Nice visuals. Combat is very fun. Story is mediocre at best. Not the best pacing. It's kind of a mix bag and not representative of the Tales of franchise.
Very bad story, mid characters and bad camera. Clunky combat. Open world is not exploited at all. Beautiful visuals and amazing music but everything else is bad. Noctis was butchered in the western localization to appear "more cool". Shame.
Now there are a lot of games like this but back then this was one of the first of its kind and it was very fun. Still very fun to play and visually looks nice.