The second half of the game seriously is quite frankly awful in comparison to the first half. It almost singlehandedly undermines a lot of the strengths of the first half. IMHO, I'd say that the first half of Tales of Arise is a 10/10 GOTY quality game. The second half just felt like the writers really couldn't help themselves... Really dropped the ball (Still think that Tales of Arise will win RPG of the Year.)