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Alcatraz Ft. Lyrix (Prod. Crazymadeit)

Virus Ft. CASEYGREEN

3Peat (IMTHALYRIX DISS TRACK) (prod. Pendo)

Ive been playing Tales of Arise, the latest in in the long running JRPG series developed by Bandai/Namco. 

I’ve never been the hugest fan of the Tale’s series brand of action rpg combat, i played the shit out of Tales Of Symphonia on the gamecube, but after years of not playing a Tales game, i tried Tales of Vesperia in 2018. I found the systems outdated, sluggish at times, and a real bitch to play. Tales of Arise however, is quickly becoming one of my favorite JRPGs of the past 5 years, and maybe of all time. The engine has been completely rebuilt from the ground up in Unreal Engine 4 and everything has changed. The camera is now a fully controllable 3rd person perspective at all times while exploring and while in combat, so gone is the right to left movement during combat from previous Tales Games, you have free range of motion. The combat has also been reworked to be snappier, even more combo focused, and over all just a perfect blend of many typcial jrpg systems and mechanics blended with an accessible “easy to learn-hard to master” real time action focused battle system. The monster you encounter are all uniquely designed, the environments look great, the characters are all great, and the story is as well. Its apparently not one of the best Tales stories, but Ive only played Symphonia extensively before this so i have no real way of knowing. I like it quite a bit. Some of the cons of this came would definitely have to be 
1. that you cant switch characters immediately with a button press, you have to open a menu every time and it screeches combat to a halt. 

2. Theres a lot of dialogue, exposition, and cutscenes. Typical for JRPGs, but if you arent into that or used to it it will piss you off. 

3. Pacing. Again, typical JRPG stuff but the prologue is like 4-5 hours. So imagine that lol. 

4. Battles dont just happen, you go up to a group of enemies and a flash occurs snd you’re placed in an arena with your enemies. Its a little jarring and can mess up the flow of exploration. 

5. The exploration itself. The game is relatively linear, harkening back to a time before JRPGs like Final Fantasy 15 and Nino Kuni 2 were the big popular games of the genre. Its again, typical for the genre- but Think games like Kingdom Hearts 3 or Final Fantasy 7 remake, or Persona 5. Youre given big environments to explore with alot of pockets and alternate routes, but generally the way you traverse them is linear, and the way youll be making your way though them during the story is very linear as well. Which- in an era of Breath of the Wild, The Witcher 3 or massive, barren, copy paste monstrosities like Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla might turn off some western gamers. 


Overall, i give this game a 9/10 its closer to a 10 than it is an 8.

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Double Feature (Ft. Kujo Boovs)

mixed and mastered by ZeroPointOne entirely.

Caving In (PROD. Kenneth English)

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ZeroPointOne - LOSERS! (FT. William Albatross) (PROD. ZeroPointOne)

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