Tales of Xillia Remastered
Oct 31, 2025Oct 31, 2025
Nov 1, 2025Oct 31, 2025Oct 31, 2025Nov 2, 2025Oct 31, 2025Oct 30, 2025Nov 2, 2025Nov 1, 2025Nov 1, 2025Nov 1, 2025Nov 1, 2025Oct 31, 2025Oct 31, 2025Oct 31, 2025Oct 31, 2025Oct 30, 2025Nov 2, 2025Nov 2, 2025Nov 1, 2025Oct 31, 2025Oct 31, 2025
76561198999117472
Not Recommended27 hrs played (8 hrs at review)
The only reason I do not recommend this game is because of the censorship. I was so so happy to hear they were actually remaking this for pc. I've been waiting for years for them to do this because this has been my very first Tales game and I fell in love with it when I got it for the PS3 a long time ago. I absolutely loved it. Now after learning they censored this amazing game, I am crushed. The game is good otherwise though, but this is not the original I fell in love with.
But this censorship has got to stop. If someone doesn't like something, they don't have to buy it. Censorship only hurts the world. I do not support a company that doesn't have a backbone to keep things original. I am devastated that they have done this. If I made a game, I would never censor it because that would be highly unfair to all the loyal fans. It's a game. It's not real. If people don't like it, they don't have to play it, but I would never stoop so low as to censor things, especially if I remade my game and *took out* some things that were in the original. That is doing the fanbase and Xillia wrong. That is desecrating Xillia. Such disrespect to this beautiful game. Shame on you guys, smh.
It's sad that all of these companies that I used to love has gotten so greedy and awful over the years. I wish I was back in time. I was so excited for this game, now I just feel really upset. You've ruined my nostalgia on this amazing game. Shame on all of you who did this to such an amazing classic. Do better. We do not need censorship. You start censoring one thing then eventually people will want even more things censored and so on and so on. It's not right.
I would have never bought this game if I had known beforehand. I would have bought the PS3 version and enjoyed that instead. The pure, *original* amazing game. Not this sad censored flop. Adding quality of life stuff and adding new things is fine, but taking away things that have already been in the original game is wrong. This is not the Xillia I fell in love with. I'm still going to play this since I don't want to waste my money, but it's not going to be as fun for the nostalgia, which is one of the biggest reasons why I got it.
[EDITING TO SAY THAT THEY DO HAVE THE OPENING, YOU JUST HAVE TO GET THROUGH THE PROLOGUE LIKE I THOUGHT, SO DISREGARD THIS ONE. I AM SO HAPPY THEY STILL HAVE THE OPENING THEME! :D) It doesn't even show the amazing opening that the original had. I am hoping that is because I just haven't gotten through the beginning part of the story cuz I know sometimes they wait to show the opening after you play the prologue. I hope I'm wrong, because I would sit and just jam to that opening every time I turned the game on. I need the opening back, I need my Alvin fix before the game even starts, dang it, lol.
I *DO* recommend this game for the old consoles though. The original Xillia is amazing and worth going to a pawn shop to find a PS3 for the uncensored original masterpiece. If you love anime, you'll love playing this. I hope anyone reading this has a good day/night and have fun playing games. <3
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Editing again to add this to the review to reply to all the comments so far since this is way too long to send through normal reply. So you don't have to read this part if you don't want to for the review. :)
My comment will be split since it's so long, but thank you to everyone that actually knows how to go Google the stuff yourself and were nice. The ones that threw insults and hate around and were quick to judge, shame on you. If people had an iota of a brain cell and just Googled it, you would see what they censored. It's nothing so vile as what some of you had said. You guys need therapy if that's what's on your mind and the first thing to think of when you failed to go do your own research. This is what spreads hate around and it's not nice to do.
It's sad that someone like me with autism is smarter than someone who is normal. Even I thought to Google it myself once I saw someone say something about it being censored. It's sad that AI and stuff like ChatGPT is making the human race go backwards in intelligence. I went and did my own research like a logical person because there is so much misinformation these days online that you literally cannot trust a lot of what people say. Get on actual web pages too, the AI overview loves to be inaccurate quite a bit. Hence the misinformation crisis. I don't want anyone to get the wrong information on anything. You guys deserve the real information.
So I implore you from now on to just research yourself on things people say. Do not take anyone for their word. It's how a lot of people spread so much hate around on the internet, because they know that a lot of people will not go do their own research, so when people in the comments try to tell them the correct information, they will get angry and just dismiss them a lot of the time. So please do your own research, that is why I didn't list what they censored. I wanted you to go research and see for yourselves, not just to believe what I say. Remember, my review is my *opinion*, not *fact*. :)
This is what makes the world be against one another. We should all get along and just calmly discuss things, not throw around insults or judging someone. This world has gotten so corrupt and it's sad.
