This is the best JRPG on steam.

[Enclosure]

Change my mind. So far this is a really really good game, story is fine, gameplay is awesome, voice acting is good and the graphics/performance is insane.
Top quality JRPG.

[OnlyOffensive]

i wouldnt call it best even among tales series, especially when concerns story and world building.

Depending on what you mean the best? Story - legend of heroes easily beats almost any rpg, combat is good, but again every tales games combat is interesting and someone might like other series.

Honestly, Arise is the only tales game that i get super bored playing, combat pattern is very easy, not much to master and its super linear, nothing to explore, just moving along story. Boss fights are only thing that is interesting for me.

I'd say berseria combat is top in series, combo potential there is insane, also arise hybrid fighters like shione and dohalim dont really have ways to combo magic with martial artes, thats so surprising, giving all tales games before it had it like mandatory feature. Maybe they decided to keep that feature exclusive to rinwell only idk, seems like wasted potential.

I also enjoy vesperia and even symphonia combat, but they are objectively very specific to be called best.

[xHans]

Nah, not the best but it's not a bad game. I liked Tales of Berseria, there's also the legend of heroes franchise here on here which in my opinion is better than this.

Wait until you start getting your post-nut clarity and your recency bias will fade away.

[DsynK]

Best Tales game IMO was Vesperia.

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Originally posted by DsynK:

Best Tales game IMO was Vesperia.

Tales of abyss still my fav so far.

[Id3alistic]

Tell me you haven't played many jrpgs without telling me you haven't played many jrpgs.

This game is average, with the graphics carrying it.

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Originally posted by Id3alistic:

Tell me you haven't played many jrpgs without telling me you haven't played many jrpgs.

This game is average, with the graphics carrying it.

I play jrpg's since 1999 lol. i dont think this game is average. :P

[CoffeeBro]

I almost agree with OP. I love the game.
Other games mentioned are also amazing.
Make OP's comment about any highly rated JRPG and you'll get the same responses.
So for me, totally 2 thumbs up for this game.

[Enclosure]

Originally posted by ronjsim1:

I almost agree with OP. I love the game.
Other games mentioned are also amazing.
Make OP's comment about any highly rated JRPG and you'll get the same responses.
So for me, totally 2 thumbs up for this game.

same. good game. love it.

[ThePurpleKnightmare]

This is the worst Tales of Game. Which means even if it was the best on Steam, it would actually be the 5th best on Steam, as there are 4 other Tales of Games on steam. All of which are better than this game. Just play Vesperia and see the difference.

[Nightmare]

Persona 5 royal or Persona 4 Golden?

[pristine20]

Berseria is better

[no1schmo]

Originally posted by Id3alistic:

Tell me you haven't played many jrpgs without telling me you haven't played many jrpgs.

This game is average, with the graphics carrying it.

That's...an unexpected take. You think the graphics in Arise are that great? And that said graphics are what make JRPG fans like it? I repeat; JRPG fans? That almost makes me think YOU haven't played many JRPGs, because outside of Final Fantasy, they almost never have much to brag about in terms of graphics, sometimes looking downright archaic. It's just not a thing most fans of the genre care about.

Anyway, OP, the game is not as good at the tail end as it is for the beginning and middle. But even if it was, I don't really get the point of trying to argue about which good thing was best. It's one thing to blast games that are just drastically over-rated or something, some kind of objective flaws like glaring plot holes or broken power creep, but there's too much subjectivity to try and split-hairs over this.

[Iron Maiden]

Tales of Grace I still think is the best Tales game.

[12InchParadise]

Played it for 90 minutes and refunded it.
Slow, combat is too easy, movement is meh, and story is beyond overused.

It's an OK game.

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Originally posted by 12InchParadise:

Played it for 90 minutes and refunded it.
Slow, combat is too easy, movement is meh, and story is beyond overused.

It's an OK game.

combat is too easy? rofl. play on hard mode then. You always feel like you underleveled all the time.