You need more subs, my friend! I really liked this review. You touch all the important stuff, stay spoiler-free (also with the footage, although now I know I get some kind of Skateboard along the way) and you narrate the review with a solid voice that's never boring or awfull to listen to. Great job! I'm around 25 hours into the game now and I like it a lot more than Zestiria. I quit that game when I had to do the element trials, way too boring and the story was a joke.

Tarks: "Could she possibly be doing more damage to the world by getting the revenge she seeks?" Me, a long-time God of War fan: Those who've wronged you must pay at any cost.

Velvet became one of my favorite female protagonists next to Estelle from Trails in The Sky. It's crazy how insanely strong Velvet is. I feel like you could practically solo the game with just her. Lol

The snow plowing bit killed me! Hahaha!!! Amazing review! I just subbed by friend. Loved it!

I was completely fine with the large number of skits. When you have a cast as absolute dynamite as Berseria's, you can't really give them too much screen time

Just subbed. Nice reviews. Buying this game today.

Great review! I'm a pretty big Tales Of fan and I've had Berseria in the back of my mind ever since it came out. I finally decided to pick it up upon viewing this video, and I can't wait to get into it. This was definitely a useful review, probably the best I've seen, and I thank you for making it. 😀

Found this game along with Vesperia on sale for PS4 right now. Definitely buying this and giving it a try. I've heard a lot about the Tales of games but never played one before. Thank you for the review.

Great review :) thank you! Love the quick costume change haha ;)

dude, killer review. i can't believe i'm just finding your channel. new sub!

Stumbled across this review... Honestly best review I've seen in a LONG LONG time #Subscribed

Subscribed, this channel needs more support, great review.

Dude, when you made the comparison to Lost Odyssey you dispelled all my doubts. Lost odyssey is really one of the best jrpgs and it is tragic how it never made it only because it was an exclusive. I'll try berseria for sure

I cried at three times during this game too..so I bet they were the same parts~

Great Editing and Review I Subscribe

I never mentioned this in the video, but for the long time fans of the series expect some references! It's not important to get them but long time fans will be happy! They referenced ALMOST every tales game ever made! They even made a reference to Grune in tales of legendia! That surprised me! Also tried REALLY hard to selectively edit this so I don't spoil any of it! Even the intro of the game has some serious spoilerfic stuff! Hope you guys enjoy, feel free to drop me some comments and criticism!

I feel like one of fhe most common comments about this game is “if you’re a Tales series fan who didn’t like Zestiria, try this”. But honestly, I loved Zestiria and I ALSO think Berseria is a fantastic game. ^_^

verry good review man!!! keep it up!

We need a new Tales of the World game. Not only are there a bunch of new Tales games since Graces(the original, not even F), there are also a bunch of new characters in the remakes of old games(like Lody).

Gold man. Watched this last night and went and picked the game up today. Can't wait to dive in

Great review! convinced me to buy it, it was on sale on PSN. Loving it so far glad I listened to ya

Great review! Subbing immediately.

Your reference to lost Odyssey sold me. That was the only game I enjoyed on the xbox. That one definitely hits the feels.

I love so much this review, I feel exactly the same way after I finished the game!

Congratulations on earning yourself another subscriber! I loved the way you did this review and it makes me all the more excited to buy this game....if I had a PS4. I'm stuck on PS3 and I'm broke XD. And the PS3 version is Japan only. Rotten luck for me. But overall, I loved this review and I can't wait to see your content throughout the future of your channel.

Good review dude you earned a sub

Thank you for this review. I've been trying to put off playing this game even if I think it looks amazing because I didn't really like my experience with Tales of Zestiria. Because of that I unfairly associated my experience with Zestiria with what I think I will also get when I play this game. But your review made me optimistic about the game and will now give it a try.

Great review. Id love to see you do a review on other tales of games. Like symphonia and see how well the older ones hold up.

This series is very close to my heart, I've had it installed on my pc since its release and i havent booted it up once. I didnt like Zestiria, at all. This video convinced me to finally play it through.

Zestiria wasnt all that great, but Berseria is fucking great game with deep characters, interesting combat and a really satisfying story with a sympathetic villain. (ARTORIOUS!!!!!). Love the vid and keep up the great work.

At first it was odd, but the music playing in the background of the video just absolutely nails it.

Great review_✍️

As a fellow Canadian, I feel your pain my friend. Our weather across the entire Country is most certainly its' biggest downfall. Well made review btw. I've been waiting for a spare moment to play this finally and I think the time has come.

Nice review! I think I want to buy Berseria more now! And you said only a very few games made you cry a bit, so you should try Final Fantasy Type 0, it's final scene is VERY sad, unless you have no heart and soul, you will cry A LOT... That being said,mit's also a great fun game!

