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| Zepy 281th Post
 
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|  "Re(2):Tales of Destiny 2"
, posted Thu 5 Dec 09:16:
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I Don't think we will be able to get Dymlos. But we do get to see all the swords our past heroes/herione used which is exhibited in a Musuem near the castle where Woodrow ruled anyway.
Those are just models! Useless!
I was referring to the Tales of Destiny scenario that was in Tales of Fandom vol.1, that described how after the end of Tales of Destiny, Lilith found a fragment of Dymlos, and later managed to reconstruct him into his full original form with the help of a great power.
There's a huge continuity problem with the story however. They never did explain why the characters can cast spells without the use of swordians.
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In the Aeth'er Wars, Barbatos was even surprised that Dymlos was able to cast a spell, and said "so it has been completed?", and it was fireball at that, but he isn't surprised at all that Reala can rain fire from the sky, why doesn't he think that Kyle and co has got superior swordians or something!
End of Spoiler
Kyle and co might all be holding high purity lens or something, but they don't ever mention anything about that.
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| Zepy 282th Post
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|  "Re(1):Zepeh"
, posted Thu 5 Dec 09:51
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What did you think of the battle system?anything new? is it better or worse than the previous tales games?
The battle system has gotten huge changes this time around. As far as my preferences go, I like it more then Tales of Eternia's, while I prefer Tales of Phantasia's more.
The new SP gauge system makes huge combos much harder this time around, since all attacks use up the SP gauge, and when it empties, you will lose HP and get knocked back if you try to do any attacks. Furthermore, your max TP stays at 100 throughout the game for all characters, and it only regenerates with time in battle, or when you attack an enemy. It seems like a good system for the most part, except when you want to rack up usage counts for the higher TP consuming skills.
And speaking of skills, there's very little skills this time around as compared to older Tales games, Kyle gets only... 5 specials and 5 ougis. Not counting Action enchants and hidden ougis. And the traditionals mashinken and kogahazan are not in the game! Grah!
When you use a certain skill or spell for a number of times, you can use that usage count to equip enchants to it. For example, you can upgrade the attack power, increase the casting rate, steal items, etc. There can only equip one enchant from the two classes of enchants onto the attack at any given one time. The two classes of enchants are those that increase a given effect of the attack, and those that allow additional actions to be carried out. The cost for each enchant varies from 35-1600 uses, 1600 isn't really all that much for some characters... since when you got only 5 specials, you're bound to use at least one favorite move way into the thousands before the end of the game :P
And summons too, they're are quite a rarity now, they're even harder to get out then in Tales of Eternia.
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| Zepy 283th Post
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| "Re(3):Zepeh" , posted Thu 5 Dec 10:10
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Summons are similar to spells like in ToE or ToP, or consumable items like in the first ToD?
And are Celsius and Luna between them?
They can only be summoned when the character is in "Spirit Blaster Mode", which gives the character super armour, fast TP recovery, and infinite SP. But it only activates when a certain invisible counter fills up, attacking and getting hit both contributes to this counter, but the problem is that you can never get to see it, so you can't really strategise... And its not that common that you will frequently see Spirit Blaster mode. And when the first time you get access to summons, it actually costs 50 TP, which is 50% of the spell caster's TP, in addition to the high level spell that has to be casted prior to the summon. They're all great eye candy though! Also, you can only do the hidden ougis in Spirit Blaster Mode.
The water/ice summon is Undine unfortunately :(
I haven't tried the Light/Lightning summon yet, so I can't say anything about Luna. Most likely it'd be Luna though.
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