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Tales of Symphonia is a 2003 video game, the fifth game in Namco's famous. It was the third to ever be released outside of Japan and the first in Europe. It stands as the top-selling game in the entire series, and was for a nearly a decade one of the few to break a million copies sold due to extensive worldwide sales - and thus was the best-seller internationally, natch, before.Tales of Symphonia is set in the land of Sylvarant, whose is being slowly drained away by the evil. The only way to stop the Desians is the Journey of World Regeneration, a pilgrimage around the world taken by a that, when completed, will awaken the goddess Martel and save the world.Lloyd Irving, after, sets out to protect his childhood friend and current Chosen One Colette Brunel on her Journey of World Regeneration. Aiding them is Lloyd's best friend and Genis Sage, and Genis' older sister Raine Sage, and a mysterious badass called Kratos Aurion. After a few hours the storyline drops its first on you, after which the plot expands exponentially from a simple tale to a full-on, with multiple sides trying to manipulate or eliminate Colette for their own purposes, and Lloyd determined to do everything he can to protect her, even from herself.Like many of its predecessors, Tales of Symphonia retained the real-time battle system, the use of, the famous, and the games' general tendency to include lots of, and a villain with considerably deeper motives than simply being. The game also contained numerous references to the first game in the series, which turned out to be because Symphonia is a set in the same world as Phantasia, a few thousand years before.
Quiche Location: Flanoir Enter the church at the top of the city and look in the upper left corner, behind a column, to find the Wonder Chef. Cream Stew Location: Heimdall In the elder's house, enter the room at the right and examine the painting to find the Wonder Chef.
The game was adapted into three four-episode and 6. A manga was published that covered the events of the first game and its ending becomes the first game's canon ending according to the second game (See below). There are also several. It's unlikely any of this will ever be officially translated to English, but fansubs of the OVAs are circulating around the Internet if you look. It places more emphasis on the relationship between Lloyd and Colette, and is obviously a.Symphonia introduced several concepts to the franchise, in both story concepts and gameplay concepts; the most notable is the 3D incarnation of the Tales' signature battle system.
Nearly every single Tales game that followed in its wake (as well as a number of in general) owes something to Symphonia, and its influence on the franchise is still felt to this day.A spin-off-sequel for the game called (originally titled Knight of Ratatosk in Japan) was released for the Wii in 2008.An titled Tales of Symphonia Chronicles (or Tales of Symphonia: Unisonant Pack in Japan) for the PS3 containing Dual-Audio, new bonus cameo costumes, as well as an HD port of Dawn of the New World was released in 2014. Both games can also be bought separately through. The HD port was also released for the PC through Steam.Provides examples of:.: Zelos never had the nicest relationship with his mother, as she was forced into a loveless marriage, even though she 'probably loved someone else.' When she's killed in an attack that was intended to kill Zelos, her last words to him were 'You should never have been born'. It's shown in the manga that even before this, she was cold and dismissive of her son, often making the excuse that she's ill or has a headache to get out of having to see him.
No wonder he's so messed up.: During the scene at Hima, when Colette is writing on his hand, Lloyd reads her words aloud at a much faster pace than her writing could possibly be deciphered. Efreet: Then perhaps we should be joyous that our mana has been severed.: The you can buy after fully restoring Luin. They're pretty much the most powerful weapons purchasable, and you don't start finding better gear until Torent Forest.:. All of the characters can earn one from the Meltokio Coliseum, though Regal's and Presea's lose out to certain weapons they can receive at level 80. Lloyd noticeably has two for his different attack stats; the Valkyrie Saber (earned in the Coliseum) for 'Thrust', and the Kusanagi Blade for 'Slash'. Alternately, the Devil Arms.
But since unlocking their full potential requires beating the Abyssion, they're also a — and a on top of it. Raine's at least massively boosts her Intelligence even before getting unlocked, so you can still get some practical benefit.:. Genis uses a kendama, a children's toy. Sheena uses cards with wards inscribed on them.
in both cases. The kendama is explicitly said to help Genis concentrate when he's casting, and Sheena's 'cards' are actually ofuda, which are magical. If you equip the fancy clothes for Presea and Zelos, they have a chance of using a giant stuffed bunny and flowers respectively.
The strongest weapons money can buy are. A mop, paper fans, a tambourine.: Characters will only be shown using their most basic (and generic) weapons, with a few exceptions: Lloyd's model goes from wooden swords to basic metal swords after the second town. Kratos will equip the Flamberge after a certain event. Lloyd will have the Material Blades after you earn them. Characters will also only use their most basic special attacks in cut scenes, because attacks are split across 'Strike' and 'Technical', and on top of that, you're allowed to delete known attacks, so it'll only show attacks that you can't not know.