My first Tales of game was Tales of Xillia I loved it and I loved Tales of Xillia 2 even more (for to story if I'm being honest), I just bought Tales of Berseria yesterday, and I'm loving it's dark story so far.

im currently playing it and i love it for its story the gameplay is a little bit repetetive but the animation parts and the story is outstanding

Hey. What was the other video game that made u shed a tear? I don't believe u mentioned it. Thanks to your video, I'm really considering buying it. Have u did a review on Trails Of Cold Steel 1 for ps4? I'm gonna start that series soon.

2 years later, still waiting for what they will do next. . .

Good review. I didn't enjoy Zestiria very much at all, so I was wondering if Berseria was worth picking up. This review was helpful.

I love this game. Breaks my heart. Velvet is best character!

Lol those deleted scenes were too funny! Tales of vesperia is by far my favorite title of the series, tales of the Abyss comes at a distant second.

Friend recommended Tales to me so i've been playing it on my pc. Despite the problems I have (disliking the combat, kats orbs, skits, overwhelming enemies) the story keeps pulling me back to it.

Tales of arise looks so good. Want to play this before it comes out because I know I won't want to come back if I don't do it now.

God, it's a relief to hear you say this one's good! I started with Tales of Xillia and loved it, then played Hearts R and liked it. Then Zestiria.... it's also relieving to know it wasn't just me putting that game down 20 something hours into it. As a collector, I have picked up numerous past titles for different systems, so maybe I'll get around to playing them, someday. Gotta go to work to get games, no time to play them! Plus the avalanche of good shit coming out

Great review mentioning all the good points and bad points this game has. There is just the soul gauge that needs some extra explanation for new players: You steal one soul from enemies if you either stun them or debilitate them with a status condition like burn, which are chance-based, not HP based. (These chances can be increased by targetting weaknesses, maintaining combos, art usage and equipment.). Because of this debilitating moves like Searing Edge and Shell Splitter give souls quicker than others. Note though that this ALSO works against you: if YOU get stunned or debilitated, YOU lose a soul and the enemy earns one. Getting stunlocked is really bad for you in this game so you have to be careful. Also: the max combo you can perform depends on how many souls you have. If you only have two souls, your max art uses are reduced to 2. This way it becomes a lot tougher to maintain chain damage and stun/debilitate enemies, plus I think you get stunned easier when you have less souls. For this reason you CANNOT spam the hell out of the Break Soul unless you have enough souls to do so or are confident you can regain them in the same combo.

The skits where great 🥺

I loved how they had characters like zaveid and eizen who are apart of zesteria in the future

6:29 where did you got that outfit?

Agreed with everything you said. Well done

lol never noticed the specific target bonus dmg thing with Consuming Claw nor that the enemies' amount of souls being displayed within their lifebar which actually confused me when I read that enemies can either gain or drop during early game hints/tutos. And yes no wonder the game seems easy for you since I started playing it in moderate from the beginning and it still didn't seem that challenging til the fight vs Oscar & Teresa when my brother happened to pass by & told me to try on hard so I did & that's when it starts to feel different, at first it feels like the enemies become exaggeratedly too powerful but I think it had more to do with my lack in exp & equipment but then you get used to it after enough leveling & items acquiring so I can only imagine how it is on normal :p and there're at least 2 more difficulties beyond which I haven't tried tbf. I personally loved the scenery, the visuals & the maps in this game even though it's lower than what the console can offer though that didn't prevent me from *maniacally* taking a *thousand* & half screenshots :') it was really a sight to watch for me, I loved the characters, the gameplay, the ost, the story, the skits & dialogues from npcs & probably many other things, I've spent 100 hours in it, read practically every possible line of text except the ones in the library from the menu & done most of the side stuff but to my surprise missed a couple few things I learnt about on yt and I haven't even maxed out any of the characters nor obtained the most decent of equipment, a big chunk of the time I've spent on the game went on touring & sighting, reading npcs' dialogues and wondering which was the least garbage equipment I should wear :p The only 2 or 3 things, as far as I can remember, that I can reproach this game for are how annoying the dependence on souls for attacks can be leaving you useless without, def one of the worst mechanics I've had to face in games and the garbage equipment & stats that you get most of the time even though you can dismantle them and enhance other ones but I couldn't rely much on that seeing the required components without having to go back on tracks to grind enough of them. I also agree that most of the dungeons and several areas feel rather empty or dull, I don't mean necessarily in aesthetics but rather in terms of content & what you can do around. Finally the ending left a huge void inside of me :c Overall Berseria is the first of the series that I've played and is def one my favorites games ever, I def loved it alot I was even willing to replay it again on game+ but unfortunately I don't have enough time so I opted for trying a diff game for a diff experience and that's FFXV :) Also I think it's a bit of a shame that such wonderful game didn't get as much attention from players around the world as it ought :/ def a game I'd recommend 👌

