Tales of Berseria™

im a degenerate that likes handholding and velvet has a big hand to hold

birds fly because they want to fly

Yeah...the story is pretty badass, the gameplay is alright since it was way too easy on the normal difficulty. If you have played Elden Ring or any Soulsborne games and beaten one of them, you need to set the difficulty for this game to at least 'Hard' mode one your first run. The first 10 hours was actually kinda boring but after that the story escalates beautifully later on.

Fun action RPG with interesting story.

I think a lot about this game
Eizen best boi!

Pros:
1) GREAT BATTLE SYSTEM!
2) GREAT PLOT
3) GREAT CHARACTER. (they were great individual, but even better, the cast combination really shine. Without spoiler, I think it is genius that every character actually contribute towards different perspective of the story)

Neutral:
1) despite it's great plot and story in general, how the story were told were a little lackluster.
2) The equipment mechanics is a little simplistic (my first tales game though, maybe too complex of a system would just ruin the whole battle system, so I put this as a neutral)
3) Map design in general were pretty simplistic, it works, but I think it would be better if it was improve upon, especially the gang's future base. No store? No room?

cons:
1) TOO MUCH WALKING!!!!!!
2) Bad World Map UI control

Improvement wish to be seen if it was ever remake:
1) A map system which allow free console movement (the list based map is really hard to use!)
2) allow certain extend of town to town fast travel (even story related, or at least to the near place before the story starts)
3) remove the wind thingy which you have to touch before able to "fly" (fast walk) in late game
4) allow fast walk.....maybe a little early. (I think for the first half of the game, it is quite bearable, but the map got a lot larger later)

But in general, this is a great game! Please give it a try, specially when it is on 90% off

Fantastic RPG with engaging combat. This is my first 'Tales of' game and I'm very happy with it.
Pros: Everything but Magilou
Cons: Magilou

Berseria is both a fun game with a great story and a frustrating experience all at the same time. There are so many things this game does with its gameplay that is very poorly explained. That goes for things both in and out of combat.

That being said the combat can either be very deep and complex or "grind levels and mash attack button" depending on how you want to play the game. There are a lot of mechanics for each character that never get explained and are things you have to learn as you play the game more. I stuck to playing one character for the entire game to try and learn the game better and I was still learning things on how this character functions in combat in the final area of the game. This is definitely a game that requires you to put time into learning its systems/mechanics on your own since some of the in game descriptions are in very odd places or not full descriptions.

I enjoyed the combat of this game right off the bat. Once I finally had a grasp on mechanics and my characters abilities it allowed me to look into the other things I had been neglecting. But that was after nearly halfway through the game. And I was only playing one character out of the six! The game expects you to know all the characters and use them when its beneficial, so this kind of made certain portions of the game harder for me than they probably actually were.

Story is great, characters are unique and enjoyable, 100%-ing requires lots of grinding, its a tales of game.

Minor vague spoilers. TL;DR game is really good. Worth it:
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THIS is a good game. I got a Tales Of Vesperia itch recently and decided to go through the other Tales games sitting in my backlog. Symphonia, then Zesteria, and now Berseria. Symphonia is good. Can definitely see how it would have had a massive influence in it's time. Zesteria is a mid game, imo, and that's after patching it to run better at 60FPS.

However, Berseria is SO GOOD that I am glad to have played a mid game like Zesteria before it because of the context and depth that Berseria adds to the universe established in Zesteria. So many "OH!" and "AHA!" moments throughout the story.

Additionally, the characters begin to gain so much depth and range as the story goes on. In ways that genuinely surprised me at times (looking at you, Magilou).

The combat makes you feel like a god when using Velvet. She's broken. For a more nuanced experience, utilizing the other characters and crafting combos based on your enemy types at higher difficulties is very rewarding.

I personally wish there was a little more exploration. It feels pretty linear so far. Coming off of Symphonia, I feel a little boxed in.

Definitely worth the buy and deserves it's position in top 5 best Tales games.

Velvet and Eleanor yuri changed my life

velvet is waifu material

8.008/10, great game must play

YUGE

I really wanted to like this game and to be able to recommend it. I think the game has a lot of potential, mind you, and I enjoyed most aspects of the game. I enjoyed most of the main party, I enjoyed their interactions, I found the combat enjoyable, but the dungeons felt like tedious to complete for me and pretty repetitive, the world felt a lot more bland compared to a game like Tales of Vesperia, and the story ended up going from compelling to feeling pretty disappointing, especially towards the end. I felt disappointed by going as far as I had, only to reach an ending that felt really rushed in my opinion and anti-climatic.

