Players have several different attack methods at their disposal, as the A button will chain combos, B will perform Arte (magic) attacks, and C will get your companions together for a unison assault. Battles are mercifully not random, and unfold in real time as in previous Tales games. Okay, then, I'll just get back to my boring adventure. Can I read what this message board says? No. Environments aren't very interactive, either. Several towns show some nice detail, but most dungeons are dull and lifeless. Some of the character animations are good, but for the most part DotNW looks very last-gen. While the menus and maps are slick, the in-game visuals aren't very impressive. Dawn of the New World certainly looks like a GameCube sequel. Most of the folks you meet along the way suffer from a similar lack of depth. But thanks to the wonky translation, their back and forth doesn't work and what could have been an endearing romance comes across as childish. A young girl named Marta will be his primary companion and love interest. When in battle he does grow a pair, but for the rest of the game he shuffles around whining and apologizing.
But that doesn't make it any easier to sit through.Ĭlick here to watch chatting with characters. What is this, amateur hour? It's possible that, in many of these instances, there simply isn't an easy translation from the original Japanese. While the script is not that interesting to begin with, it's also been clumsily translated so that dialogue often just barely makes sense. A few high-minded concepts are proposed, like the confusion between what is right and what is wrong, but they aren't used effectively. Players are supposed to keep track of things like the Chosen of Regeneration, a Blood Purge, a Great Tree, the Giant Kharlan Tree, a new World Tree… It's all just fancy window dressing for what is really a mundane adventure. There are way too many arduous titles and concepts here. The story is some garbledygook about the world falling into ruin and this spineless little coward named Emil is somehow the only one who can set things right. Fans of the first game will probably enjoy returning to this world and seeing their old friends. Dawn of the New World is set two years after the GameCube game and features several returning characters.
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