So I had a moment with Tales of Berseria the other day.
I was pretty much in the last stretch of the game
-- more than capable of waltzing right into the final dungeon, at least after I
tied up some loose ends vis a vis the sidequests that opened up. I did as many of those quests as I could,
since I worked under the assumption that -- by virtue of the game taking up
much-needed memory space on the PS4 -- I might never get the chance to play it
again. As of this post, I’ve finished
the game. I didn’t do everything (like
the post-game dungeon) because I need to move on to other stuff. But I’d say 95% of the stones were turned.
In any case, one of those sidequests got a real
reaction out of me. I didn’t cry or anything,
though. It’s just that…well, I won’t go
into detail about it, because it’s a spoiler for both Berseria and (to a lesser extent) its predecessor Zestiria. But it does involve/clarify a core character’s
fate, which is just as dire as you’d expect.
Said character -- Eizen, the one who had become my favorite character -- happened to be the one I was using as an
avatar on the field at the time. So when
the cutscene finished and I regained control, I could’ve gone on to do other
stuff. Fight more daemons, search for
treasure, et cetera.
But I didn’t.