Surprised you haven't heard of the tales games. But yes, this an RPG. The battle system is action-oriented like Star Ocean. You should search youtube for some gameplay videos before you buy it. I personally haven't really enjoyed any Tales games lately besides Destiny, Phantasia and Legendia though. I've heard Vesperia is very good though.

Wth are you talking about Saint? This is not sonic where you can say" It should have stopped with this game and blah blah blah "



You may not have enjoyed the other Tales, but other people have, and as long as there is a market for this game, the tales studio will continue to make those games.



Personally i've enjoyed most of those games.

I wouldn't go so far as to say they should've stopped after Phantasia. I just haven't been too thrilled about the battle system once the Symphonia series came out. Legendia had the right ideas but the sounds and most of the impact during combat couldn't really be felt. The other games just felt like a watered down version of Star Ocean 3, and they really felt too button-masher-ish. Not to say you can't do some decent combos, but most of them just involve mashing a single button or skill spamming. If you've played through all of SO3 (including the latter difficulties) you know what I'm saying. I'm not gonna say the Tales games have sucked after Destiny, but they certainly need an overhaul on the battle system if they want it to really stand up to the better RPGs. Hopefully Vesperia can change my mind.

is absolutely horrible. It was probably rushed by the looks of it. Sluggish as hell and in battle slowdown 90% of the time. Also messes up the trigger timing since slow down and random speed ups. I'm currently playing the PC one and it is much better with no rare slow downs and I have all the settings turned to the max, though I am running an 8800GT. Tried playing with the keyboard and I didn't like it so much. So I went out and bought the Xbox 360 wireless receiver. Weird thing is button settings default to xbox 360 so if you playing with keyboard it still shows A B X Y LB RB and such, you can change it to keyboard though so it's not much of a problem, just don't know why its defaulted. I also heard they made improvements to the leveling system, still don't like it. Whole point is to fight monsties way higher than you to gain stats while not gaining BR. I didn't know that and practically played through the whole first disc )atleast I think that's where the first disc ended) just chaining as many monsties as possible. Now I have extremely high BR and low stats and everything is ridiculously hard now.