This works really well, truly letting players get into Velvet’s head and empathise with the situation she eventually finds herself in. It starts slow – the first hour or two is entirely dedicated to showing players Velvet’s life before she became a daemon. Berseria forgoes a more traditional good versus evil tale in favour of telling a more nuanced story, coloured with shades of grey where nothing is quite as it seems. It’s a gutsy way to frame a Tales game that, for the most part, does Berseria some massive favours. They’re an organisation dedicated to saving Humanity from the daemonblight and eradicating the daemons that are rampaging across the land. To accomplish her goals, Velvet must wage war against the Abbey – the typical good guys of a story such as this. They’re motivated primarily by desires for revenge and murder, with the game adopting an altogether darker tone than its predecessors. While protagonists of past Tales games generally set out to save the world, filled with an earnest desire to do what’s right and plucky, optimistic can-do attitudes, Berseria’s protagonists are the bad guys. This is immediately apparent in the game’s main cast, primarily comprised of daemons, witches, traitors and pirates. Where previous Tales games tell fairly typical stories laden with Anime tropes, Berseria weaves a far darker tale. A typical Tales game this is not, at least not from a story perspective. Years earlier her older sister and Artorius’ wife Celica was killed during an event known as the Opening during a Scarlet Night.Īfter a similar situation unfolds which ends with Artorius sacrificing Laphicet and Velvet transformed by her hatred into a daemon, she’s imprisoned, eventually being freed and embarking on a quest for vengeance against the man who betrayed her and murdered her brother. Three years prior to the main story of the game Velvet is living a fairly quiet and peaceful life with her brother-in-law Artorius and her younger brother Laphicet. Tales of Berseria is the latest entry in Bandai Namco’s venerable JRPG series, putting players in the shoes of Velvet Crowe.
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