Tales of destiny is what rpg's should be
the people nowadays look at tales of destiny as a ugly and old 2d game without even give it a chance.
The characters are the best features of the game.
And now I try to answer at the most frequent critics.
1) AI is stupid, the characters attack only the enemies in their direction.
Are you dumb or what? The AI is perfect. What you never try to understand is that tales of destiny give you unlike other tales game the TOTAL CONTROL OF EVERY CHARACTERS IN BATTLE! simply press L1 button your party move from a direction to another to attack the enemy at your choice
2) The story is bad
the story is at personal slant but magically in the remake the perfect same story in Japanese is great ( graphics is everything eh?)
3) the game is too easy
True, but no so easy, the enemies don't fall down in two or three blows, every battle has a good balance, but then what are you talking about? there's a ton of rpg's more easy then tales of destiny as chrono cross, final fantasy 9, grandia, grandia 2, golden sun, legend of mana
The positive
- most epic characters ever ( after xenogears)
- excellent characters interaction
- perfect AI, the spells are cast always at the right moment
- fantastic combat system that give you the total control of all characters in the battle
- story is well written with many plot twists
- old fashioned 2d rich graphics
- many puzzles in the every dungeons
- great city design
- rich exploration of a vast world
- unlike other rpg's, realistic houses in the cities, with bathroom, bedroom, kitchen ecc
- infinite side-quests
- almost every townspeople has character development! Fantastic NPCs!
- very high fun factor
The negative
- casual encounters rate is very high
- easiest "tales of" game
- story is too slow at first
- awful, awful conversion, where's the skits? the extra playable character?
- food sack is totally useless
- a major bug in the last dungeon
- no titles
- simple (but effective) game system
- colors are dull, namco could have made better use of the playstation's color palette
graphics 9/10
soundtrack 8/10
story 8/10
characters development 10/10
gameplay 9/10
fun factor 10/10
Miscellaneous
lenght : long game with many side-quests easily more the 100 hours
difficulty : easy
replay value : below avarage