this has probably been said already, but most of the questions about the Jude (the guy who fell on the water) are answered if you choose to follow Jude's story at the beginning of the game. Graham and Paul skipped the part after the anime cutscene were the game asks which story you want to follow. Graham and Paul picked Milla (the chick with the cowlick).
Unskippable: Tales of Xillia
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Oh I have no doubt that the game is good, but the cutscene was... actually the cutscene wasn't all that bad by the usual Unskippable standards.Furioso said:
Actually, if you're tryingf to stop someone making noise dropping them in water won't help. Firstly there's the big splash and then there's the little splashes from them thrashing around. A water bubble solves both these problems.
JRPG logic is starting to make sense to me. Please send help.
These boots are made for meandering, and that's just what they'll do. One of these days these boots will meanering to where I'm meandering to.
JRPG logic is starting to make sense to me. Please send help.
These boots are made for meandering, and that's just what they'll do. One of these days these boots will meanering to where I'm meandering to.
Hold on a minute - so you have to play this game twice if you plan on seeing everything? o.0 That sounds... awful yet amazing at the same time. I can't pick one feeling - it's both. Insta-replay-value... but no matter how much time/effort I invest in it the first time, I will still miss so much stuff.Furioso said:
There are two character paths to start the game and they chose Milla's path (female) instead of Judes path (male) and you would get more context and what in general is going on if you picked Judes path, but would also be starting some gameplay inbetween those cutscenes that are all just one big cutscene in Milla's. Where Jude was before he went to where Milla was is on a bridge that is right near where Milla was and connects to a science facility that he was heading to, but on the way he saw her over pass and while he was stunned at seeing her do what she was doing a paper in hand flew out because of the wind right onto one of the little water steps she created.canadamus_prime said:
Honestly there is only a few difference in gameplay and scenes between which character you start with, but if you want to get the full context of every detail that happens in the game it would be good to play both. I suggest always start with the Male protagonist Jude for it starts off with better explenations on what is going on with a better tutorial while Milla just jumps right into the combat with not as much explenation to what is going on at first. Also they give replay in new game plus with bonuses to thing like xp bost, items you had at the end you can start with, and etc. But to unlock or use many of the new game stuff is tide into how much points you gained through completing quest, and other things in the game so you may only be able to pick some and not all of what you can retain or recieve in new game plus.Auron225 said:
Oh and you will have both main characters in the party most of the game and you can switch which one you control on the fly while the other has set commands that are before battle starts, but you can also change them in battle during combat by pause or through manual that just slows the area down, but enemies can still attack you.
Yeah that was one of the minor gripes I can see about the game if you start with Milla and kinda wish they thought of a way to give some sort of tutorial like they did with Jude. A possible way to do a tutorial for her would be before she leaves she can go around Nia Khera before she heads off.FPLOON said:
Wow, Milla's path makes Jude look like a moron. Run into about ten people running through the halls then fall off a bridge by accident trying to get something he dropped. Almost like he's channelling his childhood friend, who really is like that all the way through...
I think the cowlick and the other weird aspects of her hair must be to compensate for Jude's being relatively normal- just straight black without any spikes.
I think the cowlick and the other weird aspects of her hair must be to compensate for Jude's being relatively normal- just straight black without any spikes.
Well to be fair plenty of the JRPG's they review on this are full out weeboo affairs, while the Tales series has been around since the SNES days so it goes with more of standard JRPG game/story with anime aesthetics.Johnny Novgorod said:
I love JRPG's but for some reason I've never played the Tales series apart from the ROM translation of Phantasia on the SNES.
Cowlick girl actually has reasonable boobs for an anime, I don't know what was going through the character designer's head.
I love it when you guys do JRPG's, especially if they open with an anime. Can we get the male character's intro next week? It looks like from the comments above mine, those make more story sense.
I've only played Tales of the Abyss on the PS2 and it had a decent story, bar the lead character's costume.RandV80 said:
Well that was not a completely horrible jrpg intro.
It's at least a 20 times better of an intro than Time & Eternity had.
It's at least a 20 times better of an intro than Time & Eternity had.
1. Spirits and ghosts are not the same thing. Spirits can be alive however ghosts by definition are dead.
2. Him dropping something DOES explain him being there as he dropped it in the water and it landed on one of her magical water circles.
3. The trees do not need to be changed, just maintained as the trees themselves are what are producing the light.
4. The laboratory is INSIDE the tree so it would only make sense for any entrances secret or not to lead into the tree.
most of the jokes stop being funny once somebody who has actually played the first hour of the game watches it. Its one thing to make fun of something that doesn't make sense (like the cowlick switching sides) but most of the humor in this fell completely flat.
And don't give me the well WE didn't know he dropped his thing into the water. They just skipped that scene for the sake of the joke making sense. It's established beforehand in the actual game.
When you need to omit facts in order for something to be funny then it just isn't funny.
2. Him dropping something DOES explain him being there as he dropped it in the water and it landed on one of her magical water circles.
3. The trees do not need to be changed, just maintained as the trees themselves are what are producing the light.
4. The laboratory is INSIDE the tree so it would only make sense for any entrances secret or not to lead into the tree.
most of the jokes stop being funny once somebody who has actually played the first hour of the game watches it. Its one thing to make fun of something that doesn't make sense (like the cowlick switching sides) but most of the humor in this fell completely flat.
And don't give me the well WE didn't know he dropped his thing into the water. They just skipped that scene for the sake of the joke making sense. It's established beforehand in the actual game.
When you need to omit facts in order for something to be funny then it just isn't funny.