


This is Tales’ attempt to shed its label as a solid but predictable series – and for the most part, it succeeds. And so it goes in Tales of Berseria : one minute you’re enjoying the idle chatter of your rag-tag RPG party, the next you’re thrown back into a twisted tale of death, revenge, and dragon gods. We all laughed.Ĭut forward half an hour and I’m deep in an ancient temple watching a starving daemon child, half-boy, half-tree, eat his mother alive as my party looks on, helpless. The Great Choconito Gambit, one of them calls it to much amusement, insisting he was going to get rich from the scheme. Melchior takes Laphicet, while Seres remains with Arthur.I’m sitting with some friendly seaside townsfolk debating the merits of placing chocolate jelly in every toilet in the Holy Midgand Empire. Arthur, approached by Melchior Mayvin, then establishes his resolve in fully resurrecting Innominat, while Celica and their unborn child are reincarnated as two malakhim: Seres and Laphicet, respectively. This event, known as the Opening, halfway resurrects Innominat, the Empyrean of Suppression, due to the resonance possessed by the unborn child. Arthur arrives but is unable to fend off the daemons enough, causing Celica to fall into the altar, killing both herself and their child. Nine years prior to the story, on a Scarlet Night, Celica is cornered by daemons at the cape's altar near Aball, pregnant with her and Arthur's unborn son. Over time, the two fell in love and married. Celica introduces herself and has Arthur join her for dinner. Claiming that he has failed his master after a ten-year journey, Arthur states that he does not deserve to live, but Celica urges him that life is not something one has to earn and that such feelings are proof that he is alive. Years prior to the story, Celica finds an exhausted Arthur in the forest outside Aball and listens to his troubles before encouraging him to rest and eat, offering him an apple.