I've only played for a few hours so far so I'm still developing my opinion on this game. I've only played one other Tales of game (Tales of Arise), which I liked in spite of having a few major gripes. First off, the premise of this game and the opening sequence have left me extremely intrigued! I like the idea of the antagonist being someone who previously saved the world from an apocalypse, in a way that specifically ended up hurting the protagonist personally and kicked off the events of the game. This is a revenge story with a cast of not-exactly-the-good guys, and I love that! Also, I kinda love the protagonist a lot because she's got the whole "I used to be kind and happy person but then my family died horribly so now I'm rough around the edges and angry and violent but I've still got some of my core personality at heart" that you see more typically with grizzled 30/40-something male protags in other games, but you've got that trope on a younger female character instead! It's a neat twist imo.

I think the overall writing, the worldbuilding, and the characters are interesting, but my one complaint is that the dialogue sometimes feels a bit off. (Although the voice acting is pretty good and that offsets that complaint for me somewhat.)

I'm still getting into the meat of things so I can't say much on the mechanics yet. But so far, so good! I like it. Also the opening song absolutely rocks!!!

Tales of Berseria is an action JRPG game about revenge with a focus on storytelling. It is also a reboot of the Tales series. The game has one of the best writing I have seen in video games so far, which is reflected in the story and character development. The story seems to be a simple revenge story, but is surprisingly complex due to the interconnected characters, extensive world building, and lore.

There are a lot of optional dialogues (all voice acted), some of them less relevant about cooking, history, or ordinary stuff. Sometimes there can be a bit too many dialogues in a row, but on the other hand they often lead to interesting or funny discussions and arguments between the party members. Dialogues range from seemingly irrelevant information to funny or even silly. And dialog topics that seem irrelevant at first will be picked up later.

The game also surprises you every now and then with edgy/quirky/silly moments. Sometimes the game is serious and other times it is hilarious. I think most of the time it works very well and the designers have found a good balance to tell a still mature story with a bittersweet ending. In addition, the English translation is excellent and even the puns have been thoroughly translated (rewritten).

Even though you are playing anti-heroes, all the main characters are very likeable and have substantial development throughout the game. The main protagonist, Velvet, is torn between being a good person at core and being driven by revenge - sometimes one side comes to the fore, sometimes the other. This is further enhanced by Velvet's great English voice acting. Only Vevet's sexy outfit does not fit her character, which was probably chosen as an eye-catching selling point.
In addition to the anti-heroes, there are several antagonists that are great as well. They have depth, appear frequently throughout the game, and are memorable as a result.

The voice acting is overall very good, although some voices can be on the eccentric side, but all fit the character. This is accompanied by an intriguing group chemistry with conflicts between the characters due to conflicting perspectives and goals. In addition to the main characters, there are many supporting characters, each of whom is also memorable. There are a few optional (all voice-acted) side quests, most of them at the end of the game, which usually involve some of your main characters.

The (linear) story is great, but I am less thrilled with the game mechanics. There are many mechanics that encourage grinding, i.e., the game will reward you for doing things repeatedly. For example, abilities and items level up in (lots of) combat. Titles provide buffs to characters and level up through achievements in (lots of) combat. You can upgrade gear, which cost resources that you have to collect in (lots of) combat. Upgrading your gear is the most fun, but it can also turn into long work sessions if you get caught in a cycle of dismantling and upgrading numerous gear items. There is also a ship that you can send on an expedition every 30 minutes, which collects random items (mainly cooking ingredients) and levels up with each expedition. Cooking gives you different buffs in combat depending on the dish, each of which also levels up.

You can also collect chests, flowers, materials, and orbs as you travel around the world. Collected materials can be sold to merchants, who also level up globally when you trade with them. Annoying: to collect materials, you get a useless pop-up window that has to be confirmed each time. Collected orbs can unlock special chests containing various accessories for your characters, but they are only for cosmetic purposes.

The level design is mostly linear. Levels occasionally have branching paths, and you get a good sense of what the right path is and which paths will lead to chests. I only disliked the last dungeon because of its labyrinthine structure with long forward and backward passages that make the end drag on. Some dungeons contain small puzzles where you have to activate something to unlock a door, but these puzzles are very basic.

