I REALLY tried to give this game a fair shake, but 17 hours in and I just get more and more annoyed with this game. The story's pacing is absolutely glacial. The characters are very archetypal and really uninteresting (which is something Tales of Phantasia managed to avoid, so I hold it against this game's writing) even with the skits that this remake adds.
The other thing the PS2 remake drastically changes, shifting the battle system from the old TP-based system to the Chain Capacity system (that would later be used in Tales of Graces much better) is an utterly confusing choice. The CC system is confusing at the best of times in Graces' 3D battlefields. In Destiny's flashy, 2D art style, combat moves SO fast it's hard to even see what's going on or what you're being attacked by, let alone trying to use your CC to get off artes and normal moves in good combos. Older Tales games tend to have a problem with the AI being too dumb, but honestly the AI in this is too GOOD. They'd be so much more efficient at getting off spells and combos than me, that I'd just be trying to get a bearing on the battle when they'd have already finished it for me nearly. Stack on top of that annoying bosses with near immunities to all but one or two damage types (not just elements, types too) that eventually bleed into enemies that are also not just heavily resistant but rely on very powerful status effects, and even the combat just turns into a constant slog. Verdict: Not Recommended. Unless you're a HUGE Tales fan who loved Destiny to death on the PS1 original and are willing to learn an entirely new battle system to play through the new Leon Mode (where you play through an even harder version of the game from the main rival's perspective), this is a fairly uncommon import that you can safely avoid. The Chain Capacity system was an over-complication this game did not need, and the quality of the whole experience suffers for it.
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