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7/25/2025, 5:22:37 AM
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Simple: I adore the setting and I'm immersed in the world and the characters in it. With the Albiore, it's just fast traveling to a location, you don't have to literally trek through the same environments over and over like in other games. And personally while I can understand why it rubs some the wrong way, for me it reinforces the world building. Unlike other JRPGs (and desu Tales in general tends to be relatively good with this), there's no village you visit only once then becomes static for the rest of the game once its 'plot relevance' has ended 5 hours in. The world descends further into war and destruction and each town's NPCs react at the different stages with new dialogues and prices changing based on inflation due to the chaos. From things like sinking into the Qliphoth to the mass appearance of replicas to the return of the miasma, the NPCs and game's world leaders always have something to say about it. To me returning to previous areas makes the world more cohesive and gives me the chance to interact with said new changes. There's moments in the plot like "we have to make the world ease into the Qliphoth, but before you do you need to ask the world leaders for cooperation in this history changing event". Now from a gameplay standpoint if you want it to be over with you'll see it as padding but for me and from a story perspective it's absolutely fucking necessary and contributes a lot to the atmosphere. Why *wouldn't* a bunch of (mostly) teenagers not ask the monarchs of the world for help on how to tackle the apocalypse? You don't just have the main characters saving the world completely on their own whims and further builds up the rest.
TLDR if you're already immersed in the game you'll be even MORE engaged and will want to see what those characters have to say. You'll be drawn in even more. On the other hand if you're bored you'll just think "ugh, I have to fly back there *again*? More cutscenes? Fuck this" and dislike it that much more.
Simple: I adore the setting and I'm immersed in the world and the characters in it. With the Albiore, it's just fast traveling to a location, you don't have to literally trek through the same environments over and over like in other games. And personally while I can understand why it rubs some the wrong way, for me it reinforces the world building. Unlike other JRPGs (and desu Tales in general tends to be relatively good with this), there's no village you visit only once then becomes static for the rest of the game once its 'plot relevance' has ended 5 hours in. The world descends further into war and destruction and each town's NPCs react at the different stages with new dialogues and prices changing based on inflation due to the chaos. From things like sinking into the Qliphoth to the mass appearance of replicas to the return of the miasma, the NPCs and game's world leaders always have something to say about it. To me returning to previous areas makes the world more cohesive and gives me the chance to interact with said new changes. There's moments in the plot like "we have to make the world ease into the Qliphoth, but before you do you need to ask the world leaders for cooperation in this history changing event". Now from a gameplay standpoint if you want it to be over with you'll see it as padding but for me and from a story perspective it's absolutely fucking necessary and contributes a lot to the atmosphere. Why *wouldn't* a bunch of (mostly) teenagers not ask the monarchs of the world for help on how to tackle the apocalypse? You don't just have the main characters saving the world completely on their own whims and further builds up the rest.
TLDR if you're already immersed in the game you'll be even MORE engaged and will want to see what those characters have to say. You'll be drawn in even more. On the other hand if you're bored you'll just think "ugh, I have to fly back there *again*? More cutscenes? Fuck this" and dislike it that much more.
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