LogFAQs > #962019634

This game had maybe a little potential but it did not reach it, and whatever was attractive or novel at the time about its very particularly anime approach to the cast has been surpassed by hundreds of JRPGs since. It is generally kinda dull but it tries sometimes before ultimately giving up.

Things start off well enough if not exactly original but then a couple hours in stuff happens and suddenly all that's basically abandoned for the next dozen hours or so in favor of "track down the summon spirits." "Track down the summon spirits" is MORE OR LESS the story low point of every Tales game I've played that had this as a plot point and the first one is not an exception but it takes up a much larger percent of the game here. There's a slight blip upward for the hour or so around Arche joining just because there's SOMETHING else going on but it doesn't last. Then things finally pick up midgame for a few hours around the time stuff starts happening in Midgard and that's kinda neat but then everything pretty much gets buried for good once you go back to the future, I don't care about Cress and Mint's moment in that one snowy town those two are like the blandest implementations of their archetypes possible at least Arche has a personality Let's Go Arche, wake me up when it's time for the ending.

In summary, this game does not fuck like a tiger, does not DWELL AMIDST THE ABOUNDING LIGHT OF HEAVEN, and would probably be improved if its backstory really did involve an ancient marsupial-themed conflict.

4/10