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Play Tales of Symphonia for Free This Weekend

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Oct 072016

Tales of Symphonia is easily one of the best games I’ve ever played. I recommend it to any JRPG fan, whether you play the Steam port, Tales of Symphonia Chronicles on the PS3, or the original Gamecube version.

But if you want to give it a try first, you’re in luck. Steam is holding a free Tales of Symphonia weekend, which means you can download Tales of Symphonia from Steam and play it for free from now until Sunday at 1 PM Pacific Time / 4 PM Eastern Time.

It is also discounted, so if you enjoy playing it and want to buy the game, you can get it for $6.79.

When Tales of Symphonia first launched on Steam, it was riddled with issues, from major technical problems to bizarre mistakes. Since then, most of those problems have been cleared up. If you care about 60 FPS, it still isn’t on par with the Gamecube version, but it’s as good as if not better than the PS3 version.

Give Tales of Symphonia a try this weekend!

(On a different note, I planned to discuss Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice today. Expect that post next week. Meanwhile, Color Splash is out–officially, not accidentally–today. I’m still on the fence about it.)

Tales of Symphonia PC Comes Out Today!

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Feb 012016

I intended to talk about the latest Final Fantasy XV news today, but we have something even more exciting to discuss! Tales of Symphonia will be available on Steam in just a few hours!

At the time I’m writing this, the Steam page lists 7 hours until the game comes out.

The PC version is basically the same as the PS3 version, which I played, so it has additional content that wasn’t in the original Gamecube version (including more story details).

Tales of Symphonia quickly became one of my favorite games ever after I played it last year. I even cosplayed one of its characters. I still think about it regularly.

Symphonia is the second game in the series to be released for Steam. If it does well, maybe we’ll see even more Tales games on PC… maybe even some of the older games that are now rare and hard to find! (Or maybe my dream of a Symphonia prequel will finally come true.)

If you’re on the fence, check out my review or ask me questions in the comments. I’d love to answer any Tales of Symphonia questions you have!

Update: As excited as I was for it, I can’t honestly recommend the Symphonia PC port in its current state. It’s basically a disaster.

A hilarious disaster in some ways…

…but still a disaster.

Martel Cosplay Redux

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Aug 312015

After my original Tales of Symphonia cosplay pictures, I promised I’d redo my Martel cosplay without the mistake pointed out to me by a helpful fan. Let’s not go into details, but instead enjoy round two of my Tales of Symphonia Martel cosplay!

I didn’t have a convenient chapel to take pictures in, so instead I went outside.

As before, the costume was made by Ajie Nugroho at Cosplay1. The wig came from Amazon, and I visited a local salon to get the bangs trimmed.

Is Martel awake yet?

In the end, I opted for a more serious Martel, even though my original cosplay pictures were happy and smiling. I did manage one smiling Martel indoors.

My outdoor attempts at smiling resulted in something closer to a sinister smirk.

Implied Symphonia spoiler

Maybe it runs in the family?

I hope you enjoyed my new cosplay pictures! I certainly had fun dressing up again. Check out Cosplay1 to get a costume like this, and let me know in the comments if you think I make a good Martel.

And if you don’t know who Martel is, you should play Tales of Symphonia. You won’t regret it.

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