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tales of symphonia: dawn of the new world

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woohoo!!! finally completed my replay of dawn of the new world!! 😌❤️ it had been over a decade since i last played this game, so my memory was a bit fuzzy on certain story aspects and i wanted to refresh it. plus, after i finished the original symphonia for like the nth time, i was aching for more of its world and its characters. yeah this game is far from perfect and is definitely not the sequel a lot of us were expecting, but still, it has its good moments. more long rambling junk thoughts below (lmao this turned out longer than expected but i just have so many feelings about the symphonia series so i have to spew them out somewhere)! ------- so let's start with the good things! the original symphonia cast (bare with me here). this is probably like 90% of the reason why i wanted to replay this game cus my god do i love these characters so damn much. the first time colette appeared i screamed of joy and even more so when i heard her use the iconic angel feathers in an in-game c...

tales of symphonia (playstation 3)

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ahhhh i did it!!! after 10+ years of not having played symphonia, i finished it again for like...what? my 20th time or so? and MAN, even after having played it so many times, after all these years, i still had such a blast playing through the ps3 version for the first time!! this game will forever hold a special place in my heart, so i'll just ramble on about it some more in some junk thoughts below! ------- oh my god i don't even know where to begin with trying to describe just how much this game means to me. even before i found out that this game was going to be re-released for the switch, it was on my list to replay it. it might be me looking at it with nostalgia glasses but wow, i still think that this game is such a gem to play even though it was released in like the early 2000s. i gotta say that the game was harder than i remembered it being, ESPECIALLY before you reach tethe'alla because wow i just kept running out of TP and being underleveled etc, but once you get ...