then) were going to shoot themselves in the foot. It all started when they felt that one development studio wasn’t enough to regularly release games in the Tales series. So, a new studio formed, and under the name “Project MelFes,” work was done to create two large-scale Tales games at once. Project MelFes would bring us the underwhelming Tales of Legendia, and the main Tales Studio would give us Tales of the Abyss only a few months later. Though Legendia may not be a true abomination, it is indeed a dark blemish on the Tales series’ track record. If you haven’t experienced the game for yourself, allow this brief review to take the place of the firsthand experience. When the game opens, we find Senel Coolidge (no relation to Calvin) and his adopted sister, Shirley, on a boat. The combat is a downgrade from the previous game and it's wonkily localized (good job blowing all that money on voice acting for only half the game) but the soundtrack is great, the story is solid, the cast is fun, the soundtrack is great, and the soundtrack is great. Shirley freaks out because the sea breeze is making her sick, and Senel desperately searches for a place to land until he finds what he thinks is an island. Let's get one thing straight, I LOVE Tales of Legendia. As it turns out, this miles-wide island is actually an enormous ship with a natural landscape. Its name is “The Legacy,” and it apparently was created by an ancient race of beings. ![]() I think we know where this is going already, don’t we? Senel and Shirley, who end up having very direct ties to the ship, will have to save the world by preventing bad guys from taking over the newly-discovered ship, which they would undoubtedly use as a weapon of war. Senel quickly makes companions out of unlikely allies: Will, the scholar and mayor of the one town found on the island Chloe, the knight from a foreign land trying to redeem her family name Norma, the terribly annoying treasure hunter and eventually, even people you thought were enemies will make nice and join you in your quest. Much of the game is spent rescuing Shirley from being kidnapped, trying to protect her (only to have her kidnapped again), and then more rescue. It’s all rather formulaic.Īll of Senel’s teammates have one important thing in common: they know how to use “eres.” Eres is energy, the essence of life. Some people use “iron eres” (physical abilities), and others use “crystal eres” (magical abilities). Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Thus, your rag-tag band of heroes is conveniently ready for the hundreds of random encounters awaiting you because they can harness the energy of the world. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. The Tales series, known in Japan as the Tales of series, is a franchise of fantasy Japanese role-playing video games published by Bandai Namco Entertainment (formerly Namco), and developed by its subsidiary, Namco Tales Studio until 2011 and presently by Bandai Namco. ![]() If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.
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