TALES OF VS (or Scamco's take on Dissidia)

[Buddha Fett]

Man, another sweet-looking game I'll probably never get my hands on. If it wasn't for my intense love for some of my DS games, I would've gotten a PSP awhile ago.

[Regulus Tera]

From Famitsu's site (F5 link):

It seems the game will have thirty-five characters from thirteen Tales of games, meaning Phantasia, Destiny, Eternia, Destiny 2, Symphonia, Rebirth, Legendia, Abyss, Tempest, Innocence, Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, Vesperia and Hearts will be represented.

EDIT: http://to-vs.namco-ch.net/

The game will use the LMBS like previous games in the series. There will be various new action elements like walls, etc. Like in normal Tales games you have normal attacks and you equip skills. You gain Grade Points from battles and use them to customize the stats of your characters. Blahblahblah Original story mode Yggdrasil Battle Mode blahblahblah minigames crossover mobile contents blahblahblah go to hell Namco. Etc.

Also the game will feature brand new animation scenes from Production IG as well, and illustrations for all characters and cut-in portraits, etc.

[mudah.swf]

I would be ok with customisation in a fighting game if you assign the points yourself and not just use standard levels. Also you had better start off with a decent moveset.

[Bells]

35 Characters out of 13 games, that means 2 characters per game + 9 characters.

Considering this, and the Radiant Mythology series, it wouldn't be unfair to say that Namco came trough with a couple of things that Squeenix never did.

[Regulus Tera]

What, exactly? It seems to me that it will be the same "main hero VS main villain" schtick of Dissidia with some fan favourites and maybe Asben from Graces.

what the hell at jerkface

Note how they refer to the game by its localised name. It probably means it will come overseas.

[bluestarultor]

It's good to see Namco bringing stuff over. Now all they have to do is bring over all that awesome stuff they never did, which inspired international ire for them in the first place. (I kid, but really, they DID give themselves a reputation that's not going to die for years. If their older stuff was as much awesome in data form as their newer stuff (like people claim), you have to wonder if they just hated money at the time.)

Really, it's a cash-in, and while it might be nice, it's really not my thing. More of an RPG person than a kicker person.

[Bells]

Originally Posted by Regulus Tera

What, exactly? It seems to me that it will be the same "main hero VS main villain" schtick of Dissidia with some fan favourites and maybe Asben from Graces.

Because they went the full 9 yards with their fan service. Instead of having just "main protagonist vs main antagonist", the just overpopulate the game with as much fan service as possible.

Imagine how Dissidia would be if Squeenix had 30/35 characters in it... or if they actually made a full blown RPG on the Dissidia Story having several characters from each FF game as playable... those are things that Squeenix isn't likely to do, but, would be awesome if they did. Thus why i hope they pick that on their radar and actually go make Dissidia 2 or some other crossover that dosen't revolve around Cloud.

[Ryong]

...Is that Judas Leon? Huh. Where the heck is Cless?

...Why is there a lack of Eternia characters?

...This is confusing.

[Regulus Tera]

The Tales of Festival poster is not representative of anything in Tales of VS. I was just pointing out jerkface's... face.

[Ryong]

Originally Posted by Regulus Tera

The Tales of Festival poster is not representative of anything in Tales of VS. I was just pointing out jerkface's... face.

Oooh.

...Well, what, you expected his face to be normal? He's a jerk. He even has long hair in the picture, despite the game's events.