Sky Render on 12 February 2008
The Tales series seems to spawn the most intense love/hate relationships for games... Personally, I rate Abyss quite highly, load time issues aside. The story's good, the character development's easily the best the series has ever had, and the game's quite fun (as well as the first Tales game to employ full battlefield movement, meaning it can play more like a Star Ocean game if you want it to). I'd say you made a good purchase.
Sky Render - Sanity is for the weak.
