Beated Tales of Arise 100%
My 2 cents:
Best: The RPG experience, it is a fast Action RPG and at the beginning your fights are annoying because you are weak and clumsy, you barely can do 3 fast hits or your character is out of stamina and you need to wait a few seconds to let it regenate, same with special attacks. Your mages are slow with casting spells, like 5 seconds of standing still and any hit will stop the spell......but progressing trough the game will make you faster, let you hit more times, decrease the spell casting time, let you evade easier basically making fights look insanely fast.
Good: Graphics, a step up from the past Tales games not mindblowing but still Unreal 4 treated the franchise well.
The so so points:
- Game is linear with open fields between almost each location
- The first part of the game you are annoyed with your fights, the second part you are annoyed with long dungeonus; in face when I was in a dungeoun for 40 minutes my characters told me in the background that I am not halfway and that it is silly that the end boss not just comes to you but tires you out with having a long dungeoun betweem him and the starting point.
- Side quests are fine but was annoyed that you could not see recommended levels for the side quests making it a guess if you are underpowered or not.
- The music, did not really care about:
The bad and please get rid of those parts:
- You can only do each arena fight only once a hour, so if you fail it by accident you have to wait a hour to try again (ofcourse you could just save before it...and load but still it is dumb)..
- similar with camping discussions, you may discuss with your characters at a camping place but I did not get why sometimes I would see a skit or nothing and then later found out you can only have one disccusion each hour....(and you need to do like 6-10 for each character)
- You basically have to buy the game new because it gives you a 20Xp and 20%SP boost....basically if you don't buy your game it will take 20% longer to probably complete and you also not get the very easy difficulty.
- The game before completing the story is slow level up wise even when beating everything I leveld up slow and seems done by intention because you can buy level packs MTX... Doesn't belong in full priced games...
-Story was also meh I even skipped the story after being halfway into the game..
Score, I would have given it a 7/10 after I beated the story, but I enjoyed doing the 'after finishing the game content' so I give it a 7.5.
