The best story ever !!!
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As i first played this game, i thought: Oh well, the graphics sucks, the sound is awful, this game is a joke, but anyways, i try it out. I got it recommended by a friend (who is a littlebit wierd, too). I started playing, and was shocked, by the effort, the developers had put in. The story of this game, was the best, I ever played through ! And that means something, cause I played a lot (HL,HL2,SC,WC1-3,WoW). But Tales of Phantasia has the very best story, and the most humor, of all.
It is structured like Zelda for the GBA a bit, but MUCH better. It has a very nice combat-mode, in which you can control Cless (the main character) like in Street Fighter. You can have up to 4 party members at all.They will act freely, and heal, cast spells or shoot. You can give them tactical orders like "cast spells" or "cast many spells", or control them manually, and order them which spell or ability to use on which enemy.
The first boss i fought, took me 10 trys to beat. It´s not soooo easy to play, and you will have to deal with the fact to die sometimes. Sometimes it is difficult to find out where to go on, too.There are a lot of things, to find out in this games in fact, a lot of easter eggs and hidden specials and treasurs.
I didn´t play through completely yet, but i´m looking forward, to do so !
This is a MUST for all RPG-fans, and i recommend it for all others, with a bit of feeling for humor. Because it has a great story.
Have fun with it !
Max