Review: Tales of Arise

It's a shame the series focus seems to be changing with this title. It still looks excellent but sounds like it's a tad boring maybe?

I wish for more Vesperia, Symphonia, Xillia style Tales games

Sandy Wilson said:
It's a shame the series focus seems to be changing with this title. It still looks excellent but sounds like it's a tad boring maybe?

I wish for more Vesperia, Symphonia, Xillia style Tales games

It is a very unique game to look at in the context of its predessors, if it was just a stand alone itd be a fun (light) JRPG romp.  But it comes from a pretty heavy JRPG background that is very obvivously missing as you play.  It also has pacing issues too, the first world took like 15 hours to get out of, and while the initial story was cool, it drug on without much happening for too long.

Dragon0085 said:

Sandy Wilson said:
It's a shame the series focus seems to be changing with this title. It still looks excellent but sounds like it's a tad boring maybe?

I wish for more Vesperia, Symphonia, Xillia style Tales games

It is a very unique game to look at in the context of its predessors, if it was just a stand alone itd be a fun (light) JRPG romp.  But it comes from a pretty heavy JRPG background that is very obvivously missing as you play.  It also has pacing issues too, the first world took like 15 hours to get out of, and while the initial story was cool, it drug on without much happening for too long.

I'm hoping the gameplay style can be refined lots if they want to stick with it Otherwise, I want traditional Tales style games. Heck even Xillia 2 which was very different was undeniably JRPG