So expect to see a lot of Fireball, Demon Fang, and Force Field.: Save on the world map, and your location is listed as Field: Sylvarant. A weird example that only makes sense in hindsight: when Kratos does his, the game largely averts by returning all of his equipment. Except his weapon note Which is a particular pain if you customized a Silver Sword for him.
This is because a character's weapon slot cannot be empty, which indicates that he'll be returning at some point or another; when he returns at the Iselia Human Ranch, the weapon you had on him (by now invariably outdated) is returned, as he has his Flamberge. If you go the route where Zelos turns traitor, you are likewise returned all of your gear. But this one includes his weapon, because Zelos as a party character just doesn't exist anymore. A rather egregious example, when Colette gives up her humanity at the Tower of Salvation, the lead up makes it sound like she's sacrificing her life, which creates the drama of the scene. Only, moments after she becomes an empty shell, the game helpfully informs you that she has learned a new skill, so obviously she isn't lost forever. She does remain an empty shell for a little while however.: Presea and Abyssion are the only people out of a population of two whole planets who can hear Nebilim's voice.
For both Colette and Zelos. This was one of the reasons this game was notable - it was when the started to really embrace this trope.: A variant; implied to be the reason Kratos didn't reveal that he was Lloyd's father.:. Each of the Desian Grand Cardinals has at least one of these, from Magnius snapping a bystander's neck for failing to address him as 'LORD Magnius!'
To Kvar's casual attitude towards the. Colette gets a literal to demonstrate just how far gone her transformation has left her. And then the person who the heroes will eventually learn is shows up and basically laughs at the whole event.:. Lloyd, Genis, Colette, as well as Mithos.
Presea is a subversion. Although being 19, Sheena's still qualifies in Japan, where people are not considered an adult until age 20. A good reference to this is the ending of.:. Corrine, a small, rainbow man-made summon spirit. Verius, the summon spirit of heart. It is rainbow like Corrine, but much larger.
Lloyd: 'Do you ever say anything original?' . When you finally get the Ymir fruit, your avatar character will declare 'That took forever!' .: meaning you don't have to swap characters around if you don't want to.: Every member of the party has one, including a few. The and Kratos also have their respective themes worked into their fight music.: In the first quarter of the game, Lloyd discovers that Colette needs to sacrifice herself in order to fulfill her role as the Chosen and save the world. Lloyd must choose between saving the world and saving Colette, and (briefly) hates himself for the fact that he chooses the world, at least until he uncovers a.:. Raine.
She has rather. Interesting ideas on cuisine, such as one skit where she wonders about making a spicy cake. Half of her recipes have lemon as an additional ingredient.
And a skit in the sequel has her cooking 'lemon rice' for the party. She can even fail at making a Bread Sandwich! Sheena also has weird ideas about food, but she knows which weird ideas work so she is still a good cook (one of the best three, in fact, along with Genis and Regal). One of the funniest moments in the game involves Raine's cooking skills. In a small skit, the stone-faced, humorless stoic Kratos samples some of Raine's cooking to be polite. He even makes a gallant attempt at finding something nice to say about it ('Well, it has an interesting texture') before the aftertaste sets in and Kratos's first reaction is to use one of his healing spells on himself. It's funnier because.
Kratos:. In an, Raine's cooking is literally used as a weapon to kill Kratos.: After restoring Luin, each character gets the ability to buy one of these; they are among the most powerful weapons you can buy for that character. Lloyd gets twin, Colette starts throwing tambourines, Raine a mop, Sheena a wallet, Zelos/Kratos a or a pink plastic dagger, Presea a squeaky toy hammer, and Regal a pair of silver boots. Genis is the only one who doesn't qualify, since he's already using to fight with.: Kate takes part in some less than moral experiments and impersonates the Princess during the exchange for Zelos, to earn the love of her father, the Pope.: Subverted for Max, Lyla and Aifread.
Max is in love with Lyla, who only ever talks about tracking down Aifread. But she's not actually in love with him at all- Lyla's a and Aifread, a pirate, owes her quite a bit of Gald.: Lampshaded at a few points.: Used by the villains, and the source of quite a few problems as a result.: Kratos and Zelos. They don't really have that many techs to combo with, having only one full combo per tech tree side. Outside of a glitch using it for infinite combos, magic's casting times prevents it from synergising with melee. That's not to say, however, that they're bad characters.