At the beginning of the game I wished the movement speed (i.e, running) was faster, as there is occasional backtracking. However, most of the time you can make use of fast travel and the game has very fast loading times. Unfortunately, it can be tedious to find the nearest fast-travel point to a quest, as quest locations and fast-travel points are in different menus - both could have been better integrated.

The game does a rather poor job of introducing the various combat mechanics. The combat system is constantly expanded at the beginning of the game, and is gradually introduced through bland, brief info boxes. The main problem here is that the player has to learn a lot of rules and vocabulary in a short time. Furthermore, the information in some menus is presented with a sliding text that makes it tedious to read. Moreover, some of the info boxes are so small that only two sentences fit in them, forcing you to scroll down to read the rest of the sentence.

Combat is based on managing two gauges that slowly fill and empty as abilities (called "artes") are used. Combat is a back and forth: you attack until you run out of power and than retreat briefly until you can attack again. The combat system is based on combos that can be freely customized and assigned to the controller buttons. The artes become quite complex because there are different types and different rules for how to sequence them. In addition, each arte causes elemental damage that can be used effectively against certain enemies. I found it rather tedious to constantly rearrange the optimal artes for each battle based on the current enemies. Fortunately, even without optimized artes combos, you can still win all the battles in the game on normal difficulty. Alternatively, you can switch to fully automatic combat, which works well on normal difficulty and basically makes all combat-related mechanics optional. The AI is not the most efficient, but it is good enough. You can also influence the AI to some extent by assigning strategies to each character, and you can still swap weak characters in and out during combat.
Overall, I did not really like the combat system, but on the other hand, the AI is good enough to win all the fights for you. As the game is not that challenging on normal difficulty, the overall combat system seems more complex than necessary.

By the way, I find some of the post-battle comments hilarious, even if they get repetitive over time. It shows how much thought and attention to detail went into the characters. I only wish they would have toned down the battle cries a bit, as the characters keep yelling the same arte names over and over again.

The music is very powerful. There are a lot of great tracks that fit the situation. Although the tracks are not the most complex and the melodies repeat quickly, they are very energetic and add weight to the narrative.

The graphics are good in terms of character models and animation, as well as the anime-style scenes, but the environments, especially the dungeons, look empty, with little detail, and often resemble tube-like corridors. Tales of Berseria uses the same (old) game engine as Tales of Zestiria with some improvements (especially, the PC port is much better for Tales of Berseria).

All in all, Tales of Berseria captivated me with its compelling characters, voice acting, storytelling, and writing, and I highly recommend it for these qualities. I also recommend playing Tales of Berseria before Tales of Zestiria: both games share the same world, with Berseria taking place 1000 years earlier. In Tales of Zestiria, the player learns a lot about the world, which can spoil some of the experience when you start discovering Berseria.

A story where you play as negative heroes with the most lively characters who are no good and do as they see fit. This game is definitely worth its money.

"There's a flame in my Heart, I couldn't extinguish even if I wanted to;"
ABSOLUTE CINEMA. 9/10! The gameplay might be a bit grindy but its far better than Zestiria that **** is crazy this game is leagues ahead of Zestiria that they didn't lock best girl! Here almost all characters are playable.

This game is the best in terms of Storytelling compared to the rest of the Tales series! An instant classic!

fun game
good story

Big empty feeling game. I played this years ago and still regret it.

