Tales of the Abyss is a game I love but also think is very silly

I love the Tales series and I've been wanting to make long format, deep-dive retrospective videos about the Tales games for a long time and I'm starting with Tales of the Abyss because well, why not? It's got a lot of stuff in it that makes it a great place to talk about the series as a whole. #talesoftheabyss #tales #RPGdeepdive --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Support me here if you want to see more:   / cartroner     / cartroner   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro 03:33 What is the Tales series? 08:33 Tales of the Abyss & Luke 10:17 Game Start 12:06 Attack on the Manor 13:22 Tear 17:40 Luke's first time outside 19:14 The Order of Lorelei 20:21 Ion 22:06 Jade 25:02 The Tartarus 26:08 The Six God Generals 27:47 Luke's Problem 29:50 Guy 31:51 Tales Combat 35:12 Abyss's Combat Specifics 37:22 Running from the God Generals 39:02 The Border & Anise 41:02 Chorral Castle & Arietta 45:22 Boat Rides 54:16 Baticul 55:38 New Mission 57:56 Natalia 1:00:43 Rescuing Ion 1:02:57 Deo Pass 1:04:45 Akzeriuth 1:07:02 The Qliphoth 1:11:06 Asch 1:12:58 Act 2 & Tale Three Act Structure 1:14:19 Playing as Asch 1:16:57 Belkend 1:20:00 Luke's Haircut 1:23:11 Theodoro & The Score 1:25:59 Aramis Spring 1:30:02 Rejoining the Party & Grand Chokmah 1:33:31 Saving St. Binah 1:38:25 Preventing War 1:40:48 Lowering Chesedonia 1:43:50 The Score 1:45:39 Mohs 1:46:55 Natalia isn't the real princess 1:47:59 Van's Office 1:51:26 New Plan 1:53:50 Guy's Phobia 1:54:45 The Summit 1:57:36 Journey to the Core 1:58:44 Boss Special Attacks 2:01:40 Sync & Lorelei 2:04:19 The other Sephiroth 2:05:17 Capacity Cores 2:07:50 Side Content 2:11:18 New Game+ 2:14:24 Mt. Roneal 2:17:01 The Absorbtion Gate 2:20:02 Act 3 2:26:40 Luke in Act 3 2:30:33 Anise's Betrayal 2:32:21 Ion's Last Act 2:34:30 Dealing wit the Miasma 2:36:02 Tower of Rem 2:42:31 Natalia's Real Father 2:45:48 Closing the Planet Storm 2:50:55 Asch and Luke 2:54:58 The Asch Fight 2:57:14 Deeper into Eldrant 2:59:59 Van 3:02:54 Luke's Character Arc and Abyss's Meaning 3:08:00 Final Boss & Ending 3:11:45 Outro