In fact, they're usually considered the best characters behind Raine and Colette.: Genis and Raine's Japanese names are Genius and Refill. Also, one of the towns razed by the Desians is named Luin (just remember the whole ). Following the same naming traditions as Luin, there's also Exire, the floating city that's home to ostracized half-elves.: One skit has Lloyd complaining about why they have to climb through the Mana Tower again and that they should had just been given the 'Quick Jump' option. Everyone else is confused as to what this 'Quick Jump' is since Lloyd is apparently the only one who is mildly aware that they are in a video game.: Presea Combatir is a female lumberjack.
She but carries an axe bigger than some of your other party members.: Is that coffee hot or iced, Lloyd? To elaborate: Lloyd suspects that Colette's angel rites are slowly destroying her ability to smell, taste, and touch; so he makes her a cup of scalding-hot coffee. Then he lies that it's iced, and she quickly agrees, giving herself away. This is intentional, since the whole point is to trick Colette into admitting that the angel transformation process is obliterating her humanity one step at a time, and she's hiding it to avoid worrying the others.: This game really doesn't like mothers. Anna is dead, Colette's is never mentioned, Sheena's parents abandoned her and she has an adopted father, Genis and Raine's mother is mentally insane, Zelos' is dead, Presea's is dead and Regal's is never mentioned.: Special mention for the dragon in the Temple of Earth, 10000 per kill, and is a. This is actually either a that was 'fixed' in the Japanese-only for the PS2. It was only supposed to give 1000 gald, but an extra zero made its way into the code.
Even better is equipping a party member with a Blue Sephiran, an item that doubles gald received in battle, netting you a whopping 20000 Gald per dragon. One can quickly become a millionaire by simply climbing over a few dozen dragon corpses.: After Martel rejects Mithos, he goes from wanting to bring about an (albeit twisted and unnatural) equality to the world to wanting a world where he can live with his sister, at the cost of leaving the world to die.: Kratos and Zelos. This is accomplished because they both ingested a metal called aionis that can grant humans magical abilities, effectively making them humans with elven blood, and Kratos later becomes an angel as well. It's actually quite a relief, since they take turns traveling with the party, and you don't have to adapt to yet another set of moves. This no longer applies once Kratos joins up with the other angels and learns moves such as Judgement.: Presea's father's body.: Abyssion.
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Nothing good ever comes from an abyss.: The GRADE system, which allows you to purchase bonuses and even if you choose.: Zig-Zagged. On one hand, Colette's elbow-length hair is stiff as a board; on the other hand, Lloyd's thing flows pretty realistically (albeit prone to model clipping). To be fair, having an anime opening and several cutscens certainly provides a good comparison between flow levels.: Zig-Zagged. Shops will charge you, but certain events such as the dragon tours and trips to Thoda Geyser will not cost you anything since the people don't want to take money from the Chosen note Subverted with Thoda; they don't mention that Colette's the Chosen until the return trip. Yet, some people like the old man on Hakonesia Peak will still try to rip you off for a gate pass. Also, you do get a 10% discount in shops if you have Regal's Personal EX-Skill set, as well as a 10% bonus when selling.: In the, Presea gives one to Regal, after she finds out he killed Alicia, her sister. She tells him to fight back, but he's just too guilt-ridden to do anything.
She only stops when Alicia comes back for a few moments to tell her that Regal isn't to blame.: You can learn skills by getting further in the story, or using another skill a certain number of times.: Kratos. More wrong than you could imagine.: Dangerously so, in the case of Mithos and Lloyd. Colette and Zelos.
They are both for their respective worlds but their personalities are extremely different, with Colette being a sweet, selfless girl who tries to befriend even her enemies and Zelos being a crass, selfish, cynical womanizer. However, paying close attention to their scenes and backstories show that they are both extreme 's, hiding their troubles from others to their personal detriment, as a result of their status. Additionally, there is implication that Colette could have potentially ended up with a personality more closer in line with Zelos's had it not been for Lloyd and Genis: A side event in the game has Zelos revealing that he's bitter because of how many people act fake around him and try to suck up to him because he's the Chosen. In the manga, there's a side story showing that when Colette was young she also had negative feelings about how she was treated 'just because she was the Chosen'.
The big difference was Colette had friends who she knew truly cared about her, and Zelos had basically no one.: A log keeps track of various story events; incomplete quests are highlighted to remind you, though the way it's written tells you, at best, only what your objective is and not how to go about doing it.: Applies to random battles, and most bosses. Latter bosses do get some new moves though.: Tales of Symphonia Chronicles rewards the players who have Save Datas from previous Tales games on the PS3 with costumes from said games, with them being, and; the funny thing is the Western version of Chronicles rewards the player for having a Save Data from Vesperia too, the Japanese Data, Vesperia on the PS3 never got released outside Japan.: Presea, Mithos, Yuan and Kratos, for starters.: Yggdrasil dies in, and all that's left is his Cruxis Crystal.
