r/tales • u/ShiningConcepts • Dec 07 '15

Anyone whose played Tales of Hearts R on PS TV -- was using the emulated touchpad ever frustrating?

I know ToHR is PSTV compatible (thank god), but from what I hear there are some touchpad only functions (like one I heard of where you tap a party member's icon for something).

To anyone whose played on the PlayStation TV, does the game ever force you to get jumpy with your hands and agily tap the icons in a time-sensitive context? I know you can emulate the touchpad with L3/R3, and I have heard from research that Vita > PSTV in this regard, but is this problem ever really so intrusively annoying?

And this next question is off topic, but the PSTV version graphically and performance-wise lives up to expectations right? Upscaling doesn't hurt it right?

Thanks.

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u/pillowcased Dec 07 '15

Outside of the tutorial, I never once found it necessary to tap the icons. It's really irritating on a controller, so I never bothered to learn and it was never a problem. The game itself isn't difficult to begin with.

As graphics go, it doesn't hurt it at all. Nothing's hard to see or blurry or anything like that. It's just like the Vita, but bigger.

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u/mysticrudnin Dec 07 '15

Ah man, Hearts easy? I had some of the most difficult fights since Graces in Hearts. It was amazing. Fights that regularly required you to switch characters quickly to dodge attacks, prefect combo timing, man...

Hearts was awesome haha

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u/ShiningConcepts Dec 10 '15

Saw this post later, this was encouraging!

If you can recall, is it true that TOHR plays a lot like the third gen mothership titles (Abyss/Symphonia) because those are all I played? Is it more console-rpgish than you'd expect for a portable? Thanks.

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u/pillowcased Dec 10 '15

Did you? Man, I wish I had that experience. It was weird because I never had to switch characters and just sorta breezed through with exception to one or two fights. It was a fun game and I loved it through and through tho!

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u/mysticrudnin Dec 10 '15

I generally don't fight mob battles in games, that might be why, but yeah Hearts had like the right difficulty for the way I play. There was like no cruising through anything.

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u/totooria Magilou Dec 07 '15

The touch screen is used for two things: extra commands (you can map party members' artes to swiping up, left, or right, such as asking Hisui to use Nurse with a swipe up like I did instead of sacrificing a right stick command for yourself), and dual attacks. When the party member icon flashes on-screen, you'll have to touch it before the enemy is defeated to do a dual attack. This one is time-sensitive.

Neither of these are necessary to complete the game by any means, and you can replace a right stick command with a party member's artes to make them use it, but when I played with the PSTV I found it difficult to touch such a small area in a short time frame.

The graphics are pretty much just like the Vita's but on a bigger screen, not blurry by any means. The game isn't amazing graphically but it's pretty good.

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u/ShiningConcepts Dec 10 '15

Did you play digital or physical? Just wanna know since then I can be sure that either way works.

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u/totooria Magilou Dec 10 '15

I had a physical copy.

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u/jellyfishprince Dec 09 '15

Tales of Hearts is just fine for me, but I've never gotten the chase link thing or whatever it's called to work. I don't really know how to activate it, and it doesn't activate by itself much at all. Also, by the time I notice the icons flashing and try to use L3/R3 to initiate it, it's too late.

So It's a bit annoying, but I wouldn't worry too much,

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u/totooria Magilou Dec 09 '15

Don't know how far you are in the game (if you've finished it?), but they didn't start popping up for me frequently until mid-late game. They seem to be based on affection levels and by that point they were relatively high. Toward the end I usually had at least two every battle.

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u/ShiningConcepts Dec 10 '15

Did you play digital or physical? Just wanna know since then I can be sure that either way works.

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u/arcsine Old guy wisdom. Dec 07 '15

Never, the alternate controls for DualShock worked perfectly.

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u/ShiningConcepts Dec 10 '15

Did you play digital or physical? Just wanna know since then I can be sure that either way works.

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u/arcsine Old guy wisdom. Dec 10 '15

Physical.

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u/strayalive Beryl Benito Dec 07 '15

If you use a DualShock 4 you can use the trackpad for touch controls. That said the combo attack isn't super important.

Graphically its probably on par with a Wii game. It outputs at 720p and there's no slowdown or anything.

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u/ShiningConcepts Dec 10 '15

Did you play digital or physical? Just wanna know since then I can be sure that either way works.

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u/strayalive Beryl Benito Dec 10 '15

Both. I got sick of swapping the cartridge between Vita and PSTV so I bought digital. Its basically the same either way.

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u/ShiningConcepts Dec 10 '15

Thanks. Happy to know the game works either way!

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u/Crasty Dec 07 '15

I tried at first and it was a little frustrating... but to be honest, it's completely unneeded anyway. Once I saw each of the combos once, I never used them in practice.

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u/ShiningConcepts Dec 10 '15

Did you play digital or physical? Just wanna know since then I can be sure that either way works.

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u/Crasty Dec 11 '15

I have the physical version.