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My guess is that this game will be at least 60-75 hrs unless you rushing. Judging based on Beseria’s length.

I looked up howlongtobeat times on the two that i played and they were a lot shorter than I thought. I always felt like Tales games were long as fukk but it was saying they were on average 40 hours long.

I can’t do a dragon quest type game right now. That had to be the longest main story I’ve ever played in a game.
 

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still have no clue if im gonna cop this. It's def gonna be a photo finish impulse buy if I do.

Im craving a good rpg game but theres a lot of shyt coming out.
I would recommend against you buying this game at release. Wait for the price to fall. This is the type of game you know if you want it or not day 1. If there's any debate about buying it at all it's better to just wait.

I've been waiting and anticipating this game for years. There's no question in my mind if I'm buying it or not. Hell at 12:00AM release day I wanna be playing it.
 

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Tales games are Copy&Paste, Copy&Paste. After you've played 2 or 3 of them you'll start to notice the laziness of the developers. Not as bad as GameFreaks but still. Folks are mostly hyped for this game because of the improved graphics. But after 5 hours of playing I'm sure most people will drop this shyt and move onto something else.
 

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Tales games are Copy&Paste, Copy&Paste. After you've played 2 or 3 of them you'll start to notice the laziness of the developers. Not as bad as GameFreaks but still. Folks are mostly hyped for this game because of the improved graphics. But after 5 hours of playing I'm sure most people will drop this shyt and move onto something else.
Nah
 

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A review was posted early and pulled. Google Cache still has it.
9/10
Tales of Arise Review | TheSixthAxis

For years, the Tales series from Bandai Namco has been the absolute champion of JRPG comfort food. It’s the kind of video game series that carries so many recognisable elements and such a familiar framework through each game that you always know what to expect from them. Despite new casts of characters and minor quality of life changes in each entry, the Tales series had been using the same foundation and development engine for over a decade.

Tales of Arise is the first entry in the series since 2016 and brings the franchise into a new technical realm with the leap to Unreal Engine 4. Skepticism told me that the change of game engine and lengthy delays of the game spelled trouble, but I couldn’t have been more wrong. Tales of Arise is a fresh and groundbreaking reinvention of the franchise that was well worth the five-year wait.
 
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