Tales of Xillia

Tales of Xillia is a Japanese role-playing game for the PlayStation 3 released in Japan on September 9, 2011 and in North America and PAL regions on August 2013.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) The game takes place at a colorful and bright world with dynamic environments. Each exploration is split into little “breaks”.
 * 2) Good 3D graphics for a Tales of game.
 * 3) Amazing orchestral soundtrack.
 * 4) Beautiful combat system. Combat is real-time, and while you can do regular attacks by pressing the X button, you also have different magical and elemental based attacks that you can access from the menu by pressing the Square button.
 * 5) Good story. There are two protagonists you can choose from: Jude Mathis, who is a medical student, or Milla Maxwell, who is a mysterious women and the lord of spirits that takes control of four elemental powers.
 * 6) *Milla and Jude also make a cameo in Tales of Berseria.
 * 7) Lots of replay value. After beating the game with both Jude and Milla, you unlock a third route that follows both of them at once.
 * 8) No random encounters, like virtually all games in the series.
 * 9) The location in the game's setting, Rieze Maxia, are all based on real-world locations, particularly East Asia locations like China and Mongolia.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The game was rushed to meet the 15th anniversary of the Tales of series. Because of this, some features that were planned but cut for the anniversary included Gaius and Muzet being playable characters, an area similar to the Nam Cobanda Isle would've been visited, and a gameplay element similar to the secret missions from Tales of Vesperia.
 * 2) Cutscenes can be a little long at times.
 * 3) When the game came out, fans of the series were disappointed in the story, which they criticized for recycling most its plot threads from previous Tales games.
 * 4) Milla’s English voice acting can sound like a monotone.
 * 5) No option to switch to Japanese voices.