I still forgive everyone for saying such bad things though. We only have one life and life is short. We don't know for sure if there is anything after this life, so we should be kind to each other and stop all the hatred. It's tiring being angry all of your life and it's tiring to hate forever. I'd rather be friends. I will stand up for myself though but other than that I harbor no ill feelings towards any of you. <3
Sorry this is so long. The autism tends to make me write a novel at times, to my best friend's dismay lol. I hope everyone has a good day/night and remember to be kind to one another and spread kindness when possible. The world needs more kindness in it, especially these days. And also remember that I said the game was still good, hence why I am still playing it. I still love it. The only buffoons around here are the ones that got beat by an autistic tit by not doing their own research when I did mine. Still forgive you though, just make sure to read carefully next time and not to judge and be so hateful to one another. :) Context is important. Remember, if y'all really didn't care, y'all would just move on instead of wasting your time commenting. But I care about people being kind to one another, so that's why I care to comment. I want to help people, even you. <3
17 votes funny
76561198999117472
Not Recommended27 hrs played (8 hrs at review)
The only reason I do not recommend this game is because of the censorship. I was so so happy to hear they were actually remaking this for pc. I've been waiting for years for them to do this because this has been my very first Tales game and I fell in love with it when I got it for the PS3 a long time ago. I absolutely loved it. Now after learning they censored this amazing game, I am crushed. The game is good otherwise though, but this is not the original I fell in love with.
But this censorship has got to stop. If someone doesn't like something, they don't have to buy it. Censorship only hurts the world. I do not support a company that doesn't have a backbone to keep things original. I am devastated that they have done this. If I made a game, I would never censor it because that would be highly unfair to all the loyal fans. It's a game. It's not real. If people don't like it, they don't have to play it, but I would never stoop so low as to censor things, especially if I remade my game and *took out* some things that were in the original. That is doing the fanbase and Xillia wrong. That is desecrating Xillia. Such disrespect to this beautiful game. Shame on you guys, smh.
It's sad that all of these companies that I used to love has gotten so greedy and awful over the years. I wish I was back in time. I was so excited for this game, now I just feel really upset. You've ruined my nostalgia on this amazing game. Shame on all of you who did this to such an amazing classic. Do better. We do not need censorship. You start censoring one thing then eventually people will want even more things censored and so on and so on. It's not right.
I would have never bought this game if I had known beforehand. I would have bought the PS3 version and enjoyed that instead. The pure, *original* amazing game. Not this sad censored flop. Adding quality of life stuff and adding new things is fine, but taking away things that have already been in the original game is wrong. This is not the Xillia I fell in love with. I'm still going to play this since I don't want to waste my money, but it's not going to be as fun for the nostalgia, which is one of the biggest reasons why I got it.
[EDITING TO SAY THAT THEY DO HAVE THE OPENING, YOU JUST HAVE TO GET THROUGH THE PROLOGUE LIKE I THOUGHT, SO DISREGARD THIS ONE. I AM SO HAPPY THEY STILL HAVE THE OPENING THEME! :D) It doesn't even show the amazing opening that the original had. I am hoping that is because I just haven't gotten through the beginning part of the story cuz I know sometimes they wait to show the opening after you play the prologue. I hope I'm wrong, because I would sit and just jam to that opening every time I turned the game on. I need the opening back, I need my Alvin fix before the game even starts, dang it, lol.
I *DO* recommend this game for the old consoles though. The original Xillia is amazing and worth going to a pawn shop to find a PS3 for the uncensored original masterpiece. If you love anime, you'll love playing this. I hope anyone reading this has a good day/night and have fun playing games. <3
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Editing again to add this to the review to reply to all the comments so far since this is way too long to send through normal reply. So you don't have to read this part if you don't want to for the review. :)
My comment will be split since it's so long, but thank you to everyone that actually knows how to go Google the stuff yourself and were nice. The ones that threw insults and hate around and were quick to judge, shame on you. If people had an iota of a brain cell and just Googled it, you would see what they censored. It's nothing so vile as what some of you had said. You guys need therapy if that's what's on your mind and the first thing to think of when you failed to go do your own research. This is what spreads hate around and it's not nice to do.
It's sad that someone like me with autism is smarter than someone who is normal. Even I thought to Google it myself once I saw someone say something about it being censored. It's sad that AI and stuff like ChatGPT is making the human race go backwards in intelligence. I went and did my own research like a logical person because there is so much misinformation these days online that you literally cannot trust a lot of what people say. Get on actual web pages too, the AI overview loves to be inaccurate quite a bit. Hence the misinformation crisis. I don't want anyone to get the wrong information on anything. You guys deserve the real information.
So I implore you from now on to just research yourself on things people say. Do not take anyone for their word. It's how a lot of people spread so much hate around on the internet, because they know that a lot of people will not go do their own research, so when people in the comments try to tell them the correct information, they will get angry and just dismiss them a lot of the time. So please do your own research, that is why I didn't list what they censored. I wanted you to go research and see for yourselves, not just to believe what I say. Remember, my review is my *opinion*, not *fact*. :)
This is what makes the world be against one another. We should all get along and just calmly discuss things, not throw around insults or judging someone. This world has gotten so corrupt and it's sad.
