(Spoilers) What are your thoughts on the story?

[Shinobu]

I don't know if its only me, but I hated the story. Thought it was original and had potential in the beginning, then the story became so random like it was bad writing. I'm not going to go into details because its going to be a lot of complains. What are your thoughts on the story?

[foremost29]

It was slow going at first, but after it picked up I was glued. I like twists an what not, keeps me guessing.

Yeah, alot of random in it, but after playing it, I got the gist of it an liked it for what it was. I only played the Male PC and from hearing about others...its the one you should start on since it tells a majority of the story, the female PC adds her side to it which ends up tying into the male PCs side so...its meh unless you want to complete it fully.

[Kobi Blade]

Lots of unnecessary information that went nowhere (especially in the beginning), I found Kasane part of the history way more interesting.

Yuito was boring and oblivious most of the time.

[randomguy01542]

lot of twists, playing as yuito and being confused about everything, than hearing about what the other characters did was interesting. Selfish antagonist is selfish antagonist, just a generic animu story if I had to say it, nothing terrible, nothing great, good enough to get through the game with imo.

[WooDee]

I think it was fine. far from perfect but i played through alot worse than that, and was generally entertained by the game from start to finish.

I didn't have high hopes when i bought it, but thought the premise sounded interresting. But i also know that new japanese IP's tend to be hit and miss, so i can't say i was disapointed. But it did feel a bit rushed in some points, and i don't think the localisation helped it either.

My biggest gripe was mainly the villain. no depth at all. and no build up to the reveal of him. and this affected the rest of the story. where people join him but you really don't know why because he's barely there in the first place.

[homonovas]

Karen is a person, who want power and strength to change the whole world (close to Alexei in Vesperia).
But also, he can't accept all his mistakes (that goes against Japan mentalitet).
After Alice metamorphose, he tried with his friend to understand the truth and got that: Thay know Syo secret politic, friend become goverment dog, brother born without skills.
And he with Fibuki made secret center to reseach others. And know aboutTongetsy red string reseach (Alexeiiiiiiii).
LIf we look like close to Kunad, look like Karen travels in time yet and know about evrything, but Battle against him goes something wrong.
After that, he started prepead to revolution, to change all with power way (look again to Alexei story).
In future, Karen lost Spring all last ally, and starting planing all things, travels in the past and kill Sumeragi.
But Sairen politict just want something other, than his ideals (just power like in Syo).
So they start work seperate from each others soon.
But, Syo tried uses people-Others like a weapon to sabotate Sairan powers, thanks to Kodama.
After that, Karen come close to madness and tried to change everything with Red strings. And in grave we see that.
But he can't kill Sumeragi, cos he just did that (and meet with himselth in graveyard). And after absorption himselth he lose all his sanity to purpose change the past fails.
In the end, he found easy decision - if he never exist, then all will be as hee want, so he travel in the past and dies.
The moral of his story - people can change the world with their obession (main idea of Tales of Zesteria game), but they can't do it only themself without anyone else.
Not so bad lore, just for me. But biggest part of that won't told you dirrectly.

[ADMNtek]

not done yet but from what I have seen so far it pure insanity and confusion. but it's made in Japan and I have been watching anime for long enough to not be surprised by it anymore. it's just how they roll. I'm also wondering whose sudden but inevitable betrayl i will curse next.

[Jiyo]

I played Yuito's story only and found the bonding scenes right after Joe Sumeragi's death to be kinda awkward. Like Kasane's platoon tried to kill Yuito, and somehow he is okay/forgiving to talk with his "Temporary Enemies" at a restaurant. The same people, who are helping Kasane to elimate you and then immediately try to bond with them is just some wtf moment to me.

[ADMNtek]

Originally posted by Jiyo:

I played Yuito's story only and found the bonding scenes right after Joe Sumeragi's death to be kinda awkward. Like Kasane's platoon tried to kill Yuito, and somehow he is okay/forgiving to talk with his "Temporary Enemies" at a restaurant. The same people, who are helping Kasane to eliminate you and then immediately try to bond with them is just some wtf moment to me.

not that yuitos people are any different when you play Kasane and they give you a call to hang out right after you try to kill them. seen that in anime a lot. I'm telling you if Kasane asked youito to hang out he would show up not even considering the possibility of getting shivved. I think it might be some kind of Japanese warrior code thing where you are only enemies on the battlefield.

[Titan]

I like it as a whole apart from one blatant, glaring plot hole.

Why the ♥♥♥♥ did Karen replace Yakumo Sumeragi? The whole purpose of him travelling to the past was to save Alice Ichijo. Replacing Yakumo is completely unrelated to that goal and has no place in the story.

[darkdrow12]

good evening,

Originally posted by Titan:

I like it as a whole apart from one blatant, glaring plot hole.

