Tales of Symphonia is a great game, just the pre-intro blew me away. The graphics are good for the Game Cube that is, the voice acting is not as favorable, but it is better than others. Intersting story as well, aswell as some homour there and now, overall this a great game that you must play.
Some what spoilers
The main goal of the game is guide the Chosen to break all the seals so she may bring about the regeneration of the world. Now there are some people that want to stop that, those are the Desians, which are half elves, now thing is that there appears to be two diffrent type of Desians, because if you pay attention through the game you see that the leader of one of the Desians says "Oh so they must be after it too" leading to belive that they are infact two or perhaps more types of Desians the ones that are trying to stop the regeneration of the world. Okay so far I have come to belive that the main group of Desians are trying to stop the Regeneration of the world and the other group is trying to get the Exsphere from the main character, now Exspheres are a type of stone that incresse the power of attacts aswell as adding new special attacks. The group of Desians that wants the Expshere that the main character holds is because he holds a ratehr special one that they even murdered his mom to get after that he was found and raised by a Dawrf, the name of that character is Loyd. Now the Chosen one that is to bring about the Regenartion of the world is named Collete, she was raised by a human, but she is actually a of the angels, those are the main two characters in the story, there are infact more.
Just keep in mind that the names might be a little bit off because I can not keep track of there names all that well. I know that this may have been a bit confusing, but nothing I can do about. Just remember to play this great two disc game series.