![]() I haven’t even gotten to talking about the amazing watercolour feel of the graphics in Tales of Arise. I found my party members were actually quite helpful when we were fighting, which was nice to see. There are four different strategies you can select from and switch at any time during a fight. This strategy will be the one that the rest of the characters in the party will follow when they fight alongside you. ![]() You can decide exactly what happens, or if you want you can set it to semi-auto or auto where the game will fight for you based on the strategy you have chosen. Tales of Arise allows you to decide what will happen in combat. There are even ones that will extend the amount of time you get to effectively evade the enemies attacks to make it easier to avoid taking any damage. As you level up and earn new titles allowing you to pick and choose which artes and skills you want to spend points on to learn. This means that you will take no damage at all. If you manage to time it right, you can perform a perfect evasion. When you aren’t attacking you can try to evade the attacks from your enemies. Beware that if you continually use the same arte within four actions its effectiveness will decrease allowing your enemies to recover faster, so be sure to constantly switch it up. Some of these artes cost more points to use so keep this in mind as they will deplete your gauge a lot faster. You can equip three different artes that are for ground attacks and another three that you can use when you are performing air attacks. This gauge automatically restores but if you are attacking enemies it will fill slower than if you were just walking around. These special actions have their own gauge and can be performed as long as you have enough of the Artes Gauge filled. To be more effective, and to stretch out your combo you have a choice of three special attacks called Artes that can be assigned to use in battle. Each of the characters has a normal attack that can be strung together on their own. I never felt like I was fighting the camera to see where I was going or who I was fighting, which was great. ![]() I was extremely pleased to find that I enjoyed the battle system in Tales of Arise a lot more than I was expecting. Since I am more used to retro turn-based styles or RPG’s, being allowed to have a tiny bit more time to react was great. You can also adjust the time allowed for button inputs to launch attack combos. If combat is more your thing then Moderate or Hard mode is for people who want a harder challenge, both of these modes reward you with more Combat Points as the enemies are harder. Normal is for people who want a balance of story and combat. What to focus more on the story and combat second? Then select the Story mode where the game is more about the plot and characters than just fighting. Tales of Arise lets you choose what difficulty is best to maximise your enjoyment of the game. Grinding for multiple hours on end isn’t exactly my idea of a fun time. As I have gotten older my free time has definitely diminished so I love when games allow me to change up the difficulty so I can spend more time on the main story quest than constantly dying and having to replay the same sections multiple times. I’ve always loved discovering the immense stories and enjoyed living vicariously through the characters to feel like I am experiencing living in a totally different world. When I was younger I was a huge role-playing game fan. Somehow I’ve managed to miss out on all of the titles since the first one, so I am super excited to get reintroduced to the series with Tales of Arise. Bandai Namco has released 16 other main titles in the series and numerous other spin-offs. The Tales series of role-playing games has been around for over 25 years beginning in 1995 on the Super Nintendo with Tales of Phantasia. Reviews // 16th Sep 2021 - 2 years ago // By Alana Dunitz Tales of Arise Review ![]()
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