Why the ♥♥♥♥ did Karen replace Yakumo Sumeragi? The whole purpose of him travelling to the past was to save Alice Ichijo. Replacing Yakumo is completely unrelated to that goal and has no place in the story.

see this is what i dont get either!

was it because yakumo was potiential hindrence to his plan? did he want to the money and royalties from the sumeragi name to manipulate the time line? just...WHY? xD

did yuito in a loop beat his arse so hard karen became spiteful and killed his ancestor?

just so silly, but...i have to give my general consensus as well its...ok.

any form of media that uses time travel for storytelling tend to turn garbo.(easiest thing to write but hardest to execute)

However, like others said here, i was entertained by what was given.

for the record i like yuito he is an allright protag, straight forward with his peeps and tries to include everyone in on whats going on and what to do, i respect that.

only down side is his trusting nature, which isnt bad. BUT THE WHOLE STORY FALLS APART WITHOUT IT.

ive played/seen both sides, kasane is an allright gal...but geebus Yuito goes ON A LIMB for this woman.

5 minutes kasane....just 5 *$&% minutes...to explain things.

TLDR: sorry for the rant at the end. the game is ok.

[randomguy01542]

in his def, she was already gone when he was mad so he had time to cool off and also wanted to know her reasoning for killing his dad. While she was thinking of killing yuito because of what she heard in the future so she wanted him to think she killed his dad so it would be easier for her to kill him since it would feel she had to defend herself while he was trying to get revenge.

[ADMNtek]

Originally posted by randomguy01542:

in his def, she was already gone when he was mad so he had time to cool off and also wanted to know her reasoning for killing his dad. While she was thinking of killing yuito because of what she heard in the future so she wanted him to think she killed his dad so it would be easier for her to kill him since it would feel she had to defend herself while he was trying to get revenge.

I like Kasane but she no real people skills. which makes sense considering her origins and the level of subconscious childhood trauma and the poor treatment by the Randals didn't help either.
also for Karen what do you expect he is a Karen. Karens don't think like normal people.

[randomguy01542]

Originally posted by ADMNtek:

Originally posted by randomguy01542:

in his def, she was already gone when he was mad so he had time to cool off and also wanted to know her reasoning for killing his dad. While she was thinking of killing yuito because of what she heard in the future so she wanted him to think she killed his dad so it would be easier for her to kill him since it would feel she had to defend herself while he was trying to get revenge.

I like Kasane but she no real people skills. which makes sense considering her origins and the level of subconscious childhood trauma and the poor treatment by the Randals didn't help either.
also for Karen what do you expect he is a Karen. Karens don't think like normal people.

I honestly thought she was just a generic ice queen anime character, but than you go on her side and she talks pretty normal honestly, just a shy girl from her circumstances it seems.
edit:
scratch that, rather than shy, should be that when she told yuito she doesn't like to talk a lot I shoulda taken that literally as in she really just doesn't wanna talk to ya unless she has to.

[randomguy01542]

Originally posted by darkdrow12:

good evening,

Originally posted by Titan:

I like it as a whole apart from one blatant, glaring plot hole.

Why the ♥♥♥♥ did Karen replace Yakumo Sumeragi? The whole purpose of him travelling to the past was to save Alice Ichijo. Replacing Yakumo is completely unrelated to that goal and has no place in the story.

see this is what i dont get either!

was it because yakumo was potiential hindrence to his plan? did he want to the money and royalties from the sumeragi name to manipulate the time line? just...WHY? xD

did yuito in a loop beat his arse so hard karen became spiteful and killed his ancestor? :Irene:

just so silly, but...i have to give my general consensus as well its...ok.

any form of media that uses time travel for storytelling tend to turn garbo.(easiest thing to write but hardest to execute)

However, like others said here, i was entertained by what was given.

for the record i like yuito he is an allright protag, straight forward with his peeps and tries to include everyone in on whats going on and what to do, i respect that.

only down side is his trusting nature, which isnt bad. BUT THE WHOLE STORY FALLS APART WITHOUT IT.

ive played/seen both sides, kasane is an allright gal...but geebus Yuito goes ON A LIMB for this woman.

5 minutes kasane....just 5 *$&% minutes...to explain things.

TLDR: sorry for the rant at the end. the game is ok.

You know what I'm thinking about this... maybe he needed the clearence to arahabaki for his plans and what better way than to just become the guy in charge, and we saw how he went to other timelines to try and change things, so we don't know at what point he decided to take over so I guess this is just a moment of just do it haha

[AZKq]

I played Kasane story first and i really liked the story and the twists. I really disliked Yuito from her point of view and had my own theories about how Yuito knows X and Y etc ( dont wanna spoiler anything) . But after playing his Story aswell i was actually suprised about stuff. There were a few surpises where i thought it would be different from Kasane's point of view.

To make it short:
Play both stories and i really actually enjoyed it.
If you only played one so far, it might actually not look that great story wise.
It really needs both playtroughs.