Tales of Phantasia: Cress Albane Arte Exhibition
Channel: Kevassa
Date: 2014-03-18

Part of the [Arte Archive] Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9MdMvrM1OgURq22L62umSgl9qXdaJg1v

Cress Albane, the face of Phantasia and pretty much the series.
As a trained swordsman and the sole playable character in the original version of Phantasia, Cress has tons of Artes. So many, in fact, that this is by far the longest individual exhibition I uploaded yet!
Of course there's the fact I went with the multi-version format, but he's still got a humongous movepool either way.

There's not much to say about Cress that's not been said before. He's got agression, defense and flashiness. The transition to PSX made his particle based attacks much less useful but improved his overall control. ToPX gave him much better Shuusouraizans as well as the related Artes, Akisazame became ridiculously powerful in this edition as well.

FVE, GBA, Mobile and iOS aren't covered because I find them slightly redundant and would make the vid unnecessarily longer (FVE is PSX but with new sprites, GBA is Kangaroo-tastic and Mobile and iOS are the epitomy of redundancy).

This'll get outdated eventually since Namco loves to port ToP and add new stuff (though never remake it again since 1998). But I think I'm very satisfied with how it looks and sounds, albeit my video editor screwing timing and minor things here or there.

Video Type: Arte Exhibition