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"So, Tales of Symphonia..."

Got Tales this morning. Coldest game I've ever got (erm.... yeah).

But it seems good. At first the combat seemed a bit crappy, just a shallow PSO-type system, but now it's starting to get good. Only played it for half an hour, but I can see it getting very good in a few hours (of play, not just time).

Oh, and It's published by Nintendo. Something I didn't know. And it's got two discs.

Now, how in gods name am I going to get the time to play this, Metroid Prime 2, Paper Mario 2, Halo 2 and still leave my social life intact?

Sheet.

PsY©Ho FoX 19 wrote:
> Scope wrote:
> Hey psycho tell me something did you play your second play through
> on
> hard?
>
> Better, Mania Mode. You can unlock it on completing one game.

Hmm normal mode seems to be varied some bosses easy some hard.. I guess the different difficulty modes gives it more replay value compared to most RPG's.

Whitestripes DX wrote:
> I loved the fact that the dungeons were short, it was refreshing and
> there was plenty of them too.

You finished it then Whitestripes?

Scope wrote:
> Hey psycho tell me something did you play your second play through on
> hard?

Better, Mania Mode. You can unlock it on completing one game.

I loved the fact that the dungeons were short, it was refreshing and there was plenty of them too.

Hey psycho tell me something did you play your second play through on hard?

Hey Cycloon who are you main 4 party members out of Lloyd, Genis, Raine, Colette, and Kratos?
At that point in the game I mostly didn't include Colette in my party, but trained her up as well coz she is always needed for boss fights during this part of the game.
As soon as Raine learns the attack Ray you can do Unison Attack! combos with raine and Genis, it's not anything hard to do, it's just to know which 2 attacks you can do combos with and which ones you can't. But the one combo I know quite well is a Wind spell like Cyclone from Genis and Ray from Raine will give a very nice combo attack doing quite a lot of extra damage after all the single attacks have played out during Unison.

I've just done the Wind thingy too, and Tphi, if you know RPGs, you'll know there'll be a ton more stuff to do.

Also worked out U. Attacks, which is nice.

Tphi wrote:
>Plus I can't help feeling I'm over half way already :S

Don't be, it's funny though that you thought that.

The thing about the T and S gauge is that once you learn one set you cannot simply switch over to learn the others, you would have to fogret the other 2nd and 3rd level spells that you learned from the gems.

When you press the z-button for the unison, the party leader will flash and perform a simple swipe. The unison attack will only start if this swipe hits an enemy (and they don't block). As soon as this happens, you will have about 1 second to input your first command and you'll get about an additional second after that for the next command and so on. When the unison attack begins, a button interface will appear in the bottom right corner of the screen.
Each character in the party is assigned a button. Pressing their button in conjuction with a control stick direction will have them perform the tech move assigned to that button and stick combination. If you want to change the tech assignments, you can do so in the U. Attack screen, either in the menu screen or in the battle options screen. Each character can only attack once during a unison attack, but they don't have to. Techs performed during a unison attack do not require mana.

No - I mean 4 human players. I press B to initiate Lloyd's attack, then I hammer the other buttons and they stand around gawping. In the U-Attack screen it has '1p, 2p, 3p, 4p' etc.

All my team are T as well, except Genis.