a great game for those who played the original tales of symphonia but i cant really recommend it to those who haven't
User Rating: 8.5 | Tales of Symphonia: Ratatosk no Kishi WII
The game has tons of stuff symphonia fans will recognize and love.. but if you have never played the first one you wont get a lot of the humor and fun in all the cutscenes and skits in the game.... i loved the game but then i thought, if i hadn't ever played the first one... i think i would have hated it.. i mean the combat is wonderfull and if your the kinda person that doesn't pay attention to the drama in games you will love it... but so much of the games enjoyment relies on weather you expierianced the last game or not... the first game is definitely better.. and i think some people who did play the first one may be disspointed as well.. the game is pretty short for what it is... the world is no longer explorible which takes a lot from the fun in my opinion.. the first game had tons of secrets.. this one has hardly any.. the old characters voices mostly chaged although i think they did a decent job... and i like the old graphics better... some of the characters just look odd with these new ones..
in gamespots review they talked a lot of crap about the cutscenes and voice acting but i enjoyed both... i think their funny and the voice acting is pretty well done... the only thing that sucks is when you die on a boss you have to go through the cutscene before it again but that shouldn't happen often the game is fairly easy... i think through the whole game i only died 2 times and both those times were on the final boss due to my buddy AI peeps being dumb..... if your a tales fan for the combat this game would be great for you
you can get enemies pretty high up in the air in battle and i found it pretty fun
thats all i have to say
but if you have a wii i suggest you find tales of symphonia on the gamecube and play that first if you havn't already... even if your not interested in this game because you cant go wrong with the first game 
