Tales of Vesperia for Xbox 360 Reviews by Gamers

Looking for a long engaging story with great characters and fun combat? This is a gem of a game! Tons of stuff to do, great voice work, engaging plot, very likeable characters, the list goes on... RENT IT!!

First and formost this game is one of thee best rpg's i have ever had the honor to play. I have been a huge fan of rpg's since dragon warrior 1 for NES; so thats saying alot...atleast in my mind. The story totaly pulls you in and you never want to leave, the characters have alot of depth (probably due to the fact that they have little cut scenes through out the game where the characters interact and have conversations). The main character Yuri is a solid bad"donkey" ;) with a dark brooding heart of gold, estele is a great healer/cleric type person,rita's a pure mage who has devestatingly amazing spells, and raven is one of the funniest dirty old men ive seen in a game. As for the other characters Judith,karol,rapede are all just as good but my team are the ones i mentioned earlyer; thats one more thing that makes this game a hit,options, there are so many. Options are even optional. The fighting leaves you wanting more and more beasts to tear to shreds, not to mention the fantastic idea to make the fighting co-op with up to 3 other friends, thats right 4 player rpg; now those are rare my friends. Moves you learn are called artes, the more you use them they actualy get faster and do more damage and can even help you learn new moves by equiping certain moves together. The combo system is a deffinate plus, you go from physical attacks to base artes->altered artes->arcane artes-> incredibley nasty combos lol. Mystic artes and burst artes are your bread and butter over-kill which this guys is a huge fan of; and yes your teammates that are playing with you can do them too which leads to some devistating team-ups. I have logged over 70hrs into this game(with 2 of my budies) and we are going to play the game all the way through again its so good, they unlock a harder difficulty after you beat it as well as some other ingame content. I now own this game! And so should every other rpg fanatic out there, you all know who you are and your social life will suffer greatly lol.