I still forgive everyone for saying such bad things though. We only have one life and life is short. We don't know for sure if there is anything after this life, so we should be kind to each other and stop all the hatred. It's tiring being angry all of your life and it's tiring to hate forever. I'd rather be friends. I will stand up for myself though but other than that I harbor no ill feelings towards any of you. <3
Sorry this is so long. The autism tends to make me write a novel at times, to my best friend's dismay lol. I hope everyone has a good day/night and remember to be kind to one another and spread kindness when possible. The world needs more kindness in it, especially these days. And also remember that I said the game was still good, hence why I am still playing it. I still love it. The only buffoons around here are the ones that got beat by an autistic tit by not doing their own research when I did mine. Still forgive you though, just make sure to read carefully next time and not to judge and be so hateful to one another. :) Context is important. Remember, if y'all really didn't care, y'all would just move on instead of wasting your time commenting. But I care about people being kind to one another, so that's why I care to comment. I want to help people, even you. <3
17 votes funny
76561198269657250
Recommended8 hrs played (3 hrs at review)
Muttons!! Fresh Muttons!
9 votes funny
76561198293686434
Not Recommended1 hrs played (1 hrs at review)
The audio has a bug where it gets randomly distorted. I'm not even out of Fenmont and it happened 3 times now. If you decide to do a remaster, then do a proper job with it. The shader is extremely weird, too. There is a clear block outline on character faces, making it feel super blurry on the field.
There're also multiple people complain about the unbalance audio as well but I won't get into details here.
I asked for a refund now and won't come back until I know the bugs are resolved.
It's a shame I love this game in the original one and this is so disappointing. Stop publishing half-baked games, feels so disrespected.
6 votes funny
76561198167035534
Recommended1 hrs played
Because I saw some misinformation, I’m writing this review.
Some people complain about missing VSync or graphics options, but you can actually access them from the main menu. Go to New Game, progress through the grade shop, and press Start Game. Then you’ll find an Options menu — scroll down until you see Graphics Settings.
You can also access this menu anytime after loading your save file. I don’t know why the developers set it up this way — it’s a poor design choice — but the graphics settings do exist.
A proper review of the game’s quality will come once I finish it. So far, it works fine.
6 votes funny
76561198065080650
Not Recommended24 hrs played (14 hrs at review)
This annoys me a bit, and it may come off as insincere, seeing as I still plan to play this game for many many many hours as I complete it, as I did back when it was released on the PS3... But "no", I don't think I can recommend this in good faith.
I’ll kindly leave out my six page diatribe on how anime is the worst thing and ruins all it touches, but something about this remaster caught my attention: The performances seem very... stilted. And I don’t remember the original being that way, so I went ahead and booted it up to check: And yes, there is definitely something wrong going on here. The scenes don’t flow as well, there seems to be added space between each animation. I don’t know exactly how to describe it, but it’s like, an animation plays, then the characters will say their lines, but then the state gets “suspended” for a second as it seems to load the next animation? It’s very awkward and it makes for performances that I remember (and checked) feeling very natural (for anime standards) to something that is kind of hard to watch since it both sounds and looks super unnatural.
I also don’t feel like the added graphical fidelity is doing the game any favors? Because the models haven’t really been updated as far as I could tell, and the upgraded textures feel... a bit mismatched? I don’t think it looks any better than the original, and coupled with the above issue with animation times, I’d argue that it both looks worse and feels worse to watch.
There are also many bugs with sound, though I haven’t caught many of these, I think. In my perception, the game seems to be a bit quiet outside of battles, but fine inside them. I could swear that some areas were supposed to have music but have only silence. Some of the voice lines seem to play too softly, but it’s nothing game-breaking. I’ve read on the forums people complaining of the exact opposite problem, of battle sounds being too quiet.
Something else you can read about in the forums are tons of reports on people having framerate issues which extrapolate to other areas of the game, like skits being impossible to trigger or visual effects looking off. There are definitely a lot of problems with the port.
On a “meta” note: Achievements may or may not be bugged, or at least the global stats are very wrong, as it shows 100% of people having the achievement for completing the game. I’ve played for 10 hours so far and haven’t unlocked anything. Though I’ve seen reports that the achievements themselves are not broken, they are all just relatively late unlocks, which I don’t remember being true on the PS3, but it’s been a while, so I’m willing to believe it but also willing to write up this paragraph, in case someone that also cares might stumble upon it.
EDIT: I managed to get some achievements and the global stats have normalized.
So... No. I would not recommend this. Play the original if you can, but if not... I’d very honestly say to just let it go and not bother… Maybe try Berseria? People say good things about that one. The gameplay in Xillia is very good. It was very good on release and it continues to be very good now; considering the Tales games I’ve played, I think this is the one where the fights feel the most enjoyable. But the narrative, as it is, is a bit of a bog to trudge through, sadly.
