I don't have a ton of time to play the games I want. It's infuriating. Jobs and responsibilities get in the way. Why does life have to be so dang needy?! I want to be involved and immersed in a fantasy world while fighting giant monsters. Invading castles and taking down the big baddies. Enter: Tales Of Arise. This is the 4067th entry in the series of which I have played 0. Joking aside, I have actually NEVER played a Tales game and there have been 17 games so far. As a first timer, I had no idea what I was in for. 30 some hours in, I can say what I got was a good time. Out of all the games I currently playing (Scarlet Nexus, Final Fantasy 7, The Yakuza series, etc) Tales of Arise is consistently on my mind. After the first initial hour or so, I was a tad overwhelmed as the game has a metric ton of dialogue and stoppages. So I felt like I was getting more of a cinematic experience rather than a game. I trudged on and gave it a bit more. It started to flesh out. The gamepla