JRPG, too many Tales of games in short amount of time to give a damn about, overshadowed by the new generation.
I'm currently playing the first one, and currently, I feel Tales of Grace was way better. Just judging from the few hours, Grace had a more interesting opening + plot premise, better arte & stat/title customization and of course BoA > Ayu's song. Not going to say much about the characters and story yet, but the characters from Grace showed more character from the first few hours than Xillia's characters, thus making them more entertaining even if Asbel was an ass as a kid.
A few things I do like from Xillia is the art-direction (the city/school opening at night) and expanding the store (even if it's a little flawed since it's so easy to level the store up quick). The battle system also seems a lot smoother with linking, but there's not much of a difference.
