Tales of Symphonia: Difference between revisions

* [[Art Evolution]]: The [[OVA]]'s started out great, but it just gets better with each one.

* [[The Atoner]]: Lloyd helps Colette partly to help atone for his part in Iselia's destruction. Later on, the party is joined by Regal, who embodies this trope. Kratos is also revealed to be one.

* [[Battle Royale With Cheese]]: When assaulting the {{spoiler|Tower of Salvation in Tethe'alla}}, every single member of your party {{spoiler|(except for Zelos, if you make him evil)}} ends up "dying" one by one... until you make it to the end and spoiler:they all pop up and inform you that they were saved.

* [[Badass]]: Kratos, Presea, and in the [[OVA|OVAs]] at least, Regal.

** Going from a later game like ''Abyss'', ''Innocence'', or ''Vesperia'' to ''Symphonia'' can be really frustrating, because Symphonia predated free run.

** In ''Symphonia'', by default, normal attacks are A (the middle/central/somewhat over-sized face button) and special abilities are B (the left face button) on the Gamecube controller. In ''Vesperia'', normal attacks are B (the right face button) and special abilities are A (the bottom face button) on the Xbox 360 controller. It helps though that both games allow you to customize your battle controls.

* [[Dark Is Edgy]]: Shadow, Pronyma.

* [[Dark Reprise]]: Zelos' and Colette's themes.

* [[Mighty Lumberjack]]: Presea Combatir is a female lumberjack. She [[Older Than They Look|looks about twelve years old]] but carries an axe bigger than some of your other party members.

* [[Mind Screw]]: Is that coffee hot or iced, Lloyd? To elaborate: {{spoiler|Lloyd is noticing Colette is acting more distant and odd, so he comes up with a mind screw in order to get her to reveal it. Lloyd offers to make coffee for Colette, and makes it hot. He only TELLS her it's iced, and she notes how cold it is after he says it. He then tells her that he lied to her and they talk about her distancing herself.}} This gets bonus points, of course, for being ''in character'' and intended, since the whole point {{spoiler|is to mind screw Colette into admitting that the angel transformation process is obliterating her humanity one step at a time and she isn't mentioning it to anyone}}.

* [[Motive Decay]]: {{spoiler|After Martel rejects Mithos, he goes from wanting to bring about (an albeit twisted and unnatural) equality to the world to wanting a world where he can live with his sister, at the cost of leaving the world to die}}.

* [[Mummies At the Dinner Table]]: {{spoiler|Presea's father's body.}}

* [[New Game+]]: The GRADE system, which allows you to purchase bonuses and even [[Self-Imposed Challenge|Self Imposed Challenges]] if you choose.

* [[No Export for You]]:

** None of the [[OVA|OVAs]] have been released outside of Japan. Fortunately, the fans have translated them.

* [[No Flow in CGI]]: Just compare the opening cinematic to actual gameplay footage.