I have just one question. As someone who loved Symphonia, Abyss and Vesperia, but hated Graces f, Xillia, Xillia 2 and Zestiria, does this game have anything for me?

you remind me of a youtuber i used to watch for reviews years ago called zietgiest :)

the thumbnail do be kinda lit tho

Very nice review. I liked it a lot. Berseria is my top game of 2017. Yes, to any who reads, I played BotW, P5 and Automata. Berseria just surprised me. Not because of Zestiria(which I personally love, but is definitely one of the two weakest entries in the main series. And is one you love, Tarks). But it dared to be different and gave me a story and characters that are difficult to forget. As a long Tales fan myself, I place it as high as Eternia, Destiny, Vesperia and Abyss. A game which is incredible in its own series and one that stands together with other games outside of it. Although, will say I cannot agree with you on the world. I thought, for the most part(not including dungeons), the cities and areas were so beautiful and interesting to look at. I never got bored visiting an area and get mesmerized by its design and vibrant colors. But that is just me. Haha. Either way, enjoyed how you still truly love the game while giving the cons about it. You earned a sub.

Oke i guess im interested now Though not right away cause im just coming out of over 300 hours of persona 5

Great review! I've only played Symphonia, its sequel, Vesperia, and part of Abyss, but Berseria has the best story so far. I love how much in the grey area it is by having me question the motives of both sides, yet also understand why. That's some great storytelling there! I'm currently doing the remaining side missions before the endgame and while the story is great, this is far from a perfect game. I personally find the battle system boring and the dungeons to be way too big; exploring gets quite exhausting after a while. I do like the skits but they can be a bit long and don't need to be so close together. The game does feel too easy, especially when you can be nearly ten levels above the main bosses without much grinding. By the way, are there any other Tales games you recommend? I'm curious about Xilia (after encountering a certain someone) and Zestiria (since it's connected to Berseria),.

Not sure if this is already answered. But if I may ask, why is your play through of this game privatised? I was quite interested in watching them. ^^

What is the play order from the 3 games avil on ps4?

I never played a tales game before..thinking about buying berseria will I enjoy the story or should I play the other ones to get the full story???

Not sure if it was your review but after seeing a few I was sold on the game and I gotta say I dont regret it one bit. There was a certain scene that also made me shed a tear and just afterwards a huge laugh when I talk to a nearby npc that says... ""Can you leave me alone for a while? Dont want anyone to see me cry"" Lolz... even npcs cried, very funny. Awesome game, playing it normal for the story but im going back in a 2nd time on Insane, the game deservers that much, probably use other chars too, been only controlling velvet and magi against heavy casters

Just wanna say, def not a bitch for crying. And I love that you show that actually. The best games in my memory are ones that pulled the most emotion from me. A good heartfelt cry absolutely means the game was done right. I can't wait to play this. I love Tales of games and was going to play some backlog first before this (Vesperia, Symphonia, Zestiria) But I think I may skip ahead to this one. Great review as always!

I don't think I could handle this one. I just don't have the patience for selling all those items and the dense combat zones. Not my kind of game. Glad to see a bit here though!

I also loved "Lost Odyssey", but I wished that there were a bit of twist of showing another higher level more scary antagonist after defeating the obvious one

Play it on a mode harder than Hard and then...talk about how easy it is 😂😉And the point is the game prompts you to play on higher difficulty since the rewards are greater.Great review and I agree that this game made me cry along with Lost Od.

Thank you! I tried Zestiria at 15 bucks and felt it wasn't worth it. Berseria is a bit of a redemption and the story was top notch for me but like you said i would love to see a Tales game developed FOR the PS4 rather then ported to it, and with the PS4's time coming with the PS5 on the horizon I really think the PS4 needs a new Tales game for it. Awesome review, i agree allot with what you said, the rest were nitpics.

You are a man of culture, you like danganronpa and tales of!! my new fave reviewer

I don't understand how a complaint about the game can be that it's to easy when there are difficulty options. I get you said you don't have time but then that makes it a you problem not a game problem. Good review other than that, bought this game on sale wish I didn't wait so long to play it. Vesperia will probably be my next game in the franchise

this might be 3 years late but thanks for the review got the game right after

LOL at the end.

