Thoughts on the Tales of Vesperia PS3 demo

Aww...isn't this a wonderful scene? <3

I played through the PS3 Tales of Vesperia demo today, and I've got say that it was pretty...interesting.

The demo skips the opening movie and it takes you directly to the start screen, which meant that I didn't get to hear Ring a Bell. =( I pressed start and I was underway.

Instead of starting from the beginning of the game the demo takes place in the Forest of Keiv Moc. The party, consisting of Yuri, Estelle, Rita, Repede, and the PS3 exclusive character Patty Fleur are all level 25. Raven is also with the party but he remains an NPC throughout the whole demo. You get plenty of items to play around with, which consists of mostly gels and other random items.

There are plenty of opportunities for combat, which means that players can spend enough time playing around with Patty. Not in that way. >_> Although her panties are visible during one of her victory poses.

Despite the fact that Patty's in your party throughout the entire demo, you don't actually meet up with her until the middle. Umm...paradoxes FTW? Yuri rescues Patty from being assulted by a flying enemy, then picks her up then drops her. Way to go Yuri. >_> Patty returns the favor by beating the crap out of a looming mantis soon after.

The demo continues on with some more encounters and even a Mimic along the way? Yay? The final boss of the demo is the main boss of the Forest of Kiev Moc, Gigalarva. After its defeat after a long and hard fought battle you get the usual results screen and then a black background with the words "Coming Soon" on top in white text with a small icon of Repede on the top right corner of it.

All in all it was a pretty good demo. Its average playtime is around 30-40 minutes, so it kept my attention for a good and short period of time. I only played as Yuri so I cannot say whether or not Patty is good under manual control. She did do a decent job as a CPU.

I may import the PS3 version of ToV when it comes out since I've never gotten a real chance to play through it. And it's a Tales game, which means that I must play it. :P

Tales of VS. Full Roster Revealed

Majinken!

So a Tales of the Tempest character got into the game as a playable character yet Marta and Zelos were excluded? I had hope since Zelos has done very well in the Taleschannel character rankings and Marta didn't do such a bad job in last year's either. But it was not meant to be. There is no justice in this world. T_T

Oh well. At least I'll be able to play as Yuri, Judith, Luke, Tear, Anise and others. I'm still anticipating this game since it looks so awesome and you can't go wrong with a 2D fighter in the style of the Tales series.

Also, sorry for not updating the Golden Church often. I've been busy with other things.