No, the creator stated that she didn't fit in with the party and it made no sense for her to travel with them. Besides that when they created the game and characters they planned on her simple just being a temporary party member.

@@brightlight8852 I recall getting an in game reason for her not being in the party anymore

@Xebusc Yeah that was the in game reason for it, on top of having no resonance which called issues for Sorey her beliefs also made her a bad fit

Man the whole situation with Alisha was damn terrible, Zestiria X was a nice effort to redeem the wrongs the game did. Playing the game seeing her gear in the shops waiting and pondering when would she return to the party again, til we get to the end of the game; shet was dreadful. Lost a whole as playable character over bs

@@Cloke100 Yeah, obviously they planned to have her in the latter half of the game, then just left her weapons there to taunt everyone lol

That's actually not what happened in fact, the controversy was mostly just made up by salty va fans. The producer never flirted with the voice actress. It was actually the director of the game who stated that Alisha wasn't a main character and he said this a year before the game came out, but "Alisha fans" mostly just ignored him. The magazine articles that assumed that she was the heroine were mostly just third party companies which is why the producer got into trouble because he didn't bother to check with the game devs. The anime was lauded mostly by Alisha fans only, Zestiria fans don't like it, especially after the truth of "controversy" in between seasons 1 and 2, Berseria released, which made ToZX not make any sense. This is why Bamco by and large ignores it now. Berseria did well but TOZX bombed. If you want to know how badly TOZX did. Referencing TOZX killed one of their gacha and put the other on life support. If you don't know what was revealed it was that Alisha really was originally meant to have an even smaller role than what she got in the game (the game files back this up as she actually has the least weapons of any playable characters with most of them being recolors) why it shows up all through out is because they couldn't decide where and when she should be included. They never planned on giving her an armatus, in fact they never even designed one for her. Alisha's jp va knew that Alisha wasn't going to be a party member and referred to her as a side character. The president of Ufotable literally came out and said that the anime was made just because they thought that Alisha fans were the larger (and therefore more profitable group) they're was no "fixing" of the script everything original to the anime is indeed anime original, hence the plot holes. The producer simply just wasn't paying attention and ironically was the one put forth who Alisha as the heroine because she stood out more as me he released the game when it wasn't finished, so a lot of it was cut. The Rose, well that's more of a localization issue the reason why she doesn't feel sorry for killing people is because she by and large kills corrupt nobles. Hence why she feels no guilt. You only see one of her targets in game. But the anime goes in depth into her targets, which ironically made people question the morality of keeping them alive. Alisha didn't want to build any bridges she was more worried about her country than anything else. Building a bridge was Sorey’s dream not hers, Alisha wanted to travel with Sorey because she was running away from her problems and saw Sorey as someone who could solve all her problems, which Sorey both couldn't and didn't want to do. Sorey actually brings this up in the main game but most ignored it. Sorey also was the one that said that he didn't want to tell Alisha of his plans, so while people blame Rose for that the DLC truth is that it was Sorey himself that didn't want anything more to do with Alisha.

​@@Cloke100The reason why her stuff shows up in the shops was because they had played around with the thought of expanding her role but then they realized that she really had no reason to travel with the party, but they still wanted to expand her role but didn't know where to put her in.

​@@brightlight8852 Hey, I'm not here to argue, but that's how the controversy folded out back then. And it was huge (in Japan at least, I don't think they made the same mistakes in the west). Alisha was stated to be the heroine of the game pre-release. There are screenshots of before and afters of the various fixes. If that was the mistake of BanNam, fine, but they made no mention of it and had all the websites fix it silently. They didn't help put out the fire. Heck, Astaria even had Alisha as the heroine initially. Can you point me to this interview of the president of ufotable? Sounds like an interesting read. I can't find any info on that, English or Japanese. Though I doubt a president would make such statements admitting failure, especially with an IP they do not own (sounds risky). Also, you must be crazy to think mentioning TOZX killed their gacha; all of them were on life support for so long, Zestiria or not. In regards to the story, I played the JP version, so it definitely wasn't a loc issue (I played a few hours on English before; I think the loc is solid). I still find it hard to believe you can have zero guilt when killing a person, bad or not, but if you believe that, then I can see why that isn't a problem for the plot. We can talk about the good and bads of the writing, but I'm not here to review the game haha. Either way, I'm a fan of the Tales series as a whole, so I'm hoping for a new game soon.

The way you just didn't get it...

​@falasc The video is wrong, in the end Naoto accepts her femininity and lives on as a female even appearance wise. It's you that haven't done the necessary research.

@@falasc Yeah... What exectly do I not "get" here?

The thing is with the kanji is gay ,is that it’s goes directly against the arc they trying to tell,the whole arc is that men can like girly or cute things without them being gay and stuff

@@slwoo7432 100%. His dungeon, like everyone else's dungeons, were more of a matter of his internalized insecurities, and not a literal interpretation of his feelings. I really thought this was pretty obvious.

You're such a pussy then, just grow a pair and accept it or switch hobbies cause video games aren't for you anymore

If you read the end of the message, he also says he understands the term is still seen in a better light. In other words, he's just talking about what the term meant in the past as a derogatory term. Not now. Sure there's still some people who still clown on the genre, but the ratio of it is very different now vs then.

@@M00nlightOfficial But he's not just talking about what the term meant in the past. He acknowledges it has a more positive connotation in recent years, but that isn't enough to change his own negative perception of the acronym/phrase. Just like whenever words get reclaimed by groups, there will pretty much always still be a subset of people that can't shake off the negative feelings it originally came with.

Every recent Square Enix New Year's Letter lol

Or the ending of Trails in the Sky. That one hits HARD.

Not sure why you're recommending this, I HATED the ending to Cold Steel 1.