

Tales of Symphonia 2 might be a bad game, but it’s bad and incompetent in the most fascinating of ways.

For once, my completion of this game wasn’t entirely the product of self-loathing and morbid curiosity. But, uh, around 30 hours of my life later, here I am. the ones I’ve heard generally positive things about) a shot, but the ones with more mixed/ambiguous reception like Graces F, Zestiria, and especially this one were going to be worth an optional glance at best. Sure, I was planning to eventually give Xillia, Vesperia, and Berseria (i.e. For as much as I enjoyed Tales of Symphonia, it wasn’t so revelatory an experience that I’d feel the need to go on some sort of nightmarish journey through every other Tales game *. But uh, as you might guess, that didn’t happen. I figured, sure, why not try the bad sequel to Tales of Symphonia? Might as well put in a couple hours, get a basic grasp for why the fanbase hates it to death, and move on. All I wanted was something to play with a controller after a repetitive stress injury in my right arm made playing Pillars of Eternity 2 (or anything else with mouse and keyboard) an actively painful experience. I wasn’t expecting things to go this way. COURAGE IS THE MAGIC THAT TURNS DREAMS INTO REALITY Top 10 Anime Betrayals
