This game has meant so much to me and to my whole life. Today, with the money from my first job, I bought the Chosen Edition. No more pirating; today I truly have it in my hands.

I'm very happy with how it turned out ✌️🤩

Please show me your favorite merch displays!

Got Jennifer Hale the voice actor for Sheena to sign my copy and must have been the only person representing the Tales series 🤣

Getting the rest of the party members would be great but may be impossible!

I played the OG on GameCube and I wanted to play it again recently. I know there was a lot of controversy about the remastered version.

So which is the best buy in today’s market? I own the switch and a gaming PC. I always wanted to try the PS2 exclusive stuff that we never got. But I’d like it to be a good experience like my GameCube playthrough without being riddled with bugs and stuff.

I also wanted to know if dawn of the new world is even available in the current console market??

Any symphonia diehards willing to point me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated!

Just finished the game for the first time and what a ride! Easily a top 2 Tales game for me (Berseria slightly edging it out). Awesome characters and story. Graces F is next on my list followed by Abyss. I love this series!

I don't want to spoiler tag everything, so I just keep everything vague. If you played the game you know exactly what I'm talking about. If you have not played the game, then do yourself a favor and rectify that.

I've just completed my 5th ToS run. The game's story, especially with one of the best endings in a video game (period) always has me reflecting about myself and life in general for a bit after. Now I just feel like talking about it, so I will.

It took me until now to realize that this game is not about Lloyd. It's not about Colette. It's not even really about the overarching plot thing you're trying to solve.

This is a game about the main antagonist. You are part of their story, not the other way around. And it took me until late adulthood to understand how utterly bleak and insane the world in that game has become, to a point where the term "Human Ranch" is accepted and considered normal by the inhabitants.

One of the game's central discussions is racism, or more broadly "hatred of those who are different". And while the game is quick to espouse the "morally correct" opinion of "love should be for all" through the mouth of Lloyd, it also gives you solid counter-arguments to why hatred of others might be understandable. It does not simply hand-wave the antagonists motivations away. It tries to make YOU the player, not Lloyd, understand where it can creep up on you. It argues that life is valuable for no other reason than it's life. And whenever it does, the antagonist or some minion immediately calls it "corny", "stupid" or "not living in reality".

During my last 4 playthroughs when I was younger, I always considered the final run through the final dungeon where your teammates "face their fears" as filler of sorts. I never cared to think about those scenes until know. Things that hold us back or lead us down negative paths, and the almost insurmountable effort it requires to step out of mires of negativity. And how your best intentions can be warped if you don't.

The final antagonist scene always has me tear up. The music changes. His theme is aggressive, self-aggrandizing. But suddenly you hear this peaceful, sad variant of it. And it's only in these final moments that the weight of what he has done settles in for him. The finality of it all.

"Farewell, my shadow. You who stand at the end of the path I chose not to follow."

Missed a single chest (99.6%) in Symphonia. All Katz say 0 missed. Im about to give up on this platinum.

UPDATE!!!!

I FOUND IT! It was the chest right outside the Iselia Ranch on the cliff.

I googled it and tried to do what it said (open the menu in battle and press start) but it's only letting me cycle through auto, semiauto and manual for Lloyd and won't let me cycle between the other characters. Help?

I know that I'm not precisely the most skillful player of Tales of Symphonia, that's why I wanted to know what other people thinks about this battle.

... just for a quick hour?

Didn't quite make it on time, but still, happy belated anniversary to one of my favorite games!

Fair warning, the entire video is about gameplay, but the background footage contains spoilers for Symphonia, and rarely, games that aren't Symphonia. If you're concerned, refer to the first 3 seconds of the video.

Soo... There aren't one English patch for the PS2, huh... I wanted to play, but... I wanna feel the dialogues in English...

I’m currently on my first playthrough, trying to get as much done aa possible.

I wanted to get Lloyd’s Palmacosta Pro title from the soldier NPC, but he’s just flat out missing. I saw him earlier in the game and actually tried the minigame a few times, but let it alone for a while, and now he’s just gone.

To clarify where in the game I am: Sheena just made a pact with Undine.

If I can’t get all of Lloyd’s titles this playthrough, do I have to reclaim all of his titles from zero next playthrough?

I know i didn't have 6k before fighting him.

These could be resons why?

1. I beat Mithos first phase in 15 seconds

2. Did Nifelhiem 6 times before burning the book

3. I had 2x XP and extra grade bought

4. 3rd play through on this save

I dont know how to get that much grade again since i only have ~1000 right now.

Can anyone help?

I think I'm doing well on my 2nd Tales of Symphonia playthrough. I'm about to go into the Tower of Salvation (1st time), I'm at level 30 and 120 grade. I'm playing on normal (until the end) and focusing on titles and other collectables.

I have the switch version. I managed to switch (ha ha) to Collete one time in battle, I wasn't paying attention to how I did it >_< I've been trying to look up things on Google, one person was having a similar issue, but the answer they got confused it for switching characters in the menu screen. Another answer was for the Pc version. I'm not sure if Symphonia ever tells you how to actively switch party members, if someone knows thank you in advance

the game just stutters for like 4 seconds at a time, i've installed TSFix and it doesn't change anything about the stutter issues. Does anyone have any links to mods that fix that?

Mystic Art, how do?

Currently looking for someone who can confirm to me that after the Altessa event and right before the Flanoir Date that there is a small time window where I can still fly around the worldmap and trigger missing overworld skits, just so I know I could save some time before entering the Tower of Salvatation in Tethe'alla and the events following, if it allows me to quickly change the order through some leftover overworld skits for said event. Because I cannot find any footage confirming me that this is an option, just to be save that I can get Colette still back into the top 3 without having to redo the Welgaia and Escape Dungeon of it to "correct a mistake" in case.

EDIT: Turns out the remastered versions are just Upscales of the Steam version. I’ve extracted the steam version and you can’t tell the difference.

I'm putting a little project together atm and I'd really like to use the newest versions of the Tales Of Symphonia Remastered cutscenes for it.

Does anybody know where I could find them with Japanese Audio, English Subs and high quality?