it's pretty good you must trust me on this

60 hours and that's with me trying to take my time and explore and find everything I could start to finish. I did not 100% it though. As a big fan of Symphonia and Vesperia I thought I would enjoy this after not playing a Tales game cause I don't have the time I used to.
I have no idea if it's because I am older and jaded but this game didn't click with me, Velvet is my least favourite type of character that being the "Sasuke" kind. the whiny emo "Oh I am damaged, traumatised, and tragic, that excuses how terrible I treat everyone." My issue with characters like this is they are completely dictated by their past, I won't spoil it but Velvet makes no attempt to control her emotions. Now this my anger some fans but I always found characters who don't wear their heart on their sleeves more compelling seeing how they deal with their past rather than be ruled by it. That's just me, it's irritating cause Velvet puts on this "I don't care about people, I will use you, for the money" persona, but deep down she cares and I have to watch her put this b*tch act on only for her to make the choice to actually help people begrudgingly every. time. It got old fast. Side note Magilou's outfit was a little much for me. I know its a jrpg so bad fashion sense abound but seriously the jester hat and book skirt was to much. I won't waste anymore time on the characters they weren't as bad as Velvet though Laphicet does get annoying late game.
Game play wise Namco play tested this game to a fault. It feels as though the developers didn't want you to feel challenged or get stuck at all. Many mechanics can be made use of like making your own combos in combat, or you could just let the computer decide. You could forge your own weapon and upgrade it or just buy the next weapon in the new area. It feels like a waste as if the game is apologising hoping I don't get overwhelmed. Now I can see the reasoning behind it they want to reach as many people as possible so in case you aren't an jrpg player you'd appreciate the game meeting you half way. But it makes the combat boring and repetitive, very few times did I ever feel challenged or felt that I wasn't going to win a battle. That and this game is more combat focused unlike Symphonia with its Zelda esque dungeon puzzles. This is wander around massive same looking environment killing everything, fight boss, repeat. The final nail in the coffin though is the movement speed is so slow, seriously even with items that speed you up cause the maps are so huge walking around takes forever. It was for that reason I did not want to back track to find secrets.
I would wait for a sale if you want this like I did. I maybe getting old but compared to Vesperia or Symphonia I was left disappointed.

LAPHICET!
LAPHICET!
LAPHICET!
LAPHICET!

The best tales of protagonist, well built story and fun gameplay.

senza na romana che te spiega come funziona è ingiocabile

This is the first tales game I have beaten personally and I loved the story and like persona 3 the ending made my cry and to me that's a sign of a great story worth putting your time into

Wonderful game that has easily become one of my favorites. Initially I wasn't sure of going for the platinum trophy (I don't do that for every game that I play) but I was halfway through the story when I realized that I was definitely going for it. Engaging story, good music, skits that add depth to the characters and combat that even if it grows old towards the end, it's enjoyable.

The combat system might be a little difficult to comprehend at the beginning, but the game gives you enough freedom to set the difficulty adequate to your playing style. If you like the story, it wouldn't be surprising you end up doing a second play-through on Chaos difficulty all the way through.

Highly recommended.

Great story, memorable characters, fun side quests. Wonderful artwork and soundtrack. I recommend this.

enduring Zestiria paid off really well. the cast of characters is near perfect

I can eat Laphicet up. no one should have the right to make me feel cute aggression this often

Any reason why you have the Guard button in combat to be the same button to bring up the controls window?

It stops combat and interrupts the flow horribly, as guarding is a necessity in this game for fluid combos. I'm using an Xbox controller and there is minimal customization for this method.

FIX THIS issue, as the player has no access to splitting a key between two, and NO ADDITIONAL options to help solve this issue.

Overall great game, not to mention it only costs 5€ on sale for ~50 hours

Pros:
-Phenomenal cast with great english voice acting
-One of the best written protagonists I've seen in a JRPG, edginess done right
-Constantly progressing story, without huge breaks
-Decent build variety
-Acessible combat that doesn't require extremely demanding chains of actions
-Characters feel different enough during gameplay to feel unique but not unfun
-Story takes place in a fantasy world without being too generic (it does start a bit generic in its themes but they get enough development to make them stand out)
-Actual good antagonist that gets enoguh screen time (unlike Vesperia)

Cons:
-Combat starts kinda weak because of the lack of skills
-Boring and unrewarding dungeon design (sometimes backtracking to previously inaccessible areas give trivial items)
-Painfully slow character movement in the map
-Velvet's character design, they could very easily make her repair her clothes later in the game (which is even mentioned in the story), but they didn't because of fanservice or something
-Overall weak graphics for a 2017 game (Recommend using Reshade if it bothers you)

I love the game, the story is very good

The story was great but the game is way too long and the combat gets repetitive with time. 7/10

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The main character is tsundere, 100/10

The same spammy stunlock central heavy combat as Tales of Zestiria. Jesus Christ is this an atrocity.

Im sure this game would be great if it would ever open.

Edit: i tried a lot of different things to get it to run, yet nothing came from it. It would say it was open, but then not show up anywhere. Now that cosmic rays have done their thing, it suddenly opens. so thats cool.

