Tales of Berseria
wooo buddy the things this game does to you. Beat it, not sure what to think of the ending though its one of those sad endings you'd rather not see sometimes, but regardless good shit.
Overall the game was a massive hit for me. I cant really dislike any major character in this game it seems all of them are very neat if not downright fascinating, each character is stupidly well written especially the main cast. So many good gameplay decisions, excellent difficult later on, loads of sidequests that are easy to catch on, dominating soundtrack, and overall solid story arcs to make this game a massive joy ride.
It was also very nice to see that the cast had many clashing personalities to make it an entertaining experience in the main story and during the skits and even to the sidequests. Eizen is certainly my favorite but big plus to velvet and the rest for being very interesting at some point or another, game looks great too as the graphics are pretty similar to zestiria but still nice to look at.
The game again, is well written i had quite an interest on the next cut scene or skit and plenty of times i found my self being in a heart wrenched state for some characters while laughing at some of the more quirky moments in the story.
Gameplay as expected from a tales of game is very solid and very flashy, especially velvet for being an absolute maniac with her fighting style its totally nuts, and each character feels unique and honestly i think the balance off the main cast is quite good. The difficulty was a bit lol at first but rose much later in the game and some of the optional boss fights were very difficult as well and even some main story bosses gave me quite a challenge, probably one of the best tales of games in terms of challenge.
Sadly berseria lacks good dungeon design overall, while some dungeons i liked i felt lots of them were very lacking in various areas, and of course as rpg tradition lots of recolored enemies, but honestly i felt it was a bit too much in this game and this is a 3d game, a modern one at that, so enemy variety certainly needs to be reworked in future installments.
Overall this is probably my favorite game in the franchise while i havent played nearly as much of berseria as vesperia, i can say its much better constructed in so many different areas, the plot is actually really good and not extented too much, the emotions in the story are very powerful and some moments in the game are just damn good, and overall i feel the game just really feels better then vesperia and previous entries that ive played.
in short berseria was an amazing experience and any jrpg/action rpg fan should really go play it, its so good and so worth it.
Not really writing a review but just giving thoughts, good shit hopefully it gets good dlc in the future aside from just costumes and such.