IGN's Hands On Tales of Symphonia

Thirty minutes into the start of the Jump Festa event on Saturday over at the Makuhari Messe just outside Tokyo, lines for the new Tales of Symphonia game reached ninety-minutes, and never looked back. Waiting that long to play a game for a few minutes is usually a drag, but IGN didn't have too many qualms about getting an early first chance at the sequel to one of the GameCube's biggest RPGs.

Bandai Namco had Tales of Symphonia: Knight of Ratatoskr, as the game is titled over in Japan, set up for play in eight kiosks, using a demo that was specially prepared for the Jump Festa event. Following a brief chat amongst main characters Emil and Malta, IGN were asked to explore a dungeon and arrive at a boss within five minutes. Five minutes may seem short for a demo, but the counter thankfully stopped when entering battle.

[ChickeyCantor]

Sounds freaking awesome, making enemys join your team =D !!!11
although i dont really understand what they meant with the battle system....he says you are lined in 2d system ( like the DS tales of...where you have to pick a line and fight with a monster?)and then he says you can walk free...just like ToS?.....im not getting this..

can someone explain this >_<

[MK_Red]

I think it will be like Tales of Legendia where fights were lined and in 2D while the rest of game and world was 3D and ready to be explored. I really loved that game, hopefully this one can be as great or even better.

[ChickeyCantor]

as in....Tales of phantasia ?

but then in 3D?

[Prismo_Fillusion]

Tales of Symphonia was one of the best Gamecube games, and just an awesome game in general. The fighting was incredibly fun, and the game lasted over 50 hours. The best part was that it was all multiplayer and I played through the entire game with 2 friends, and I think this new game is only single player...but besides that I'm sure it'll be great.

[KingKirchner]

I'm glad this game is coming along good, but I don't know if it'll be able to be as good as it's predicessor. ToS is in my Top 3 games of all time.

[Darkiewonder]

linear 3D battles ftw.

Still needs to go back to full 3d moveable map. but oh well.

[Zhuk]

This game makes me want to buy a Wii

[botch_divad]

Symphonia was the worst tales game I've ever played, and I've played them all. Not sayin it's a bad game cause all the tales games are good, it's just the worst of the best. I bought a gamecube just 4 this game but it didn't liv up 2 expectations of other tales games. the characters were just so lame. Not all but lloyd was the lamest of the lame. I was suprised because that's usually 1 of the best part about tales games. but anyway i hope they get this 1 right.

[brodels]

i dunno... talk about lame main characters, what about that dude from Tales of the Abyss? that kid Q_Q'd all the time

[wiizy]

the wii will be on top for good. cant wait for this game ... and the other game namco has coming.. fragile..

[brodels]

ToS was the sickest RPG i've ever played. i really hope the us release is 2008. i buy systems just to play tales games

[cloud360-7th_account]

This was great not as good as KH2 at the time

[SaiyanFury]

Tales of Symphonia was the reason I bought my GameCube. Unfortunately since I have no desire to play a Wii, this one will go unplayed by me. I simply don't like the Wii-mote controller. I hope they release a PS2 version as they did with ToS that I could better enjoy as a normal RPG.

[brodels]

give the wiimote a chance! the fact that it doesn't have dual analog definitely sucks, but it's so much easier to use - your hands can be on either side of u when u play, which is real comfortable, as opposed to having to hold the controller with both hands, keeping your hands close together.

also, i don't think much waggle will be used, or even be necessary for the ToSKoR