Yes. No spoilers as i dont know anything. I only watched the opening cinematic wich was the one they showed when the game was announced for localisation. I think they are playable, but they all show up in the cinematic, i think.

weapon 39
armour 28
items 41
food vendor 25
accessories 25

Im much further than you though So I wont say where im at, but I think your higher than I was at the same time frame. 

Dont count on it. Those two are famous for hating on everything. Especially GT.

Thankfully seems like people know better than to relly on the commercial websites for JRPG reviews. I mean, the reviews for Nier still hurt. How many people missed that gem because of incompetent journalists.

Edit: colour me suprised. They didnt hate on it like they did graces. 8.6 isnt too bad from them.

Gamespot yes, gametrailers is off and on though they gave graces a what 6? but they gave Vesperia a high 8 and said it was a return to form glad they gave xillia a nice score. 

Edit: yea I loved Nier and saw the reviews after I got it and was like the fuck!!!

I think Nier's a sort of game that depends how you feel it melds together. I guess sort of like Deadly Premonition. It has a lot of interesting ideas (with Great Soundtrack), and I thought it failed at most of them, while I enjoyed Deadly Premonition. And theres lots of people that heavily dislike each game.

But I may be wrong.

Naa, I can agree with what you said. 

Oh, man. I remember the bashing that game got :(

Item - 22
Weapon - 40
Armor - 38
Accessory - 25
Food - 22

I'm nearly to Xian Du. Everyone is level ~26.

Which was largely due to very incompetent gaming "journalists" who couldn't even read the map icons that tell you where to go.

Let's look back at this.

I've never played a Tales game before