(12:35) Yesterday I spent 40 whole minutes just deciding which armor weapon and Talisman I should keep because it were thousands of the same thing but then there's a skill which I didn't want to get rid off and then the stats I was trying to find the perfect Armory for every character but that's just a pain to grind through it's basically the whole reason why I drop nioh but I'm not dropping this one

You just sold me on this game. Brandi Namco should hook you up

passionate enough to cry over a jrpg? subbed!

My main problem with the game comes in the battle system and how it's stuns, at times you can use the high stun chance attacks but get no stuns and then you can get 3 stuns in a row in a different combo but then later be glanced by an attack and get stunned and lose a soul on their first attack and it just get relay annoying.

>Wears swimsuit to see Velvet's legs. Man of culture gets a like. Good video though.

I am currently playing it and yeah the game is amazing. Obviously there are faults. For example the one thing that I hate more is Velvet's costume. Fanservice is good but not that in this case.

easily the best tales game in years. glad to see im not the only person who cried playing this game. I bet i could guess the exact parts you're talking about as well. i disagree with you on the skits. they really help grow the characters even tho there is probably a little to many of them. great review man i hope your channel takes off.

ok you got me at Nefarious. I wanted to say Shut up and take my money, but is it on switch?

great review! other reviewers better put some respeck on your name!

Armatization (SP?) aside, any reason you guys didn't like Zestiria? While not my favourite, I still enjoyed it - Prior to Zestiria I played Tales of Xillia and Tales of Graces F, and really enjoyed both. I actually liked some aspects of Zestiria better, like how you'd get "clues/pointers" from your party as to where to go next - in previous games figuring out what to do next on a side quest was some times cryptic, or required you to remember the whereabouts of some random NPC. Anyway, going to be picking this up now that's on sale on PSN for the Golden Week.

In my opinion, The best tales game released for PC. GREAT REVIEW BUB, KEEP IT UP!

Just wanted to say that I just finished Berseria, my first Tales game. Played over 100 hours, doing nearly all side quests and activities. Playing the game mostly on hard gave the battles more of a threat. On a side note, you didn't mention the mini games, probably because you haven't played them to save time, haha. You didn't miss much, btw.

I liked this game quite well but I’m seriously struggling to think of one scene that could make a man cry. I never even came close to choking up. And this comes from someone who bawled his eyes out with the ending of Final Fantasy XV so crying at a JRPG is not unheard of for me.

You said “Everyone in your group has a tragic or nefarious backstory, well what about Elenor? Rokuro literally says she has a pure soul ‘out of the other exorcist’, so what’s her dark past other than a dead mother?

Note on the souls...You gain souls by inflicting status effects and stuns...Also perfect dodges can as well.

I’d like to see a tales or trails game for the Nintendo switch myself... nothing self serving it’s just my only system and I love the games a lot......

have u played arise yet

I'm about 15 hours into this game, and I like it, but like you, I also find it to be ridiculously easy. I'm playing it on the moderate difficulty, and I'm wondering if I should bump it up to hard. I liked the story, but I don't find it too amazing so far. I like the grey morality aspect of it, but Velvet's constant cries for revenge, can get a bit old. Stories being heavily based around revenge, can end up feeling very simple. Unless they break off into being about other things like the Legacy of Kain series does, which is brilliantly written. I'm not that far in though, so who knows how I'll feel by the end. Interesting tonsee that you're a leg man, like me, too. I don't have that swimsuit yet, but will probably dress Velvet with it when I do. I had Rebecca in The RE0 remaster in the cheerleader outfit for most of the game, lol.

Glad others enjoyed this game but I just couldn't get through the battle system there was so much wrong with it compare to the previous entrys that ticked me off, the small and lack luster fields and dungeons were a snooze, and lastly the lack of real treasure chest and hidden items was the final straw for me. Very surprised you compared the story to lost odyssey night and day for me but hey I've seen folks bash on the latter and I've never understood that.

My dream mothership Tales of game for namco bandis next outting would have: #1 Art Style/Graphics Engine/World Design in the same vain as Tales of Vesperia but evolved (TOV still the best looking HD Tales game to date) #2 The same writing team from Tales of the Abyss. (Best story in any Tales game, plot & character wise) #3 A RETURNING WORLD MAP/LAND & SEA AIRSHIP ALA TOV & TOTA!!! PLEASE I BEG YOU NAMCO BANDI I NEED THIS!!! #4 Portraited skits brought back. Fully voice acted of course. #5 Keep Production IG for the anime cutscenes they do good stuff. #6 Gameplay/Combat a mixture of Graces f & Tales of the Abyss #7 Completely new sound design team & composer. I think this above anything else has been the key factor on why the Tales series has not completely broken the western market compared to FF, Persona, KH, Pokemon etc. #8 Main theme by j-pop group supercell (Example: The Bravery by supercell) #9 Time management in creating a unforgettable antagonist. Tales of games do astounding with it's main cast & NPC characters but I feel on the antagonist side they have lost their way in the more recent titles. #10 A Fox as a mascot character... Drops mic...

