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Tales of Destiny (1997)

Wolf Team

PlayStation

3.54 from 156 ratings

429 members have it in their collection · 12 playing now · 171 backlogged · 185 wish listed

How long? Main story 29h · with extras 41h (from 5 logged playthroughs)

Tales of Destiny is a follow-up to Tales of Phantasia. Like its predecessor, it has the structure of traditional Japanese role-playing games, but substitutes turn-based combat for action-oriented one. Battles take place on separate side-scrolling screens and resemble those of a fighting game. The player controls the main hero, navigating him on the battle screen and performing various attacks and … Read more
Tales of Destiny is a follow-up to Tales of Phantasia. Like its predecessor, it has the structure of traditional Japanese role-playing games, but substitutes turn-based combat for action-oriented one. Battles take place on separate side-scrolling screens and resemble those of a fighting game. The player controls the main hero, navigating him on the battle screen and performing various attacks and combos. Other party members are controlled by the game's AI, but it is possible to pause the battle at any time and assign new combat style to any one of them. Read less
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Developers
Wolf Team
Publishers
Namco
Genres
Adventure, Role-playing (RPG)
Themes
Action, Open world
Franchises
Tales of
Series
Tales, Tales of Destiny

Release dates

  • Dec 23, 1997 (Full Release) (Japan) PlayStation
  • Sep 30, 1998 (Full Release) (North_America) PlayStation

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Rating distribution

5 stars
24
4 stars
58
3 stars
57
2 stars
13
1 star
4
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VivCousland

Status VivCousland Jan 18, 2022

I get it why so many love this chapter. It's a game with a lovable cast (Philia and Leon my beloved ♡), the 'original' CC Battle System (I'm fond of it thanks to Graces) and interesting dungeon with riddles (apart the final one, ugh).
The pacing is a bit off, just like in many old games. There's a lot of …

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I get it why so many love this chapter. It's a game with a lovable cast (Philia and Leon my beloved ♡), the 'original' CC Battle System (I'm fond of it thanks to Graces) and interesting dungeon with riddles (apart the final one, ugh).
The pacing is a bit off, just like in many old games. There's a lot of backtracking, but I didn't feel it so annoying because I was genuinely interested in Stahn and other Swordians story. It helps that the protagonist is an optimist and funny one.
Another good thing that helped me not to feel this bad pacing is the Skit System. Some skits are quite remarkable, especially the ones that depict better the relationship between Master and Swordians. As you progress through the game you always want to know more!
The story is nothing new, some plot twist are obvious, but you can't help to feel sad for the characters. A particular scene left me in tears.
I never played the original Tales of Destiny, but the difference visually speaking is enormous!!

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supersaiyanchrono

Status supersaiyanchrono Oct 6, 2021

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Another one bites the dust. Funnily enough even though a few of the main characters were stronger here, I think I liked the party and game over all a little less than Phantasia. The villain was just a less interesting version of the previous villain, the back half of the game's dungeons are incredibly repetitive, and while I like one …

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Another one bites the dust. Funnily enough even though a few of the main characters were stronger here, I think I liked the party and game over all a little less than Phantasia. The villain was just a less interesting version of the previous villain, the back half of the game's dungeons are incredibly repetitive, and while I like one particular party members plot progression a lot of the villains fall in the classic, "I'm evil right up until you kill me where its revealed that this is all very tragic." This is one that if a new person asked if they should give it a shot I might recommend skipping especially since the direct follow-up does not have a full English translation. Still as a fan glad I played it. Rutee is best girl, and I could not be bothered to care about Karyl the bard.

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supersaiyanchrono

Status supersaiyanchrono Oct 1, 2021

So far definitely enjoying the characters in this one more than Phantasia, but combat in general less. The Ally AI is braindead and will not attack enemies if you are in front of them, and for some reason your basic combo is a single hit. Thankfully Stahn, Philia, and especially Rutee are maintaining my engagement, as they are much more …

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So far definitely enjoying the characters in this one more than Phantasia, but combat in general less. The Ally AI is braindead and will not attack enemies if you are in front of them, and for some reason your basic combo is a single hit. Thankfully Stahn, Philia, and especially Rutee are maintaining my engagement, as they are much more fully personified than the old cast. There's also this weird thing narratively where every city you travel to is struggling with one particular social issue across all people. This city has a sexism problem, this one has a terrible class divide, this one is xenophobic. The game doesn't do any commentary beyond "this is bad" and the characters don't really do anything about it so its more a funny game of "guess the social issue coming next" than any kind of thematic relevance.

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WerqKween

Status WerqKween Jul 19, 2021

UGH I leveled up a certain character at the expense of others and they left my team. So in the second half I have a new roster of half under-leveled characters. The second half gets much harder than the first, but grinding a few levels made things more palatable.

I decided to pick up Bruiser and Chelsea to fill my …

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UGH I leveled up a certain character at the expense of others and they left my team. So in the second half I have a new roster of half under-leveled characters. The second half gets much harder than the first, but grinding a few levels made things more palatable.

I decided to pick up Bruiser and Chelsea to fill my open slots. Chelsea seems to just be a much worse Garr, and Bruiser actually wound up replacing Garr on my active team, so that seals the deal on archers in this game I suppose. I like that folks on the bench still gain some experience, but having them join the team 6 (or 30...) levels behind is such a bummer.

I would think about bringing Mary along but she's going to be way behind when she's recruitable again. I didn't see any point to use Karyl even when he was forced on your team, so I'm not getting him.

Has anyone else out there played this? Who was your final four?

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WerqKween

Status WerqKween Jul 15, 2021

5 hours in, it's fine. I like JRPGs so I can't complain, and it's nice to play a game with a translation that isn't flaming garbage after the last few I played.

I haven't quite figured combat out yet, like it seems easy with me just button mashing. But for some reason my auto battle characters don't want to attack …

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5 hours in, it's fine. I like JRPGs so I can't complain, and it's nice to play a game with a translation that isn't flaming garbage after the last few I played.

I haven't quite figured combat out yet, like it seems easy with me just button mashing. But for some reason my auto battle characters don't want to attack very often, and I get the feeling this strategy is not going to work very well when I come up against harder enemies.

Other than that, it's your standard fare. Characters are all pretty annoying at this point. 😬

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internpepper

Status internpepper Nov 14, 2020

This was the first Tales game I ever played. The Swordians are a great piece of world-building and I thought the story took a lot of unique turns. The encounter rate is stupidly high and some twists felt contrived.

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INF.1B406

Status INF.1B406 Jun 28, 2019

Fri 06/28/2019 @ 08:22:43 PM CDT (GMT-5): 6 hours 32 minutes in ; stopped in Darilsheid Harbor post travel to Straylize Temple to uncover the theft of the Eye of Atamoni.

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