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Recommended 127.7 hrs on record

Okay so first a little backstory.



I first got Tales of Zestria on the PS3 years ago. But around the time I got to the wind temple I stopped.



It was just a mix of me not super loving the game, having other stuff I'd rather play, and IRL taking away game time. So I ended up not progressing at all.







Then a couple months ago "Tales of Crestoria" came out and reignited my desire to play through it. But I don't even have my Ps3 hooked up anymore and I forgot a lot of the game. So I decided to just rebuy the game on steam, cheat a little bit just so I don't have to grind for hours to get to where I left off on my PS3 save, and played through the game again at a pace that could almost be called a speed run except I still took time to smell the roses so to speak.







So anyway I FINALLY FINALLY beat the game and .... I just want to say overall this was NOT my favorite Tales game. Gameplay wise the aritization was fun although came with the flaw of taking away one or two party members which often felt lacking. But the biggest issue was the equipment skill system which was an absolute pain in the ass to deal with party due to the lack of control it gave but then still expected you to strategically puts skills in certain slots to merge them together.



But another issue I was was with the game setting and lore.First of all I don't like how in this game the monsters are invisible to everyone but a select few. Previous tales games felt like fleshed out fantasy worlds with people fighting or living alongside all kinds of creatures and trying to build a civilization in a world such creatures exist in.But in Zestria? From the average person's perspective it's basically Earth except there are non scientific reasons bad ♥♥♥♥ just seems to randomly happen. To me that's just not very satisfying. I want to see a world where people acknowledge the monsters!I do appreciate the effort to do a more unique setting but to me I just was not a fan.











JUST TO BE CLEAR I DO NOT HATE ZESTRIA! If I truely hated it I wouldn't have rebought and played it on steam. But of all the tales game's I've played it's my second least favorite . My absolute least favorite being Tales of Hearts R ... I don't even know why I dislike that one so much I just felt plain bored by it.