Yeah at the harder difficulty consuming claw is less op

It's ok to cry because of video games.

I don't know... I kind of found the ending foreseen. I am not going to say anything other than that, those who played the game and disagree I guess we could have a discussion. But I honestly do think it was foreseen which made the ending a little less impactful to me as it could have been.

I didn't like the skits in this game as much as other Tales games either. For me, it had nothing to do with the writing of them. I watched all the ones that came up and enjoyed the majority of them, but there were three things about them that really bothered me and I hope don't make a return in the next game. 1) They were too long most of the time. In other Tales games they were short and sweet, but here they just seem to go on and on... Sometimes it works to the skit's advantage. I remember one of my favorite skits was when Rokurou had Kurogane make a bunch of coins that had heads on both sides in an attempt to get Eizen to land on heads for once, and it was really amusing to see all the things that went wrong with it. I literally just had a big smile on my face the entire time that skit played. But for most of the others, the length wasn't necessary and could easily have been trimmed down. 2) I don't like how sometimes you're forced into skits while walking around. If they were important to the plot, I could understand, but a lot of the time they weren't. It was really annoying when I was walking around and trying to get to the next place only to suddenly stop and be forced into a skit. One of the best things about them is that they're optional, so please don't force me into them, game! 3) I really didn't like how they use the skits for actual story cutscenes. It just feels kind of lazy to me. I'm hoping that it's the result of the limitations of the engine or the PS3. I can tell that the graphics are much better than the last games using this engine, so I'm hoping that as a result of them pushing the graphics more, and the fact that it's also for the PS3, they just had to use the skit graphics for some scenes in order to not push it too hard. Hopefully next time it goes back to keeping the skit graphics in the skits and use the character models for story related scenes. I also agree that it was a bit too easy on normal mode, and hope the higher difficulties are a bit harder. And I also really hope they use a different graphics engine next time and then don't reuse it for, like, the next three games like they did with this one. XD I have a feeling that most of the location designs and dungeon designs are as a result of the engine. Maybe I'm wrong, since I know nothing about desiging a game, but I hope that's the case so they can be better in the next game. Other than that, I really loved this game. Definitely a huge improvement over Zestiria. I didn't really hate Zestiria like others do, but I definitely think it's one of the worst games in the series. I honestly think that Dawn of the New World was better than it. XD But it did have a lot of things I liked too. I liked the world it built, I liked the music, and I liked most of the characters, with the exception of one (*cough* Rose *cough*). Oh, and I loved Sergei. Favorite side character right there. Freaking loved that guy. XD

Velvet aka black haired Milla!

I played Zestiria a couple of years ago and only recently beat Berseria. Good story and cast, not so good on the combat side of the things. Unfortunately Zestiria has it beat in that department by quite a mile. Still a decent game though, especially if you are a story person. If you are focused on gameplay like me then... its alright for 1 playthrough, not much more- Huge contrast with Zestiria which I did 3 playthroughs because, despite some of its flaws, the game was damn fun to play. With Berseria I cant even force myself to start a 2nd playthrough. Too much backtracking (You REALLY could have let us keep the faster travel in NG+..) and the combat is IMO rather dull, easy and repetitive, plus the gimmick (Souls) not a fan of it. Basically, years from now on I will fondly remember Berseria’s characters and story, but I will remember Zestiria when it comes to actual gameplay/combat. (And the OST. Yet another thing Zesty beat Berseria on)

I am currently playing this, this game surely has a lot of fanservice. Although velvet is a good character, I think his outfit is just sexily too weird for the quest of her revenge.

You need to check out Persona 5

i liked zestiria's combat... i cant go back to it after playing berseria though. :|

Zestiria was definitely a step down but I enjoyed the cast so much that it carried it over the numerous issues the rest of the game had. A tales game lives and dies by its cast in my experience

as a long time star ocean fan i decided to try the tales series i started with this game i played it through once and tbh will never play it again reason is it was far to easy i dont see any possible way to actualy die fo0r example star ocean on galaxy lvl (normal) enemies can be tough and kill u rather easily in berseria i did normal for about 2 hours thought it was to easy turned it on max diffaculty and still breezed through the game without a single issue. major dissapointment. at least the story was pretty good it deff has that over star ocean lol