Tales of Vesperia - RPG GOTY Candidate?

[ookaze]

No need to preach to the choir.
I'm pretty convinced that for those that liked ToS and thought it was the best in the series (some prefer the Destiny line), this is the best Tales Of. I'm part of this crowd, so I don't need convincing, I was convinced the first time I heard of it.

What I'm saying is that lots of people in these threads behave like they just discovered JRPG, so cannot be trusted. Same for reviewers that people recommend, but these are the same reviewers that gave the same scores to Eternal Sonata, when to a seasoned JRPG player, it was obvious that was not the case.
And the usual suspects in these threads overhyped ES despite that, and I called it on them on purpose, so I made my mind on their advice back then, like I've made my mind on reviewers years ago.

Now, this is still a must buy, but it's no more on the level I thought it was before (it was anime like, but it was a cutscene apparently). I'll add that having no japanese voices is a no-no too, and the console isn't region free. The sole game that could make me want to buy a XB360. But now I know the european version won't have japanese voices, and even worse, may contain english voices for every languages, like ToS. Too bad!
Enjoy your good JRPG, surely I think this should be GotY candidate.
This is a high profile title, I'll see if this changes anything on my thoughts about XB360 owners demographic.
This better sell well, there will be no excuses for bad sales of this title in NA.