![]() For one, this whole ‘resonance’ thing that causes Alisha to leave felt poorly explained and even lazy. Now many players were not pleased with this story development. Because of this, along with her responsibilities as princess, Alisha leaves the party early on in the game, never to return except for a brief section way later. However, it gradually becomes clear that due to poor ‘resonance’ between her and Sorey, Alisha being his squire is harming him physically, even making him go blind. So it goes like this: after Sorey becomes the Shepard, he makes Alisha his ‘squire’, which grants her the ability to use magic and see the Seraphim, and she joins him on his quest to purify the malevolence. When Tales of Zestiria was released on January 22nd, 2015, excited players picking up the game realized that Alisha’s role in the story wasn’t exactly what was advertised. It seems there was a good amount of fanart of her even pre-release.Īnd then the game actually came out, and people saw how the story really played out. People liked her character design, they liked the previous work of her voice actress Ai Kayano(particularly her starring role as Menma in Anohana), and they were generally excited to see her in the game. And she got a lot of positive attention before the game was even out. She is first met not half an hour into the game when she travels to Sorey’s home village on her own to find out how to stop the spread of malevolence in the absence of the Shepard.Īlisha was featured quite prominently in the game’s early trailers, leading most to assume she was going to be the game’s main heroine, playing a prominent role throughout the game’s entire story. And the second character to be revealed, after main character Sorey, was a character called Alisha.Īlisha Diphda is the princess of the Highland Kingdom who is in training to become a knight. As the game got closer to release, each of the game’s party members would be released one at a time. ![]() So the game was exposed to a lot of people. There were lots of trailers, tie-ins with popular brands, the works. Sorey becomes the Shepard, the chosen hero tasked with slaying the Hellions and purifying the malevolence in the world.Īs the 20th anniversary celebration game, the game naturally received quite a bit of promotion. The main character is a human called Sorey who was raised by the Seraphim and has the ability to see them. In the world, a force called malevolence generated by negative emotions turns people into monsters called Hellions. Some story recap will be needed to explain just why everyone was mad, so let’s start with the game’s basic premise: the continent of Glenwood is populated by elemental spirits called the Seraphim who are invisible to humans. ![]() Tales of Zestiria, the fifteenth game in the series, began development in 2012 and was designed to celebrate the series’ 20th anniversary. It’s probably the third most popular JRPG series in Japan, behind Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest, and while it’s always been pretty niche overseas, it’s still developed a pretty devoted fanbase worldwide. The first game, Tales of Phantasia, was released in December of 1995, and since then, the series has been massively successful in Japan. Tales is a series of fantasy action JRPGs developed and published by Bandai Namco(originally just Namco before the merger), which has a long and storied history. What is Tales, and what is Tales of Zestiria? Note: since this drama was mostly contained to the Japanese side of the fanbase, and I do not know Japanese, a lot of this information I’m getting secondhand. And since the newest game in the series, Tales of Arise, was released just today(in my time zone), I had Tales on the brain, and decided to write some words about the biggest fandom drama the series had ever had: the heroine of Tales of Zestiria. While I’ve only finished one of the games(Vesperia), I do have substantial playtime in a couple of the others(Abyss, Legendia, and Crestoria), and have at least passing familiarity with all the others. I consider myself to be a casual fan of the Tales series of JRPGs. NOTE: This entire post will contain SPOILERS for Tales of Zestiria and its anime adaptation.
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