Thus, your rag-tag band of heroes is conveniently ready for the hundreds of random encounters awaiting you because they can harness the energy of the world. Some people use “iron eres” (physical abilities), and others use “crystal eres” (magical abilities).
#TALES OF LEGENDIA OST HOW TO#
It’s all rather formulaic.Īll of Senel’s teammates have one important thing in common: they know how to use “eres.” Eres is energy, the essence of life. Much of the game is spent rescuing Shirley from being kidnapped, trying to protect her (only to have her kidnapped again), and then more rescue. Senel quickly makes companions out of unlikely allies: Will, the scholar and mayor of the one town found on the island Chloe, the knight from a foreign land trying to redeem her family name Norma, the terribly annoying treasure hunter and eventually, even people you thought were enemies will make nice and join you in your quest. I think we know where this is going already, don’t we? Senel and Shirley, who end up having very direct ties to the ship, will have to save the world by preventing bad guys from taking over the newly-discovered ship, which they would undoubtedly use as a weapon of war. Its name is “The Legacy,” and it apparently was created by an ancient race of beings. As it turns out, this miles-wide island is actually an enormous ship with a natural landscape. Shirley freaks out because the sea breeze is making her sick, and Senel desperately searches for a place to land until he finds what he thinks is an island. When the game opens, we find Senel Coolidge (no relation to Calvin) and his adopted sister, Shirley, on a boat. If you haven’t experienced the game for yourself, allow this brief review to take the place of the firsthand experience. Though Legendia may not be a true abomination, it is indeed a dark blemish on the Tales series’ track record. Project MelFes would bring us the underwhelming Tales of Legendia, and the main Tales Studio would give us Tales of the Abyss only a few months later. So, a new studio formed, and under the name “Project MelFes,” work was done to create two large-scale Tales games at once. It all started when they felt that one development studio wasn’t enough to regularly release games in the Tales series.
#TALES OF LEGENDIA OST SERIES#
Though the Tales series is still going strong (Vesperia received plenty of good words from the gaming press), there was a time when I feared the good folks at Namco Bandai (well, just “Namco” back then) were going to shoot themselves in the foot. Question: when the game industry comes along with a good thing, what will they do with that thing? Answer: milk it dry, and run the brand name into the ground.