Audience reviews
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Otaku329
Tales of zestiria the X is in my opinion an average anime........for some the story might be a little boring and i am one of them they kinda failed to make moments from which we expect great hype and brilliance to be up to our expectations although it was improved later on in the season 2....
It made me hoked to it because of great animation quality...No doubt Ufotable makes one of the best animations.... The plot was improved greatly afterwards not be afraid it was not that boring it simply failed to express that epicness which we were expecting !!!
characters: 8
It has some interesting characters with proper back story although i cant say much about the ships though they were a total fail lol (you will understand what i am trying to say after you watch it)
story: 7
It was a nice co…
Read at the sourceKnightSirius
Had to write a review on this one because it came from such a greatly respected studio, and it was quite disappointing to say the least.
TL;DR
This anime looks absolutely breathtaking as expected of Ufotable. However, the story is bland and generic, with characters just as mundane. The plot progression doesn't make sense outside of the gaming medium (it's source material) and so it fails spectacularly as an anime.
It entirely lacks a "hook" something that grabs you, and makes you desire to keep watching.
Visuals - 7.5/10
As expected from Ufotable the visuals are great. Easily one of the best studios for producing quality visuals. Only complaint was the CGI dragons which felt out of place. CGI is notoriously difficult to get right and even then people will still complain.
Music 4.5/10
M…
Read at the sourceBanjoTheBear
(This review has been adapted from my blog/reddit thread. Spoilers ahead!)
Tales of Symphonia is one of my favorite GameCube games that I played when I was kid.
I don’t remember it all too well now, having not gone through it for many, many years. But I do recall something silly I did with it.
I read a strategy guide that stated (and I had to go online to make sure I was remembering this right because I wasn’t) if I only used Lloyd’s wooden blades up until a certain point, I would unlock a special title. Being unable to pass up on such a sweet deal, despite being well into the game at this point, I erased my file, started anew, and became the “Eternal Apprentice.” (Not the most flattering of achievements.)
Thinking back on it, it was not a good move to do that at all. It wasn’t even ne…
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I'd have to give credit to ufotable handling CG that well. The art was good, although I have qualms about some parts of the animation. I just didn't expect it to be this...well, plain. A lot of things weren't really properly introduced. The characters didn't really develop nicely.
After watching, I can say that it's not that appealing. I watched this out of sheer boredom and I had to endure it since I tend to finish watching what I already started.
This is really disappointing. I was excited when a Tales series was going to get an animation. I loved Tales games. I guess I'll stick to the games. Oh, well... :(
Read at the sourcektulu007
I've talked about Namco's Tales franchise twice before. With reviews of the Phantasia and Symphonia anime. Zestiria is one of the more recent games and the first series of its anime ran late last year. It was brought to us by Ufotable. You may recall them as the same studio that worked on the Symphonia OVA I looked at, and Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight. How did they do with the first series of Zestiria? Let's have a look. Please note, this review includes the one episode prequel: Saiyaku no Jidai.
Story:
We open with Princess Alisha sending a soldier to investigate a strange cloud overshadowing a city under her kingdom's jurisdiction. Just one of many calamitous events. Alisha and others are hoping for the legendary Shepherd to appear. All while preparations for a sword festival are taki…
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Short review: This anime has awesome graphics and shit story.
Detailed review: I have been offended by many anime but never has an anime made me so angry. When it started, I thought to myself this anime might be just amazing. Oh boy was I wrong. It probably has one of the best graphics out there and they just go to waste as the story seems to be written by a teenager who is full of his own shit. I think the main audience for this show were stupid teenagers? But that's still no excuse for such horrible plot and story writing. The anime tries to be very philosophical but then it explains itself how the ideologies of the main characters is fucking bullshit. They try to add action in their anti-war philosophy and it's ridiculous. The action itself is awesome and entertaining. But it has the l…
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I learned two things while I was watching Tales of Zestiria the X.
1: Ufotable is one of the few studios in the world who can adapt a video game properly and with extreme care
2: Their visuals and animation never ceases to amaze me.
