The music, from Tales series composer Motoi Sakuraba (who also composed the Dark Souls games, by the way), is equally as beautiful.
Tales of Arise isn’t benefitting in the same way, as while I rather like Tales I’m nowhere near a series devotee – and it is, of course, completely disconnected from the rest of the series, as is tradition.
Over the weekend, I said something to a friend which sort of crystallized my thought process around Tales of Arise, the latest entry in the 26-year-old role-playing series from Namco.
The declaration was hyperbolic, but as is often the case there’s a razor-sharp kernel of truth at the center of it.