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Repede is a good boy.Flair/banner images from,. I like all the characters a lot more.My favorites are Edna and Zaveid. They did went up in my scale with the anime, specially Zaveid.I was pretty standard with Sorey and the subtle changes that they made made his character more interesting. In the game they focus too much in the decision of killing or not when purifying wasn't an option, which I was never fond off. But I love how hard for Sorey is to purify humans in the anime, it makes the struggle of interfering in the war much much harder. Also, his overpowerness is more obvious, which makes him more worthwhile as the Sheperd for me.I didn't like Alisha much in the game.
Yes, she could be an amazing character, but I didn't like her. First I she was too much of a fan of Sorey as a Sheperd and as a princess and as a knight she was useless. She could have been the kind of character that I didn't like until her spotlight moment (looking at you Karol from Vesperia), but she just keep falling over and over again. Now I won't deny that her badness in the anime put her right beside Edna and Zaveid in my list.I love Rose in the game, but she never grow up as a character. She was fun until the later mid part of the game, but near the end I didn't feel like she brought anything new or intereting. But in the anime?
Freaking awesome! She and the Shatterbones are taking active action in the war and her relationship with Alisha is +A.Lailah is the one that my view changed the less. I love her in the game, but the fact that everytime a big question comes up she couldn't answer started to get annoying. I love her puns and her jokes, but it got tiredome after the first couple of times that she reflected a question with a random comment (I want answe godammit!). She's much more serious in the anime, and by skipping those type of jokes it helps to drive home her role as the Lord Spirit (but I miss her pubs). Also, I didn't like in the game she never did anything about her oath. She never reveals how she did it, why she really did it and even when it was time to say the truth it was Mayven that broke his oath to talk.
It would have been more interesting if she had to make some sacrifice or that he oath had a impact in the plot beside 'I can't answer that'. So I think that her real change as a character will be in the second season, when is time to reveal the past.And Mikleo?
I just plain didn't like him. In the game he was like an accesorie for other characters. For Sorey he had role of childhood friend, for the rest (specially Edna) he was the butt of the joke. Beside those role he didn't seen to have much going on. Even when the plot revealed his past, which is the most interesting and plot twisting for the whole game, he's just brushed aside. He doesn't shine in anyway, he doesn't grow at all and his character is just plain bland.
The only thing that he has going on is ruin exploring and Sorey, but with how much he follows Sorey sometimes I wonder if he like exploring ruins just to be with him. But in the anime? When he talks with Lailah about helping Sorey and he leaves alone it was the best.thing.ever! I was freaking hyped!
Mikleo went from negative to really really high. He isn't my favorite character by much, but the small changed that they made helped him a lot to make him a real character, not an extra. He's confident, he owns his ruin exploring passion and share it with his best friend, his relationship with Sorey is more of brothers than of a puppy following his master and his personality is more polished.And since I mentioned the war a couple of times. In the game they painted you the war as a really big deal, but the war on itself wasn't that interesting.
The way to the battlefield was pretty meh, the conversations prebattle practically were 'we're at war, gotta stop it' (and just as short) and it was pretty boring until The Lord of Calamity appear. I mean, we are going to war! Why it feels like I'm going to another random dungeon?!In the anime they are going to WAR.
They had to prepare, they had prebattle motivational speech, some character bonding to make it more painful when someone dies, the road to the battlefield was full of tension and the battlefield on itself was scary as fuck.In overall I like the anime a lot more than the game. It sadden me that I couldn't play those characters, because they are more interesting, fun and likeable.
Character wise, mostly the same. Different.I don't like how they made him more.I guess more than he was in the game. Seemingly more powerful.
And other things too but thats it.Alisha in the anime is pretty basic. Still love her but dislike how they pandered her off to the fans. I really loved how she was the only character who struggled and fought for her victory.Now she's an 'instant' badass.
Every other character is a bit less quirky and dorky then they once were, but hey, the anime is just a remake of the game so I can't keep comparing all the time. The only characters I'd say I am sure they're better on the show are Alisha, Maltran, Zaveid and Lunarre, but not by a lot and none of them are my favorite. Dezel may be as well, but still too soon to tell.I like Lailah on the show more because I disliked her puns in the game, but that does not make her better since it is not more interesting for me still. Mikleo and Edna are less intense. Sorey lacks humor and nerd attitude that made him such a great MC in the game. The story is much better but the cast isn't.Hoping Sergei gets more screentime next season.
Most entries in the Tales series are stand-alone stories. You can pick up games like Tales of Vespiria, Tales of Graces, and Tales of the Abyss, knowing that’s it. The 40-60 hour adventure will tell you all that you need to know. That isn’t true of Tales of Berseria.
