Tale of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World

This is the Sequel to Tale of Symphonia and I can't do a review about it without telling things about the other game so

spoiler Alert about almost
everything in the first game

   So here is how it started. In Palmacosta the town was in fire and a war between Lloyd under the command of the church of Martel (very strange) and the Vanguard of Sylvarant. They killed many people and during the fight the Vanguard where chasing a girl with a red crystal ball and a boy in lab clothes saves her.  Then, he found his parents almost dead and was told by them to go to his aunt and uncle in a diffident town not to far called Luin. As you may guess Lloyd killed his parents (or did he not) and the town calls Lloyd, Lloyd the great or Lord Lloyd because he helped restored the town and donated the most to restore it and he is the one of the people that saved the worlds from destruction. Well the boy as we found out is Emil Castagnier and he is a wimpy boy. So that is how it started so let me tell you about the game play so it has the Flex Range Element Enchanted Linear Motion Battle System (or FREE LMBS and the game is not free) so it is different than Tos (Tale of Symphonia) one Emil has cool aerial combat because of it at the max you can hit up to 10-13 times in the air if you (if you have the skills) in the at the start he can only hit 3 times per combo. Elements also affect the battle if the battle field has a dark element Emil is stronger and heals slowly and dark magic is also stronger. You can capture monsters and use them in battle.  Some have 3 times more hp than you.  So monsters are good for holding back the things you are fighting.  Then your spell casters can cast spells.  They have very powerful affects an can do a lot of damage.  Judgment, although not a spell but a angelic skill, can send bolts of light and can hit every target.  (I said can it can miss every target also). The most important people are the healers.  Although monsters can heal you and most are as good at it.  So here are the 2 main healers Raine and Marta. Marta will be on your team almost all of the time.  Her healing spells heal one person or thing at a time.  She can deal damage using light spells and is good melee attacks. Raine is only on the team some times.  She can heal all of the party and do it really well.  In the beginning of the game you can have someone cast a water spell and when you do a attack called the Unison attack with Raine you heal all of the party to full health.  With her you can tank the fights that you have when she is in the party (that is why Emil can't use water attacks until the very end of the game.

So lets get to the numbers.


Story: 8/10
The story is good and Kratos is the game's narrator and don't forget the game has 3 different endings. One is sad another is really sad and another one is perfect (and I mean really perfect(and in Japan the really bad ending is super bad )).

game play: 8/10
The game play is different that Tos but the old tactics with Lloyd will be the same (well almost).

characters: 8/10
All of the old characters are in the game (with different voice actors :( ) except Kratos (If you played Tos you know what happened to him) and the new ones are great like the Sadistic girl Alice and her partner (aka voluntarily slave) Decus and of course the main characters Emil and Marta (wait this game story no it can't be...).

Music: 7/10
It is the remixed version of the Tos sound track.

controls: 7/10
The controls are good.

reply ability: 6/10
You can continue a game + and play on the hardest mode.

total: 7/10
It is a good game but not as good as Tos.