Super_Boom said:
I enjoy the series, but it hasn't really drawn me in like it used to. I've been chipping away at Xillia 1 for around a year now, but can never seem to find the motivation to keep playing. It's odd, since I loved Symphonia and Abyss so much, and I even played that Symphonia sequel/spinoff twice, and yet I can't bring myself to complete one of the more recent mainline games. Not sure if my taste in JRPGs has changed, or if I'm just getting tired of the formula of the series. Or something else. Once I beat Xillia 2, I might get Graces and Zesteria, but that depends if I'm still craving another game like this. That probably won't be a while though.
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To be fair, Xillia made a lot of changes, and honestly, I thought it sucked. It's my least favorite Tales game that I've played, and it is pretty bottom of the barrel stuff overall. I found the battle system changes annoying (link attacks and link attacks and link attacks), I wasn't a fan of the characters, I thought the story was bland with a lot of elements heavily borrowing from Symphonia, and then, like Symphonia, they had the audacity to make a sequel that was nothing but a pile of manure. Worst of all, Xillia was just boring. It wasn't interesting to play or experience. That may be its biggest crime as a game.
I give Xillia about a 5/10, and Xillia 2 more like a 3/10.
I've been interested in Zestiria for the exact reason that they based the battle system off of Graces F, and basically sidelined a lot of the changes they made in Xillia.