I played Tales of Legendia and I loved it. The main protagonist DID NOT USE A SWORD! That was reason enough for me to pick this up and I enjoyed it from start to finish.
Yeah in the other games, Welch was relatively cute but when SO4 came around she looked so creepy with that drastic change. Let's not mention her enormous forehead in that game too. She looked like some realism meets moeblob alien freak lol.
Also here's how I rank the series.
SO2 (Easily the best of the pack)
SO1 (Pretty good)
SO3 (Has it's flaws but it's still enjoyable)
SO4 (The Rebecca Black of JRPGs)
Oh man I forgot about SO4 Welch. I tried to erase that horrible squealy noise from my brain and you just made me remember it. My god and I thought Reimi's voice was nasty.
That game is like the litmus test for the amount of annoying anime cliches people can resist.
@Sakaku I actually didn't mind Lymle even though she sounded like she had down syndrome. It's was Edge and Reimi who I wanted to see die a thousand painful deaths.
Not to mention the voice acting for Reimi was Laura Bailey at her worst.
It can be done, it's just that I couldn't imagine any whip-like weapons in this game at the moment. I always look at the way Whip plays and think "That probably was a chore to animate."
I am not too hopeful about Shion's chances as I am Adel because of the way Shion fights. If we were to somehow have him as dlc, I think one of his stances would end up being cut from his moveset because of all the animations he has.
So NESTS Kyo was announced right on the day EX Iori came out? Wonderful, hope they announce the date for him soon despite the fact I don't even want him or Mr.Karate.
I haven't heard any engrish out of this announcer so far, I like that. On a side note I'm hoping there's some official videos released showing what the other 5 characters can do, like with what they did for the first 5.
Air control? Why do I have this feeling she might be Arcsys take on Sentinel with her playstyle. And she punishes random Persona summons easily? That sounds pretty scary.