[Story]: (6/10)
Tales of Zestiria doesn't really have the best story out there. It's nothing innovative, it's nothing new and it's been done before. I played the game and I wasn't really impressed with the game's story and it's the same case here. It wasn't shit or anything. The story was just decent, at best. It's just a story of "Good vs Evil" and the evil masterlord (Lord of Calamity) is going to eradicate the world and a certain someone becomes the hero that everyone needs (The Sheppard) and he will save the world from evil and darkness. There's also th…
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Note: I watched the show first, played the game, and then rewatched some episodes afterwards. Therefore, most of my commentary is going to be based on how well the adaptation conveyed information with respect to in-game elements (skits, townsmen info, etc.).
The biggest concern I had with this show is with the pacing, since I didn't know how much of the game this first season would cover and with 2/12 episodes dedicated to Tales of Berseria. S1 barely covers the first few hours of the game; Sorey does not have his "full party" yet, and has only learned of the main antagonist towards the ending. I'm not sure how many more seasons Zestiria the X will have, but they did completely change some game events (not only for the reduction of battle or exploration game time) and mixed in information…
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First of all although i have played the game that serves as the source material for the anime i haven't completed it. Additionally the anime expands a lot of what was only shown and mentioned in the game and diverges a lot from it so at this point whether or not i finished it is a bit mute.
The main story of Tales of Zestiria revolves around the story of the Shepard and more precisely the story of the newest Shepard who in this is the main character Sorey. The Shepard is supposed to a powerful figure that has the power to interact with a spirit race called the seraphim and in conjunction protect the world by ridding it of malevolence and defeat the one responsible for causing them which is the lord of calamity.
The story follows the journey of Sorey as he explores the land and meeting…
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I've was patient with this series. I really was. But after everything, the show still didn't have a clear plot or direction. It didn't even have an atmosphere, something that the equally poorly paced God Eater (also produced by ufotable) at least had.
What pisses me off the most is that the rules of this world seem to be written by a six year old: "So there's these ruins, and then there's this hero who can see spirits but only he can, and then there's this princess who really likes him. And then he goes off to kill dragons and stuff." There's not much behind the motivations of the characters. None of them even have much character outside of the trope slots that they occupy. The most interesting thing about them is their appearance, for which there is no rhyme or reason.
All throughout,…
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Tales of Zestiria the X ... When I found out they're making an anime based on the game I really liked , naturally I got pretty excited although I wasn't expecting anything phenomenal but the anime was better than what I expected . Of course it doesn't live up to the game but it is pretty good by itself . Let's talk about the anime , the story covers almost half of the game which is expected since they confirmed second season's production . It's consisted of 3 episodes about the upcoming Tales of Berseria and other 9 episodes are based on the Tales Of Zestiria . The story narration is far from perfect as it skips through most stuff happened in the game but is pretty good if you consider it's based on a game :/ . The fighting scenes are made with a lot of consideration and contain lots of dr…
Read at the sourceLucisKitsune
I need to play the game to see the anime? Absolutely, NO! Even if you played, they did the anime so marvelous that players and non-players get a new experience without drop of the plot! Even you gonna have a demo in anime of the next game!
Let's start talking about the story, this is a Tales of story, a story with certain characteristics of RPGs based in a world of magic, swords and warriors, if you are familiar with the games or the animations, you will be like in home, as I said, the anime has another path to follow taking the important parts with it, but if you played the game, at the start gonna be like "That really happens like that?", that is bad?, no, full contrary, the animation tell you the story in a smooth, powerful and brilliant pace, so players and no players gonna be enjoyed…
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Tales of Zestiria the X, in my opinion is a good anime if you like action and adventure. It tells a tale of Sorey, a human and a seraphim (like a hybrid) who lives with a old man and his best friend Mikleo on a island far up in the sky. It's a place that's closed to man because seraphim and man do not co-exist anymore. Sorey and Mikleo both like exploring ruins, but more importantly they've started becoming fond of the outside world and what it had it to offer. Until one day Alisha came looking for the Shepherd. (The one that can stop all the evil in the world 'malevolence') and the rest if for you to watch.
(That is if you want to, to be honest the show is very good and the art is very nice indeed. Just remember this is a anime for a game as well, just like god eater.)
Read at the sourceKuroKagami
I admit it, I watched this because ufotable never disappoints me when it comes to animation. I wanted to have some eye candy, and I had. The problem with Tales of Zestiria is that nothing is memorable, the animation is pretty decent...but, what about the story, the characters. Where's the spirit?
