Anime: Tales of Eternia The Animation

An anime which starts pretty okay but loses itself in its own plot and fails to finish.

The animationstyle is good and there's not much to criticize anywhere. The characters look good, the animation is pretty okay and there's not anything which has been done badly.
Furthermore the characters all have their own techniques. Since this is a story based on an RPG, the characters yell a spell in order to release some of their powers, but I have to admit that I like the way they've done that, without reused frames or sloppy animation.

The voices of the characters are another story though. They sometimes sound as if they're annoyed by the script they have to read from, which causes them to sound pretty uninterested at times (which might also be because of the uninteresting plot).
The OP/ED are nice, they fit the anime and they're not even bad as songs either. The rest of the music is decent. They have okay BGM, which sounds just like they came from the game, and none of them is really bad.

The story starts off pretty decent and for the first half of the show you can go along with the 'The world is in danger, let's go on a quest to rescue it'-theme, without getting too boring or silly. But after a while you start to notice that they don't progress anymore. They arrive somewhere and they don't go anywhere anymore, without too much reason and the story also fails to be the fantasy you thought to see. Although the story progresses, they don't do much with the original idea anymore, the idea which the entire quest is based on. Resulting in a tad annoyance because you wanna know how they solve it - but hey, guess what, they won't. Instead they add a lot of sillyness and semi-comedy with secondrate plotlines which was most possibly originally a subplot in the game.
The ending is basically the same as the beginning, with the only difference that they've enjoyed an adventure, but have not solved the quest they were teasing you with in the beginning.
Unfortunately the plot is also pretty easy to see through. The important revelations are easy to predict and the solutions usually aren't that great either, kinda cliche.

The characters are done well and they are okay for the first half, but after the story becomes worse and the number of characters increase, they also add a few annoying ones. The singing girl Coreena is the topmost annoying one since she doesn't have any decent value in the series except for 1 time, which feels to me as a waste of character.
You can say much about Reid and Farah, but at least they come up with a decent character and actually act like characters you don't despise. The same goes for Keel, but Coreena and Meredy often bring the series down to a very childish level on which you probably don't want to be. Eventually you start to wonder who's the kid: Coreena or Meredy.

Although the beginning of the series was pretty much okay, the later stages became a bit annoying because the story doesn't really progress and they're stuck in a sidestory. But the rewatch value goes completely down the drain at the end of the series, when it becomes clear that they won't tell the story they've been showing from the start and stick to the sidestory instead. If you didn't know that beforehand, you might find yourself majorly pissed off because they don't show what they intend to show from the start.

The two worlds Celestia and Inferia are not too good friends with eachother. Actually they are about to break out in war with each other.
As the people in the two worlds are waiting for the "grand fall" there are some people that are worried.
In Tales of Eternia you get to follow four young adventurers.
Who's got the mission to save the two worlds from the "grand fall".
On their journey they meet a lot of interesting people and a lot of things that makes their journey even more difficult.
For example the woman that has followed them since they started the journey just to kill Reid.
Or the little girl that calls herself a poet (she's not a very good one).
Follow Reid the hunterer, Keele the magician, Farah the martial artist and Meredy the cute Celestian on their extremely funny but also exciting adventures as they take of on their long journey.

** By Animenia - Remember this is my own opinions the information may be understood in different ways by different people **