This game is bad. Now, not bad if it were to stand on its own. But it's marketed as a sequel, which means it will be compared to the prequel and, hence, sucks in comparison.

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Pet Peeve first: why the name change? The original title was Knight of Ratatosk. It made sense, the game was big on Ratatosk and Emil being the knight. Why the Dawn of the New World? The 'new world' plot was done in the prequel and was not the focus in this game. Also, I find it appalling that the Japanese version can pronounce the German name 'Richter' correctly, when the English version keeps messing it up.

The new characters are horribly bland, Richter is only cool because he's like 's and 's lovechild. And even then, he pales in comparison to either fo those characters. The old characters were stripped down to nothing but caricatures of themselves. Download Motif Batik Cdrp. Remember how Zelos was more than just a flirt?

Well, he now does nothing but that. And Raine only has Ruin Maniac mode. Nothing else. And even then, the old characters were made pointless to add to your party, since they don't gain EXP but only increase their level at certain points. And even then, not beyond Level 50. All, just so that the mons will be used by the player. The dungeons and puzzles are annoying, they don't have the charm of the previous game's dungeons.

The battle system is alright, but severely downgraded the usefulness of or Unison Attacks. You cannot alter the strategy of your party members beyond a vague Do This or Do That. And the pointlessly shoved in Motion Control segment (One segment! Not several) is pointlessly shoved in and could've been removed. The voice acting is alright, it's nothing amazing.

Some of the old characters got new voices in the English version, which I didn't find fitting. This game was obviously lacking a proper budget, since it was created the same time as and that ate it all up. Cinema 4d Download Free Student Software. But I can honestly say, if this game had been a stand-alone spin-off, with no connection to Symphonia, I would've found it okay. Not a good game, but decent. But as what is supposed to be a sequel? It crashes and burns. Far as I am concerned, this game doesn't exist.

And that's just in comparison to the first one. As a Tales title in the grand spectrum, it's an obvious cash-in, and was accordingly half-assed. As an RPG on its own merits.it has none—It's a lazy, generic, aneurysm inducing bargain-bin budget title heap of everything that's considered a negative aspect of the stereotypical 21st century JRPG, and played to a level that validates almost everything that haters of the genre could say of it (which I think a game like Final Fantasy X pioneered, but I digress). The one advancement in the game, full movement in combat, is made moot by the combat's clunkier controls, lesser customization and variety by being TOO reliant on whatever point in the narrative the game is in (never good game design for me), artes with no applicable flow, and repetition born of its major(ly forgettable) monster gimmick that doesn't even do a good job of being all that reliable as a battle tactic.

Then there's the ENFORCED menu-based over world. An instant negative in any RPG, and the site's word limit means I can't explain here beyond just 'nuff said'. I could have called the game mediocre at best if it weren't for that part, but it's an inexcusable point of laziness. Emil is one of the most insultingly presented, and irritatingly unlikable characters ever. The dismal story already kills his first impression, and the only evolution offered is either hand waved, thus making him even more bland, or pretentiously flaunting a tediously annoying romance based completely on contrived obvious contrast between the initial personality traits of the characters in question that the narrative foolishly tries to make an emotional driving force of the plot. Both characters lack substantial development in their own rights that their reliance on each other is a contrivance in the narrative, not emotional depth or chemistry.