Game:

Tales of Berseria (2016)

Category:

Review

Duration: 39:09

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this is a video three months in the making - a great learning experience, but a great deal of effort to go along with it. it came to be because i wanted to experiment with breaking from the formula i'd been using for my reviews before. just saying how i felt about tales of berseria wasn't enough; i wanted to compare it to its companion because although i didn't stream zestiria, i couldn't keep myself from thinking, "why did they use the same foundation, but turn out so differently?"

i hope you guys enjoy it, and that if you haven't yet played tales of vesperia, a completely unrelated entry, my endorsement will encourage you to do so.

0:00 - Intro
0:55 - Tales of Berseria Summary and Analysis
14:42 - Tales of Zestiria Summary and Comparison
23:40 - Berseria and Zestiria Development
29:01 - Special Guest Star Yuri Lowell
33:19 - Gameplay
37:14 - Final Thoughts

a couple items to note: first, none of the music is mine, obviously. i used OSTs from the tales games discussed in the video. youtube copyright is peeved with me anyway for daring to use music with lyrics in it.

secondly, there's a lot of factual information thrown out here, so i've linked the sources i drew from below. to avoid confusion, although i cited naoki yamamoto, the interview i took footage from is with berseria's producer, yasuhiro fukaya, who has made similar comments.

https://www.gematsu.com/2015/01/media-create-sales-11915-12515
https://www.vg247.com/tales-of-zestiria-story-features-dragons-battle-system-will-have-a-big-surprise-for-fans
https://jpgames.de/2014/08/animagic-2014-our-interview-with-hideo-baba/
https://www.siliconera.com/japanese-gamers-tales-zestiria-alisha-costs-1300-yen/
https://web.archive.org/web/20150508084214/http://www.famitsu.com/news/201505/08078106.html
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/tales-of-berseria-interview-female-lead-fukaya
https://www.digitallydownloaded.net/2017/02/on-making-tales-of-berseria-darkest.html
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2017-01-17/tales-of-berseria-yasuhiro-fukaya/.108179

and, if you watched the whole thing and really liked it, i do have a twitch and a discord server. thanks to the viewers who stuck through my berseria playthrough for the support!

https://twitch.tv/butchcorgi
https://discord.gg/RM3Wcwq9

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