Tales of Vesperia

THE GOOD:
Excellent gameplay with an incredible amount of depth and well developed, likable, characters.

THE BAD:
The story is sometimes cliched and some elements don't mesh entirely well.

SUMMARY:
Game Play:
Ever since the franchise broke into 3D, the Tales series has always had one of the most interesting and enjoyable battle systems I've seen.

For those who are unfamiliar, battles take place in a circular arena between your 4 party members and enemies. The player controls the party member of their choice and battles enemies using B to attack, A and a direction to perform a special move (called Artes) or use the right stick which functions as artes shortcuts for any character. For example, if you need to command an AI player to heal you can use the right stick for this.

Movement is handled by left and right to move towards or away from your targeted enemy, up to jump, and left trigger + motion to...