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Completed Tales of Vesperia last night. not sure if some of the lore elements that were mentioned like the Black Hope Massacre and Aifread's involvement with The Great War and the Union are mentioned in the anime (more so given who Aifread ended up being) but aside from a very weak moment leading up to the climax of act 2 story was still good
combat is clunky so best for people to play this before Tales of Graces and Xillia given the original was released on 360 and it's more akin to Symphonia's system
am curious about the worlds in Tales of the Abyss and Tales of Destiny as it appears in some form or another Spirits, particularly the Great Spirits, are an inedible progression towards given there's been 2 worlds which evolved to have them and all the rest excluding Abyss and Destiny have them. wouldn't be surprised if the Swordians and the Sephiroth Trees are proto Spirits that will evolve into proper Spirits