5 votes funny
76561198291678055
Recommended9 hrs played (3 hrs at review)
TEACH ME ABOUT BAZONGAS!!!
3 votes funny
76561198052334008
Not Recommended0 hrs played
Screen tearing issue, Playstation controller support only if you turn off steam input.
3 votes funny
76561198013757012
Not Recommended10 hrs played (6 hrs at review)
This port has a lot of problems
Cant disable depth of field and bloom, game has a weird blur to it even with SMAA (and with special K not being on steam anymore chances of getting mods to remove this trash will be slim to none unlike graces F)
The game already has Multiple Frame rate issues wtih 60 and 120 and looks horrible at 30, also the frame rate runs like RE4 HD which means if you set the game to 120 FPS and hit lets say 90 the game will run slower, oh and if you run the game at 120 Holy bottle breaks to be perm and skits take longer to appear
Homies should had TOSE doing these
2 votes funny
76561198005129301
Not Recommended2 hrs played (1 hrs at review)
1. Too high framerate issues for shaders, animations, and sound effects. Feels like PCSX3 with badly configured 60fps patch. Framerate lock affect only
2. No button prompt style selection, detection works only for XBOX One and DualSense controllers.
3. No sound cleanup. Even Jude sounds lisp at times, let alone Milla.
4. BGM pack tracks aren't leveled to the same volume. Music/sfx/voice balance is effectively thrown out of the window by this.
5. LOD option is there, but it does *not* affect how far one should be for models to disappear. Yes, there's a differen't setting for the distance, but it doesn't seem to work.
6. Anti-aliasing options is there, but if you disable it, there's no way of re-enabling it. Because it remains off even though it says FXAA or SMAA.
2 votes funny
76561198101236234
Recommended27 hrs played (15 hrs at review)
This is my 8th Tales of Game. After 15 hours, I'm really enjoying this game.
Teepo is the best character in this game! LOL, he makes me laugh every time.
2 votes funny
76561198034072065
Not Recommended2 hrs played (2 hrs at review)
The combat system in this game is old and clunky. Character movement is clunky.
The game is old. This game may have been great 20 years ago, but today it's just a chore to play. To tell the truth, I haven't experienced much of the story, but I just can't get through the old timey mechanics. Why not play Tales of Berseria instead?
If the developers were to give this game the "Trails in the Sky 1st" treatment, I'd pay full price for it.
As it is, It's more of a re-release than a remaster.
2 votes funny
76561198812225443
Recommended9 hrs played (3 hrs at review)
Great game. Really good port. Highly recommend!
2 votes funny
76561198063309200
Recommended4 hrs played (4 hrs at review)
2 difrent an great story a lot of side quest and sikrets to find an a grat story
2 votes funny
76561198079234752
Recommended6 hrs played
Please, play first Jude (male MC) story.
The story will make more sense this way.
2 votes funny
76561198125879042
Recommended22 hrs played (1 hrs at review)
Its already better than Tales of Arise.
2 votes funny
76561198045741603
Recommended0 hrs played
At last my favorite game in the series on modern systems. Remaster Xillia 2 too.
2 votes funny
76561198403979642
Recommended26 hrs played (1 hrs at review)
Peak is back on the menu fellas
2 votes funny
76561198016305440
Recommended24 hrs played (13 hrs at review)
another great Tales of game
Love this series
1 votes funny
76561198023174422
Recommended2 hrs played (1 hrs at review)
You're as beautiful as the day I lost you...
1 votes funny
76561198124378249
Recommended18 hrs played (11 hrs at review)
A very good remaster of the original game with QoL improvements that I neither expected, nor did I think the tales series would have, including: showing where hidden items are on the minimap, showing the location of all pick up spots on the minimap upon entering an area, skits no longer being lost if you enter a cutscene or battle when a skit is available (it instead gets counted and goes to the skit section of the menu), showing the location of Aifreads treasures on the minimap.
1 votes funny
76561198037270711
Recommended4 hrs played (1 hrs at review)
Loved it since it was released all the way back. Its pretty nice to have it in a proper modern form now. All DLC included. Runs great, looks great. Decent upscaling work. The game didn't need much when it came to updating it. Its art style really carries it in higher resolutions.
Note: I have encountered Audio bugs. Where SFX would either be too loud or too soft. It would happen at random for difference SFX as well. So the "OL full SFX" would be blaring but my hit effects and spell effects would be soft almost unhearable. No matter what i did to the settings. It seems the game has weird Audio priority. Hope that can get fixed up.
