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Tales of Berseria is, if I may so boldy proclaim, the quintessential JRPG. The story is overly complicated to the point of confusing, the combat is difficult but extremely rewarding to learn, and the overwhelming majority of the cast of characters are memorable.

I played the game with the English Dub, and about 99% of the work was phenomenal. There is the occasional line that feels out of place, but 99% of the time the direction fits the mood.

The game has tons of extra side content as well that lets you better know the characters, making it all the sadder when the game eventually has to end.

As a prequel coming right after zestiria which i thought was decent tbh not nearly as terrible as some said it would be, tales of berseria is the sixteenth main line entry into the series and easily one of it's very best.

The characters and story are a huge step up from zestiria, it sucks you right in with it's beautiful intro and it tells you right away that this tale is going to be much darker and more mature than previous titles and it damn sure delivers on those horribly messed up moments.

Although i really liked berseria no game is perfect and i have some negatives with this game, the dungeons are still as bland and of course the graphics is the same engine as zestiria so no improvements there and there was lots of skits, like i really enjoy them and that's part of the storytelling and funny moments in the series but in this game it was way too much to the point that you would want to skip it but other than that this was such an emotional game so many gut wrenching moments that easily makes this among the best tales games and and one of the saddest jrpg's i've ever played.

Man her voice acting as the English Velvet was perfect at all parts. Overall I love Velvet and Eisen characters the most. Yoshimasa Tanaka did very good making a darker tone of Zestiria lore. Watching the event from the other side 1000 years prior.

PS Companies rarely make use of modders enough. Learn from Todd Howard and make the game kinda open source for gamers. One of Berserias biggest flaws are the design of dungeons. Users would be more than happy to redesign them for free as long as given credits.

Up to this point, this is my favorite Tales game yet taking the place of Tales of the Abyss. Still have yet to play Xillia and a couple of others, but they would have to be incredible to the extreme to top this one. So much in this particular Tales game just worked for me as it had a great story, great characters and some pretty surprising twists a well. The Tales series now is superior to the Final Fantasy series which used to be my favorite role playing game series. Final Fantasy's decision to eliminate turn based battles and the fact they take forever to release games now just hands the crown over to Tales for me. That and the fact the graphics to me are more more anime looking and the worlds so much more beautiful and more in line with a fantasy realm than FF, plus I prefer turn based, but if I cannot get that I like pure action instead of the not sure what they want to do in a couple of the FF games since they ditched turn based in twelve. They also release games far quicker than does FF, Final Fantasy XV which I thought was the best FF in a long time was originally going to be Final Fantasy XIII: Versus and somehow took so long to make that it became its own game. Meanwhile, the Tales series generally release a came every two years or so. So, this game is tops now in the Tales series for me.

The story has a young woman named Velvet whose living a peaceful life in a small village with her brother and brother-in-law. Her sister and her unborn child were killed several years prior. Well, her brother-in-law sacrifices her brother during a night when the moon is scarlet and after being turned into a sort of demon, Velvet goes on a quest to get her revenge on her brother-in-law Artorius who is a man known as the Shepard and savior of the world. She first must escape from a prison for demons where she meets up with the swordsman named Rokurou and the witch Magilou. She also takes a being called a malak into her care named Laphicet and also joins up with a pirate Malak named Eizen and his crew. They join forces, each with their own reasons, and begin to try and find out just what Artorius is planning and to ultimately get revenge!

The game play is typical Tales as the fighting is action based. Present in this game as in all Tales games is the skits where the characters talk to one another and there is also cooking. Back in this installment is also the weapon system where you upgrade your equipment. Not sure I care for this as you never really feel that you have much of an upgrade when using different weapons and such and the monsters constantly drop weapons and armor. I prefer going to shops and buying stuff and finding more powerful weapons in dungeons where when you equip them, you see a major boost! Just a minor complaint in an otherwise fantastic game.

So, this is now my fave Tales game. There are a lot of elements from the previous Tales game I played, Zestria, that at times I was wondering if perhaps this one was a sequel or a prequel to that game. Shepards, Malak and demons were all prevalent in the previous title and there are a couple of characters in this one that were in that one. The world in this one though is a lot more expansive as it does have a ship in it so you travel to many different areas. In Zestria, the game felt very confined. At the end of the day, though, it was the characters that really made this one my favorite as they were a very ragtag group who in another game would probably have been the villains. They, and the story, are what made this Tales my new favorite.