Ah, Tales of Symphonia. Your plot might have all the depth of a puddle, but I certainly adore your characters. (Never mind that they telegraph their moves like… something really obvious. There’s Kratos’s “big secret” for example, and I keep forgetting that I’m not supposed to know about it yet because he hides it so badly. In fact, the only reason he gets away with it is because Lloyd (and most of the others, one would assume) are plot-relevant-ly oblivious.)

An introduction to ToS’s playable characters, plus some of the reasons why I love them. Contains some spoilers, but keeping its plot twists secret isn’t the game’s strongest point to begin with.

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