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A beautiful, fun RPG with a great personality. The story is a confusing mess, but who's perfect?

Words: Christian Nutt, GamesRadar US
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When you take all of this together - likable characters, crazy but OK story, brilliant battles and a beautiful world - you get an adventure that's well worth playing. It's a traditional game that blows away expectations by simply gushing quality. Yeah, there are places where you can point to really dumb things: the story has so many twists it sprains itself, the characters aren't allowed to figure out really obvious things, and the puzzles in the dungeons only really make sense two-thirds of the time. These are just details, though. This is a game that's simply fun and likable enough to be worth the bother of seeing all the way through. How often can you say that?

You'll love
  • Battles are fun, fun, fun
  • The characters rock
  • The world is attractive
You'll hate
  • The story is a mess
  • Character growth isn't so interesting
  • The control on the airships sucks

 
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Coolbeans69  - 1 year 3 months ago 
Tales of Symphonia, Best. Game. Ever.
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Lengends_forever  - 9 months 8 days ago 
Very good game but you must pay attention to whats going or you might get lost.
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Tales of Symphonia

Genre: Role Playing
Release date: 12 Nov 2004
Published by: Namco
Developed by: Namco
Multiplayer Modes:
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4 player CO-OP
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