well though this game is great some tales fans might be disappointed. Minor SPOILER!
NO WORLD MAP!
WTF! every tales game up till now had one. even the ones with horrible graphics on the snes. im not saying this game isnt enjoyable though. even without the world map this game really still knows how to kill time. from my opinion this game would be beter if it had a world map.
a world map would add alot lore hours to gameplay and also give players a real feel of the landscape of the world. resorting back to the choose ur destination is kinda lame. it is the came thing over ans over again. click on a town or dungeon and fight a boss and do puzzles. nothing ever changes.
thenstory itself is too predictable. it is possible for almost anyone to correctly predict what happens next. in my opinion this game failed to continue the glory of the first one. but started a glory of its own. this game doesn't have a great emotional twist like the first one which makes the story interesting. instead Dow u can re-create ur pokemon fever by taming monsters. the story from Dow also never answers some of the question left behind. like why did lloyod abandon his journey? they point that question out but just leaves it there. the story has many gaps that should've been filled. what makes it even less enjoyable is that they simply tell u every detail of what is going on. there is no mystery or confusion for the players at all. most players enjoy a story where there is a major twist that alters emontion. but the player must put tings together themselves to understand this twist. but in DoW they simply show and tell the player that this is because of this and that is because of that. it is quite bland if i say so myself.
futhermore the game producers could hjave done better than this. im a big fan of namco and i know they can do a whole lot better.
Tales of symphonia and Tales of Symphonia DoW are 2 very great games, both with alot of replay value. but Namco didnt keep there promise when they said DoW would be better than the first one.
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