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Have you played older Tales games (not Zestiria)? I haven't tried Zestiria, but I tried Berseria and I think the new combat threw me off... What's your take on the old combat (like in Vesperia/Xillia) vs the new one?

Does the combat become really good once I have more skills or something?

I played PS2 era Tales. Symponia, Symphonia 2, Abyss. Nothing between that and this.  I would say that I like Berseria combat way better than the old combat because that was mostly just mashing basic attack combos forever.  Berseria lets you chain longer attack strings, and with greater variety.

And yes, Berseria combat becomes muuuch better as you level up. It's a game where the systems don't click into place for how they're supposed to work together until you unlock all of them, and getting all the tutorials and skills takes like 15 hours.  So if your first impression was bad, I agree!  The beginning plays pretty bad.

Ah I see! Good to know! I will look into trying it again!