Gameplay: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g1IxPd8Uek

What do you mean the game looks visually amazing.  The combat is very fast paced, it doesn't have rando encounters, you see the enemies and when you touch them then you enter combat.  If its like the other Tales of games then this is how the combat goes, you have your basic attack and then you have your special attacks which you can assign 4 of them at a time, you have your usual dodge and block mechanics.  There is a party system where you have 4 members of your party fighting at a time and you can play as any of them, your not constricted to one character.  There are certain attacks where you can link up with someone in your party and pull off a special attack.  Obviously I don't know much about the story, but considering the very high scores it got in Japan I can only assume it has a pretty good story.