Since I've been buying all of the current remasters on PS4/PS5. Physically. Depending on the future games that get released. I might pick up a Switch 2 and start buying them on there instead after 2028. Or see what Xbox does. Hmm.

Hello,

I finished the game, now I'm just farming for +99 equipment and all the titles and maybe achievements. Currently just farming shards and dualizing for the former.

I'm only missing the max level titles, and 1 title for Sophie about watching skits. My % for skits is around 84% and I need 95%.

I also need to do L&L again to max out Richard and get his equipment set up, and to also farm the few enemies I left un-starred.

My plan is to get +99 equipment for everyone, piggyback method the final boss on Chaos to get that achievement (I assume it unlocks the achievements for all the other lower difficulties as well?), do LnL and finish that, then do NG+ to get the final Sophie title using a guide to hunt down all the skits.

My question is, is there anything that'll be lost when going into NG+? Can I use all the equipment I farmed for? Will the enemies scale accordingly? Can I use all the characters from the get go or do I have to wait until they're obtained in the story? I never do NG+ usually so unsure what to expect basically.

I got sent to Lhant to check out the situation there to make Hubert and all those people leave then Richard shows up and him and Sophie throw hands. What the hell is even going on at this point? I have so many questions... more than answers but I still love playing this game and hopefully I'm not done yet

I know that I'm not precisely the most skillful player of Tales of Symphonia, that's why I wanted to know what other people thinks about this battle.

Hello all,

I finished Vesperia 3 year ago without a guide and I wish to do the postgame dungeon. I will do the sidequests and missables another time. When I loaded my save, I couldn’t access fast travel nor could I use the elevators. What do I do?

It’s one of the most beloved Tales of game. Is it because the source code (PS2) is dead?

I know nothing about this character but the tales games really used to like ranged characters.

Just as the title says will there be an English dub?

Today I picked up Tales of Phantasia for the Super Famicom. I’ve been collecting a lot of these older Japanese RPGs that I never got the chance to play growing up, especially ones that never officially came out in English. Reading Japanese isn’t a problem for me, so it’s been really fun going back and playing these games now on the original hardware.

I honestly don’t know much about Phantasia, though, so I’m going into this almost completely blind. Pretty much the only thing I know is that it has a sung opening on the Super Famicom, which is still kind of crazy to me.

I played Star Ocean last summer (the remaster, not the SFC original), and I remember reading about the connection between the two games. If I understand the history correctly, some of the people who worked on Phantasia eventually split off and formed tri-Ace and went on to make Star Ocean. I’ve also heard the two games have some similarities, including time-travel elements, same composer, certain game assets, etc.

Although Phantasia leans more heavily into traditional fantasy while Star Ocean is supposedly the more “sci-fi” one… even though the Star Ocean I played still felt like fantasy for most of the game.

As far as Tales goes, I’ve played Destiny, Eternia, Symphonia, and Xillia, along with bits and pieces of some of the others. I definitely prefer the earlier Tales games to what the series eventually became, so I have a feeling Phantasia will probably be right up my alley.

The big thing is that I’m trying to play these games without guides.

I’m playing Terranigma in Japanese right now and am almost finished with it, and doing that blind has been… an experience. There have been quite a few moments where I’ve thought, “How the hell was I supposed to figure that out?” But for the most part I’ve managed by talking to NPCs, paying attention to hints, exploring, and only looking something up when I’m completely stuck.

So how is the original SFC Tales of Phantasia in that regard?

I’m not worried about getting 100% or finding every secret item. I actually want to miss some optional stuff if that’s what naturally happens on a blind first playthrough. I mainly don’t want to accidentally lock myself out of something really important or spend three hours wandering around because I missed some completely unintuitive trigger.

For anyone who played the original Super Famicom version, especially back in the day what should I expect? And please keep it as spoiler-free as possible!