Not entirely sure, haven't played it. I heard the PC port way back when was a little wonky. If all the remaster did was give it a touch up, and if you can still play it with a GameCube controller, I say jump right in, it's an awesome game.
One piece of advice is it's a game where if you are just on autopilot going through it, you will really miss out on tons of cool side quests, optional bosses, entire aspects of the combat system, etc.
I unfortunately haven't touched it in over a decade, but several playthroughs over 2004 to 2013 burned all that stuff into my head. Thinking back, so many of my favorite parts of the game, whether they be sidequests or simply little character interactions are completely optional and therefore missable. There's gotta be some guides out there that can tip you off to some things without spoiling stuff if you aren't against not going in 100% blind.
Having done a little reading, I think my safest bet is the cheapest. I'll stick with emulating, it looks fine to me.
Thanks for the heads up on the side content. From experience I know it's a good shout to go into old JRPGs with a walkthru on hand, but sometimes my sheer hubris prompts me to go in full blind (I regret this now for XC1 because that game is fucking sprawling). Symphonia wasn't a game that struck me as if it would have had much side stuff so I might have made the same mistake again. My only previous full Tales game was Berseria, although I played a bunch of Vesperia before ditching it and a teensy bit of Symphonia itself on a friend's GC back in the day.
Yeah I think the graphics haven't aged the best, but if you're someone like me who doesn't put too much weight on that then they are plenty good enough, just a bit dated.
And ahh, sorry to hear you didn't like Vesperia. I didn't like it as much as Symphonia but I still liked it a good bit. I never delved into it more deeply than a single playthrough though so there may have been more good stuff I missed.
I found a nice CRT filter to give the visuals more texture so I'm all the more eager to give Symphonia a spin now, although it'll probably be a while before I get around to it.
Vesperia was a good game and I sank a good amount of hours in it even, but I wasn't a fan of the way the story and chars were going which can kill a game quick for me. As time's gone on I've grown less committed to the idea of finishing RPGs I'm not fully feeling, so Vesperia was probably a casualty of that.
How's the remaster? I need another classic JRPG lined up in case I ever finish Xenoblade Chronicles 1 before I die.
Not entirely sure, haven't played it. I heard the PC port way back when was a little wonky. If all the remaster did was give it a touch up, and if you can still play it with a GameCube controller, I say jump right in, it's an awesome game.
One piece of advice is it's a game where if you are just on autopilot going through it, you will really miss out on tons of cool side quests, optional bosses, entire aspects of the combat system, etc.
I unfortunately haven't touched it in over a decade, but several playthroughs over 2004 to 2013 burned all that stuff into my head. Thinking back, so many of my favorite parts of the game, whether they be sidequests or simply little character interactions are completely optional and therefore missable. There's gotta be some guides out there that can tip you off to some things without spoiling stuff if you aren't against not going in 100% blind.
Having done a little reading, I think my safest bet is the cheapest. I'll stick with emulating, it looks fine to me.
Thanks for the heads up on the side content. From experience I know it's a good shout to go into old JRPGs with a walkthru on hand, but sometimes my sheer hubris prompts me to go in full blind (I regret this now for XC1 because that game is fucking sprawling). Symphonia wasn't a game that struck me as if it would have had much side stuff so I might have made the same mistake again. My only previous full Tales game was Berseria, although I played a bunch of Vesperia before ditching it and a teensy bit of Symphonia itself on a friend's GC back in the day.
Yeah I think the graphics haven't aged the best, but if you're someone like me who doesn't put too much weight on that then they are plenty good enough, just a bit dated.
And ahh, sorry to hear you didn't like Vesperia. I didn't like it as much as Symphonia but I still liked it a good bit. I never delved into it more deeply than a single playthrough though so there may have been more good stuff I missed.
I found a nice CRT filter to give the visuals more texture so I'm all the more eager to give Symphonia a spin now, although it'll probably be a while before I get around to it.
Vesperia was a good game and I sank a good amount of hours in it even, but I wasn't a fan of the way the story and chars were going which can kill a game quick for me. As time's gone on I've grown less committed to the idea of finishing RPGs I'm not fully feeling, so Vesperia was probably a casualty of that.