The Writing is so... so bad.

[Wish Maker]

Buyer beware on this one people; this is some deep deep elementary school levels of writing, with exposition characters left and right and people constantly spouting information they should already know; or characters around them should already know. What's worse? You're pelted with this crap for a LONG time before the game even lets you play.

The first portions of this "Game" are too damn busy trying to convince you there isn't a super-cliche story ahead of you, but only achieves the opposite! I can only endure so much at a time before I have to keep shutting off the game. Ugh...

[Cycerin]

Can't say the writing really bothered me till i got to the 4th realm. Then it got cringe going 0 to 100 real fast.

[아줌마]

Originally posted by Cycerin:

Can't say the writing really bothered me till i got to the 4th realm. Then it got cringe going 0 to 100 real fast.

yikes, I'm almost at the 4th realm and have been kind of cringing at some of the stuff the characters have been saying and doing, so this is promising

[nanaelsh]

Jester award has been getting a lot exercise in this forum as of late.

[Vesques23]

Originally posted by nanaelsh:

Jester award has been getting a lot exercise in this forum as of late.

If only we could hand out more!

[Recoil36]

From what I gather, Japanese is very hard to translate to english. They are used differently to explain and idea. English is rather to the point, where as japanese is very symbolic. Am I correct in saying this? This is what my friends who learned japanese tell me. Tales writing is just fine for me. It has better writing then a lot of NA games *cough* *cough* gears of war.

[XCROSS]

Originally posted by Recoil36:

From what I gather, Japanese is very hard to translate to english. They are used differently to explain and idea. English is rather to the point, where as japanese is very symbolic. Am I correct in saying this? This is what my friends who learned japanese tell me. Tales writing is just fine for me. It has better writing then a lot of NA games *cough* *cough* gears of war.

Sorry but the story IS cringe, it makes one physically ill thanks to it's cringey writing. It's just so cringey, the cringiest cringey of epic cringe proportions.

[Yagoo]

If you want a good story, read a book. I've been gaming since the 80's and the only game that I would say had good writing was Planescape: Torment. Everything else has been childish, cringey, or pretentious. Story is the least important aspect of gaming for me.

[Vandal]

Hahaha, we paid $60 for a trash anime! Sucks to suck.....

[FireShark]

Originally posted by XCROSS:

Originally posted by Recoil36:

From what I gather, Japanese is very hard to translate to english. They are used differently to explain and idea. English is rather to the point, where as japanese is very symbolic. Am I correct in saying this? This is what my friends who learned japanese tell me. Tales writing is just fine for me. It has better writing then a lot of NA games *cough* *cough* gears of war.

Sorry but the story IS cringe, it makes one physically ill thanks to it's cringey writing. It's just so cringey, the cringiest cringey of epic cringe proportions.

Then go play a game with zero cringe. I'm sure you have a loooong list of games to play.

[Onryo]

The story is actually typical anime, so for me its not bad. Boring, cliche but not bad.

Characters tho. They are the WORST anime bunch i ever saw. All of them. They boring. They stupid AF, they completely unlikable. Especially MC and Shionne, MC is just a mannequin, no personality, no depth, even after Plot Twist part. Shionne is typical tsun-tsun, and constant "Girl to be saved", boring and bland. The only character who says sentient things is always met with "how can you be so cold!" "Read the room!" "How dare you!". What are they, a bunch of rebelleionists fighting for freedom, or easily-offended teenagers who think the world is sunshine and rainbows? I see only second, sadly.

And the ***ing hetero-romance, that they practically shove into your face with boot. I get it, people need it (Even thou 3 last Tales of was good without it). But come on, in all Tales of i played, the romance, if there was any - was actually good. Maybe it was because the characters with those feelings was good, was really "persons", not a bunch of cliches without personality.

There's a lot you can do with cliche - you can expand it to be a real person, you can turn it upside down, you can deconstruct it. In Arise they did nothing of above, they just took dummies and stuck labels on them, saying - this is our HEROES! love them! No, thanks. I prefer real characters. Hell, even Asbell or Luke-The-Ambassador is light years better than whole Arise party.

I really tried to get to like the game, to understand characters. But there is nothing to understand. They are devoid of personality, they are badly-written empty dolls. Alas.

All in all - the plot is okay, boring but okay. Your normal Save The World From Bad Guys. The combat is okay, even good at some places. But the most important part (at least for me) - characters - are complete failure.

[Ryulightorb]

Originally posted by Onryo:

MC is just a mannequin, no personality, no depth, even after Plot Twist part..

he does have personality and depth no more or less than most player characters in jrpgs and rpgs.

Calling him a mannequin with no personality tells me you clearly skipped the story and skits.
its fine to not like his personality but to say it doesn't exist? LMAO

[LazyAmerican]

It's an anime game...I knew what I was getting into. It's still relatively entertaining...but obviously there are plenty of cringe moments. Still...don't feel like it does anything particularly bad to the point where I'd say it's awful....just pretty derivative tbh. But the combat props the whole thing up and is a blast to play with.

[Unstable Penguin]

This game has far better story so far then Tales of Zestria. I could not stomach the characters in that game. A fricken temp character at the beginning of the game had more story/depth then any of the main characters lol.

I do love Arise so far. The only part that kinda irritated me was the way Alphine talked about Zephyr, like he knew him his whole life or learned so much from him, when they spent like what... a couple days together maybe? lol

Probably why i hated Zestria, that whole game was people who acted super close to people they knew for like 10 minutes haha.

[Onryo]

Originally posted by Ryulightorb:

Originally posted by Onryo:

MC is just a mannequin, no personality, no depth, even after Plot Twist part..

he does have personality and depth no more or less than most player characters in jrpgs and rpgs.

Calling him a mannequin with no personality tells me you clearly skipped the story and skits.
its fine to not like his personality but to say it doesn't exist? LMAO

Dude, how about not telling ♥♥♥♥ about people you know nothing about?
I watched EVERy skit, scnece and read every line from start ot finish. He IS a mannequin, and he is empty. This figure is all cliches about The Great Hero trown in one and held together by one trait, that try to resemble personality - love for spice and equipment. He is not interesting, he is bland, he is boring. The NPCs from any other Tales of i played (9 of them) have more personality than this "Hero".

You may not agree with me and it if fine, but do yourself a favor, and stop spewing ♥♥♥♥ about people you dont know.

[Onryo]

Originally posted by Unstable Penguin:

This game has far better story so far then Tales of Zestria. I could not stomach the characters in that game. A fricken temp character at the beginning of the game had more story/depth then any of the main characters lol.

I do love Arise so far. The only part that kinda irritated me was the way Alphine talked about Zephyr, like he knew him his whole life or learned so much from him, when they spent like what... a couple days together maybe? lol

Probably why i hated Zestria, that whole game was people who acted super close to people they knew for like 10 minutes haha.

Another dude who hate my favorite game. All of them have one thing in common - judgemental bigoted pricks, who cant even really explain why they hate game. Poor people, nature was not king to them.