The youngest of the portable consoles Nintendo is going through hard times. New projects does not reach it, and if that appears, then very very modest and unprepossessing. This gives more reason a better look at the Tales of Phantasia (hereinafter ToP), the game is very old, but still stores the fighting zeal.
Elder hoary In front of you, dear readers, the ancestor of the famous series is now Tales of, to whom belong to the considered in the same issue Tales of Eternia, Tales of Legendia and Tales of the Tempest. That's "Fantasy" once was a response to the extremely popular Namco Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy, though, unlike the project of Enix and Square, outside Japan and has not appeared.
What can we offer the RPG of 1995? Actually, not so little. First of all, a good script, providing enough colorful characters, time travel and not entirely unambiguous ending. Of course, many plot twists are predictable, and, nevertheless, to monitor developments very much curious.
 | |  | Business Card Series - a battle in real time, like in any fighting game. | | List of monsters "will help you better understand the strengths and weaknesses of the opponent. |
The second definite plus - a vast world with many towns and dungeons. To explore all of it will require more than a dozen hours, especially if you want not just to reach the screen saver, but also to fulfill all vnesyuzhetnye job and find all the secrets.
Something worth fighting system: it is sure to please those who prefer a quick and heated battle deliberate step by step battle. As in other parts of the series, you directly control only one character, and the rest to help him under the strict guidance of a silicon intelligence.
For dessert we were cooking recipes - a real business card not only ToP, but all its descendants. Recipes around the world hid a lot and collect for each of them the necessary ingredients - too zadachka not easy. So enjoy!
 | |  | In winter, the game was ten years old. And she still looks good and is capable of not a little carried away! | | When many enemies on the screen becomes a bit crowded. And who said that the real battle is not so? |
ToP weakness mostly related to her advanced age.For example, although the graphics and looks on the small screen is not too bad (better than Final Fantasy IV), but to the level of Golden Sun or Final Fantasy Tactics Advance still falls short. Battles happen too often and closer to the end of the beginning frankly annoying. Some of the roughness of the plot (which is sometimes explicitly "slack") do not have to touch, keeping everything as it was. In addition, the game completely absent at least some semblance of the magazine, where he could record and has already received the assignment. Have to rely solely on its own memory.
Nevertheless, all these faults do not deprive the Tales of Phantasia depth and charm. Therefore, today, the brainchild of Namco remains an excellent choice for any fan of the genre, he is a veteran or a beginner.
 | On merit and a title |
In ToP characters can earn various titles, climbing the career ladder to higher and higher. For example, Kress, starting with the Apprentice Swordsman, able to become final, Eternal Swordsman. A Mint, initially modest Healer, has a good chance of rising to the Cardinal.
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