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This movie is definitely made in mind for fans of the video game considering the setting and large cast of characters whom we hardly get to know much about. But thanks to the focus on Yuri and Flynn's interactions with one another and the two setting aside personal issues with one another to deal with a threat to their kingdom, there is an engaging enough plot to draw in non-fans of the Tales series. Yuri and Flynn's conflicting thoughts on how to approach the monster issues affecting Shizotania creating some decent tension between the two childhood friends when they reunite into the same soldier unit that is reasonably fleshed out and action scenes between monsters and human soldiers are nicely animated with fluid movement, vivid colors and a good amount of visual detail on characters and settings. Beyond the plot and our two leads, there isn't much else fleshed out in the movie as it is a prequel to events from the Tales of Vesperia video game from what I've researched. While I'm normally not the biggest fan of many video game-based anime titles since they care more for promoting their source material than making a quality work, Tales of Vesperia: The First Strike offers enough of a plot to engage both fans and non-fans of the game, thus making it a decent watch.
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YESH... Does this story ever stink of a poorly written and very traditional RPG game. The only problem is that it has already been done about 100 times before, most of which were more original and creative. But hey!! This is a story based on the 'Tales of...' RPG game system and ya can't include these types of details in an animated movie. And even if ya did, it would be unnecessary confusing and meaningless to anyone not familiar with the game. What one is left with is an unfocused story of a group of soldiers burbling and muttering strange magical terms while trying to defend a city against ghostly demon animals. With about 40 minutes of storyline content stretched out and fluffed up to fill the 110 minute time slot - this title seems to be something intentionally created as a marketing ploy to generate more interest in the game. So while this series doesn't do anything for me, it must work because this is the 5th anime title released to help flog the latest (10th) game installment in what appears to be the ever popular ↗Tales_of_Vesperia game series. Just for the record, this atory is almost as bad as that lame ↗D&D movie. At least the Japanese were smart enough not to spend millions of $ on a lame movie. Well, then there was that fiasco with the ↗Astro Boy film!! Sigh. Last updated Thursday, May 02 2013. Created Tuesday, June 22 2010. | ||||||||
