Tales of Arise Beyond the Dawn DLC - review

Atleast they made new camp menu images...

  Since Bamco decided to a very belated DLC episode/expansion for Tales of Arise

I did have some mixed feelings since it had been so long BUT since

I really liked the main characters I decided to just get it anyway!

Honestly it was really nice to just see everyone again...

I remember the ending of the original made me really warm and fuzzy

so I was kind of apprehensive at some story set before the end credits.

 

If I had to be really honest I am not really fond of DLC this late after the launch

of a single player RPG. I basically thought Arise was done... yet here we are!

this felt so weird and so out of left field that at this point i'd expect a new tales of

to be announced and not a DLC for a two year old game, wtf bamco?!

 

Pro's

- Fun character interactions.

- Decent story about Nazamil.

 

Con's

- Recycled bosses and hardly any new ones.

- Half the stuff doesn't even carry over from the main game, so relearn/reforge etc.

- No proper epilogue for Alphen's busywork.

The story mostly focuses on a girl named Nazamil, I had a soft spot for her quickly...

she has been through some shit alright and she is also a kid still so I couldn't

be too hard on her. Some aspects of the story like the rifts between the Dahnan and

Rena peoples were kind of cheesy and predictable... but cheesy is how I remembered

my tales of arise so I didn't mind it that much. I personally loved the skits

and character interactions which was basically what pulled me through the DLC

after I initially put it on hold till I felt like I wanted to see the gang again.

More rambles after the jump, I won't be detailing the plot much but there are screenshots.

Tales of Arise - review

Genre: RPG
Developer/publisher: Bandai Namco.
Platform: PS4,PS5,PC,Xbone.
Official Site: https://en.bandainamcoent.eu/tales-of/tales-of-arise
Release date: 2021-9-10.

 

Wasn't sure if I was going to write about this game... or even like it cuz at first sight

it seemed rather edgy with some shining tears/wind vibes.

Just by watching the OP you could see what i'm talking about that is if you're familiar with that trope...

So my initial impressions of Tales of Arise were kind of hmmmmm? its no wonder after

what happened with Zestiria and Berseria trying to fix it that bait and switch mess

either way I was pleasantly surprised Arise turned out better than I expected!

Pro's

- excellent story(better than i expected atleast).

- a likable cast of characters that can grow on you.

- Plenty of side content to keep you busy.

Con's

- Bosses can be a bit unforgiving.

- CP system is terrible.

- Loading screens are a plenty(kinda makes me nostalgic) 

There won't be any plot spoilers discussed in this post but there will be a few screenshots without much context

I should add here that there is a minor one in a screen but I don't really consider Alphen's mask thingy

that much of a spoiler considering one could unmask him with dlc stuff right from the start (weird)

needless to say I had to add this warning here since this game is fairly new i've made

those screens as small as possible so you can scroll past however considering the jpn

twitter openly posted artwork and you can see his face on dlc item the dev's didn't really care......