The skill system I TOTALLY get you on. It took me like, 10 or 20 hours in to REALLY get a hang of all the game's system, especially the combat. The way they do skills in that game is just so unlike any of the other ones (especially the older ones you'd played), I can totally see why it overwhelmed you. I would defintely not recommend Graces as someone's first post-mid-2000's Tales game just because of how crazy it tries to go with things. Hearts R has some really cool ideas about how you level up your characters. It's kind of halfway between the skill systems in Graces and the Sphere Grid from FFX. If you dug Graces but it just overwhelmed you with all of the intricacies (totally understandable. I wasn't trying to call you out or anything, just trying to understand your point of view), I think you might enjoy Hearts if you have a Vita or PSTV to play it onXeogred wrote:Well when you throw it at me like that, you've got a good point... I don't recall having to think or bother with the cooking in the other games I briefly played. So maybe it's just an exclusive probably to Graces F (for me).PartridgeSenpai wrote:That's ceratinly the most unique complaint about that game I've heard, or any Tales game for that matterXeogred wrote:The cooking mechanics in Graces F ruined that one for me. It was so taxing after awhile having to micro manage systems in between just about every single fight. Just way too much. Still going to try out more Tales someday and hope they're simpler than that.(most of the fan issues I hear about Graces is the story or the really different combat). I think there's maybe been one out of the 5 or so Tales games I've played ever even payed attention to cooking. Like, unless you're really crazy about seeing ALL the conversations a game has, or if you're really really into min/maxing every possible situation, there's really no reason to ever worry about cooking or using it. Was there another Tales game you played where the cooking really drew you in and you were disappointed in Graces' modification of it?
It was a combination of that and constantly managing the skill system that bugged me, even though you could set it to auto and set some parameters on how the game switches around what skills the characters learn and in what order, but I kept wanting to monitor it. Yeah it was just a headache to me haha. I didn't mind the story or characters.
The others I played were Phantasia, Destiny (barely, the encounter rate was insane), and Symphonia.
