Tales Of The Abyss (First Impressions)

Well its time for something different. Don"t jump to conclusions just yet this blog is still about Gundam but from time to time I do plan on talking about games so expect that in the mix of the Gundam posts. So I started Tales Of The Abyss which is my first game in the Tales series and its an action RPG with controls like Super Smash Brothers and did i mention that the series has co-op. Well its time to talk about the story you know sometimes the deal breaker for an RPG. So we are living on a planet called Auldrant you know the name of the planet that got blown up in Star Wars: A New Hope, and our protagonist name is Luke Fon Fabre who is son of a duke of the kingdom Kimlasca and Luke's Uncle is king. Luke suffers from amnesia (oh boy) because from an early age he was kidnapped by a rival kingdom and it traumatized him and his father will not allow Luke to venture out of the kingdom and this makes Luke a annoying asshole (so annoying that Tidus from Final Fantasy 10 will tell him to stfu) through out the begging of the game. One day during training with his master Van a mysterious girl named Tear (she looks like C.C. from Code Geass) and fights Van then Luke starts fighting Tear and a weird flash of light transports Luke and Tear to a forest and now they are forced to work together. Now I am going to stop here cause i don't want to ruin the rest of the story and the point that I'm at is 4 hours beyond this point i think i covered the basics. I said that Luke is annoying as all hell and it gets on your nerves and most cut scenes follow a pattern somebody says something to Luke and Luke starts flipping out and Tear just tells him to shut up that's pretty much it for some cut scenes. The game play is great I love Super Smash Brothers and this control scheme plays well and its sometimes not mashing the B button but to chain in combos and getting into different element fields and to press the B button to unleash a even more powerful Attack. I can say that this is a good RPG the game play is great the story seems cliche at times and Luke is annoying but I bet when I play more and more Luke will grow on me. This is all I can say for right now i am 4 hours in the game and i might do a final thoughts when i complete the game but until then bye.