Evaluating Internet Resources Part 2

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Christian Nutt, author of "Tales of Symphonia; Like delicious RPG candy" in the GMR magazine, reviewed the original Tales of Symphonia game for the Gamecube. This article briefly goes over the pros and cons of the original game, mentioning it has great graphics and a fantastic battle style. It also conveys that the story lacks luster but does not detract from the game as much as a plain, uninteresting story line could. The author seems to have experience with these types of games, expressing important aspects of an RPG game and relating it to the level of advancement in graphics the game has in comparison to the industry. However, this article was written a long enough ago to no longer be relevant to the current game industry today. The graphics of games now far exceeds the graphics of when the game and article were the creme de la creme of the industry.

Although the authors are comparing different versions of the Tales of Symphonia games, they have moderately the same things to say about the game. The authors describe the games as great, lovable RPG's with an uninspired, boring plot. They describe the game as great for the style of game-play and spiced up with the additional optional character dialogues. The articles mainly differ in how the information is presented to the reader. The information in the GMR magazine is for people who have not played and know nothing about the Tales of Symphonia game where as the article from IGN is fro readers who have played the original games and have interest in purchasing the re-release of the beloved game. These differences are due to the differences in when the articles were published and the game the article was based on (though there are not many differences between the two).

By: Sierra Baumann

Works Cited:
Nutt, Christian. "Tales of Symphonia ; Like Delicious RPG Candy." GMR Aug 01 2004: 94. ProQuest. Web. 16 Oct. 2014 .
Plagge, Kallie. "Tales of Symphonia Chronicles Review - IGN." IGN. IGN Entertainment, 20 Feb. 2014. Web. 09 Oct. 2014.