Some serious thoughts on characters [TOV]

[orangisque]

I haven't really ever put down or thought about how I feel about the characters and their relationships in Tales of Vesperia (I have put down some rants and angers about certain things, but that's another story). One of the charming factors of Vesperia is that a lot of things are downplayed or non-existent such as blatant romance, which opens the

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[aphelion_orion]

Hmm, interesting observations. I have to say I don't see Yuri as having enough chemistry with anyone at the moment, but I can't say that's a bad thing for me, either. I'm glad there's no forceful romance subplot. Makes the game behave so much better in so many aspects, and I think it does wonders for Estelle's character, too. (I'm jaded from JRPG romance, you see XD)

As for the Yuri-Flynn thing, I agree with you completely. I mean, I've ranted to you about Flynn already (XD), but what you said actually compounds the entire problem for me. The game hits us over the head with their superspecial friendship, yet it's just reiterated by others to the point that it's white noise. I guess maybe the Vesperia movie will get into this, but I don't know. We're never shown why they are supposedly such good friends, and given the truckload of moments where Flynn just behaves arrogantly and Yuri reacts with, imo, justified scorn, are kind of really putting a strain on the idea that they're supposed to know and like each other so much. To my mind,

[orangisque]

The great thing the writers did was to just make everyone get along really well, like a family, which I like a lot. I would not like to be hit with mushy romance in which I then become more resentful of the relationship. Most of it would just be potential for after the game development, and not "LOOK THE EVIDENCE IS THERE THEY WUB EACH OTHER IN GAME".

We're never shown why they are supposedly such good friends
I agree with you completely, we go from in the beginning of the game Yuri saying that him and Flynn just know each other as kids to "Go die for me". Then we're just given a bunch of people commenting "you guys must trust each other a lot!" It's like the writers were trying really hard for "friendships don't need to be spoken" and make Yuri and Flynn not say much about each other and then everyone else and their moms nodding their heads going "yeah, they must be great friends!"

It's okay! I like discussion.

What part of the game are you at right now?

[aphelion_orion]

Yes, exactly. I really liked that it was... a team, and everyone was allowed to be their own idiosynchratic self, and there were comparatively few forceful "because we're all friends!" speeches. And yeah, agreed on the romance. I have nothing against a relationship on principle (though I'd prefer to have a choice in the matter), but so few games manage to write anything remotely believable or IC in the way of romantic subplots that I'd just prefer to have the game devoid of them and make up my own pairings for myself

[orangisque]

You can access Emead Hill later in the game, I don't know what you forgot, but it should be fine. Unless it's a timed sub event...