Beat on loan from my coworker and ended at level 50. My save file has my party as Lotta, Voight, and Mustara, all level 49 but I have no memory of who or what they are or whether I used them for the entire game. This was a very dull and tedious game. The only Tales games I have played are Phantasia and Abyss, so most of the characters did not do anything for me. In fact having all those characters from the other games was pointless because they had nothing to do with the story and were not really worth using because they were not always available and thus under leveled. The combat was clunky and awkward, the story was boring and the gameplay loop was ridiculously tedious; a single quest at a time in the same areas over and over again while having to form a party each time from scratch. And then there was the MMO style crafting system with resource nodes to be harvested with single use tools and crafting skill levels that need to be grinded. The hell with that, I ignored the crafting and barely tolerated the rest of the game. At least it was not difficult. Really seems like a minimum effort fan service cash grab of a game.

5.8/10.