Tales of Vesperia (360)

I've been M.I.A. but now I'm back and I bring with me Tales of Vesperia! I've always like the Tales series and this is no exception.

Story: The game throws you into the role of several characters, A vagabond and researcher with a short temper even a dog. You'll start as Yuri and as you go recruit the rest of your crew. THe characters all grow on you fairly quickly with a large number of voiced cutscenes even ones that don't totally pretain to the story that might just be intereactions with the characters. All designed to help move the story along and keep the player engaged. 5/5

Gameplay: An awesome feature of the game is the multiplayer co-op battle system. You and your friends can take control of your favorite characters an fight together. Previously the battle system with co-op had been clunky and near impossible but now its been polished and functions particularily well. Though the rest of the game plays like your standard RPG run walk poke talk its has no real glaring flaws. 5/5

Audio: The soundtrack is great especially the opening theme. Characters are voiced amazingly well and you can tell the actors were really enjoying what they were doing. Battles dungeons scenes are all well done. 5/5

Graphics: The game is bright and flush. No its not HD and realistic but its not meant to be. The game has a feeling of and heavy atmosphere of fantasy and immersion in it. Characters are very normal looking in feature but with outrageous clothes and costumes. this adds such a feeling of being in a dream. Nothing about the game isn't pretty and without making the game feel fluffy and kiddy. 5/5

Replay: Alright the game is long really long, there are plenty of missables and extras but due to the games length and being particularily story heavy you may not want to play through a second time. Though there are reasons to such as getting 100% clear if you're a crazy person or collecting all the costumes and such. 3/5

Overal: Alrighty, this game is pretty much gold if you like fun rpgs, The lack of slow turn based combat and the fluid and well done script keep the game moving so well. Adding friends only makes it better, you'll find yourself so drawn in by the characters and story you won't want to put it down. There are a few sharp curves on the boss fights but nothing that ever leaves you grinding for hours. a pretty much perfect game. 4/5