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[Barozi]

Machiavellian said:

Barozi said:

20 hours into Tales of Arise. Really expected the game to be better honestly.
Good graphics, nice world design and decent story. But boy the combat is so boring. Every single enemy is a big sponge and it's especially tedious in the first hours when you don't have a full team. I already decreased the difficulty to story to make the fights less long but it's still tedious, especially when fighting bosses.

Hmm, I did not have any issues in the beginning of this game on the standard difficulty.  Then again, I like trying to maximize my combos, so the fights were fun for myself.  If anything, everything was pretty easy.  Later in the game it really gets tough even with a full team because some bosses can pretty much one shot your whole party with their big attack.  You really have to work at hitting them with the right person burst in order to stop it or switch characters to maximize each member abilities.

My problem with the game is all the preaching dialogs.  Anyway, I am pretty far in the game and so far still having fun but Japanese RPGs are really not to my taste.

I'm not saying it's hard. I simply decreased the difficulty so that either enemies have less HP or I do more attack damage so the battles can be won quicker. It's still very tedious though.

In the beginning it's almost impossible to get boost strikes, especially when you're only playing as a team of two. Once you have a full team, standard battles become a lot quicker.

How far are you? I just fought the female Renan lord.