Presea: A stoic young girl whose emotions are suppressed using a magic stone that serves as a great plot point in the game. Very shrewd and intelligent despite acting the fool. Zelos: The Chosen of Mana from another world connected to the starting world. She bears great sadness over her failure in suppressing a summon spirit and subsequent slaughter of many citizens of her village. Very clumsy and harassed for her features. Sheena: A summoner ninja from the village of Mizuho sent to assassinate the Chosen of Mana. However he ends as a magical angel god… I never said it wasn’t corny. He starts as a mercenary hired to protect Collete. Very wise, she has memories of her childhood and her mother whom she considers heartless, as well as a strange gate from another world. Raine: A healbot who serves as the above three characters’ teacher. She’s very selfless with a grand martyr complex and a shy love interest of Lloyd. Best friend of Lloyd.Ĭollete: A ditsy girl selected to be the “Chosen of Mana” based on her lineage. Genis: A very intelligent half-elf masquerading as an elf because of half-elf persecution having almost nothing at all to do with the fact that the universal bad guys in this universe are half-elves. His real father is a mystery, but his mother died trying to save him from half-elf bad guys called Desians. Lloyd: A young man being raised by a dwarf. In Tales of Symphonia your main party consists of nine people eight at any given time. Then for the second game I’ll explain why it’s a severe downgrade. The way this is going to work is I’m going to explain the fundamental aspects of the first game. There, go ahead with that in your purchasing decisions. This is an explanation of the fundamentals of making games fun and paying homage to previous titles in a series. I will actively try to get you to understand why this is one of the worst sequels in modern video game history and a below-average standalone game at best.įirst, this isn’t actually a review per se. Usually I don’t try to push my opinions on other people in my articles. I picked this game to write about specifically because I hate it and I think you should too.

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