Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Aug 7, 2023

  Tales of Arise review! (Not finished the game yet) ~ DIFFICULTY ~ 🔲 Could be played with my eyes closed 🔲 Easy ✅️ Normal 🔲 Hard 🔲 Dark Souls ~ GRAPHICS ~ 🔲 MS Paint 🔲 Bad 🔲 Meh 🔲 Graphics don't matter in this game 🔲 Good ✅️ Beautiful ~ MUSIC ~ 🔲 Bad 🔲 Not special ✅️ Good 🔲 Holy Grail - VOICE ACTING - 🔲 No voice acting in the game 🔲 Dog poop 🔲 Can bare it ✅️ Nicely done 🔲 Masterpiece ~ STORY ~ 🔲 This game has no story 🔲 Like playing Goat Sim for the story 🔲 It's there for the people who want it ✅️ Well written 🔲 God tier story ~ PRICE ~ 🔲 Free 🔲Underpriced 🔲Perfect Price ✅️ Could be cheaper 🔲 Overpriced 🔲 Complete waste of money ~ REQUIREMENTS ~ 🔲 You can run it on a potato 🔲 Average ✅️ High end 🔲 NASA computer ~ LENGTH ~ 🔲 Very Short (0 - 3 hours) 🔲 Short (3 - 15 hours) 🔲 Average (15-50 hours) 🔲 Long (50-90 hours) 🔲 Extremely long (90-110 hours) 🔲 No ending ~ FUN ~ 🔲 I'd rather watch paint dry 🔲 Hard to enjoy ✅️ Repetitive ✅️ Actually pretty amusing 🔲 Extremely fun experience ~ REPLAYABILITY~ 🔲 It's a one-time experience 🔲 Only for achievements 🔲 If you wait a few months/years ✅️ Definitely (My opinion) 🔲 Infinite replayability ~ WORTH BUYING ~ 🔲 No 🔲 Wait for sale ✅ Yes - DLC content - 🔲 No DLC available ✅️ Only for cosmetic 🔲 Add an extension to the game (like story) Overall Rating: 8/10 ----------------
• gamedeal user

  Sep 12, 2021

  I bought it 25 hours ago, and i have 24 hours played. It's Good.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 25, 2021

  Great Game! Don't buy the DLCs.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 13, 2021

  imagine a AAA-RPG game in 2021 w/o game breaking bugs. only problem i have with this game is the monetization aka MTX, you can buy Gald, boost items, straight up level ups etc, i personally do not care if a game has those buyable options or not HOWEVER when you constantly get it shoved in your face it's suuuuper annoying, start up the game, ! symbol on the main menu, leading to... yes the steam store, if this would be the only encounter i'd still be fine with it but it isn't, rest on bonfires and you have yet another icon with the ! symbol trying to get you to buy any of the boosters or outfits or whatnot. generally speaking this game is fantastic, soundtrack, graphics, VAs, cutscenes etc. however the MTX ads in the game that remind me more of the "hey click this" approach of mobile games is horrible, should have kept it in the main menu but keep it out of my actual gameplay.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 21, 2021

  Game is good. Don't listen to the turbo nerd hyper-critics that say the story isn't good. Story is just fine. Sure, it's no FF7 or Chrono Trigger, but they gotta let it go and realize that 1) that's a pretty high bar to overcome and 2) it took years for people to realize how amazing those stories were and even more years for them to feel nostalgic about. I say this as a guy who literally spent hours making FF7 shrinky-dinks in middle school, but still didn't think it was "the best game I've ever played" at the time. I could do without the weird falsetto singing in the cut scenes, but that's just because I'm an old man. Also, coincidentally, because I'm an old man, I'm used to Japan throwing some weird crap at me in their fantastic RPG's, you spoony bard.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 11, 2021

  The game itself is amazing so far. BUT the way Bandai Namco sells it is the reason I give this a negative review. If you buy the regular edition for 60 bucks you are locked out of certain active and passive skills that are linked to some of the DLC costumes. This totals to at least 15 unobtainable nodes in the ability matrix (per character). Unless you are willing to pay 30 bucks extra, this is the state of the game you get. I can live without some useless beach outfits, I can live with certain parts being a little grindy, but i don't accept to miss out on build options just because the publisher decides to cut quite important pieces out of a finished game to sell them separately.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 19, 2022

