Each level gained provides some points that don’t do anything until the player manually applies them toward the improvement of five different aptitude areas for every character. Plenty of depth is present for those who wish to become invested in the systems, yet fighting is quite entertaining even on a surface level.Ĭharacter progression in Hearts R is an interesting divergence from the norm and requires active player input. Adversary AI is not brilliant but usually manages to be persistent enough to demand attention, and the game’s difficulty can be switched at any time to simplify or toughen the task of taking down foes. Any kind of magical action comes with the need to stand motionless for a moment to charge it, which is another opportunity to enterprising enemies to interfere. Simple button mashing is a somewhat viable tactic for single enemies, but groups of them tend to complicate matters by interrupting combo strings through their attacks.
The player directly controls one character while three others are guided by AI, and all of them run around the combat zone simultaneously coming to direct grips with the opposition. Randomly encountered opponents will accost the party quite a bit, and dispatching them is quite absorbing. Kohaku neglects to mention the reason she isn’t wearing, and refuses to wear, something for her lower body. Some of the most worthwhile moments come from inconsequential bantering between the characters after a battle ends, not during the story as a whole. There are some additional facets of the cast members’ personalities to be found through persistence, but doing so demands the experience of many misfires. Encountering Hisui’s obsessive protection of his sister ceases to have any appeal after a few depictions, yet it keeps coming up throughout the game. Skits are a hallmark of this series, and many of the ones found in Hearts R showcase the primary character traits of the cast repeatedly. There is also the repeated odd choice of having dialogue involving already encountered and voiced characters remain unidentified until a reintroduction has taken place, which speaks to a lack of confidence in the player’s short-term memory.Ĭharacters and their personalities do eventually show some depth, but it requires quite a bit of patience on the player’s part to experience this. Plenty of scenes drag on to a great degree when the player is able to deduce their point long before the characters acting them out do, displaying that judicious and vital editing was not performed. What feels like the climax is nothing close when it comes barely halfway through the narrative, and this odd momentum makes the many tangents introduced in the first half come across as unnecessary padding. The execution of these elements is unfortunately lacking, as the narrative has horrid pacing and leaves most of its intriguing elements examined only superficially. Hearts R certainly throws out plenty of interesting ideas, from a woman shattering her emotions and gradually regaining them to an empire that is rife with internal power struggles and not simply an evil entity. Seeking vengeance for his slain grandfather, Kor accompanies the siblings in the endeavor to put Kohaku’s self together again. Doing this prevents Incarose from obtaining what she sought, but also ensures that this dangerous foe will not just go away. Incarose kills Kor’s grandfather but is temporarily driven off when Kohaku willfully scatters her emotions around the globe. Things get unsettled when the sister and brother pair Kohahu and Hisui Hearts shows up in the village, fleeing from a cold and malevolent woman named Incarose. Kor Meteor is a young man who has lived in an isolated village, training with his grandfather for his entire life. This remake occasions strong negative feelings for many, but even with the plethora of issues I encountered, enough was entertaining that I stuck with the game for its entirety without major regret. Even a quick perusal of the available information makes clear that this is a complete remake of a very well-regarded original Tales of Hearts on the DS, but that rendition never came out of Japan. Every five years or so I’ve ended up playing another though, and Tales of Hearts R became my most recent choice.
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Long ago I decided not to try very hard at keeping up with everything in the Tales universe, which is now one of the most voluminous series among RPGs.
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