Tales of Symphonia (2003)
4.13 from 1160 ratings
3788 members have it in their collection · 104 playing now · 1580 backlogged · 567 wish listed
How long? Main story 52h · with extras 49h (from 14 logged playthroughs)
Details
- Developers
- Namco Tales Studio
- Publishers
- Bandai Namco Holdings, Namco, Nintendo
- Genres
- Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG)
- Themes
- Action, Fantasy
- Franchises
- Tales of
- Series
- Tales, Tales of Symphonia
- Event
- Nintendo E3 2004 Press Conference
- Steam
- View on Steam
Release dates
- Aug 29, 2003 (Japan) Nintendo GameCube
- Jul 13, 2004 (North_America) Nintendo GameCube
- Nov 19, 2004 (Europe) Nintendo GameCube
- Nov 23, 2004 (Australia) Nintendo GameCube
Also available on
- Tales of Symphonia (2004) · PS2
- Tales of Symphonia (2013) · PC, PS3
- Tales of Symphonia Remastered (2023) · NSW, PS4, XONE, XSX
- Tales of Symphonia Remastered: Chosen Edition (2023) · NSW, PS4, XONE
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Rating distribution
5 stars
480
4 stars
421
3 stars
189
2 stars
59
1 star
9
Community All Reviews Statuses
Status Inc Jul 15, 2023
Day 29: I never finished Tales of Symphonia even though I thought it was great. I kind of want to but the original Gamecube version is still the best apparently and I wouldn't want to play a suboptimal port. So here's to the memories...
Status supersaiyanchrono Nov 17, 2021
So before going into my retrospective playthrough of every Tales game if you had asked me which was my favorite I would have said Symphonia. It was the first I played, a grand journey I took with my siblings and one that I've always looked back on fondly. I was hoping that with such a huge gap of time and …
So before going into my retrospective playthrough of every Tales game if you had asked me which was my favorite I would have said Symphonia. It was the first I played, a grand journey I took with my siblings and one that I've always looked back on fondly. I was hoping that with such a huge gap of time and more experience not just in Tales games but in RPGs in general maybe I'd have a new take. But after 30 minutes of playing I was convinced of 3 things:
- Nostalgia's a hell of a drug
- There was never really any hope to approach this unbiased and that's okay
- Tales of Symphonia is still my favorite Tales game
And here now 50 hours later at the end of the journey I'm still convinced of all three of those points. Everything is just so incredible, yes as an improvement over previous entries but even years later. The combat is much more varied, most of the cast is fun to play, and you can really mix and match your party in nearly any combination. The music is perfect, the world varied but cohesive, and the side quests and costumes super fun to search for and unlock. And the characters. Oh sweet lord the characters. As individuals the cast of the Persona games, and a few other RPGs may have more depth or better designs but as a single unit there is no RPG party I love more than these goofs. They all just bounce off each other so well, and really feel like they genuinely get along and care about each other. I could gush for another few hours about how well it adapts to 3d, how great the hidden affection system is, why the VAs kick ass but I'll just stop by saying 12/10 its gonna be really hard to top this one.
Status Octjillery Jun 4, 2021
I found this on Thriftbooks last weekend (actually in stock!) and it came in today!
It's about the size of a strategy guide but not very thick. Mostly has these character profiles, a few other character pages, pictures of all of the summons, and then several of the sprites pages. But I'm still super stoked to have found something like …
I found this on Thriftbooks last weekend (actually in stock!) and it came in today!
It's about the size of a strategy guide but not very thick. Mostly has these character profiles, a few other character pages, pictures of all of the summons, and then several of the sprites pages. But I'm still super stoked to have found something like this for one of my fav games from my favorite series!
How is Presea only 53lbs?!
Status internpepper Nov 12, 2020
My favorite Tales game of all time! The adventure, characters, music, world, and plot are iconic and all of the extra content is well worth doing.
Status Incus Feb 4, 2016
I have played for 40 hours and now the game wants me to go to all these dungeons but I'm so fed up with them that I can't even pick up the controller anymore. I really want to finish this game and I get anxious over it every time I look in the general direction of my PS3. Please send …
Read moreI have played for 40 hours and now the game wants me to go to all these dungeons but I'm so fed up with them that I can't even pick up the controller anymore. I really want to finish this game and I get anxious over it every time I look in the general direction of my PS3. Please send help.
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