The Tales of series took a nosedive in overall quality in recent years and if I had to suggest playing games of the series it would be the very good Symphonia (basically the Ocarina of Time of the Tales series), the pretty good Abyss or the again very good Tales of Vesperia, which was the last 90% rated Tales of game. The games after Vesperia are run-of-the-mill ware that had significantly less development time and funding. The latest (western) release Zestiria just reached a 72% rating on Metacritic. So, you mustn't expect AAA game productions like Final Fantasy or Xenoblade. The newest one coming in January to us will be Tales of Berseria. Together with it's prequel Tales of Zestiria it marked the series jump into semi open-world environments. They do struggle with that though as the gameworlds feel empty, barren and restricted. Again you mustn't expect detailed game worlds with lots to see and do like Final Fantasy XV, Xenoblade or to some extend the new Persona 5.
Ah...thinking about the Tales of series makes me kinda sad.
They were so great and so much fun but then faded into obscurity. Microsoft back then even paid Namco millions to have Vesperia as an Xbox360 exclusive. That would never happen today. Microsoft would be like: "Tales of who? o__O"If I wanted a Tales of character in SC it would have to be either Kratos, Lloyd or Sheena of Symphonia or Yuri or Judith of Vesperia. I'd vote for Judith, since she has cool fighting style, a great personality...and boobs, lol.
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