Props for sharing you unpopular opinion, by the way. Like I said in my reblog, I may not agree with all the specifics of the last two points, but you bring up very valid and important criticisms that I think a lot of people are ignoring. Sexism has been an issue in every Tales game to varying degrees but frankly ToB took it to another level. It's unacceptable. There were multiple times I actually cringed.

Berseria would have been fine if any of the points I brought up were just isolated one-offs by themselves, with none of the other elements present as part of the writing. It’s because everything was put together into one big sexist pie that really made me rate it so low - I won’t say where I’d actually rate the game, but it’s definitely not a Top 5 for me the way a lot of people rate it. And like I said in my list - I was rushing through the end because I was watching Zestiria’s “adaptation” ( someone had to see that mess through to the end for better or for worse ), and I knew Berseria spoilers would be rampant within it, so I skipped pretty much every side quest and focused on just the main story. And just as well that I did considering the massive massive spoiler in the final episodes that is Maotelus talking with minimal voice processing so I recognized his voice right away. I would have been really upset if I’d gone into those final episodes before I saw Berseria’s ending. So there’s probably a few skits I missed that fleshed out the rest of the party more, plus I skipped the entire optional dungeon too … not that there’s skits there that I actually want to see. Because from what I’ve heard, Berseria’s hot springs skits are … yeaaaaaaaaah … -.-



And it’s okay that we don’t agree on the specifics. Everything I say on my Tumblr are my opinions and views, and mine alone. It’s not meant to be me speaking for the fandom or for other people, so differing opinions are expected. If we agree, that’s awesome. If we don’t, that’s awesome too. But I will admit, it pains me how often I see people saying Berseria is the best written game in the series when I was choking my way through a lot of the sexist writing - I had hopes for Berseria and Velvet when it was announced, and those hopes weren’t met. Not by a long shot.