P.S To the guys with screen tearing. Turn on Vsync. or turn it off with a high refresh rate monitor. Mess around in nvidia settings or AMDs settings. This isn't a game problem. It's a you problem. LOL
1 votes funny
76561198437987688
Recommended3 hrs played (1 hrs at review)
if you can port this then you can port xillia 2 too, cmon man
1 votes funny
Tales of Xillia Remastered
Oct 31, 2025Oct 31, 2025Nov 1, 2025Oct 31, 2025Oct 31, 2025Nov 2, 2025Oct 31, 2025Oct 30, 2025Nov 2, 2025Nov 1, 2025Nov 1, 2025Nov 1, 2025Nov 1, 2025Oct 31, 2025Oct 31, 2025Oct 31, 2025Oct 31, 2025Oct 30, 2025Nov 2, 2025Nov 2, 2025Nov 1, 2025Oct 31, 2025Oct 31, 2025
76561198999117472
Not Recommended27 hrs played (8 hrs at review)
The only reason I do not recommend this game is because of the censorship. I was so so happy to hear they were actually remaking this for pc. I've been waiting for years for them to do this because this has been my very first Tales game and I fell in love with it when I got it for the PS3 a long time ago. I absolutely loved it. Now after learning they censored this amazing game, I am crushed. The game is good otherwise though, but this is not the original I fell in love with.
But this censorship has got to stop. If someone doesn't like something, they don't have to buy it. Censorship only hurts the world. I do not support a company that doesn't have a backbone to keep things original. I am devastated that they have done this. If I made a game, I would never censor it because that would be highly unfair to all the loyal fans. It's a game. It's not real. If people don't like it, they don't have to play it, but I would never stoop so low as to censor things, especially if I remade my game and *took out* some things that were in the original. That is doing the fanbase and Xillia wrong. That is desecrating Xillia. Such disrespect to this beautiful game. Shame on you guys, smh.
It's sad that all of these companies that I used to love has gotten so greedy and awful over the years. I wish I was back in time. I was so excited for this game, now I just feel really upset. You've ruined my nostalgia on this amazing game. Shame on all of you who did this to such an amazing classic. Do better. We do not need censorship. You start censoring one thing then eventually people will want even more things censored and so on and so on. It's not right.
I would have never bought this game if I had known beforehand. I would have bought the PS3 version and enjoyed that instead. The pure, *original* amazing game. Not this sad censored flop. Adding quality of life stuff and adding new things is fine, but taking away things that have already been in the original game is wrong. This is not the Xillia I fell in love with. I'm still going to play this since I don't want to waste my money, but it's not going to be as fun for the nostalgia, which is one of the biggest reasons why I got it.
[EDITING TO SAY THAT THEY DO HAVE THE OPENING, YOU JUST HAVE TO GET THROUGH THE PROLOGUE LIKE I THOUGHT, SO DISREGARD THIS ONE. I AM SO HAPPY THEY STILL HAVE THE OPENING THEME! :D) It doesn't even show the amazing opening that the original had. I am hoping that is because I just haven't gotten through the beginning part of the story cuz I know sometimes they wait to show the opening after you play the prologue. I hope I'm wrong, because I would sit and just jam to that opening every time I turned the game on. I need the opening back, I need my Alvin fix before the game even starts, dang it, lol.
I *DO* recommend this game for the old consoles though. The original Xillia is amazing and worth going to a pawn shop to find a PS3 for the uncensored original masterpiece. If you love anime, you'll love playing this. I hope anyone reading this has a good day/night and have fun playing games. <3
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Editing again to add this to the review to reply to all the comments so far since this is way too long to send through normal reply. So you don't have to read this part if you don't want to for the review. :)
My comment will be split since it's so long, but thank you to everyone that actually knows how to go Google the stuff yourself and were nice. The ones that threw insults and hate around and were quick to judge, shame on you. If people had an iota of a brain cell and just Googled it, you would see what they censored. It's nothing so vile as what some of you had said. You guys need therapy if that's what's on your mind and the first thing to think of when you failed to go do your own research. This is what spreads hate around and it's not nice to do.
It's sad that someone like me with autism is smarter than someone who is normal. Even I thought to Google it myself once I saw someone say something about it being censored. It's sad that AI and stuff like ChatGPT is making the human race go backwards in intelligence. I went and did my own research like a logical person because there is so much misinformation these days online that you literally cannot trust a lot of what people say. Get on actual web pages too, the AI overview loves to be inaccurate quite a bit. Hence the misinformation crisis. I don't want anyone to get the wrong information on anything. You guys deserve the real information.
So I implore you from now on to just research yourself on things people say. Do not take anyone for their word. It's how a lot of people spread so much hate around on the internet, because they know that a lot of people will not go do their own research, so when people in the comments try to tell them the correct information, they will get angry and just dismiss them a lot of the time. So please do your own research, that is why I didn't list what they censored. I wanted you to go research and see for yourselves, not just to believe what I say. Remember, my review is my *opinion*, not *fact*. :)
This is what makes the world be against one another. We should all get along and just calmly discuss things, not throw around insults or judging someone. This world has gotten so corrupt and it's sad.
