Nayuta's Tales of 2020 [12/12★] Beendet: Soul Blazer (SNES) | Fazit

[Nayuta]

Tales of the Tempest ~ Ersteindruck ~

This game is terrible. The graphics are terrible, the story is terrible, and the programming is terrible. The characters and music are okay. Sometimes. As ridiculous as the game appears on the surface, let me assure you that it is many times worse under the hood. The way this game was cobbled together, particularly the menu, still baffles me. It's difficult to find a game with plot twists that are either so blindingly obvious or so blindingly stupid that you can't help but laugh at every turn. Truly, Tempest runs the gamut of cliches, even for a series as cliche-ridden as the Tales series. If I had to say what the best part about Tempest is, it would be that it's short. It mercifully took me less than 20 hours to do everything the game had to offer.

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Tales of the Tempest is a wonderful example of how poorly game programming can be executed. The way the code is structured, the way it processes data, everything is done in an amateurish fashion that would make most hobby programmers shake their heads in disbelief. It is very apparent that were was almost no planning or coordination, half of the code consists of duplicates that handle the very same task again and again. This game is deeply flawed in every possible respect.

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What to say about this project that hasn't already been said... At first, it was more a joke, but it became a challenge. As a fan of Tales games, I wanted to give some credit to the most terrible Tales out there, but despite my motivation, as throughhim said, we can't make the game better than it is, even with our best efforts to make it look nice (which is generous).

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Yeah, okay, uh, can we not do something like this again, guys? Thanks.

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After trying to play the actual game and dealing with the doot-doot-doot, gimped in-battle options, and absolutely preposterous menus... yeahhh...
Perhaps I should thank the heavens that I haven't gotten farther than the cabin outside Caius' village.

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When Kingcom and throughhim413 asked me if I wanted to briefly include myself in their translation project, being reminded of Tempest's existence was like someone reminding you that your high-school sweetheart cheated on you. That's how bad the game was to me. That's how much it still sucks.

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I have not played a game this terrible in my life, and I have played Superman 64. This game is infuriatingly stupid in almost all manners of design. The music is often non- sensical (not to mention lacking a boss battle theme). The graphics are technically as bad as first year PS1 games (like the almost non-existent draw distance). It's a Nintendo 64 style fogfest here! The battle system and art style are very poor, and the writing is so bad I literally rage quit it for the night once. When I finished it, I was quaking with rage over how terrible this game was. DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME!

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Wow, wenn selbst die Fanübersetzer in der Readme-Datei einstimmig so auf das Spiel eindreschen weiß man, dass man auf Gold gestoßen ist, oder?

Tales of the Tempest gilt wohl als einer der polarisierendsten Ableger der Serie. Für Viele ist er das schlechteste Spiel überhaupt und sogar Namco listet es nur noch als Spin-off, obwohl es rein oberflächlich betrachtet alle Eigenschaften eines vollwertigen Hauptteils mit sich bringt. Aber ist es wirklich so schlecht wie es gemeinhin gemacht wird oder sind die Berichte dazu alle maßlos übertrieben? Vor einigen Jahren konnte ich mir diese Frage bei Final Fantasy 13 mit einem klaren "Ja!" beantworten und wie es bei Tales of the Tempest aussieht werde ich nun ergründen.

Nun, nach ein paar Spielstunden kann ich mich diesem Tenor noch nicht anschließen. Bisher ist es ganz OK, wenn auch nicht weltbewegend. Es wirkt ziemlich "talesig", was nun zugegebenermaßen jeder für sich positiv oder negativ auslegen kann, aber als Tales-Fan scheint es mir bisher nicht sonderlich von der bewährten Formel abzuweichen, was ich doch sehr begrüße. Es gab auch schon einige lustige Dialoge zwischen den Charakteren. Leider sind diese oftmals hinter einer "Paywall" versteckt, da es keine Skits im klassischen Sinne gibt sondern man Zelte auf der Weltkarte aufschlagen muss, die gerade am Anfang doch sehr viel Geld kosten. Auch grafisch sieht es für ein Nintendo DS Spiel noch ganz gut aus. Wird hier also viel Drama um nichts gemacht? Mal sehen wie sich das Spiel weiter entwickelt, ich bleibe am Ball!

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