As much as I love Tales of Phantasia, and recognize the painstaking effort that went into the music, the soundtrack simply does not hold a candle to such stellar golden-age 16-bit soundtracks, such as those of Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger or Phantasy Star IV, to name just a few. The rest of the soundtrack is solid, but the compositions themselves are not the most memorable. To be denied such a defining aspect of this game in not one but both localizations is an absolutely unforgivable travesty. That Yukari Yoshida song still remains one of my favorite video game vocal themes, and the version used for the PlayStation remake is even better. This was unheard of on a cartridge and it blew my mind. When Tales of Phantasia first came out on the Super Famicom, its sonic strength was in its opening song with full vocals. Even more disappointing was the generic piece of instrumental music backing it up. This is a shame, because it looked fantastic in the PlayStation version and deserves to look beautiful here too. When I first booted up, I was immediately disappointed by the poorly rendered anime opening that was not optimized for the iPad’s HD resolution. Sadly, I had to sell my imports some years back to pay off debts, and after both the GBA localization and this new iOS localization, I wish I hadn’t sold my A-grade versions of the game. I never had the opportunity to play the Full Voice Edition of Tales of Phantasia for PSP, which is a more definitive version of the game that this iOS port is based on. It hurt me to give the game relatively low scores then, and it hurts me to do it again now.īack when I was a semi-avid importer and actually had disposable income and free time, two of my most beloved import purchases were my Super Famicom cartridge of Tales of Phantasia and the PlayStation remake. Some of you may remember my review of the Game Boy Advance port of Tales of Phantasia about seven years ago, where I lamented that the localization and porting sucked the life dry of one of my favorite JRPGs. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.It pains me to do this again. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.
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