Like with all other Tales Of games, I'm mostly in it for the story and it cleared it so hard. Gameplay? Ehh... I can write it off.

I absolutely love Luke and his story and all of the character's relationships with each other. It's incredibly hard to get through the beginning but their character growth is so incredibly worth it to see. It's honestly a shame that some overall negative reviews of the game might be because they couldn't handle the shit garbage of characters that the game shows you in the first 4 hours of the game and I completely understand. I wish it didn't drag it too long, but the pay off is worth it I promise. I'm just a complete sucker for characters that try to get better and that road of being a better person.

Some characters I feel like they could've written them a bit better/ fleshed it out a bit more? But eh, I'm too invested in Luke's story so I'm unfortunately biased lol

I was recommended this game from my sister who absolutely adores this game. I was told that the writing and characters are all great and she was absolutely right.

Everything about this game is so goofy but it's so charming at the same time. The voice acting is awkward, the chibi sprites are dated (still looks good imo), the cutscenes are funny looking, and even the battle mechanics are so clunky but it's so fun. The writing of the overall plot and the character's development and growth is so good and completely overshadows everything else.