I still forgive everyone for saying such bad things though. We only have one life and life is short. We don't know for sure if there is anything after this life, so we should be kind to each other and stop all the hatred. It's tiring being angry all of your life and it's tiring to hate forever. I'd rather be friends. I will stand up for myself though but other than that I harbor no ill feelings towards any of you. <3
Sorry this is so long. The autism tends to make me write a novel at times, to my best friend's dismay lol. I hope everyone has a good day/night and remember to be kind to one another and spread kindness when possible. The world needs more kindness in it, especially these days. And also remember that I said the game was still good, hence why I am still playing it. I still love it. The only buffoons around here are the ones that got beat by an autistic tit by not doing their own research when I did mine. Still forgive you though, just make sure to read carefully next time and not to judge and be so hateful to one another. :) Context is important. Remember, if y'all really didn't care, y'all would just move on instead of wasting your time commenting. But I care about people being kind to one another, so that's why I care to comment. I want to help people, even you. <3
17 votes funny
76561198999117472
Not Recommended27 hrs played (8 hrs at review)
The only reason I do not recommend this game is because of the censorship. I was so so happy to hear they were actually remaking this for pc. I've been waiting for years for them to do this because this has been my very first Tales game and I fell in love with it when I got it for the PS3 a long time ago. I absolutely loved it. Now after learning they censored this amazing game, I am crushed. The game is good otherwise though, but this is not the original I fell in love with.
But this censorship has got to stop. If someone doesn't like something, they don't have to buy it. Censorship only hurts the world. I do not support a company that doesn't have a backbone to keep things original. I am devastated that they have done this. If I made a game, I would never censor it because that would be highly unfair to all the loyal fans. It's a game. It's not real. If people don't like it, they don't have to play it, but I would never stoop so low as to censor things, especially if I remade my game and *took out* some things that were in the original. That is doing the fanbase and Xillia wrong. That is desecrating Xillia. Such disrespect to this beautiful game. Shame on you guys, smh.
It's sad that all of these companies that I used to love has gotten so greedy and awful over the years. I wish I was back in time. I was so excited for this game, now I just feel really upset. You've ruined my nostalgia on this amazing game. Shame on all of you who did this to such an amazing classic. Do better. We do not need censorship. You start censoring one thing then eventually people will want even more things censored and so on and so on. It's not right.
I would have never bought this game if I had known beforehand. I would have bought the PS3 version and enjoyed that instead. The pure, *original* amazing game. Not this sad censored flop. Adding quality of life stuff and adding new things is fine, but taking away things that have already been in the original game is wrong. This is not the Xillia I fell in love with. I'm still going to play this since I don't want to waste my money, but it's not going to be as fun for the nostalgia, which is one of the biggest reasons why I got it.
[EDITING TO SAY THAT THEY DO HAVE THE OPENING, YOU JUST HAVE TO GET THROUGH THE PROLOGUE LIKE I THOUGHT, SO DISREGARD THIS ONE. I AM SO HAPPY THEY STILL HAVE THE OPENING THEME! :D) It doesn't even show the amazing opening that the original had. I am hoping that is because I just haven't gotten through the beginning part of the story cuz I know sometimes they wait to show the opening after you play the prologue. I hope I'm wrong, because I would sit and just jam to that opening every time I turned the game on. I need the opening back, I need my Alvin fix before the game even starts, dang it, lol.
I *DO* recommend this game for the old consoles though. The original Xillia is amazing and worth going to a pawn shop to find a PS3 for the uncensored original masterpiece. If you love anime, you'll love playing this. I hope anyone reading this has a good day/night and have fun playing games. <3
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Editing again to add this to the review to reply to all the comments so far since this is way too long to send through normal reply. So you don't have to read this part if you don't want to for the review. :)
My comment will be split since it's so long, but thank you to everyone that actually knows how to go Google the stuff yourself and were nice. The ones that threw insults and hate around and were quick to judge, shame on you. If people had an iota of a brain cell and just Googled it, you would see what they censored. It's nothing so vile as what some of you had said. You guys need therapy if that's what's on your mind and the first thing to think of when you failed to go do your own research. This is what spreads hate around and it's not nice to do.
It's sad that someone like me with autism is smarter than someone who is normal. Even I thought to Google it myself once I saw someone say something about it being censored. It's sad that AI and stuff like ChatGPT is making the human race go backwards in intelligence. I went and did my own research like a logical person because there is so much misinformation these days online that you literally cannot trust a lot of what people say. Get on actual web pages too, the AI overview loves to be inaccurate quite a bit. Hence the misinformation crisis. I don't want anyone to get the wrong information on anything. You guys deserve the real information.
So I implore you from now on to just research yourself on things people say. Do not take anyone for their word. It's how a lot of people spread so much hate around on the internet, because they know that a lot of people will not go do their own research, so when people in the comments try to tell them the correct information, they will get angry and just dismiss them a lot of the time. So please do your own research, that is why I didn't list what they censored. I wanted you to go research and see for yourselves, not just to believe what I say. Remember, my review is my *opinion*, not *fact*. :)
This is what makes the world be against one another. We should all get along and just calmly discuss things, not throw around insults or judging someone. This world has gotten so corrupt and it's sad.
