Uploaded November 2014 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQmeMnoDpaH7A9lYkF4lY5aphjLsNKjdc
So time to get this started.
Personally, I can't say I'm fond of how the weakness system works in its entirety. After initially going through the game, I felt that the game limited Leia too much in terms of combo potential, because of the lack of elemental artes. She specializes in earth and wind elemental artes. She has one water and one fire arte, but they have slow start-up on the ground, making the utility of those artes more difficult to manage. By watching a few videos, I got a few nice ideas, but I still wasn't inspired to attempt a solo. My good ol' Tales brother UnheardPhantasm gave me a pep talk and that gave me the push I needed =03(thanks brother, I really appreciate it). Took me a number of bosses(and starting the run over from scratch) to find a style to make this mostly enjoyable for me to play.
Enjoyable, but not necessarily efficient, since I will not be using Power Charge 2 or 3 for this run. Elemental Impulse or elemental weapons will cover a number of bosses for weaknesses. For those bosses that have no weaknesses, I'll fight them the Xillia 1 way. Yes, the Xillia 1 way is even more restricted than utilizing Xillia 2's weakness system, esp since bosses tend to break out in, like, 1 hit after being staggered(worse than 4/5 hits in Xillia 1), but I found myself enjoying those battles more than the ones where I beat the boss in 1 combo. Either way, the difficulty and weaknesses of the boss will determine how I approach it; might be spamming Eagle's Rage and Rending Quake, might be some intricate combo. Well, there's a lot of Eagle's Raging and Rending Quaking against these bosses regardless, but it was fun nonetheless(well, only about half the bosses =01).
Grade shop options:
2x dmg/3x crit
Increase Power Combo time
AC+1/AC+2
Rowen isn't too hard. He uses novice spells until his HP reaches halfway, then starts using mid to high tier spells after, including Tidal Wave. He's fairly predictable, but the only thing that game me some trouble was Knife Revenge when he recovers from a knockdown attack in mid-air. Once I got around that, it was smooth sailing.
Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQmeMnoDpaH7A9lYkF4lY5aphjLsNKjdc
So time to get this started.
Personally, I can't say I'm fond of how the weakness system works in its entirety. After initially going through the game, I felt that the game limited Leia too much in terms of combo potential, because of the lack of elemental artes. She specializes in earth and wind elemental artes. She has one water and one fire arte, but they have slow start-up on the ground, making the utility of those artes more difficult to manage. By watching a few videos, I got a few nice ideas, but I still wasn't inspired to attempt a solo. My good ol' Tales brother UnheardPhantasm gave me a pep talk and that gave me the push I needed =03(thanks brother, I really appreciate it). Took me a number of bosses(and starting the run over from scratch) to find a style to make this mostly enjoyable for me to play.
Enjoyable, but not necessarily efficient, since I will not be using Power Charge 2 or 3 for this run. Elemental Impulse or elemental weapons will cover a number of bosses for weaknesses. For those bosses that have no weaknesses, I'll fight them the Xillia 1 way. Yes, the Xillia 1 way is even more restricted than utilizing Xillia 2's weakness system, esp since bosses tend to break out in, like, 1 hit after being staggered(worse than 4/5 hits in Xillia 1), but I found myself enjoying those battles more than the ones where I beat the boss in 1 combo. Either way, the difficulty and weaknesses of the boss will determine how I approach it; might be spamming Eagle's Rage and Rending Quake, might be some intricate combo. Well, there's a lot of Eagle's Raging and Rending Quaking against these bosses regardless, but it was fun nonetheless(well, only about half the bosses =01).
Grade shop options:
2x dmg/3x crit
Increase Power Combo time
AC+1/AC+2
Rowen isn't too hard. He uses novice spells until his HP reaches halfway, then starts using mid to high tier spells after, including Tidal Wave. He's fairly predictable, but the only thing that game me some trouble was Knife Revenge when he recovers from a knockdown attack in mid-air. Once I got around that, it was smooth sailing.
![Tales of Berseria Demo - Weighty *itch [Party][Chaos Mode]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rG9jhmOSMX8/mqdefault.jpg "Tales of Berseria Demo - Weighty *itch [Party][Chaos Mode]
Okay, officially done gameplay-wise with this demo. Sorry, I just couldnt let that whoopin on stream go by unchecked =02. Again, just no Arte Pause and code to set the difficulty is used; all equipment, skills, etc I got from constantly farming the level.
Strategy was, charge guard, and get a CHAIN weakness going with Vels Binding Frost(hits earth/fiend) and Laphis KRay(hits demihuman). Magilou and Eizen on support with spells(Flood Wall and Stone Lance). Every 5 normals, shell summon 2 witch minions to the battlefield... as people who watched the stream know, its my loss from that point. If I see her attempting to summon, Ill just run up and attack her fast, hoping to proc her guard. Occasionally, shell get superarmor when using the summoning; can only hope everyone is attacking her at once in case my artes are resisted, to break the summoning(and if I didnt, again my loss).")
![Tales of Xillia 2: Chimeriad [failure] - Leia solo](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/sjvz2bvaHU8/mqdefault.jpg "Tales of Xillia 2: Chimeriad [failure] - Leia solo
From Gaius Chapter 2.
Successful take: http://youtu.be/1O0BnMY3SDU
Huh? Why upload a bunch of failure takes and make the winning one the backup!? Seems pretty stupid frubam...
Perhaps. Main thing was to have others understand where I truly wanted to go with this. Watching the rather straight-forward success run first would dwindle what to expect, or probably not be watched at all, lol. Plus I simply hate it )=01; its so lacking of variety or skill, and seems so cheap, it makes me sick. Knowing how it is, it kills any motivation to watch it.
In any case, it is easy to beat them if youre being efficient, but this aims to be on the stylish side, if you can call it that. Though there are numerous things that can take me out in this battle, there are three major things that are the biggest hindrance;
(a)Elemental resistance: this prevents stagger if an enemy comes upon me while Im attempting to stagger another, and use a move theyre resistant against. Happens most with Jiao and Rending Quake, but also happens with Presa and Crescent Flash regularly, which leads them running straight through the arte to attack me.
(b)Jiaos hurtbox: his vertical range is pretty high. Most enemies are normal height(Wing/Pre/Agr), so my natural style tends to stay low vs sending the enemy high. Even when catching an enemy off-guard, Jiao tends to come from behind with Wolf Strike, hitting me despite how high I am. This is also a problem since Leias hitbox expands when using certain attacks, giving him an easier area to hit.
(c)off-screen shenanigans: random Fireballs and Splashes basically. If Agria and I are on the same line, and Im in the air, unprepared, its game over.
Well, thats the biggest contenders. They cover each other pretty well, having various ranges and abilities, so many losses are attributed to them simply outwitting me, losing control of what I was doing, not paying attention, or wrongly anticipating what they were going to do.
Oh, and the HP is so low because Im at a really high level(went through entire Illusionary Darkness), and my STR is herb-boosted to break their Iron Stance easily. Having 6000HP with Iron Stance would pose little problem in dispatching these guys, but would seem cheap, since I always thought the opposite was true(i.e. me with no IS and them with it).")
