Velvet’s special attack, called Break Soul, enables you to inflict more deadly damage and is an easy attack to string together with your combo. Certainly during the more challenging battles it’s of importance to keep your Soul Gate level high so you’re able to perform enough combos without losing the Soul Gates. The only way to refill the Soul Gates is by running around without attacking, hoping you can dodge your enemy long enough. If you run out of Soul Gates, your attacks will be a lot weaker and you’ll take a lot more damage from attacks. New in Berseria are the so-called Soul Gates, these add an extra layer of strategy to the combat and makes fighting monsters a lot more tactical than we’re used of.Įverything you do will cost you a certain amount of Soul Gates. By timing your attacks and defenses just right, you’re able to defeat every enemy the game throws at you. The Tales of franchise offers real-time combat so you’re never stuck in endless menus. Just like the other Tales of games, Berseria offers a lot of enemies and bosses you need to defeat.
The unpredictableness of her actions transforms her into an interesting but hard to love character during your adventure. Velvet is darker, more selfish and isn’t afraid to kill. It’s fun to meet the new characters but it’s harder to get a connection with Velvet, especially compared to the other heroes in the Tales of universe. Serious characters are balanced with more immature characters to keep things light and fun to follow. If you’ve played other Tales of games before, you know what kind of characters you can expect and Berseria isn’t an exception to this rule. This results in a constant war between the two factions and Velvet is standing right in between them.ĭuring your quest for revenge, you’ll meet a lot of other characters, all with their own personalities. Since you can’t always tell if someone’ a Daemon, the remaining Exorcist faction made it their goal to eliminate each and every remaining Daemon. Since she’s half demon, she soon meets other Daemons wandering around in her world. Velvet is torn between justice and revenge, she isn’t afraid to sacrifice others in order to reach her goal. She isn’t the chosen hero or the one that will always do good in order to reach her goals. Velvet is without a doubt the darkest hero we’ve ever faced in a Tales of game. A story about a girl trying to stop the man who has taken everything from her. It’s no surprise that this is a story about revenge. The result? Velvet was thrown into prison while Arthur became the national hero. Desperate to save her brother’s life, Velvet got infected by the demon virus and couldn’t stop Arthur in time. Since he sees no other way, he sacrifices the life of Laphicet in order to close the portals to hell for good. The red moon marked the return of the Daemons and Arthur has to find a way to stop them once more.
Besides that, life just goes on in the village, until the night the moon turned red. Three years have passed since that attack and Velvet became a successful hunter thanks to the training of Arthur. Laphicet showed huge potential but isn’t able to fight, he can’t move around due to a strange disease. The death of his wife doesn’t only affects Arthur’ life but also affects Velvet since Arthur’s wife is her sister. Just when tragedy seems to be over, Arthur’s wife got killed during the attack, leaving him behind as a colder and broken man. Lucky for you, Arthur the Exorcist arrived just in time to kill all Daemons and rescues the village from what could have been the end of it all. That’s right, the deadly Daemons return in this episode and they are brutally attacking your village.
The new introduction video introduces us to Velvet and her little brother Laphicet, both on the run for Daemons. Tales of Berseria takes place in the world of Desolation, years before Tales of Zestiria. Now, it’s time to start your adventure in Tales of Berseria, a darker take on the popular formula. There’s something about the Tales of franchise that kept the audience captivated to their screens game after game. It had its high and lows but it’s been here long enough to be mentioned in the same sentence with games like Final Fantasy. The Tales of franchise has been around for a couple of years.