Lmao yeah it’s hard being a JRPG fan at times. Sometimes you wanna recapture that magic of feeling like you were 12 enjoying your favorite games, but with shyt like Arise you need a traumatic brain injury to survive the dialogue.
Every now and then I go through a kick and need to play a JRPG. I go searching through PS+ or GP. I have reinstalled and started up Tales of Arise probably like 4 different times over the last couple years because I forget the specific names of the games in that series. I already played and suffered through like 10 hours of it shortly after it released, but it’s just such generic shyt that I don’t realize the mistake until I’m already installed and playing. Then I see that goofy fukk in the iron mask, I remember everything I endured in the past, and I go “….oh Christ, it’s THIS piece of shyt.” And uninstall it