nahhhh im fat

Well, Tales of Xilla is the only Tales game I have ever played and while I did like the game to a certain extent I found the combat to be rather a case of button mashing. In fact, this game deserves the top honor of being the only RPG I have ever played that gave me RSI in that I could not play any game for over two weeks and I have not played the game since.

Still, I have the Souls series, Bloodborne and The Witcher 3 to fall back on.

BTW. I did try the demo of Tales of Berseria and the combat system seems similar to Tales of Xilla. Why put a "restricting ring" around the combat area when all open (not necessarily open world) combat RPG's don't do that? I personally find that annoying.

vesperia and abyss are standouts.

Persona games are imo more mature than most WRPGs.

Your views on Japan seem like they were taken straight out of anime. I bet you also think Japan is the best country in the world and all the women are virgins who turn bright red whenever a man talks to them.

If you want to argue that Vahn is the player perspective character, he's a very poor version of one. Good narrator characters have something significant to add to the story, for example we're getting the interpretation of events from a character who's views conflict with the main characters views and that influences how they tell the story, so we effectively get 2 versions of the same series of events (what we see happening and what the narrator sees happening,) or we get distance to see things from the perspective of someone less personally invested, or we get a main character telling their version of events which may or may not be how things actually happened. Vaan does none of these. He's a stupid stock cliche tag along with nothing interesting to say, do or contribute. He's an active detriment to the game, distracting from the actually important characters and events, and it's not even like his is an interesting side story that runs in parallel or crosses back and forth across the path of the political story because that might have been interesting, he's just a tag along.

You *can* have the young and inexperienced protagonist (Yuna, Garnet, 2/3rds of SMT protagonists, arguably Shion, Chrono, Shulk, Neku) without it being unaltered cliches that don't add anything to the story. The author (and you) have made precisely the same mistake and used it to arrive at opposite conclusions, and they're both equally wrong.

I can extend it to anime if you want, because the "young and inesperienced" archtype shows up everywhere in anime too. Reanton Thurston is an example of exactly the same type of character done right. He's young, ignorant, and wrapped up in political struggles way above his own head. He also has an actual reason to be there, a lot of input on how the plot develops, and genuine personal struggles throughout the story that have consequences to the plot, despite not being the main character of the show from the political side of the story (just like Vaan.) Vaan *could* have had a place if the story was structured differently and the politics were more of a background thing driving the personal stuff the game was actually concerned with (like Eureka 7.) Vaan *could* have had a place if he had a unique perspective and the story was focused around his unique perspective (ie the commoner caught up in a big political struggle) or he had his own story which intersected and diverged with the overarching political story at several places and they impacted each-other, wether the game followed him or the political story. As it is, he has no place, and his presnece is a detriment to the game. (as is the 2nd half of the games story where it switches from serious political story to not-kefka trying to destroy the world with magic because reasons. )

At least FF15 had RPG elements . 16 was just an action game from beginning to end.

I rather have a good action game than a bad rpg with 2 button combat

Then call it something else then FF. I got scammed with FF16. Nothing of what i expected it to be.
Even the action is bad in it, especially after the demo section where absolutely nothing happens until the very end.

FF15 isnt a great game but it has some variety at least.

What’s sad is when I watched a vid on the entire story (that wasn’t properly told in the actual game)!it was really solid and could’ve been one of the most epic stories in any FF. I think a lot of the compilation and cross-media stuff really f*cked it all up.

Pay-per-view was almost cheaper than the cost of gas and rental fee from Blockbuster. Blockbuster doesn’t exist today. Are you being sarcastic?