As a European...
The first Tales game I've played was Tales of Eternia on the PSP.
I've got close to the end, but I stopped playing at some point there and after a long of time I forgot all it was about. I found it good for it's time.
The second Tales game I played was Graces F.
I finished both the main game and expansion. The combat was good, but the story was absolute trash, and the graphics looked like a Wii game. (it actually was a Wii game in Japan, but it was so buggy that Nam was forced to recall it) There was so much anime melodrama here that made me almost quit anime. (now I only watch a couple carefully selected series)
The third game I've played was Symphonia on PS3.
I've been playing it so slowly that I still haven't finished it. The story is good, but the graphics are supper dated, the world map is questionable at best (what's wrong with this Camera and lag!) and the direction is as usual cheesy anime.
I almost got berseria, but I've heard it was censored and that rised my buyer's remorse through the roof. I'm not touching stuff like these until they release a "balls to the wall" edition or someone makes an uncensor patch.
And here we are... I don't particularly like the series. It's way to anime-ish, with all the bad aspects that entrails in story, acting and direction. The combat in Graces was good, but it seems that isn't always the case. If Namco and Squer"soft" ever bothered to release their RPGs in the European continent, and I had been introduced to them from an earlier age, things would have been different. In fact, I find it suspicious that they only decided to bring their RPGs here when the region coding was abolished by Sony, as if they actively didn't want us to play them.
Having said that, I can't say no to retail "Definitive Editions". It imply's that it'll be a complete version of the product, and that it'll have all DLC on a physical format. I don't have faith that I will like it.... as with the other cases, both I and the game are to old, but still it's higher on my lists than RE2 or KH3 for the reasons above.