While this is a game that can stand-alone, on its own, very well, it’s best when paired with Tales of Zestiria. The two games complete each other, offering a fuller picture of a world where different species are divided and certain characters practically demand resolution.Note: major spoilers for Tales of Berseria and Tales of Zestiria will follow.Tales of Berseria begins its quest to further validate and explain the journey Sorey and his friends take in Tales of Zestiria almost immediately. The former sees us rising up against Heldalf, a Lord of Calamity, who was corrupted when a Shepard cursed him. But it’s Velvet that is the first Lord of Calamity. She develops the name for herself, with her villainous actions in the pursuit of Artorius cultivating her reputation. Sir you are being hunted trainer.
We know from the first game that someone with this title is a person to be reckoned with and fear, but it’s the second game that helps us see how the title became an infamous one. Yes, the Shepherd concept is introduced as well, what with Artorius being the first, but while Zestiria focuses on what a Shepherd is, Berseria is more about a Lord of Calamity.In each case, it’s a sacrifice that leads to the Lords of Calamity becoming who they are. Velvet is an ordinary young woman living with her brother-in-law, Artorius, and younger brother, Laphicet.
When Artorius sacrifices Laphicet for what he believes is the greater good, Velvet becomes a therion. It leaves her infected and on a terrible path. Heldalf was a Rolancian general who took Camlann while pretending to protect it, then abandoned it when Hyland, a real threat, attacked. They did this in front of Maotelus and Artorius’ throne, leading to his corruption. When Michael the Shepherd discovers both Mikleo and Maotelus had become hellions due to malevolence, he killed Mikleo as a sacrifice and cursed Heldalf to a life of loneliness, immortality and malevolence.It also allows us to see what people with two very different mindsets accomplish when going by the moniker. The Lord of Calamity Velvet is an antihero in Tales of Berseria.
She wants to kill Artorius for very personal reasons. But, at the same time, her opposition of both him and the Abbey is doing a very positive thing for the world. It’s saving Malakhim from enslavement, some daemons from persecution, and everyone from having their emotions and individuality sealed away.
Heldalf, under his curse, was attempting to remove sorrow from the world by killing everyone.But Tales of Berseria isn’t important to Tales of Zestiria by showing us another Lord of Calamity. It’s critical for the background it offers on additional characters. We get to see so many people debut here. Eizen is one of them. He’s a Malak and older brother of Edna, who joins our party in Zestiria. While people who played Zestiria may know him as a dragon in that game, here he’s an ordinary, albeit cursed, Malak. While his actual transformation into a dragon isn’t covered, we’re able to see and know him before it happened, as well as others who will go from Malakhim to dragon.
It provides a hint at Zaveid’s true age, since he makes his “first” appearance here. When Velvet, Eizen, and her group need to get past a barrier, the group runs across Zaveid. He’s also against the Abbey, but not keen on working with others. Which means a boss fight with the party pitted against both Eizen and Zaveid. His whirlwind nature and personality are shown off, as he does what he came to do, then leaves.But the important revelation regards Maotelus.
Maotelus doesn’t get much explanation or build up in Tales of Zestiria. We’re left chasing Heldalf for much of the game, before this new opponent is brought in out of left field. We just know he’s the most powerful Seraphim that is supposed to protect the world, but instead has been corrupted by the malevolence he sought to stop. Our entire time with Tales of Berseria is showing us how a young, innocent Malak like Laphicet would be willing to become Maotelus. We watch as he bonds with Velvet and the other people of the world, develops a personality, and comes into his own. He and the Abbey’s praetors, Oscar, Teresa, Shigure, and Melchior, become the Five Lord Malaks.To see a journey like the one in Tales of Berseria, where part of the purpose is for Laphicet to discover who he is, and then have it end with him achieving his destiny, is a very strong and compelling thing. We see a young man grow into what’s basically a god.
Then, to learn that Tales of Zestiria is a build up to Sorey being able to help complete the process by purifying him, which completes his cycle and story.Even Tales of Berseria and Tales of Zestiria’s endings complement one another. In each case, our hero is offering himself or herself up to make things right.
Velvet offers herself up to the original Laphicet, now Innominat, so he’ll be sealed away. She willingly enters into an endless cycle where he’ll use his power to supply her with malevolence, while she’ll take his malevolence and turn it into more power to consume. Sorey willingly sacrifices himself to purify Maotelus, sleeping for hundreds of years to remove the malevolence from him. Each one offers himself or herself for the greater good.Even saying this all now, reading isn’t enough. Tales of Zestiria and Tales of Berseria are so intertwined. If you go through one, you can’t skip the other.
You have to play through and experience both. It’s only then that you can appreciate the actions taken by the characters and lore developed between the two games.Tales of Berseria is available for the PlayStation 4 and PC. Tales of Zestiria is available for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PC.