Well, I am currently 33 hours in Tales of the Abyss and it's the only Tales of game I've played. It is solid, I am enjoying it, it's pretty well done and has better production values than most non-FF jRPGs out there.
But nothing about it strikes me as "Wow! that's just amazing!" and yet I always get these impressions whenever I am playing a mainline FF game, be it because of the graphics, music, cutscenes or anything else.