10/10 the game opens

there r sordsman & there r deamen.

I finished this Tales of game on PS4 back in 2017, I got the CE for it (Still have that!) Imo this is a great entry, I bought it last summer on sale on steam, and last few weeks im hooked again! Velvet is a amazing girl! <3

After the world had been conquered. In a tiny village obscure from all life. Artorios Colbrande sacrifices his wife and unborn twins to a hole in the ground and purifies most current Demons turning them back into humans and reviving and creating many angels (maleks) in becoming the world savior; the Shepard. 2 Years later he does this again with your little brother and you get in the way So he kills you because that is why birds fly... This revives many more angels and they become visible to humans. So you play as the Lord of Calamity Velvet Crowe; a therion Demon (demon that consumes other demons powers) trying to take ur revenge and reshape world. Watch the first hour on youtube to SEE!!!) greatest voice acting, heart breaking every cutscene for real, very fun new fighting style very different than other Tales of games. Different punishments and rewards on all difficulties but u can set to 5 difficulties and can set all 4 to Auto or up to 4 players.. can change party in battle, 4 at a time and back attacks reverse party order, and chain battles can be way more devasting and rewarding. All Tales of games have free about 7 unlockable for each character costumes and over 100 accessories for all and paid DLC ones which aren't even nice in comparison.. The people in towns talk automatically like in the atmosphere and the ones that don't have a small cutscene. The party also constantly talks to eachother, in skits too wish they were more animated though, but after the battle they congratulate eachother depending on who did the best that battle and it is incredibly satisfying every time.

I like the fighting; switching ur skills to the enemies element and fiend type weakness or just using ones i have on X button for wide range or Y for in air. For the stamina system I'm not very good at it but if u block or blockdodge u can gain a stamina and if u get hit hard u lose a stamina. When u do a combo u can use the stamina in the skills so some could cost more than 1 bar or almost 0.2 of a bar. For attacking get the biggest group of monster u can get without being interupted then when u are low on stamina or need to stunlock u can always use devour with Velvet to continue the combo until ur devoured type ability activates and end it with a Hyper combo if its above 40 combo for the 2nd stronger hyper combo. I do prefer the old Tales of games fighting style which is mostly the same but uses SP like MP no stamina gauges.

Boring ahh game

10/10 ending make sure you play zestiria first if at all possible

Came blind to this one and really liked it! Quite nice story and good characters. I found the combat really hard to master, but one don't need to master it to finish the game.

three lesbians two gays and their adopted child fight the church, making this the best game ever

Been a long time since I actually played but I'm feeling nostalgic waiting for a new tales game. Berseria characters and party banner are unforgettable and I'm really pining for a modern character to be written and voiced nearly as well as Velvet was.

Birds fly because they want to.

I wasn't expecting anything from this game but i'm glad I bought it.

The story and characters are pretty solid and there are some funny interactions.

The gameplay can be somewhat complex at the beginning because of the combo system.

The open world isn't anything spectacular and the worst part for me are the dungeons, they tend to be boring because of the lenght and lack of content.

The graphics are outdated but honestly most of the times I play a game it isn't for the graphics, I think the graphics are perfect as they are.

Buy this game on sale if you like JRPGS, because if you don't like them, this game isn't for you.

The story is awesome and the ending is super satisfying. If you have a younger sibling or if you hate your brother-in-law it will talk to you personally.

I really liked this one. Cool story, smooth gameplay, good music and interesting cast of characters. If you like JRPGs definitely grab this one on sale or even get it for a full price. Gameplay and graphics may be slightly dated though, but it should not be a big deal.
P.S. If you don't like "chatty chibi animal character" in games/anime, beware.

Fuckin' Lethal Pain

I Love Teresa

Velvet Crowe is my favorite video game protagonist i have played yet, she along with the supporting cast of characters radiate in personality and are very charming, they made me feel super immersed into the story. A strong theme of self identity shines through the story and would often uplift my mood and make me smile. Game play feels smooth, and even after very similar battles and repeated button smashing I never felt bored. Sound design is really great I found a lot of time i would know when I needed to dodge based off of the sound of an attack. Tales of Berseria is a great JRPG I enjoyed, had lots of fun with and was well worth the time I put into it.

Huge fan of the Tales of series one of my top favorite games.

I like the anime cinematics. I really had fun getting to know each chatacter. Recommend!