At least that is how Symphonia seems at first, as the game’s story quickly grows in scale as the player advances through the journey of restoration.
The world can be saved by a group of younger heroes fighting against everything in their path. Now while Tales of Symphonia’s storyline sounds like the most basic set-up for a JRPG story and honestly it is a bit simplistic. Since the last Chosen failed in their journey, a girl named Colette in Iselia has been raised as the next Chosen and when she is summoned to start her journey her childhood friends Lloyd Irving and Genis Sage leave the village to help protect her on her journey.
The land of Sylvarant is slowly dying as the mana needed to grow crops and sustain life is slowly disappearing from the world and only the “Chosen One’s” journey of restoration can bring mana back to the land. Well now that Tales of Symphonia Chronicles has been released, does the original Symphonia hold up as well as we may remember?
As such, when an HD release of that game and its sequel Dawn of the New World was announced for release fans of the series were ecstatic. One such franchise that has done this is the Tales series from Namco Bandai and among the numerous titles they have released, the eleven year old Tales of Symphonia is often regarded as being the best game in the series. There are a small number of RPG franchises that can stand the test of time and consistently see popular releases over a nearly twenty year period of time.