While the story is indeed about race, it's also just as much about themes of personal identity and self-reflection as much as it is about examining one's cultural assumptions and prejudices.
It isn't overly optimistic in its portrayals of race relations and how rifts can be healed, and the nuance with which it handles the character's own personal struggles and prejudices is done in a way I found agreeable and realistic. Now for a JRPG from 2004, I think this game gets most of its stuff right. The world of Tales of Rebirth is populated by Hyuma (effectively humans) and Gajuma (effectively beast folk), and the emerging racial tension between the two groups is a major through-line of the story and its themes, particularly after the first act ends. Now it's very not obvious from that plot intro, but this is a story just as much about Tales' usual character-focused narratives as it is about race. Thus begins Veigue & Co's journey to first solve the mystery as to why the crown is abducting young girls as well and eventually to save the world. He's one day approached by a mysterious pair, Mao and Eugene, who use their own Force powers (no relation to Star Wars, which in this game's defense calls "The Force" something else in Japanese) to help free his friend only for her to be taken away just as quickly by a squad of the royal army. Tales of Rebirth follows the story of Veigue, a sullen young man who accidentally froze his childhood friend solid a year ago during a mysterious event known as Ladras' Sunset, when many such powers suddenly awakened in people across the land. It took me around 42 hours to play through the Japanese version of the game on my PSTV. The only real differences are graphical accommodations for the wide-screen PSP as well as a few new skits. Now this is a PSP game, but it's very much a port of the PS2 version via all the info I can find about it online. Taking advantage of my current Tales binge session, I finally sat down and played this through to the end, and wound up with a much more positive opinion on it than the other three times I'd bounced off of it quite so hard XP. It was also very importantly another Tales game that was never localized, which made it extra interesting for me to dive into. This is a game I bought AGES ago to bridge the completion gap of Tales games I'd finished (it was the singular one separating Tales of Symphonia from the others that I'd finished). Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner (Saturn) Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures (GC) *ġ04. Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (N64) *ĩ1. Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time (N64) *Ĩ7. Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti (Switch)Ĩ6. Atelier Meruru: The Alchemist of Arland 3 (PS3)Ĩ0. Atelier Totori: The Alchemist of Arland 2 (PS3)ħ9. Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link (Famicom)ħ5. Atelier Lilie: The Alchemist of Salburg 3 (PS2)ħ2. Magical Taruruuto Kun: FANTASTIC WORLD!! (Famicom)ħ1.
King Kong 2: Ikari No Megaton Punch (Famicom)Ħ5. Atelier Elie: The Alchemist of Salburg 2 (PS1)ĥ4. 64 Trump Collection: Alice No Wakuwaku Trump World (N64)ģ2. Doraemon 3: Nobita No Machi SOS! (N64)Ģ8. Doraemon 2: Nobita To Hikari No Shinden (N64)Ģ7. Doraemon: Nobita To Mittsu No Seireiseki (N64)Ģ5. Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (GC) *ġ9. Atelier Marie: The Alchemist of Salburg (PS1)ġ4. Atelier Viorate: The Alchemist of Gramnad 2 (PS2)ĩ. Atelier Judie: The Alchemist of Gramnad (PS2)Ħ. Atelier Rorona: The Alchemist of Arland (PS3)ģ.
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