Tales of phantasia

Battles in the game are usually random. Battles take place on a separate two-dimensional screen in real time and to some extent resembles a fighting game . During the battle, you can pause to use an item or spell, give a command to other characters (controlled by AI ) or change the tactics of the battle.

In the SNES version, the player has five game characters available: Kress, Chester, Mint, Klaus and Archie. Starting with the PlayStation version, another character is added to them - the young ninja Suzu. Klaus has the ability to summon creatures in battles that join the heroes as they progress through the game. The cities and dungeons visited by the player are two-dimensional, while the world map is made in three-dimensional space. You can play four in Co-op battle mode through PlayStation Multitap .

The main character of the game, Cress Albane ( Eng. Cress Albane ) ^[1] , as well as his friend Chester Burklayt ( Eng. Chester Burklight ) - residents of the small village of Toltus. Returning from the hunt, they discover that their village has been destroyed by the black knight Mars and his soldiers. All residents are killed, including Kress's parents and Chester's sister. To find out what his mother tried to tell before her death, Kress goes to the city of Euclid to his uncle. However, he betrays him, and the minions of Mars grab Kress and throw him in prison, taking away his family locket. It turns out that Kress's father, Miguel, was one of four warriors who defeated the evil king of Daoos ( English Dhaos ) and cast a spell on him with the help of 2 medallions, one of which Miguel took for himself and gave Kressa a birthday.

In prison, Kress meets a girl named Mint Adenade, with whom they escape from prison, where Mint's dead mother, Meryl, who also participated in the battle with Taoist, helps them. At the house of Tornix Morrison, another of the four warriors, they meet Chester again. Following Torniks, they go to the underground mausoleum , hidden in a cave, where they expect to catch Mars. But the heroes are late: the villain has already freed Taoist, who, as it turns out, has his own plans. He deceives Mars and kills him, after which he tries to attack a team of heroes, however Chester takes a hit on himself. Since there is no way to resist Taoism, Mr. Morrison sends Kress and Mint 100 years into the past, where they can gain magical power to fight Taoism. In the past, they meet Klaus F. Lester ^[2] , a specialist in summoning spirits, who, together with the characters, get involved in a ventured adventure. On the way, half-elf Archie Klein joins them, originally engulfed in the spirit of her friend Leah, who died during the capture of the village of Harmel by the Taoist assistant Demetrile.

Bart, Archie's father, directs the heroes to the Tree of Life. There they find out that all the magical energy is stored in this tree. Kress recalls that during the hunt, along with Chester, he saw the Tree no longer so blooming and rich in power, that is, magic will completely disappear after 100 years. And this means that in order to defeat Taoism it is also necessary to save this tree.

Tales of Phantasia was the first Super Famicom game to use a 48- megabyte cartridge. Another feature of the game was the use of voice audio effects.

The authors of the soundtrack for the game are Japanese composers Motoi Sakuraba and Shinji Tomura, who also wrote music for many of the subsequent games in the Tales series. In the game, Sakuraba appears in a cameo role: he is portrayed by a pianist in the adventurer guild in Alvanist. The opening song for the game “The Dream will not End” ( 夢 は 終 わ ら な い Yume-wa Owaranai ) in the versions for PS and PSP is performed by singer Yukari Yoshida.

Based on the game, in 2004 the anime "Tales of Fantasy" was released, consisting of four episodes.

The original Super Famicom Tales of Phantasia received 30 of 40 in Weekly Famitsu magazine .

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