#Seres tales of zestiria wiki series

I mention this because this was the biggest factors of Zestiria's negative impact. Though I find this is no longer relevant.Īlisha is significantly lower on the polls to show that her whole 'we love Alisha' shtick was all a sham.

If we are specifically talking about the meta in Japan during the early time of the Alisha backlash, I would agree.

I would incline to say it no longer has that effect. Zestiria has definitely had a negative impact on the series. Even after Zestiria was said and done, it still never died(also deducting that something is worse or better without having the proper perspective of said object is a wonky decision to make imo.). Because Berseria from what I saw, came up quickly then left quickly. People will also try to play up the Alisha backlash in Japan as the only thing that's wrong with the game.īacklash was one of the biggest issues with the game that never needed to happen and it needlessly put Bamco into a corner.īerseria sold worse than Zestiria in Japan, if I recall, despite being a significant improvement.īerseria selling worse than Zestiria can either a culmination of peoples opinions on Zestiria than automatically assuming Berseria is worse without playing it(I consider this a flawed mindset no matter how you put it) or Berseria's marketing and handling.

#Seres tales of zestiria wiki series

Its issues become far more apparent when you compare it to the rest of the series (similarly to FF13). On your last point, though, I think for first time players it just gives them a very different sense of Tales games. It even scared off some of the devoted youtubers who used to do combo videos because the mechanics were just that unfun to deal with. Compared to most of the rest of the series, it's not very good. The bad impressions from that then affects the next game no matter how good it is. I call this the 'Battle Network 4 effect' where a series with a ton of momentum and popularity releases a game only for it to be revealed as a subpar product. The fact that it was a 20th anniversary game that once again felt unfinished (the Alisha DLC episode only made that seem more apparent) after Xillia was the widely advertised 15th anniversary game that was also unfinished (thus leading to a sequel one year layer that's 80% recycled content) didn't help its case.īerseria sold worse than Zestiria in Japan, if I recall, despite being a significant improvement. While that issue gets the most attention, Japanese players had plenty of other problems with the game. People will also try to play up the Alisha backlash in Japan as the only thing that's wrong with the game. That aside, you do tend to do less damage in Zestiria due to the rather punishing weakness system (explained in that blog post). I can understand being confused if you're playing both at the same time, though. Someone else already explained how damage numbers work in Zestiria as opposed to Xillia. When a game's equipment system is so cumbersome that people try to defend it by telling you to just ignore it, that indicates that something is really broken in the game itself. Tales of Rebirth had one of the most esoteric systems I'd encountered, but even I was able to muddle through that in Japanese.

Past Tales games had relatively simple systems that you had to think about, but didn't detract too much from the rest of the game. You're definitely not the only one with this opinion.Ī lot of people here will try to defend it by trying to handwave the terribleness of the equipment system, which I wholly disagree with.