Despite only being ten years old, it’s bizarre to think that Tales of Berseria is only the second brand-new Tales game we’ve gotten in the last decade. While Arise certainly found success, it’s not unreasonable to say Tales has struggled to find its footing in the modern age, even as other major RPG franchises, like Persona, have thrived.
But revisiting Tales of Berseria, it becomes even stranger how the franchise has languished. That’s largely because Berseria is simply an incredible RPG: a delightfully lovable cast of rogues, a bizarrely complex combat system, a gorgeous art style, and a deliciously dark narrative, especially for Tales. There are still some lingering problems, like a fair share of sluggish pacing, but this remastered version of Berseria makes an already great RPG play more smoothly than ever. Even if I still have a little harder time justifying this specific remaster’s existence, considering you can quite literally, at this moment, just go buy the original PS4... Read more