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Mild Fantasy Violence: GamerDad hacked and slashed monsters and soldiers with swords, axes, and blasts of magic, but defeated enemies just disappear and there is no blood. Mild Suggestive Themes: Some of the characters' clothing is a little on the skimpy side. Mild Language: Characters curse in both spoken voice and text. In Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology for PSP, n evil Devourer threatens to destroy the land, and it's up to you to save the day. But don't worry, you won't go at it alone. Experienced veteran role playing game characters from past games in Namco's popular Tales RPG series will join you on the fight. Begin by creating your character's appearance and skills. Select gender, hair and skin color, voice, and what clothes he or she will wear and what weapons to use. Then select a job class like Warrior, Thief, or Priest. As you play the game, you can change job classes and outfits as you see fit. Once your character enters the first town, you'll find out that it's being oppressed by evil, but you stumble upon a secret organization bent on stopping the tyranny. In order to join them and thwart the bad guys, you'll have to win favor with the leaders by doing favors and tasks for people in town. These favors and missions involve delving into dungeons and defeating monsters and finding specific items. Successful missions net you experience points, money, and items to help you out in your next quest. If you do enough favors and quests, you'll start to get noticed by high ranking members of the secret organization, who also happen to be characters from other popular Tales games. If they like you enough, they'll join your party on missions to add some extra punch in battle. Some of the characters include Luke and Tear from Tales of the Abyss, Genis and Raine from Tales of Symphonia, Stahn and Rutee from Tales of Destiny, and Senel from Tales of Legendia. The fast action battles are similar to other 3-D Tales games. Run around and attack enemies in real time. The computer controls the rest of the party, but with several ways to customize battle strategies and shortcut buttons for attacks and magic, you can get quite a bit of control yourself. Tales of the World also places heavy emphasis on robust item management. Players can mix items to make better tools and weapons, or combine food ingredients to cook up more powerful healing items. The 3-D graphics are smooth and clear, some of the best on the PSP. The only big problem with Tales of the World is a lack of an engaging story, replaced by what some would view as repetitive fetch quests. But for fans of the core gameplay of Tales RPGs, Tales of the World is a must-have.  
Violence is only mild fantasy stuff. Characters hack and slash monsters and bad guys with sharp weapons and blasts of magic, but defeated foes only disappear and there is no blood. Characters will sometimes use swear words in both spoken dialogue and text. Some of the monsters and story elements look slightly demonic in nature, which families with strong religious beliefs may not like as much. Reading skill is a must as everything is text based and manipulating items by sifting through complicated menus may discourage younger players. Tales of the World is best suited for teen gamers or older, but some preteens may be OK with the game, too.
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