I love the "Tales of" series, though I wish I had a 360 so I could play Tales of Vesperia. My favorite parts were always the skits that goes on between the characters. The battle system wasn't so bad as well. It was much better in Tales of the Abyss than it was for Tales of Symphonia because of free run. It takes awhile to get used to though, but for me it seems to be mostly button mashing.