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It's an extremely flawed game that could have been good, rather than an out-and-out bad game. My overall feelings on this game are that I really wanted to love it and praise it and be nice to it, yet everything nice I say about it, I have to say 'but' and include a paragraph of criticism after that.

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Some stuff was legit funny as hell, AND THATS WHAT THE TALES SERIES IS ABOUT ISN'T IT. But later on in the game, the characters started showing a sense of humour, which was great.

Heck, I couldn't help comparing this game to Shining Resonance Refrain in my head throughout. They felt uninspired, particularly because I'd played Shining Resonance Refrain before, so the whole 'knight princess, bishounen best friend, sidekick magic lady, stoic loli' thing was already done for me. The cast themselves are likeable but among the weakest in the Tales series. I liked the main bromance of the game a LOT, and the heartwarming moments usually landed. Some story moments were great, while others were so contrived they were robbed of their intended emotional impact simply by me trying to figure out what the fuck was going on and justifying the ass-pulls in my head. The setting is interesting, though I feel it's rather weak in comparison to Abyss and Vesperia - maybe I'm just spoiled. Now for the story! Like the rest of the game, it has ups and downs. I don't think some of the voice actors were giving it their all in emotional scenes though, but with the way the cutscenes were directed and acted out, I don't really think they could have done anything differently. The voice acting was fine, I instantly recognized some of the voices ('that's Alto from Stella Glow' when I first heard the hero open his mouth, and I just KNEW the villain was Patrick Seitz despite not following voice actors much). Also there's a weird design flaw in this game where the music doesn't change or transition when it feels like it should in cutscenes - for example, a villain character appears right in front of the heroes, yet the background music is still that calm town music. Everything is good, but I didn't hear much that stood out.

Opening song aside (seriously go listen to it it's fucking amazing), there was only one in-game track that really stuck with me. The music was something I was looking forward to because *both* Motoi Sakuraba and Go Shiina were working on it.

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Lots of the environmental objects are rendered on a PS2 of course, but mostly I felt it was fine.

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The PC port is extremely impressive, not one single stutter or technical fault in the entire game. It's just that I felt that it was so good for a time and then got dragged down by such deep flaws. But I finished it, and I didn't *hate* the gameplay. The combat, which had finally gotten good, was once again thrown out of whack by poor balancing in the endgame. The maps that I had initially loved so much because of how expansive they were and how good the environments looked, now started to feel unnecessarily huge and barren because of how you had to walk between them for like 10 minutes at a time just to get one story cutscene and then go back. It was 10 hours before I had finally unlocked enough moves to make the combat fun, and then I started loving the game again particularly after an extremely good dungeon - for exactly 5 more hours, at which point it again decided 'okay, you've had your good first impressions, now we're gonna skimp out - the rest of the dungeons will be drab as hell mazes.' Lots of backtracking that renders the fast travel option almost pointless, quite a bit of padding in the middle of the game, and a ton of recycling and PS2-era design choices that dragged down my initial positive impressions. The new combat system seemed good to start with - but it was so slow to progress, you would seldom unlock any new moves or artes, and it had a combo system where you could use any moves or artes in any order, but there could only be 4 attacks in a combo. After the honeymoon phase wears off, I started noticing stuff about it that I wasn't too sure about. The opening song is far and away the best in the series.

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60% PCZestiria makes a really good first impression, bringing Tales into the modern era - all that modern game shit, the good (huge, open maps plus motion captured, fully animated and voiced story cutscenes instead of text boxes) and the slightly bad (being unable to do anything except walk next to an NPC while exposition went on, pointless crafting systems, etc.).

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