Further Info: "Tales of Symphonia: Knight of Ratatosk" was released for the Wii on June 26th, 2008 in Japan. It was also released under the title "Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World" on November 11th, 2008 in America. Curing items, spells, and skills can be used outside or inside of battle. In the menu, you can set the battle strategy and formation for your party, check the status for a character, and customize menu colors, sounds, buttons, battle targeting, and voices. Saving is allowed on "Save Points" throughout dungeons, cities, and houses; and on the World Map.
Story Info: As a direct sequel to Tales of Symphonia, the game takes place two years after the events of Tales of Symphonia.
Characters:
- Emil Castagnier, voiced by Hiro Shimono in Japan, and Johnny Yong Bosch in America.
- Marta Lualdi, voiced by Rie Kugimiya in Japan, and Laura Bailey in America
- The cast of Tales of Symphonia are also playable characters in the main storyline of this game
- One can also capture and use monsters as playable characters/fighters in the game
Skill/Spell System:
- Every character has skills and artes -- Every character learns artes, which are basic special attacks, and skills, which are more advanced attacks. The two main heroes and monsters learn artes by levelling up, and the Tales of Symphonia characters level up and learn skills a bit differently.
- Unison Attacks -- The Unison Attack of this game is different than the Unison Attack system in Tales of Symphonia, and are used when certain battle conditions are in place.
Battle System Info: Although this is a sequel to Tales of Symphonia, This game finds more similarities to Tales of the Abyss' Flex Range Linear Motion Battle System, in that the player can free run.
- Use the Control Stick to move around.
- The "Attack" button itself, as well as different combination of Control Stick+Attack button, are various combinations for attack.
- The "Defend" button itself, as well as different combination of Control Stick+Defend button, are various combinations for different defensive maneuvers.
- The "Tech" button itself, as well as different combination of Control Stick+Tech button, are various combinations for skills/spells, configured in the "Tech" menu.
- The "C Button" is used for Unison Attacks.
Audio/Music: Motoi Sakuraba returns to once again produce a wonderful-sounding game. The game's theme is great, as well.
Graphics: The graphics and atmosphere in this game are very similar to Tales of the Abyss. The colors are not as splashy and colorful and happy as Tales of Fandom Vol. 1 or Tales of the World: Narikiri Dungeon 3--again, they are very similar to Tales of the Abyss. The characters from Tales of Symphonia that return in this game even seem more grown-up than in Tales of Symphonia.
Difficulty:
Replay: This game has a high level of replay value. First, the "Grade" system is back. Second, Monster' Katz Guild allows one to collect, take care of, and raise monsters at one's own will. Also, similarly to many of the "Tales of..." games, there are plenty of in-game guides/books/zukans that allow one to collect and keep track of everything in the game.
