Tales of Arise

agreed that playing on a higher difficulty is the way to go for sure if you're acclimated to action games at all. The combat feels fun and rewarding but if you want to get button mashy and just zone out you can. It's kind of like a lot of other ARPG battle systems, if you play Kingdom Hearts on normal and don't experiment at all, it can get really repetitive really fast, but KH2 still has one of the deepest ARPG combat systems of all time.

Also, definitely switch characters sometimes it's more fun to play this way. It's kind of like FFVIIR in that respect, if you just wanted to play as Cloud the entire time and mash buttons you could've done that, but that's clearly not how the game was intended to be played.

I feel like if you don't play Dohalim and/or Shionne especially, you're doing yourself a huge disservice. It's almost disgusting the silly shit you can pull off with Dohalim.

Yeah they're fun. I don't think they feel quite as unique individually as the characters do in FFVIIR, but it definitely feels like that's the direction they were going for moreso than previous Tales games. There's a lot of gameplay variety to be had just from controlling different party members. Still I wish there was more of an obvious incentive to switch characters like in FF7R with the ATB bar mechanic because I think that would force a lot of players into that playstyle.

It's tough. I see where you're coming from but I also see the argument for not forcing someone to switch. Like I love Dohalim and Shionne, Alphen and Law are solid, but not huge on Rinwell or Kisara. Those last two are awesome as bots though. I also feel like there's more to strings in this game so while asking FFVIIR players to switch frequently wasn't a huge deal, it'd be asking more to get great with all 6 here (solo challenges ask you to get at least ok with everyone, but it's technically optional and you can kinda brute force them with overleveling later whereas that's not practical during the campaign).

i want you to play rance 6 because i think you're imagining a completely different game to what it is. rance 6 is just Calaglia and Cysloden but its 60 hours long, the governmental spats are fully fleshed out, you watch the socio-economic impact of a nepotist government and slowly watch that government crumble as each system its instated collapses as a result of a resistance effort.

scarlet nexus has better combat than this and rance 6 has the same plot with far far far better writing. tales of arise is very fucking boring. rance 6 is a season of house of cards

My friend got me to play Sengoku Rance in college and unless Rance 6 has a distinct lack of Rance, I'm not touching that shit lol. I played Scarlet Nexus and enjoyed it (the party powers make for some great enemy design even if it's limited), but it's way, way more button mashy than this game (Brain Field is especially dumb).

lol?

the game and whole franchise is dogshit

while i do try to leave them alone, for the most part yeah, weeb gamers are the worst.

I'm glad anime is so accepted in pop culture now and people are appreciating stuff like it a lot more, but all the porn and Japanophilia is getting fucking tiresome already