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ArgyleGamer
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 Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 7:22 pm Post subject: How long did the journey last? |
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How much time as in weeks or months do you think the whole journey of Symphonia lasted?
How much time did the journey of Regeneration last?
How long were they in Tethe'alla for?
How long did it take to gather materials for Colette and make the final pact with Origin?
Considering how big the worlds of both Sylvarant and Tethe'alla were I would imagine it would take awhile just to travel from one location to another? |
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Slivius
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I have this weird memory of it taking three years in total.
I'm pretty sure it's actually stated somewhere (in an official book perhaps) that it took less than a year.
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Meowzy
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| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Slivius wrote: | | I'm pretty sure it's actually stated somewhere (in an official book perhaps) that it took less than a year. |
It must have. Dawn of the New World takes place two years later and they're two years older than when the journey began.
The main story of Tales of Graces took six months (somehow). I'm guessing ToS, while it has a significantly greater amount of traveling, took the same amount of time.
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Phaelin
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| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Meowzy wrote: | | It must have. Dawn of the New World takes place two years later and they're two years older than when the journey began. |
Didn't you know? All time stops during an adventure. Time only passes in between adventures. 
(Yes, I'm joking.)
Like all such games, I think the travel time is just hand-waved away. For example, there's one spot in the game where supposedly you need to reach a certain destination by that evening because it's the night of the full moon. This implies it takes only a few hours at most to fly a distance which if you look at the map looks like about 1/4 of the total width of the world. (Of course, it doesn't matter if you stay overnight at the inn either. And we all know that every night is a full moon in ToS...)
But then, the world itself is ridiculously small too, like virtually any RPG's world, and the cities are tiny, and the world's population is tiny... So I guess you could just say it doesn't take long to travel anywhere... |
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Slivius
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| Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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They did mention they didn't visit every town or place in the world. I still find that a lousy excuse to be honest.
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Cress Albane
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| Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 2:34 am Post subject: |
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Good question. I recall there being numerous night time scenes that took place around Iselia, near Iselia, Triet, Temple of Mana, outside Luin, Alvanista, Flanoir ( famous scene ) , Heidmall ( Colony of the Elves ) , so if I were to estimate the journey spent, I would say about 3 months or less; it all depends on the number of scenes that took place during the night.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 12:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Cress Albane wrote: | | it all depends on the number of scenes that took place during the night. |
I would not think that they showed every possible night in the game XD
Is there some book about how big Sylvarant/Tethe'alla is etc.? |
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Meowzy
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If it depends on the number of nights, then the amount of time spent in my game would be obscene. I kept going out of my way to sleep at every single inn at every possible moment during the Journey of Regeneration in hopes of activating those assassin scenes. XD
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| Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 8:06 am Post subject: |
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| ArgyleGamer wrote: | How much time as in weeks or months do you think the whole journey of Symphonia lasted?
How much time did the journey of Regeneration last? |
I'd like to think that it took them at least half a year or more.
| ArgyleGamer wrote: | | How long were they in Tethe'alla for? |
I'm assuming at least another half a year.
| ArgyleGamer wrote: | | How long did it take to gather materials for Colette and make the final pact with Origin? |
This, I figured took about a month, maybe a bit more or less. Remember that this time around, they had Rheards.
| ArgyleGamer wrote: | | Considering how big the worlds of both Sylvarant and Tethe'alla were I would imagine it would take awhile just to travel from one location to another? |
Luckily enough, we have new modes of transportation as the game becomes progressively more travel-intense. I assume that Rheards are VERY fast.
| Phaelin wrote: | | This implies it takes only a few hours at most to fly a distance which if you look at the map looks like about 1/4 of the total width of the world. |
You know, I haven't really tried this yet, but we can calculate just how fast Rheards go, and I'm sure that they'd be strikingly fast. If you really want to get technical, then look back to when the group met Sheena for the first time. When she fell into the mine shaft, Genis says the the gravity constant is 9.8, which is the exact amount it is for Earth. This would mean that Sylvarant is roughly the same size as the Earth, so we could compare the time it takes for a space shuttle to make a full orbit around the Earth to the time it takes a Rheard to do the same in ToS.
Maybe a little overly-technical and such, but it would definitely mean that the two worlds ARE huge, giving Tales of Symphonia a much more epic feel. Not to mention, that would completely confirm that 1. Rheards are insanely fast and 2. the journey HAD to have taken a really long time, especially for the segments where the group had to travel on foot or by boat. |
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Dr. Casey
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| Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 8:16 am Post subject: |
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| Tamayo wrote: | Luckily enough, we have new modes of transportation as the game becomes progressively more travel-intense. I assume that Rheards are VERY fast.
1. Rheards are insanely fast and 2. the journey HAD to have taken a really long time, especially for the segments where the group had to travel on foot or by boat. |
Poor washtubs. As soon as people get their hands on better technology, they forget all about the trusty, loyal washtubs that carried them so far. I am disappointed, Tamayo. |
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Slivius
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Say, when the group first travels too Tethe'alla, they're warped to the Renegade Base slightly below Flanoir, then lose control of their Rheiards, and crash, on mount Fuji. Halfway across the world in a matter of seconds.
I think we can conclude from this incident that either the world is really small, or rheiards are freakishly fast.
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Phaelin
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| What's funny is the Rheairds are basically glorified motorcycles that fly. They don't even have any windshields for blocking bugs. And I don't even want to think about the air temperature at those altitudes, or the wind pressure at those speeds. They must have some sort of invisible barrier protecting the rider is all I can say. |
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cethlio
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| Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2013 10:31 am Post subject: |
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Actually, when wondering about the timeline, the thing that always stumps me is how Colette's the only one with a birthday during that whole stretch.
. . . Maybe Rheairds really teleport and just give an illusion of really flying? As Phaelin mentioned, those kind of speeds are lethal. Or if it really is flying, then I'd venture to say that only people with exspheres have any hope of being able to fly them at all. But. . . just no. How would you land? It's too fast! D;
And anyone who's actually flown knows that "almost landed" is crash. |
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