I still forgive everyone for saying such bad things though. We only have one life and life is short. We don't know for sure if there is anything after this life, so we should be kind to each other and stop all the hatred. It's tiring being angry all of your life and it's tiring to hate forever. I'd rather be friends. I will stand up for myself though but other than that I harbor no ill feelings towards any of you. <3
Sorry this is so long. The autism tends to make me write a novel at times, to my best friend's dismay lol. I hope everyone has a good day/night and remember to be kind to one another and spread kindness when possible. The world needs more kindness in it, especially these days. And also remember that I said the game was still good, hence why I am still playing it. I still love it. The only buffoons around here are the ones that got beat by an autistic tit by not doing their own research when I did mine. Still forgive you though, just make sure to read carefully next time and not to judge and be so hateful to one another. :) Context is important. Remember, if y'all really didn't care, y'all would just move on instead of wasting your time commenting. But I care about people being kind to one another, so that's why I care to comment. I want to help people, even you. <3
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76561198269657250
Recommended8 hrs played (3 hrs at review)
Muttons!! Fresh Muttons!
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76561198293686434
Not Recommended1 hrs played (1 hrs at review)
The audio has a bug where it gets randomly distorted. I'm not even out of Fenmont and it happened 3 times now. If you decide to do a remaster, then do a proper job with it. The shader is extremely weird, too. There is a clear block outline on character faces, making it feel super blurry on the field.
There're also multiple people complain about the unbalance audio as well but I won't get into details here.
I asked for a refund now and won't come back until I know the bugs are resolved.
It's a shame I love this game in the original one and this is so disappointing. Stop publishing half-baked games, feels so disrespected.
6 votes funny
76561198167035534
Recommended1 hrs played
Because I saw some misinformation, I’m writing this review.
Some people complain about missing VSync or graphics options, but you can actually access them from the main menu. Go to New Game, progress through the grade shop, and press Start Game. Then you’ll find an Options menu — scroll down until you see Graphics Settings.
You can also access this menu anytime after loading your save file. I don’t know why the developers set it up this way — it’s a poor design choice — but the graphics settings do exist.
A proper review of the game’s quality will come once I finish it. So far, it works fine.
6 votes funny
76561198065080650
Not Recommended24 hrs played (14 hrs at review)
This annoys me a bit, and it may come off as insincere, seeing as I still plan to play this game for many many many hours as I complete it, as I did back when it was released on the PS3... But "no", I don't think I can recommend this in good faith.
I’ll kindly leave out my six page diatribe on how anime is the worst thing and ruins all it touches, but something about this remaster caught my attention: The performances seem very... stilted. And I don’t remember the original being that way, so I went ahead and booted it up to check: And yes, there is definitely something wrong going on here. The scenes don’t flow as well, there seems to be added space between each animation. I don’t know exactly how to describe it, but it’s like, an animation plays, then the characters will say their lines, but then the state gets “suspended” for a second as it seems to load the next animation? It’s very awkward and it makes for performances that I remember (and checked) feeling very natural (for anime standards) to something that is kind of hard to watch since it both sounds and looks super unnatural.
I also don’t feel like the added graphical fidelity is doing the game any favors? Because the models haven’t really been updated as far as I could tell, and the upgraded textures feel... a bit mismatched? I don’t think it looks any better than the original, and coupled with the above issue with animation times, I’d argue that it both looks worse and feels worse to watch.
There are also many bugs with sound, though I haven’t caught many of these, I think. In my perception, the game seems to be a bit quiet outside of battles, but fine inside them. I could swear that some areas were supposed to have music but have only silence. Some of the voice lines seem to play too softly, but it’s nothing game-breaking. I’ve read on the forums people complaining of the exact opposite problem, of battle sounds being too quiet.
Something else you can read about in the forums are tons of reports on people having framerate issues which extrapolate to other areas of the game, like skits being impossible to trigger or visual effects looking off. There are definitely a lot of problems with the port.
On a “meta” note: Achievements may or may not be bugged, or at least the global stats are very wrong, as it shows 100% of people having the achievement for completing the game. I’ve played for 10 hours so far and haven’t unlocked anything. Though I’ve seen reports that the achievements themselves are not broken, they are all just relatively late unlocks, which I don’t remember being true on the PS3, but it’s been a while, so I’m willing to believe it but also willing to write up this paragraph, in case someone that also cares might stumble upon it.
EDIT: I managed to get some achievements and the global stats have normalized.
So... No. I would not recommend this. Play the original if you can, but if not... I’d very honestly say to just let it go and not bother… Maybe try Berseria? People say good things about that one. The gameplay in Xillia is very good. It was very good on release and it continues to be very good now; considering the Tales games I’ve played, I think this is the one where the fights feel the most enjoyable. But the narrative, as it is, is a bit of a bog to trudge through, sadly.
