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.
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.