Anyone played Tales of Arise? Debating starting it or waiting for Skyrim on PS5.

I'm about 30 hours into it. The combat is fun when you are fighting trash mobs, but it has some of the worst bosses I've ever encountered in a Tales game. They are all HP sponges, to the point where I put the game on the lowest difficulty because I was tired of spending 10+ minutes on a boss when it shouldn't take that long. Not to mention some of the bosses are hard to see given the crappy camera angles and how small some of them are. I miss the days when Tales had a fixed angle when you fought enemies.

The presentation is by far the best in the series and it isn't close. That's part of the reason I think this game gets higher praise than it should, since it has many flaws that go unaddressed throughout the majority of the game. Music is meh. Motoi Sakuraba is much better off doing Souls games than Tales. Every one of his compositions for Tales games sounds exactly the same to me.

Lastly, the story is laughably bad. They do nothing with the villains. It feels like a monster of the week scenario. The characters are pretty standard for a Tales game if you've ever played one.

Oh, and it has the best fishing minigame in a JRPG since FFXV imo. Not as good as 15's but pretty close.

I am liking it a lot so far. Wish there were more RPG's available on the PS5