What's your go-to game when you are suffering from Burnout?

[RyuDragnier]

Playing through Star Ocean The Divine Force right now. I had been waiting for a decent Star Ocean since PS2.

It's so good, definitely one of the best games in the franchise IMO.

I've been enjoying most of this Star Ocean, just wish there was a quest journal of sorts so that you can track any of the sidequests that you started without having to take a screenshot/write it down/find a list of all of them online. Pretty sure there is a sidequest somewhere I started that I haven't finished because, well, I have no idea what ones I've actually started and I'm already pretty decently far into it.

If you're on PS4/PS5, open the map and then press Triangle. It'll bring up the quest journal there. I believe there's a tab for completed quests.

I don't know, a majority of that just sounds like nitpicks. I read about JP players getting mad about the whole Alisha/Rose thing, but I thought they were being a little dramatic. I actually liked that there were two female leads at different times. It was pretty unique to me. And I don't recall the ending feeling rushed. If anything, the anime adaption's ending needed to bake longer in the oven, not the game's.

I don't know, agree to disagree lol.

I tend to play on the hardest difficulty in Tales for the bonus exp/fol/grade, so the battle issues I saw pretty quickly as I continued through the game, and wasn't a fan of being forced to use certain characters when other Tales games let you use any party makeup you want for the most part. The Alisha/Rose thing I had issues with because they made it feel like Alisha would return at one point, but never did. Rose was just...added into the party on a whim, I feel? No real buildup to getting her to come along, and it felt odd as a result. Also, I meant rushed because after the desert area, when it felt like there was going to be more, suddenly it rushes us from there towards the final areas and ending. It was a pacing issue that felt really jarring.

Also, I found the anime a lot better in terms of pacing, characterization, and story, but the episodes with Velvet and the Berseria crew felt shoehorned in (and only left me wanting an anime for Berseria).