It's a little messy, but this is my second favourite Tales game. A lot of the choices you could make in this game really tugged at my heart strings and the combat was a ton of fun with weapon swapping and multiple meters.
This game's plot starts of pretty shaky but once it gets going it'll have you saying "This game has no right being this interesting." Gameplay is surprisingly in depth and there's a lot of thought that you'll have to put into team comp and in battle decisions.
This game's plot is garbage, and the character are mid, but the gameplay is actually crazy good. Probably the best gameplay in the series. If you can stand bad plot, it's worth playing just for the gameplay alone.