5 votes funny
76561198291678055
Recommended9 hrs played (3 hrs at review)
TEACH ME ABOUT BAZONGAS!!!
3 votes funny
76561198052334008
Not Recommended0 hrs played
Screen tearing issue, Playstation controller support only if you turn off steam input.
3 votes funny
76561198013757012
Not Recommended10 hrs played (6 hrs at review)
This port has a lot of problems
Cant disable depth of field and bloom, game has a weird blur to it even with SMAA (and with special K not being on steam anymore chances of getting mods to remove this trash will be slim to none unlike graces F)
The game already has Multiple Frame rate issues wtih 60 and 120 and looks horrible at 30, also the frame rate runs like RE4 HD which means if you set the game to 120 FPS and hit lets say 90 the game will run slower, oh and if you run the game at 120 Holy bottle breaks to be perm and skits take longer to appear
Homies should had TOSE doing these
2 votes funny
76561198005129301
Not Recommended2 hrs played (1 hrs at review)
1. Too high framerate issues for shaders, animations, and sound effects. Feels like PCSX3 with badly configured 60fps patch. Framerate lock affect only
2. No button prompt style selection, detection works only for XBOX One and DualSense controllers.
3. No sound cleanup. Even Jude sounds lisp at times, let alone Milla.
4. BGM pack tracks aren't leveled to the same volume. Music/sfx/voice balance is effectively thrown out of the window by this.
5. LOD option is there, but it does *not* affect how far one should be for models to disappear. Yes, there's a differen't setting for the distance, but it doesn't seem to work.
6. Anti-aliasing options is there, but if you disable it, there's no way of re-enabling it. Because it remains off even though it says FXAA or SMAA.
2 votes funny
76561198101236234
Recommended27 hrs played (15 hrs at review)
This is my 8th Tales of Game. After 15 hours, I'm really enjoying this game.
Teepo is the best character in this game! LOL, he makes me laugh every time.
2 votes funny
76561198034072065
Not Recommended2 hrs played (2 hrs at review)
The combat system in this game is old and clunky. Character movement is clunky.
The game is old. This game may have been great 20 years ago, but today it's just a chore to play. To tell the truth, I haven't experienced much of the story, but I just can't get through the old timey mechanics. Why not play Tales of Berseria instead?
If the developers were to give this game the "Trails in the Sky 1st" treatment, I'd pay full price for it.
As it is, It's more of a re-release than a remaster.
2 votes funny
76561198812225443
Recommended9 hrs played (3 hrs at review)
Great game. Really good port. Highly recommend!
2 votes funny
76561198063309200
Recommended4 hrs played (4 hrs at review)
2 difrent an great story a lot of side quest and sikrets to find an a grat story
2 votes funny
76561198079234752
Recommended6 hrs played
Please, play first Jude (male MC) story.
The story will make more sense this way.
2 votes funny
76561198125879042
Recommended22 hrs played (1 hrs at review)
Its already better than Tales of Arise.
2 votes funny
76561198045741603
Recommended0 hrs played
At last my favorite game in the series on modern systems. Remaster Xillia 2 too.
2 votes funny
76561198403979642
Recommended26 hrs played (1 hrs at review)
Peak is back on the menu fellas
2 votes funny
76561198016305440
Recommended24 hrs played (13 hrs at review)
another great Tales of game
Love this series
1 votes funny
76561198023174422
Recommended2 hrs played (1 hrs at review)
You're as beautiful as the day I lost you...
1 votes funny
76561198124378249
Recommended18 hrs played (11 hrs at review)
A very good remaster of the original game with QoL improvements that I neither expected, nor did I think the tales series would have, including: showing where hidden items are on the minimap, showing the location of all pick up spots on the minimap upon entering an area, skits no longer being lost if you enter a cutscene or battle when a skit is available (it instead gets counted and goes to the skit section of the menu), showing the location of Aifreads treasures on the minimap.
1 votes funny
76561198037270711
Recommended4 hrs played (1 hrs at review)
Loved it since it was released all the way back. Its pretty nice to have it in a proper modern form now. All DLC included. Runs great, looks great. Decent upscaling work. The game didn't need much when it came to updating it. Its art style really carries it in higher resolutions.
Note: I have encountered Audio bugs. Where SFX would either be too loud or too soft. It would happen at random for difference SFX as well. So the "OL full SFX" would be blaring but my hit effects and spell effects would be soft almost unhearable. No matter what i did to the settings. It seems the game has weird Audio priority. Hope that can get fixed up.
P.S To the guys with screen tearing. Turn on Vsync. or turn it off with a high refresh rate monitor. Mess around in nvidia settings or AMDs settings. This isn't a game problem. It's a you problem. LOL
1 votes funny
76561198437987688
Recommended3 hrs played (1 hrs at review)
if you can port this then you can port xillia 2 too, cmon man
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