Genis picks it up, aware that his subconscious might still be inside (if what happened to Alicia was any indication) but wanted to wait until Lloyd used the Eternal Sword to reunite the worlds until doing so, to show him the new world he strived for. Turns out he manages to survive in the crystal and tries to right after making the pact with Origin. Even after getting kicked out of that body during, he manages to recover his original body for the final battle(s).: Subverted; the main reason the summoner mentioned by the various Summon Spirits, Mithos, is not thought to be the hero of legend is because it has become a common boy's name. But then it gets played with later when it's revealed that said Mithos is not only the summoner and legendary hero, but also the game's.: During the formal dance where everyone is dressed up, Genis tells Loyd that Sheena laughed at his outfit and said he looked like he was dressed up for Easter Sunday.
Of course, Easter doesn't exist in the story's world since it's a Christian holiday. However, its partially lampshaded as Loyd asks what Easter Sunday is, and Genis responds that its apparently a holiday in Mizuho.: And they're aliens! Eventually deconstructed (like everything else in this game).
Lloyd outright tells the elves that their attitude directly led to Cruxis, and the elder even admits that they probably could have prevented everything if they weren't so passive.: The Grand Tethe'alla Bridge joins two continents. It's seven screens long, with one Katz on it. And you have to cross it twice.: All the main characters, except possibly Presea, Regal and Kratos, as well as the. If not for the fact that the game's inherent bias towards idealism means they all get over it, we'd have a on our hands.: One NPC in a House of Salvation plays Shiritori with you. No matter who your onscreen character is, you win by, which ticks the NPC off to no end. Alternately, if your avatar is Colette during her time as, the NPC gets mad because she isn't playing at all.: One of three items can be received in Flanoir - a snow bunny souvenir/good luck charm, a locket with a picture of Kratos, Anna, and baby Lloyd, or an 'orb' that be Zelos' Cruxis Crystal. All three of them stop an arrow from killing Lloyd in the Tower of Salvation despite none of them being large enough to merit a change his character model.: Presea in her Klonoa outfit.
(She only does this in Altamira.).: Several villagers died when Sheena was unable to form a pact with Volt, and she was ostracized for her failure, but because no one could directly communicate with Volt, they had no idea why it attacked them. It wasn't until Raine came along and could translate that Sheena could find out why Volt attacked.: The strongest characters are all angels with translucent, multicolored wings. Yggdrasil even has wings on his wrists.: Certain angels with their; specifically Colette, the Four Seraphim, Zelos, and Lloyd. Also, Lloyd's.: Exspheres are inert until a person dies wearing it — this is the purpose of human ranches: to work humans to death and power up Exspheres for Cruxis.: The OVA series gets this a lot, trying to fit entire portions of the storyline into four thirty-minute episodes every arc.
While still very well-done, it becomes especially noticeable when Lloyd talks to Colette about their expanded party as if they'd interacted a lot more than seen on-screen—which they do, as evidenced by a flashback earlier in the episode to Sheena and Zelos watching Lloyd at the forge, i.e. A scene unmentioned before said flashback—but since they can't afford to focus on these interactions longer than they do, it can lend to the feeling that there are episode-wide gaps between the strengthening of the party's bonds that the viewer is unfortunately unable to watch. Not that the studio working on the animation doesn't try and even succeed at times to lessen the gap throughout.: A sidequest involves naming all the dogs.: All of the playable characters have in-battle quotes that they use in certain situations, such as being outmatched, using an ineffective attack, or being close to death.: The first Tales game to use this mechanic instead of.: Sheena says this a lot as a villain, but since she's clumsy, it's ineffectual.: This game had Lloyd, the main character, tossed into a Desian prison in the middle of the desert. He busts out on his own, just before the party shows up in time to back him up against Botta.: More of a Punctuated, but pushing Kratos' berserk button puts you on the receiving end of this trope. Kratos: Feel the pain.!.slash. Of those inferior beings.!.slash. As you burn in Hell!!!.: On a, you can choose to carry over your artes and usage.
If you have Genis set for his Technical path, this means you can carry over. And if you've used it more than 50 times, this means you are effectively carrying over over his, Indignation Judgement.
It does require Over Limit to use (which Genis appears to be locked out of until he has his Exsphere), and this means that you're going to have to control him yourself since Genis' AI knows full well he's a, but that's still a Mystic Arte as early as Triet.: Lampshaded by Kratos in a skit found in the Triet area.
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