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A bit into Tales of Rebirth... interesting so far, the battle system is actually pretty technical. I like this Rush Gauge feature where you essentially shift into defensive and offensive modes -- build up RG by attacking and you do more damage but also take more of it. Also lets you guard more, and the more attacks you guard brings your RG down until Guard Break. Being low on RG though is also still nice since you take less damage and artes heal you more. Also, heals come from any old arte but again as per Rush Gauge you'll heal nothing when it's high, a good deal (depending on the arte?) when it's low. Also you can actually easily manipulate your RG too to essentially switch to whichever mode as per need. The 3 tracks system ain't bad either, so it's not like I had a complete step back from 3D. One bit of frustration without being fluent in the language though is the Force Cube system which it seems kind of shifts around your character's stats priorities buuut yeah I can't make much sense of it yet unfortunately... it's complicated, but that's not necessarily bad... just difficult for my shitty nihongo skills. Following youtube battle system tutorial there seems to be an Ougi system as well - note, Hi Ougi is jp for Mystic Arte, but these seem to be more common higher level artes, not some ultimate desperation move like actual Mystic Artes. We'll see when I actually get to that, but yeah as I said pretty technical battle system it seems.

Story-wise it's certainly different... kinda I guess. First impressions on Veigue singleminded edgy jerk, not a fan of this emotional dependency with the standard Tales kind girl character... buuut as the story's moved on he's not too self-centered & stubborn to be annoying as he was in the intro. Mao's a fun kid, Eugine seems to be a pretty serious legit character which on the surface I wasn't expecting with the animalese appearance... but I guess I gotta get used this animal race being a thing. From seeing him previously through Crestoria's random R memorias I thought he'd be minor. Likewise I thought Walto looked like some blatantly evil animal mini-boss but after his introduction he's a bit more complex figure than that.

So yeah lookin' nice overall so far, you might say my expectations were low to begin with but I'm not sold on Veigue yet and I still needs some good female characters.

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