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Knight of Ratatosk/Dawn of the New World
Jun. 29th, 2008 10:06 amI continued to read the forum topic anyway. Lol, spoilers. There wasn't really very much to spoil myself on though. It seems that DotNW is severely lacking in storyline and plot twists. Poo. Plot twists were part of the fun of the original Tales of Symphonia, even if Namco loved hinting at them before we found them out. Sometimes they made things pretty dang obvious *cough*RegalAlicia*cough*
Anyway, I'm going to talk about the sequel a bit...
So, Decus and Alice do die. Decus dies defending Alice, and Alice gets pwned by Marta. Apparently, Alice loved Decus back... geez, funny way of showing it. Isn't she mean and cruel to him? There's a guy named Hawk who looks like an anorexic Botta rip-off o_o And, uh, the leader of the Vanguard is named Brute and he is Marta's father. So, they do pull an "I am your father" thing here, then? Lol, they can't resist it, can they?
Lloyd-tachi don't level up in this game, not even when they permanently join your party. Lame. It also sounds like they are mostly just tacked onto this game for the hell of it. Heck, if some guy hadn't dressed up as Lloyd and burned down a city, Lloyd might not have had anything to do with the plot. I guess we won't be getting any insight into the original characters either. This game's going to be all about Emil and Marta. =/
Kratos makes an appearance. Yuan is seen talking to his disembodied head floating above Yggdrasill... he didn't float down from Derris Kharlan or anything like that. It would have been pretty ridiculous for him to do so.
And, now, about Richter and Emil... one day, Richter and his buddy Astel went to chat to Ratatosk, who got pissed and killed Astel, so Richter kicked Ratatosk's ass and Astel and Ratatosk got sucked into a core or something. So Marta has the core during the destruction of Palmacosta and screams for help, before fainting. At that point, Astel appears with no memories and goes exploring.
He finds a blind, dying lady who mistakenly calls him Emil, says she is his mother and tells him to go to Luin. She has no idea who it really is, since she's blind. So Astel believes his name is Emil Castagnier...
Yeah. He set out to avenge people who weren't even his parents after all. Sucks to be him, doesn't it? The real Emil probably died in the fire.
Since Ratatosk is in "Emil" (Astel), he has to go and watch the world for 1,000 years, which means leaving Marta behind. I can't remember about Richter... maybe he goes with him.
There's going to be an "Emil" vs "Emil" fight in this game apparently. Kickass.
Sucks that the storyline's all about Emil and Marta though... it's not much of a sequel if it's barely similar to the original. There's nothing about angels, Mithos, Derris-Kharlan, Cruxis... just a bunch of bad guys calling themselves the Vanguard.
There is a distinct lack of plot twists in this game... and the game sounds like it's shorter than ToS. It really is more of a spin-off than a sequel, but apparently Namco is calling it a sequel now. It's just a half-baked one then...
I'll get it anyway if it comes to Europe. I just have to remember to keep my expectations very low.
Anyway, I'm going to talk about the sequel a bit...
So, Decus and Alice do die. Decus dies defending Alice, and Alice gets pwned by Marta. Apparently, Alice loved Decus back... geez, funny way of showing it. Isn't she mean and cruel to him? There's a guy named Hawk who looks like an anorexic Botta rip-off o_o And, uh, the leader of the Vanguard is named Brute and he is Marta's father. So, they do pull an "I am your father" thing here, then? Lol, they can't resist it, can they?
Lloyd-tachi don't level up in this game, not even when they permanently join your party. Lame. It also sounds like they are mostly just tacked onto this game for the hell of it. Heck, if some guy hadn't dressed up as Lloyd and burned down a city, Lloyd might not have had anything to do with the plot. I guess we won't be getting any insight into the original characters either. This game's going to be all about Emil and Marta. =/
Kratos makes an appearance. Yuan is seen talking to his disembodied head floating above Yggdrasill... he didn't float down from Derris Kharlan or anything like that. It would have been pretty ridiculous for him to do so.
And, now, about Richter and Emil... one day, Richter and his buddy Astel went to chat to Ratatosk, who got pissed and killed Astel, so Richter kicked Ratatosk's ass and Astel and Ratatosk got sucked into a core or something. So Marta has the core during the destruction of Palmacosta and screams for help, before fainting. At that point, Astel appears with no memories and goes exploring.
He finds a blind, dying lady who mistakenly calls him Emil, says she is his mother and tells him to go to Luin. She has no idea who it really is, since she's blind. So Astel believes his name is Emil Castagnier...
Yeah. He set out to avenge people who weren't even his parents after all. Sucks to be him, doesn't it? The real Emil probably died in the fire.
Since Ratatosk is in "Emil" (Astel), he has to go and watch the world for 1,000 years, which means leaving Marta behind. I can't remember about Richter... maybe he goes with him.
There's going to be an "Emil" vs "Emil" fight in this game apparently. Kickass.
Sucks that the storyline's all about Emil and Marta though... it's not much of a sequel if it's barely similar to the original. There's nothing about angels, Mithos, Derris-Kharlan, Cruxis... just a bunch of bad guys calling themselves the Vanguard.
There is a distinct lack of plot twists in this game... and the game sounds like it's shorter than ToS. It really is more of a spin-off than a sequel, but apparently Namco is calling it a sequel now. It's just a half-baked one then...
I'll get it anyway if it comes to Europe. I just have to remember to keep my expectations very low.