Story 3/10
The story is about a boy who lives in a magical world and he becomes the "chosen one" to defeat evil because...yeah, that's something totally original. The story is so bad I don't even feel sympathetic with the creatures that live in this world. The world is your typical fantasy world: dragons, people sometimes use magic, almost everything in this world are woods and there are evil beings. Nice. I haven't played Tales of Zestiria, but Tales of the Abyss had a more interesting story. I…
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Ufotable. The name of the production company has an army of fans in its wake from the kind of quality that their adaptations have been able to produce. From story to soundtrack to the oh so god-like animation with a seemingly unlimited budget for just how well produced is looks, very little can be said about Ufo that hasn't already been said before. And so, we come to their newest project, Tales of Zestiria the X, a game adaptation from one of the "Tales of" games about a boy's journey to purge the world of malevolence.
Story: The world of Zestiria is plagued by great malevolence created from the negative and depressing emotions that come from all sources such as nature and people that taints the world and things that live in them to become hellions, demonized versions of the various bein…
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(This is a spoiler-free review adapted for this site)
[Synopsis]: Tales of Zestiria takes place in a world where long ago, humans and supernatural beings called seraphim lived alongside one another. Over the years, humanity lost the ability to perceive the seraphim and they grew scarce as the negative emotions of humanity, a corrupting force called ‘malevolence,’ took root in the land. Legends speak of ancient saviors called Shepherds who would bridge the gap between the two beings however none have appeared and the world grows darker by the day. The story begins when Alisha Diphda (Kayano Ai), princess of the Highland Empire, encounters a young man named Sorey (Kimura Ryouhei) who is able to perceive the seraphim and who may be the world’s only hope of purifying the world’s proliferating…
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The more time passes, the harder it gets to create an anime that truly stand out in their genre and most of them end up being very similar to their predecessors, only less memorable. With that in mind, Tales of Zestiria doesn't even try to set itself apart from all the other fantasy anime and ends up being a story that has been done 1000 times before and 1000 times better.
Let's start with the story. Firstly, the setting couldn't be more generic. At first, it seemed interesting, because it was a village where these mythical beings known as Seraphim live and had some mystical ruins that revealed an ancient prophecy. But then the characters travel to a city that you feel like you've seen before, and after that to various locations with no personality (mostly wastelands and forests) that don…
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Tales of Zestiria the X was an anime that I, well not only me but most had been waiting for a very long time. Knowing that it was an anime from the studio Ufotable, that is known to have flawless and picturesque CG, I was very exited and thrilled about how they were going to execute the series. I haven't played the game of it, nor seen the play-through of it. Therefore it was an entirely new series for me.
The art/animation was perfect, the battle animation, the landscapes, very realistic to almost mesmerizing detail... that I had to hand down to them, it was truly majestic to look at and the story line was simple and quite interesting.
However, when its first 3 to 4 episodes got aired, honestly I was very let down by it. The story itself at the beginning was a very slow paced one which…
Read at the sourceStark700
After watching just the first few minutes of this show, I can safely say that Ufotable has once again proven that they are worthy of handling CG. Beyond the visuals, Tales of Zestiria the X is more than just another Unlimited visual porn.
The series is based on the video game of the franchise although it has its own set of principles. Early impressions of the show establishes a set-up as we meet the main protagonists – Alisha, Sorey, and Mikelo. From the setting, there are many conflicts, mostly those that revolve around the supernatural and unnatural phenomenons. In addition, the story indulges with its fantasy setting and deep history. Of course, there’s world building that has its importance. The show seems to hit the right spots from the beginning and able to stretch its story all th…
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After 12 long weeks, Tales of Zestiria the X finally came to an end, or rather unfortunately, because it was fantastic. Even before the start of the Summer 2016 season I knew that I could expect much of an Ufotable fantasy, action and adventure anime. I did not play the game so I won't be able to tell you which one was better, the game or the anime adaptation. But what I can do for sure is write my impressions and thoughts on the anime in this review. I know I am a week late with it but I hope you still enjoy!
PLOT AND STORY LINE
As mentioned in the intro, Tales of Zestiria the X (ToZX) is an action, adventure and fantasy anime made by one of my favorite production studios-ufotable. Even before the anime started airing in July, 2016 I knew I'd love it because I've been waiting for so lon…
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