Karma & Meaning of Birth
Tales of the Abyss
Motoo Fujiwara, perf. BUMP OF CHICKEN
https://youtu.be/IAiRpKTMOAE
https://youtu.be/Fa7CO1ILUjY
Tales of the Abyss teaches one lesson above all else: You are defined by what you do with your life, not by your origin.
I do love the Tales series. It's retained the quality writing that made JRPGs great in the first place where series like Final Fantasy have lost it, and battles are actually fun on top of that.
@Felthry Ahh, I didn't look too into Xillia because I preferred the more combo friendly combat of Graces. I really need to go back and play through the rest of the english releases.
But I am so sad that Rebirth never got localized. It ends racial discrimination with the love of peach pie.
@Tawa2Tawa Xillia has combo-friendly combat! I can see why you might think it doesn't... but that AC thing gets so many boosts throughout the game, you end up being able to do ten- or eleven-hit combos with just your basic attacks, plus you can chain base artes all over the place, and the link system really helps get combos going between multiple characters.
@Felthry Oh, I'm not talking about 10 hit combos, I did 100 hit combos in Graces and if I spent more time in Destiny R, I'd get the same.
@Tawa2Tawa Yes, but ten- and eleven-hit combos with a base attack, plus multiple-character combos being easier, can easily add up to hundreds of hits. Xillia 2 even has a title you get for doing a certain number of 120+ hit combos, and it's not all that difficult to get by the late game.
@Felthry Ahh, I see. I live for those triple digits in Tales games! But first I gotta get time and money and FFXIV is enjoying my company.
@Tawa2Tawa Xillia is very good, don't know if that's before or after Graces. Xillia 2 was _excellent_, but man was that a heavy story. It's all about the conflict between what one feels is right and what one has to do. The right thing in the long run versus the right thing in the short run.
And man did that game leave me feeling emotionally devastated by the end of it. That's not a bad thing, though. It set out to be emotionally devastating.