Tales of Berseria

A disease called daemonblight is raging in the kingdom, turning people into monsters. Three years before the main events, during the Scarlet Night, Advent took place - a ritual performed by Artorius Collbrande, whose purpose was to give humanity a chance to fight the plague. The main character, 19-year-old Velvet Crowe, who suffered a terrible loss as a result of Advent, swears revenge on Artorius. She is helped in this by a group of unique characters, almost all of whom have their own, not entirely noble, motivations.

Game mechanics

Tales of Berseria addresses some of the gameplay issues and changes that fans didn't like in Tales of Zestiria. The title, however, does not depart significantly from the classic formula of the series. Players observe the action from a third-person perspective, exploring a fully 3D game world, divided into separate locations. We talk with NPCs and perform smaller tasks, which are an addition to the main and linear storyline.

Visible enemies move around the map and by coming in contact with them we initiate a battle. In contrast to Tales of Zestiria, players fight again in separate 3D arenas, which the series has always been known for. During real-time skirmishes we can directly control all members of the team. Tales of Berseria offers a complex, arcade-style combat system based on unique abilities and combos. This time players can assign special attacks (artes) to several different buttons, consciously building the most effective combos.

Technical aspects

Since the game was also prepared for PlayStation 3, it does not offer any significant novelties in terms of graphics. So we are still dealing with not very detailed environments and very simple models of enemies. Game runs at 60 frames per second on PC and PlayStation 4, and the award-winning Ufotable studio again took care of the animated cutscenes.