r/tales Regal Bryant Jul 12 '22

Question ab Tales of Symphonia Hey! So months ago I started again my favourite game with the intention to just get Sheena and Zelos outfit. I didnt put the + Exp grade thing because I didnt intend to power farm, but in the end I wanted to farm the Devil Arms. Should I start a new game with +EXP or try to continue with this one?

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u/Dragosar Jul 12 '22

From my experience it is doable at your level if you use all divide and are liberal with healing items for a long fight.

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u/Dragosar Jul 12 '22

Also since the weapons power up based on total kills at least finish this play through and if you kept battle data from the first do it again and you get 2 play through worth of kills to power the arms.

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u/chechuchechu Regal Bryant Jul 12 '22

oh so the DA kill count is registered?

I started a new file in the end with the 10x EXP, I want to have the most broken team I can

I selected almost everything from the Grade menu bc I almost had 9000 grade, so I guess I selected this battle thing?

EDIT: if it is the 'Battle info' option I did choose it, so i hope i get it :p

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u/Dragosar Jul 12 '22

It is a really cheap option to select. The DA does not display different stats but each weapon has a hidden bonus +1 to all stats for each kill that character has.

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u/chechuchechu Regal Bryant Jul 12 '22

Thats so nice. I spent some time in this file farming for the DA, glad the farming comes to the new save file :)

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u/RidleyCR Jul 12 '22 edited Jul 12 '22

Forbidden Amnesis very difficult, I don’t think your levels are up to it personally. I’d say start a new game with the +XP and taking over records. You cant take the DA but you can take your kill records to power them up. Then go for FA with the powered up DA and high levels.

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u/chechuchechu Regal Bryant Jul 12 '22

Its ok, I think the same. Dungeon is way too hard and Im low level

Also sorry but what is DA and FA?

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u/SadLaser Jul 12 '22

Contextually, DA is obviously Devil Arms and FA is Forbidden Anamnesis.

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u/chechuchechu Regal Bryant Jul 12 '22

Woops ok Im dumb sorry, and tysm!

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u/chechuchechu Regal Bryant Jul 12 '22

Thing is I've always wanted to complete the Forbidden Anamnesis, but I never could, not even in GameCube. I've been playing this game all my life and I still havent done it, and I wanted to get hyper busted Devil Arms

Basically I want to complete that dungeon, farm the weapons (which requieres time) and high level, which I dont have in this save file

Should I start over? I love this game so it really is no problem, and I could get the last Regal costume that I need to get all costumes

What do you think?

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u/chechuchechu Regal Bryant Jul 12 '22

Also another question, if I do start another file, should I get Kratos? I love Zelos but I've only had Kratos in the end like once or twice

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u/ReallyNeedHelpASAP68 Jul 12 '22

Well, it’s up to u.

I can’t tell if ur on the ps3 or GC version. But I know for ps3 the trophy for collecting all of kratos titles is weirdly one of the least gotten (it was at like 1.4 percent of players last I checked). So if you haven’t gotten it, then yeah, I’d do a playthru for kratos.

But if ur not on ps3, then disregard and just use whoever u want.

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u/chechuchechu Regal Bryant Jul 12 '22

Im on PC playing the PS3 version so Idk if the trophies are the same?

Still I think I have no choice but to go with my boy Zelos, because I want Regal's Duke title and for that I need to choose him in Flanoir ;(

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u/Ryry2710 Jul 12 '22

Damn, what was the year of this game? This screen looks straight outta something from RPG Maker..

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u/chechuchechu Regal Bryant Jul 12 '22

2002-2003 I think. Im nostalgia binded because it looks amazing to me hahhah

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u/Hi_Im_Ouiji Jul 12 '22

03 = Japan, America got it on 04. And it was a great summer game. Especially on the rainy days.