Game: Tales of the Abyss

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I have been busy playing with this game for the past two and a half weeks, and finally finished the game yesterday with total of 61 hours game play. This game is good, very good, I enjoyed more than playing Final Fantasy 12 (going to continue playing FF12, stopped at 32 hours game play time ><).

The story line of this game is quite long, but not boring. The game graphic is very nice, it uses anime style cell shading. The drawback of this game is only one, which is that the voice is only in english (can’t change the voice act to Japanese with English sub )

Like the others tales game, the battle is real time battle where you can pick one character and control that character. Most of the time I controlled Natalia, as the main healer of the team, but on the last 15 hours I controlled Luke, different control style, fun indeed

There are total of 7 playable character, but 1 of them only joined for several events, and you can’t change his equipment. I won’t tell who this 7th character name (no spoiler here). the 6 playable characters are:

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Luke Fon Fabre (Swordsman): Melee damage

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Tear Grants (Melodist): Magic damage, Healer

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Guy Cecil (Swordsman): Melee damage

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Jade Curtiss (Fonist): Magic damage

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Anise Tatlin (Puppet Master): Melee damage, Magic damage

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Natalia Luzu Kimlasca Lanvaldear
(Archer): Ranged melee damage, Healer

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You can only play 4 of them at once, but everyone (all 6 of them) will get experience point. Normally I use Luke, Tear, Natalia and Anise in my party but for the last 15 hours I switched Anise with Jade, Easier for healer if there is only 1 melee acting as tank.

Also in this game you can change the appearance of the characters lots of cute clothes, I managed to get thief tight suit for Natalia (a little bit revealing :p), cat suit for Anise (nyaa~) and maid suit for Tear ^^;

The enemies:

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The god generals in Tales of the Abyss

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Information on this game:

Title: Tales of the Abyss
Maker/Producer: Namco Bandai
Language: English
Platform: Playstation 2

There are 2 figurines for Tales of Abyss, Tear Grants and Natalia Luzu by Kotobukiya, Danny choo has review on Natalia figurines. And I’ve ordered Natalia from HLJ (Natalia is my favorite character :D), can’t wait

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1/8 Natalia by Kotobukiya

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1/8 Tear Grants by Kotobukiya

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Gashapons (May restock in HLJ)

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