  Tales of Arise is incredibly fun but really falls short in a few places. Pros: - The combat is super fun, if a little repetitive, and has the right amount of flashiness and intricacy that I felt was promised from the trailers. Each character has a wide variety of skills and specialisations, with every one of them feeling vastly different when in the players hands. Good stuff all round. - The world is absolutely gorgeous. Every single zone is beyond pretty; even the first zone, which is very dull, still manages to have some stunning presentation. Some of the later game areas can feel a little same-y, but overall you never feel like you're in the same place twice. (Ganath Haros is beautiful, hands down the best area in the game.) - Music is very nice, combat music is an absolute treat and the overworld ambience is quite low-key but still enjoyable. One of the few games where I never bothered to turn down the volume. Cons - The monetisation is bad. Super anti-consumer. With outfits that have skill lines locked behind them (three for each character), levels, currency, and game enhancing artefacts - it really feels jarring to have a pay-for-power system in a single player RPG. - Late game areas and monsters drag. Hard. You feel it a little coming into the late game sections, but the lead up to the final boss in Rena takes about 3-4 hours and most of that time will be spent fighting the same, palette swapped mini-bosses from previous areas. This slog absolutely kills the momentum of the game and brings it down for me, as it also hurts the narrative pacing. Speaking of which.... - The story does NOT stick the landing. As basic as the story is I found it enjoyable, with a lot of nice story beats and healthy if predictable character development. The whole cast is interesting and bounce off each other quite well through the games scenes (about 300 of them, all quite fun to flick through). But. BUT. It fails to conclude in a way that doesn't feel forced. The natural end to the story felt like it took place about 4 hours prior but you get thrust into a massive, convoluted plot-line that makes a lick of sense yet tries to cram more concepts into its 4 hour runtime than the base game did in 20. This, paired with the massive combat slog, is super painful to play through and hurts the story way more than it should be allowed to. It overrides the natural conclusions of not only the main plot but the characters themselves for the sake of...I still can't tell. Not awesome. Overall I think the game is great, I got 100% on it for a reason, and the presentation is off the charts. While the narrative suffers near the end I feel like the fact its a small chunk of an otherwise fantastic game lets me forgive and forget. If you can buy the game on sale I would, its a good 30-40 hours you can spend immersed in a fun, if generic, JRPG with a beautiful combat system.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 17, 2022

  I'll try not to rant. Tales of Arise commits some egregious dlc no-nos and has gotten far too little flak for it. First of all, locking character abilities at all behind launch day dlc is some hot dogshit, but the fact that there is stuff as impactful as a characters only aoe heal is fucked up. This is huge and the worst dlc I've personally seen in a JRPG. Also this game has some of the strangest balancing... enemies are complete damage sponges, cash is very tight playing 'normally' without excessive grinding, and your levels are always lower and by a non-insignificant amount than the enemy's. These are issues I've never had in the history of the franchise. And what a surprise, you can just hop over to the DLC store to fix all these issues by purchasing money and xp boosts. And to top it all off, they put the DLC menu right in the camp and on your main menu and constantly find ways to give you the red "attention!" Signal on the UI for the store so it's constantly reminding you of it's presence. Honestly it's the worst DLC practices I've seen in the subgenre myself and I'm shocked only one reviewer seemed to mention it at all. The game is fantastic besides these issues imo, but I'd really recommend people avoid the game for these reasons. I've heard a lot of people excusing the practices as well - oh it's fine you're under leveled, farming dogtags gets you cash if you know what your doing, just use Shionne to heal, Tales have had xp/gald dlc before..... But the plain truth is this stepped way over a line. Never have I felt the need to penny pinch or grind levels in this series until Arise, which could just be attributed to a change in design, but when taking in the whole picture of the DLC it's hard to excuse it. Predatory dlc that's clearly effected the games design to extract money from players via low effort DLC. Straight up shameful, and really mars what would have otherwise been my favorite entry in years.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 11, 2021

  It feels like I'm 11 years old playing Tales of Symphonia for the first time in my grandmother's basement all over again.
• gamedeal user

  Sep 11, 2021

  Works almost perfectly in Proton.