[quote name='Moxio']I should go back and finish TotA.
I dunno, I didn't like it. I felt battles were choppy, load times were horrendous (at least on the world map... takes like 8-10 sec to get back to the freakin map after a fight), and the characters weren't that great. Even Jade, the coolest character bar none, wasn't that cool.
ToS was better.[/QUOTE]
Tales of Abyss isn't that bad.I don't recall bad loading times in world map. I think your problem is comparing more to Tales of Symphonia since that game set the bar so high with it's refine game mechanics, battle system (a big leap from tales of destiny 2) and pacing of story, starts off really slow, you expect much more from this game. Most of materials are reused in this game and very few new elements were add to this game. Well, that's how i felt. It is a pretty good game, but not Tales of Symphonia good.
[quote name='motorkill']About to go and play some more Stella Deus. Im about 30hrs into it so far and really enjoying it. Hoshigami Remix on the other hand can be a real bitch sometimes. Im enjoying that one as well despite it being tough.[/QUOTE]
It seem like your really into ready-action-point battle(RAP) system since your paying Stella Deus and Hoshigami Remix. The problem with RAP it is extremely broken when you are using mages or archer. They don't have to use as much RAP since most of their attack are long range, hence reduce points spent on movement. Archers and mages will probably steal majority of exp. In Hoshigami the RAP system is more broken since you can custom fit all you characters from fighters, mages, archers or hybrid archer mage.