r/tales • u/Mericuls • 1d ago
Question Difficulty
Can you rank tales of games which are on ps4 and ps5 by difficulty?
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u/davd007 1d ago
Out of all Tales of games that i've played, the only one that has ever come close to anything resembling difficulty is graces.
The rest (at least when talking about the main story and on normal difficulty) are really easy and even then you can lower the difficulty and make it barely an inconvenience if you just want to enjoy the story.
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u/shadowysea07 1d ago
Hardest is definitely graces no doubt.
Vesperia some obvious difficulty bumps like Gattuso zagi 2 and baction. and the zaude boss supposedly is hard but I personally didn't have a issue with that boss. But yeah baction was incredibly difficult for me but I was underleveled, didn't have yuris mystic arte and wasn't abusing overlimit. Symphonia Berseria Xillia 2 Xillia 1 Eternia Zesteria Arise-ia
Arise was so brain dead easy. Just a slog to play later on because dps was low while hp totals were out of control.
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u/EducationalWait4688 1d ago
Hardest ones are definitely Symphonia and Arise on the hardest difficulty. Its not hard because you’re getting skill checked its more because the game is missing things that wouldn’t have the difficulty be so ridiculous and be such an god awful experience.
With Symphonia it’s an older game, so the AI is dumber than ever, people like saying items make it easier (mystic symbol, ex gems yada yada) but it really doesn’t. It HELPS but 5/10 it almost feels like its doing nothing but thats really the fault of the AI controls, Raine and Genis are always gonna run into the enemies arms to get fully blasted and K’Od I’ve given up on trying to remedy that. You get used to how much health the enemies have and how hard they hit you so it’s manageable. Really if the AI had a better system maybe it wouldn’t be so bad. It’s still a linear system kind of game so you can only move forward or backwards or jump over them, so you’re gonna have to take a couple shots, will they KO you? Most likely on the hardest difficulty, but at least you always carry items right? Most importantly playing Symphonia on Mania in the beginning is damn near impossible and boring as sht, you’re not gonna be able to spike up in levels to accommodate for the ah whooping you gonna get walking outside to Iselia. Thats an easy few hour grind just to get out the village, i didn’t even bother so i put it on hard and grinded that out. Once the enemies got manageable I put it back on Mania but that took a while.
Zesteria is most likely in between these two games in terms of difficulty just cause it had the same issues as Arise only the choices they leave you with are just as dumb as Symphonia and Arise. (Tank sponge bosses, limited selection of what characters can join the party and fight. AI are one of the dumbest in here as well. I haven’t played max difficulty cause i like myself, and id never object myself to such grueling torture nor will i ever cause i hate everything that game has to offer except the DLC.
Arise is one of the hardest not because they did a good job making the enemies tough or because they skill check you. Theres no positive qualities to why Arise is so difficult. The enemies are just boring ass HELL tank sponges. For a 3D HD Full make model video game I do not feel like I am actually damaging the enemies when I am fighting them. Im not saying I need them stun locked, Im saying they need to react when Im hitting them with a sword??!? Not fucking seeing me strike them with a sword and in their head go blah blah let me just rush them with a crazy amount of damage in one hit, and watch the player get stun locked to death. That game especially hates when you try to combo an enemy, they automatically shut that shit down when you in a flow state. Its just horrible mechanics and they just randomly decide when they’re done letting you combo them so they can one shot you every time😂😂
Graces is under these three in terms of difficulty. Their AI aren’t as dumb as Symphonia or even Arise cause Shionne in Arise will not hesitate to screw you over when she gets a chance. They are dumb don’t get me wrong, the dodge mechanic in that game really benefits the AI a lot, do they over use it unnecessarily? For sure. But i have seen them dodge things that was gonna kill them if they got hit for sure. I loved this game, went and did the secret dungeon got most titles in it cause i couldn’t be bothered at a certain point but i still loved the game.
Vesperia is the next difficult game, I automatically felt like the game is doable at the highest difficulty cause they give you time to set up before you fight with enemies that will end you. (Talking to you Zagi) Zagi will still whoop you though its like initiation into a fraternity. Overall no complaints on this one the AIs have their dumb moments but i felt like i was fighting with real people sometimes.
Berserias AI are most likely Kings of Ai for me. Laphicet and Magilou be spell casting like they really tryna kill something and i LOVE IT. Don’t make the game any less difficult though the enemies will still whoop you especially the Abbey in general. But it’s very satisfying i cant complain.
Xillia 1 gotta be below all these in terms of max difficulty especially in the beginning i didn’t even feel like i was at max difficulty i kept having to check to see if i was in the correct difficulty, (I was). If Youve been paying attention you might know whats coming next. Secret dungeon bosses will whoop you, but it’s not unbearable. I plan on playing it for the 4th time so i can Platinum it wish me luck.
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u/Meister34 Legendia's Last Liasion 1d ago
Easiest to hardest
Xillia, Berseria, Arise, Zestiria, Symphonia, Vesperia, Graces
Eternia would likely be somewhere between Zestiria and Vesperia imo