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Bad Demo's for Good Games -- Tales of Vesperia
Atlas \| 3:41 PM on 08.29.2008	9 comments

The demo for Vesperia was utter, utter shit. Not a game you can just hop into. If you could even beat the stupid hound that was demo's boss you weren't missing much. The uncustomized, weak characters made the Ehmead Hill boss far harder than he really is. The demo probably hurt sales more than helped them.

And so we get to the actual game. While it lacks polish in some areas it certainly isn't the game the demo made it out to be. Once you figure out the different strategies in combat and get pulled into the story (actually at this point i'm more interested in the characters than the story) the game is not at all bad.

I thought about buying Vesperia for one reason -- I really, really enjoyed Tales of Symphonia a few years back and it stands as my favorite and arguably the best RPG on Gamecube. I was totally sucked in by the story and the combat, while somewhat dull and repetitive, was far better than any traditional turn based combat.

So anyways, the Vesperia demo is only representative of the game to a small degree, and for those of you turned off by the demo, you should definitely give the game another look.

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8 comments | showing # 1 to 8

dtomek

Thanks for the heads up, as yeah I despised the demo. Guess I'll throw it on my gamefly list.

Simmons 2pt0

This is good to hear because I as well thought the demo was such shit I wasn't going to give the game a chance. I'll probably pick it up next paycheck to tide me over until Fall.

Gen Eric Gui

So difficult = shit now?

I'll keep that in mind.

Justice

Another example of bad demo, great game is Burnout Paradise; The demo for me is nothing like the full game. The difference is practically mind blowing.

Affable Robot

Thanks for letting me know because I too played the demo and thought is was really bad I'll give it a try even though the dialogue is terrible

Clockwork

That's what I'm thinking about TFU. The demo was fun for a while but hopefully they have some variety in the full game.

I don't think I'll be trying Tales of Vesperia but from what I played of Tales of Symphonia, it was a pretty rad game, but way too fucking long for me.

TrailerParkJesus

I actually had a write-up about this too but I'm kinda being lazy about it.

Basically, pretty much what you said. I was somwehat interested in the game but it lost some points for me because of the demo. I was gonna wait until the price went waaaay down.

ArrestedDeveloper

I bought Tales of Symphonia about a year back with the intention of playing it on my Wii but still haven't gotten to it. Sadly it's gathering dust next to the Skies of Arcadia Legends I was also inspired to buy at about the same time.

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