Tales of Phantasia
Tales Of Phantasia is a classic-style RPG with a real-time battle system, for a new kind of action. When young swordsman Cress Albane finds his home village destroyed and his parents killed, Cress sets off on an adventure to find those responsible. In his efforts to uncover those behind this evil deed, Cress soon finds himself on a mission that will take him back and forth through time.
Tales of Phantasia Accessories
 Tales of the Abyss
Final Fantasy IV Advance
Final Fantasy V Advance
Tales of Legendia
Tales of Symphonia
Final Fantasy III
Final Fantasy VI
Tales Of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World
Final Fantasy I & II Dawn of Souls
Golden Sun
Tales of Phantasia Reviews
I think that this was an alright game. Especially ones for the other consoles. Other tales game seem to have much better battle systems. Just like in the other tales games.
I didn't really like how the battle system was like. I know the graphics were a lot better on the PSP versiob than the previous versions of Tales of Phantasia. In the PSP version, I know that they have added some new content and some new skits. At the end of the game, after beating the game, there is a gradeshop so that you can play the game over again with more added stuff you can buy in the gradeshop like the other tales games have. The animation scenes were not very graphical, but as it was for the game boy, they did a nice clean job so far. You can play the game on a harder difficulty and it will make it a more challenging game the second time you play it.
But, the game boy game is still a lot of fun. Overall, I really liked the story that the game had, and the characters each had their own personalities and good/bad qualities. The battle system was kind of difficult a little to handle. Overall I give this game a 3 because of it's great story and the characters I like. But it's a great 2D game. The battle system was ok, like I stated before, but it's not as good comparing to the other tales games.
Some of the game characters were pretty funny.
If you can endure the horrible "voices", kinda slow battle system, and horrible dubbing then it's pretty decent. You have Cress, your traditional knight, Mint, your traditional healer, Chester, your archer, Arche your primary spellcaster (among other things.)., Klarth, your other spellcaster, and Suzu, a ninja, but she's optional. Coming from that, you'd think it'd be alright, but it's not. After all, this IS the sequel to Tales of Symphonia. Personally, I absolutely fell in love with Mint. So, I give the English version of Tales of Phantasia a 3 out of 5. It wouldn't have killed whoever localized this to get a few decent VAs. The story was a good one, but with a few errors, this also includes the "voices".
It changed Ragnarok to "Kangaroo". Overall, it's not a bad game. You can't understand what they say half the time, and they just sound really bad. Absolutely the worse. Sure, you don't get Maunal mode until late in the game, but it's alright. This may be a crappy English port, but at least they did SOME things right. Some of the tech names are wrong (Glaive and "Judgment"), and of course there are those darn spell pauses.
EWW. Wow.what a mistake. It's something a new Tales fan should try out. Before I got Tales of Phantasia in March 2006, I didn't know anything about it.
This is the first game in the series, and of course it's a port of the original SFC version. If you can handle that, then it's ok. The characters are pretty good. To start off with, the "voices" in this game are horrible.
The battle system is a fairly good one. To make things worse, they butchered Klarth's name, changing it to Claus.
For the first game in the series, this was quite the bang. It spawned an entire series, and with good reason. Back in the SNES days when it was released it was quite fun, but since then it has had a number of remakes made, including one for the GBA. Overall, I give this game a 3 because it doesn't do anything spectacular, but it is good enough to stand on it's own in today's day and age of gaming. So even when the main quest is over, the player still has a number of things to do. The spell and summon animations are quite nice, and overall the graphics for the GBA are too shabby.
The game, of course, includes a number of side quests and other staples of the Tales series, such as cooking. Motoi Sakuraba and Shinji Tamura both worked on this soundtrack to make some quite beautiful musical that helped to make the story and game a much better experience. The characters are also interesting and it's amusing to watch them interact with each other in this adventure as they all learn about each other. The battles may seem slow and clunky when compared to more recent Tales titles, but there is still much fun to be had. Tales of Phantasia is a great RPG to have for your GBA simply because it is fun. It's not hard on the eyes at all.
Additionally, the game has an exceptional soundtrack given that it is from the SNES era. The story itself may not be something that will blow the player our of the water, but it is still interesting.
Cmon now. Did it have to be tha way. The characters look dubbed down from the original game. It is fun.
It has an interesting story. Sure you can get used to it as you play the game, but if you sit down and actually play the original for the SNES, or watch videos of it you will see how completely different the combat feels and even looks compared to this one. The developers had time to add extras, but did not have time to make the game look and play as good as the orignial. I doubt it. It seems great except for a couple of things. Or even better, buy yourself a famicom and buy the Japanese import. Actually the entire game looks worse than the orignial. I am telling you though, if you want to really play the first "legends of" game, then go out of your way to download an emulator and play the original game in all it's glory on your home computer.
For one thing the combat is laggy. Even that I believe would be more genuine then this sad rushed game. You can read translation guides for the guide of the internet as you play to see what is going on. I mean is the GBA incapable of matching the graphics of the SNES. It is different. If you haven't played the original you won't even care about all of this. That's why i feel like this game was rushed and not taken care of.
You can assign the same move to all the button combos if you want to. The battle system takes some getting used to. Sound and Music - The voice acting in the beginning of the game hooked me in for the long haul 70+ hours of musical bliss, 8/10. Graphics - They are great for the GBA, 8/10. Battle system is perfect. You must assign your special attacks to certain button combinations, for instance: up, down, left or right plus B or B by itself will perform the special attack that you have assigned.
This game has been the most fun I have ever had with GBA system. Scores:. Tales of Phantasia has enough action and adventure to keep you glued to your GBA for 70+ hours. This is the first installment of the "Tales of." series from Namco. Tales of Phantasia is a tale of the past, present and the future. The most enjoyable game to grace my GBA, 10/10. Run don.t walk to get this game. For standard attacks you will press up, down, left or right plus the A button or the A button by itself.
Overall.
You can stop the action in the middle of an attack to give your team orders.
Puzzles were tough enough for you to rejoice after you figured them out, 10/10.
Like you notice that you are almost dead, so you stop the action to tell your healer to cast a spell that heals your wounds.
Perfect score.
Reviewed for Big Boss Games By: TRC.
For the first time in the USA, Tales of Phantasia is gracing our shores with a quest of revenge and time travel.
Gameplay.
You start out as Cress, a young boy, and his friend go on a hunting trip, only to find that when they get back that their town is in ruins and everyone is dead.
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