Kor is your typical naïve protagonist that rushes into danger without thinking, Hisui is the quick to anger rival with a heart of gold, and the list goes on and on.
It goes without saying that Tales characters can often be pigeon-holed into familiar anime archetypes, though Hearts in particular puts forth less effort than usual in order to disguise it. Kor attempts to undo the spell, only to shatter her Spiria in the process, and it’s off to explore the world to pick up the pieces. It isn’t long before the witch returns to finish the job, and Kohaku is left in a sorry state. One day, he finds a young woman (Kohaku) and her brother (Hisui) washed ashore after they were attacked by the witch, Incarose. As you can see, the story has no qualms about throwing a textbook’s worth of terminology at the player, though fortunately it’s digestible without consulting any sort of glossary.Ī young man named Kor Meteor is one such Somatic-in-training who learns the art of Spiria mastery through his grandfather. When mysterious creatures dubbed Xerom mysteriously appear and feed on the Spiria of the world’s citizens, they enter a zombie-like state known as Despir, which can only be cured by Soma-wielding Somatics. Emotions take on a physical form called Spiria within people, and those with mastery of them can summon weapons called Soma. The game’s title is far more literal than you might expect, as human emotion plays a key role in nearly all aspects of the plot. As a mothership title that has yet to see the light of day in the States, I’ll gladly take it.
#TALES OF HEARTS R PS VITA PORTABLE#
The fact that it was chosen for localization is a huge surprise, considering nearly every other Sony portable release has been passed up (save for the atrocious Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology). Since then, it has been re-imagined for the PlayStation Vita hardware (hence the “R”). Tales of Hearts is the eleventh main entry into the Tales franchise and was originally released to Japanese Nintendo DS systems in 2008. And damn if it doesn’t make a solid case for it. Tales of Hearts R is the third and final localization this year, after Tales of Symphonia Chronicles and Tales of Xillia 2, and it’s priming itself to be the next must own Vita title. We’re winding down to the end of the year, and along with that, we’re at the end of the rope of Tales releases for 2014.
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