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I anticipated that game for so long..
Nearly 5 years after Tales of Berseria and it was just so mediocre.

The characters seemed to have no love at all... No fun, no joy, just a really shitty situation that made them all one dimensional and dull. No plot or anything until the last two hours of the game. Some of the last skits and side quests were cute and enjoyable but most were just tedious. There weren't any side characters that made it feel like we were active in the world. I feel like even Tales of Zestiria was superior here.

The villains didn't exist really. The world felt so empty.

The battle system was really bad, mainly because of the boss fights. The regular fights were okay, but once I got to the end dungeon where everything had like 100k HP i just wanted the game to be over. If you went on the board when the game came out half the advice was "just spam reigning slash lol". No point in trying to combo bosses, they aren't staggerable. You have the boost attacks but when you start a combo they can just auto shake out of it so it's really a waiting game.

The graphics are nice but the music is forgettable.

It's the only Tales game i didn't immediately dive into a NG+. After I cleared Hearts R I played through the whole game again. But this I think I barely started a new file before moving on.

I wanted the love the older games have. And I don't even mean back to Phantasia/Symphonia/etc. I even loved Berseria to death. But man this game I tried so hard to love but I just can't. I'm glad other people do though.

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