For starters, the story is a banger: it follows Lloyd and gang as they seek to restore life-saving mana to the world, with plenty of monsters, fun bosses, and challenging puzzles along the way. While I am critical of this “remaster,” I do admit that the original game is a pretty compelling one, and regardless of the lackluster treatment of it, there’s still plenty to love about Tales of Symphonia. Lloyd’s big sword can’t save this game from its legacy of mediocrity. It is supremely disappointing that Symphonia‘s “remaster” will forever be remembered as an antithetical runt to two big successes in modernizing old games. The attention to detail with the Game Boys’ visual options and smooth emulation, in addition to amazing graphical and control updates to Metroid Prime, shows that games of that era can still be smash hits with the right level of polish. These lovingly crafted revisits of nostalgic properties have proven to be - outside of a couple hiccups like Prime’s doors - great successes so far. Fans of early 00’s gaming have had a great week playing Metroid Prime Remastered and the new Game Boy emulators added to Switch. I have to say, the timing of this “remaster” could not be worse. Readers, I can’t tell you how awful it is to spite finish a video game for review, but that’s just what I did with Tales of Symphonia Remastered. I am trapped in a reverse Goldilocks scenario where I have access to two bowls of “just right” porridge, but I have to eat every bite of a third bowl that tastes like Baby Bear got his boogers all up in it.
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I won’t lie - I am a little upset about the sorry state of the Switch “remaster.” What makes me more upset, though, is that I own both the GCN and PS3 versions of this game, and I have to finish the worst version of it to complete this review.
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On PS3, it is a similar story: while the framerate is 30 fps, it also looks, sounds, and plays better than this Switch “remaster.” This is exceptionally frustrating, because each version (including the PS2 version) has gotten progressively worse, a unique achievement in mediocrity. When I revisited these opening hours in this “remaster,” I couldn’t help but feel that something was off. I love the opening few hours of Symphonia, as it hits familiar light-hearted first-area vibes, but it also doesn’t wait around to address heavy stuff throughout this game, Colette and gang encounter great injustices like mass torture, slavery, and genocide, all while they grapple with the traumas of death and general adolescence. Its opening hours follow cute, big-hearted teen Lloyd and his friend, studious boy Genis, as they seek to accompany this game’s “Chosen One,” Colette, on her adventure to open elemental seals and save the world. Tales of Symphonia Remastered starts out like a familiar trip down memory lane. While it is admittedly more readily available, it is ostensibly the worst way to play Tales of Symphonia. It provides no new updates or upgrades (in fact, it has less content than its predecessor because it lacks the Dawn of the New World spin-off included in Chronicles), runs at an unsteady 30 fps, has terrible load times, has input lag when docked, crashes on occasion (especially before cutscenes), and has compromised audiovisual quality. Tales of Symphonia Remastered, on the other hand, is not a good game - especially on Nintendo Switch. Tales of Symphonia Chronicles on the PlayStation 3 is also a pretty good game: it displays the original in HD, has extra content, and it runs reasonably smoothly (despite its downgrade in framerate from the GCN original). I have fond memories of renting Symphonia on the GameCube over and over from a local video rental store in the 2000s, and I think it still holds up today. The original Tales of Symphonia for Nintendo GameCube is a good game.
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