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  well after 60 hours, i finally completed tales of graces f. what a weird tales game. i really wanted to like it but in the end it turned out to be just a meh sort of game that ends up in the bottom tier of my personal tales of ranking. just a bunch of incoherent ramblings below as usual since this game is so confusing and thus so are my thoughts about it. ----- the thing about graces is that the premise is SOOOOO good and so interesting, and honestly like something no other tales game had done? you start the game with everyone as kids and, although i thought it was going to be a less-than-one-hour portion of the game, it can actually take like 3-4 hours to get past the childhood section. but it's kinda cool cus you see how the characters bond with each other and have adventures in their childhood! but like i mentioned, the end of this arc is sooooo weird and abrupt, the 11-year-old protag decides to leave his family and childhood friend and sails to another city on his own to joi...

well, after 36 hours, i've finished tales of symphonia once again :) and despite the many flaws in the switch remastered edition, i honestly had a blast playing through it for the umpteenth time. no matter how many times i play through this game, it just brings me joy like no other. i've already rambled about why i love this game when i beat it for the first time in the ps3 collection, so super long junk thoughts below this time about the remastered edition, playing through the hard path for the first time ever, and wow still finding new sub-events after all these years: -------- i cannot BELIEVE that this game, from the gamecube era!!!, runs so poorly on the switch. there was only one update downloaded when i first started playing it late february, but that didn't really do anything to improve the experience or performance of the game as far as i could tell. it becomes super noticeable when you first go to the triet desert (2 hours into the game!) and the game starts lagg...

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...

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 ...