Platform: PS Vita
Total Playtime: 31 Hours
So most people I know have heard of "Tales of Symphonia", a pretty popular JRPG from the Gamecube era. That game was great for its time and I beat it way back when, but that was the last "Tales of" game I played since I picked up Graces 2 years ago. Graces blew me away, and I really wasn't expecting such a great game when I picked it up on a whim for something to play. Ever since then, I have been working my way through the back catalog of Tales games, something Namco has been making a lot easier with recent re-releases. The latest one is Tales of Hearts R.
The problem with these re-releases is that the games have been getting better (for the most part) with each iteration. Going back and playing the older entries, while still fun, just makes me appreciate the more recent ones even more. Being limited to only one set of special abilities, a pretty basic story, and a comparatively small play time jump out to me as the biggest areas that are improved in future games. The play time alone was a pretty big shocker to me. For comparison, I completed Tales of Graces after about 80 hours.
Still though, combat in Tales games is always fun, even if this one was a bit on the easy side. I enjoyed my time with this game, and it passed the time very well during my flight to Japan.
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