An 8.5 is pretty bad for a Tales game. Read more and find out
User Rating: 8.5 | Tales of Symphonia: Ratatosk no Kishi WII
This game does not live up the expectations that I have after playing the original ToS. A few of the things that I dislike about this game are raising monsters, somthing you must do if you have any chance of succeeding in this game, only being free to control two characters, stun in battle seems to pop up all of the time, and the fact that your main character, Emil, may quite possibly be the biggest sissy in all of video games. This game is also shorter than most RPG's; you will probably wrap things up in under 30 hours. Despite the fact that many of the new things that are introduced are terrible this game has some incredible points and the main one is the story/dialogue of the game. There is quite a bit of humor to the bonus scenes and I will admit that I laughed quite a bit. The story also kept me on the age of my seat from about the first quarter of the game on. The fact that this game has a great story gives it a little bit of a boost to make up for some of the defects, but still if have to choose between this and the original, go with the original. 
