Tales of Symphonia: Difference between revisions

'''''Tales of Symphonia''''' is a 2003 video game, the fifth game in Namco's famous ''[[Tales (series)]]'', and the third to ever be released outside of Japan; [[No Export for You|first in Europe]]. It stands as the top selling game in the entire series, and the only one to break a million copies sold due to extensive worldwide sales.

A spin-off-sequel for the game called ''[[Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World]]'' (originally titled ''Knight of Ratatosk'' in Japan) was released for the [[Wii]] in 2008.

* [[Boobs of Steel]]: Inverted. Sheena is the most well-endowed, but she's not the strongest fighter. Colette, a self-confessed "[[Pettanko|Ironing Board]]", is physically stronger and can be a better fighter. But the girl that takes the cake is [[Token Mini-MoeLoli|Presea]], who can lift logs and wield [[An Axe to Grind|Axes]] and [[Drop the Hammer|Hammers]] larger than she is, despite [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|looking like a twelve-year-old girl]].

* [[Dumb Is Good]]: Lloyd and Colette are both rather dim-witted (though Colette does better at school than Lloyd does) and seem much 'nicer' when compared to the smarter Genis, Raine and Kratos. To be fair, in Genis' case, he is pretty nice, yet for all the intellect he possesses, he's still one of the younger members of the cast, leading him to be quite [[Bratty Half-Pint|bratty at times]]. This usually doesn't sit well with his older sister, [[Stern Teacher|Raine]], as she still handles him with kid gloves by rectifying his occasional poor behavior with a slap across the head and the occasional spanking.

* [[Gainax Ending]]: Hoo boy. After defeating the final boss: {{spoiler|Lloyd remerges the worlds, and the Eternal Sword then vanishes. Then the Summon Spirits appear to tell them that the Seed and Derris Kharlan are leaving and the world is gonna quickly die of mana deprivation without them. The heroes think they're screwed without the Sword, but Lloyd needs to try to save the world anyway, and so his Exsphere reacts and he promptly ''sprouts angel wings'', of a completely different style compared to Colette's, and flies to the Seed along with Colette. When they reach the Seed, they think it's too late, but then the Eternal Sword randomly shows up again, and with its power they germinate the Seed.}}<br /><br />{{spoiler|As the Seed falls to Earth, Tabitha, the [[Artificial Human]] made as a failed attempt to create a mechanical vessel for Mithos's sister Martel, is standing in the ruins of the Tower, and the seed falls on top of her, opens up, and she's infused with a whole crapton of spirits we've never seen before, including Mithos's sister, and when Lloyd and Colette come down to earth, she introduces herself as the Goddess Martel, the Goddess that Mithos ''made up'' for his [[Path of Inspiration]]. She's made up of all those spirits, and is the new guardian of the new [[World Tree]]. She shows the heroes what the Tree will look like when it's grown (which looks like the [[Game Over]] screen), and tells them that in its current state, it will die, so they have to give it happy thoughts or something, and Lloyd has to give it a new name. Then Lloyd goes "This tree's name is- * CREDITS* }}<br /><br />The name thing is a bit of a joke. The game is a prequel to [[Tales of Phantasia]], which features a Mana Tree, inhabited by the Goddess Martel, and is set thousands of years later. The name of the tree in that? Yggdrasil, same as the mythological tree and the villain of Symphonia. They didn't say it probably to be funny and/or keep from making the connection between the games even more obvious than it already was.<br /><br />All of this makes more sense on subsequent playthroughs, if you read the text a little closer. {{spoiler|One of Mithos' reasons for what he did was that, just as Martel would absorb the Great Seed if she was revived, the Great Seed would absorb her if it was sprouted. It's just that until the end, no one really understood what that ''meant''. The other spirits that joined her were the souls of the other Chosen Ones, who had died in Martel's name while trying to fuse with her soul, their souls instead absorbed into the Great Seed; the composite spirit of Martel and the Chosen Ones became not a true goddess, but the guardian spirit of the new mana tree, who happens to be named Martel because that's the dominant spirit. Lloyd's unusual wings are most likely because of his special Angelus Exsphere, which was noted as being unique throughout the game. As for the revival of the Seed, this one is harder to see, but after he destroys Mithos' crystal, the sparkling fragments of it flow into Lloyd's Exsphere. When he and Colette are then trying everything they can to revive the Seed, that same pattern of sparkles flows out in reverse - the remnants of Mithos' spirit, [[Fridge Brilliance|seeking peace with his sister and contributing the final burst of mana that allows the Seed to revive.]]}}

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