Writing Tips and Reviews

Let's Look At The Tales of Series

The Tales series really started what I call, my good writing spree. It's when I started to write in my book of ideas that I wish I still had. I've gotten rid of it for room in my place. Anything I remember goes into my current series so there's that.

Starting with Tales of Phantasia, the Tales of series has grown and grown, but what makes it so good?

Characters:

The characters are always fun and interesting, despite the massive cast, Namco has been able to create thousands of unique characters. All have their own backstory, personality, development and more. None feel like copies of another, not design wise anyways, and put together, they make a good team.

You can see how different the characters are when they interact with one another in their game and in spin offs. This is where their personality shines, they can freely interact with whoever they want and it shows what type of people they are.

World:

The Tales worlds are massive, just like their cast. The script is a literary dictionary.

Despite the worlds following the same rules, artes and such, each world is done differently than the world. Even games that share the same world are shown to be much different from time passing.

Story:

The stories have always been the focal point of the game. The story makes sense most of the time, and it's just all around interesting. Even though the format is mostly the same, the games are so different in other areas, it doesn't matter. I use this format of story telling, and it seems to work. I change perspective, but that's from another game.

Antagonists:

This is a section of its own, I like to take the Tales of Xillia approach and introduce one antagonist then after that one is down, introduce the final antagonist.

Each antagonist is different, while motivation can be really stupid, it's the threat they pose to the world and protagonist that gets me. The antagonists aren't just dark edgy badasses, they have a personality, a backstory, development. They're written well. Most of the time, looking at you Tales of Legendia.

Conclusion:

There's a reason I love the Tales series, it's intriguing, the gameplay is fun, the stories are interesting, the characters are lovable, it's just a good series. Namco treats its audience like adults, they don't sugar coat anything and they sure don't hold back the feels, Tales of Link. Unlike many series, the stories don't repeat themselves with different characters. I think that's a good charm to a series. No one wants to read the same thing over again with different names.

I'm tired, I'll do a part two if I think of anything else. I just love this series.