
The tone truly wouldn’t be as immersive as it is without him. I’d say he’s really essential to the party coming to terms with their own ideas and with what it is they can’t accept about the antagonists. Rokurou is so crucial to the perception of violence or rather might and righteousness throughout the story, and he actually has this sensitivity to his party members that gives them room to more comfortably open up about their contradictions because he’s just so nonjudgmental and unassuming. I’ve had a lot of people try to say Rokurou doesn’t have a meaningful role on here, but that’s really missing the intent of the character. It only happened when I cooked it after velvet awoke the Empyreans, I c. back when she was a normal village girl she spent most of her time either cooking or gathering ingredients because. Overall, very richly explored ideas and personalities with meaningful payoff. This happened when velvet made her special quiche she learned automatically in aball. cooking is The symbol of normalcy for velvet. The conclusion is also fantastically rich with heart and it puts a beautiful bow on it all. I can’t think of another Tales where every party member was so truly essential to the expression of the story. Its characters really having a diverse range of motivations and the way the narrative really labors keeping those motivations in perspective gave that thematic exploration a lot more layers at every turn and kept the party members challenging each other in ways that made the questions of the narrative have real drama and impact on their relationships and themselves. Its something you really have to put your villain forward early in the story to do. Artorias has this really deeply engaging impact on the world with his ideology on display left and right, and it really keeps those themes of passion versus order locked into focus all throughout.

My friend the other day asked me which Tales I’d like a remake of if they went to do remakes, and Abyss came to mind because I feel like it would give a second shot at a lot of this and Abyss would specifically benefit from that treatment more than Symphonia.īerseria has the tightest core narrative. Partly because Abyss’s narrative is flat out more ambitious than Symphonia’s as a world concept, while literally having less time to make it. I feel like they had less time and resources to really cook it on every level than they did with Symphonia. Like when you play Final Fantasy X, it’s this very layered delivery of a culture locked in grief and dread that has been so for centuries at the very least. To use you need to press :up: or :down: (depending on.

Abyss has a great core narrative, but its immersion does suffer some from the pacing and the tone suffers from how hard it tries to be an adventure and a fantasy sci-fi here and there, and I really feel like the premise of a world living by premonition is kinda underdeveloped because it just doesn’t have a lot of cultural expression to back it up. The possible combinations are Velvet & Laphicet, Rokurou & Eizen, and Magilou & Eleanor.
