This is not an easy story to condense in this fashion, especially with so much world jargon and so many great characters. As such.. uh… well this isn’t a replacement for playing the game. Play Tales of the Abyss, it’s really good.
Side note: this kind of content is definitely not in my wheelhouse. I almost considered not releasing it but it was also a lot of work, so here it is.
Side-side note: a couple plot mcguffins might get picked up in this recap and then dropped without notice. I am aware of this, but the further I got into recapping the story the more I realized some of those mcguffins didn’t actually need to go anywhere. I probably should have cut some of them entirely but didn’t feel they hurt the pace being in there. And I’m probably the only person that will notice anyway.
Anyway, here’s some timecodes.
Act 1
00:00 – Prologue
00:49 – From Home to Homeward Bound
04:44 – Engeve
11:25 – Mercy
18:57 – Choral Castle
23:17 – Much Ado About a Disc
25:11 – Home is Where… Where?
28:10 – Support and Guidance
32:11 – Doppelgänger
37:08 – The Fate of Akzeriuth
42:03 – Through Anothers Eyes
45:16 – Change
Act 2
48:56 – Necromancer
54:50 – The Fate of St. Binah
1:00:12 – War!
1:04:31 – A True Princess
1:10:26 – Trauma
1:13:53 – A True Daughter
1:16:25 – The Core
1:20:40 – Diagnosis
1:26:30 – A Final Battle
Act 3
1:29:33 – New Beginnings and Endings
1:35:03 – Parting Ways
1:39:48 – Men and Monsters
1:43:23 – Lost Homes
1:46:20 – The Gathering Storm
1:49:48 – Impending Sacrifice
1:53:56 – The Will To Die
1:57:12 – Confronting The Truth
2:03:36 – The Finale
2:09:32 – Epilogue
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18 Comments
OMG – I need to take a holiday to watch this! 😄
Thank you, Tarks. Rather a treat. 😎
If I ever say I'm going to do one of these again somebody slap me. With this though, I'm done talking about Tales of the Abyss.
For now….
There is potential in the far off future for 1 more video about a certain piece of cut content, I just need to research it more and find out if its worth it. I think it's interesting but if there's not much there then this will be the last video. Anyway, I hope you all enjoy the vid more than I did working on it haha. 3 more vids to come this month, continuing the sort of "Variety act" that's been going on here lately.
uploaded right when i need to go to sleep, ah man lmao
I've been waiting for this after the Luke video.
I love this game so much. Awesome work.
Wow this took a lot of work 😳
TARK……… 🥺😔🙏 Thanks for helping me remember this game.
Might be a good idea to sum up the mangas, the Asch episode shows a lot about his character, that sadly, the game did a really poor job of showing, he's such a good character that you can only get to know a bit through side-quests.
Ps: I'm still gonna go through everything so I dunno if you said anything about it.
PS2: Did you try tales of destiny remake yet? After playing Abyss I highly recommend it. I was a part of the translating team and it released recently.
Thank you for this!
I admit, I haven't yet watched the whole video. While I mentioned before that I had been spoiled on Luke's development and origin, there are plenty of elements in the story I still haven't seen yet, so I watched up to the point I'm in on my playthrough as a refresher. This is a great resource!
2 hours?! I think Imma watch Freddy got fingered instead
You actually managed to recap the story of Abyss in only about two hours… Bravo.
So… Side-quest recap, when?
I kid, I kid. Take that well-deserved break after such an insane undertaking.
And seriously, well done. I know you keep saying you’re not fully satisfied with how it turned out, but honestly, this is good work. Even before accounting for how difficult this game is to summarize.
Daaaaamn dude, I can’t imagine how much work this must have been. A few minutes in, not sure if I’ll finish the vid anytime soon, but YES to revisiting classic games! Definitely an audience for it 👍🏽🔥
Thank you for this recap! I've played this game years ago and had pretty much forgotten everything in this story minus some key moments, and I hadn't owned the game since then to replay it. You can guess my surprise when I randomly thought about this game again just today, decided to look up to see if someone posted a story summary of this game to refresh my memory, and lo and behold exactly what I needed was posted only a week ago. You did a great job on this!
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love your channel very much
Van is still the best villain in the series and no one can convince me otherwise
This deserves more views
This video only having 3.8K views is a god damn crime. The algorithm has screwed you over.