Tales of Symphonia (GC)

Ahh, Tales of Symphonia. This title is what GameCube owners such as myself have been talking about for months, as we're starved for a decent original RPG. I honestly haven't discovered an RPG so much fun to fight, explore, or just wander about aimlessly since Secret of Mana. Concept and Story Once upon a time, there was a tree which was the source of all mana. A great war ravaged the land and caused the tree to wither, so a Hero, in all his martyred glory was sacrificed in order to replace it. Grieving for the Hero, the Goddess Martel disappeared and went into a deep slumber. The story begins with a girl being born named Colette, whose ...

One of the best RPGs or role playing games released on the game cube. In game play and cut scenes it looks somewhat like an anime and in the US and UK releases has English voicing for the characters, which i had never seen before on a game cube game before. Apparently there is a manga comic book series and it will be available on the wii in the future sometime also. The game starts off with a group of youths attending school, but after a while it becomes apparent that the world is slowly dieing do to a lack of mana or energy which holds the earth together. You play the character Lloyd the boy in the red coat and have to protect your ...