So my experience with Tales is pretty limited, I haven't finished any but when I was a kid I was pretty into Symphonia! I had the game on Gamecube (and I think only played disc 1's worth of content lmao so probably not that far) and read the manga, and between that and internet spoiler osmosis I have kind of a general idea of how things play out but I do want to go back and actually play it fully one day. I have a lot of nostalgia for the game and Sheena is my beloved, so I hope I find the time to finally start and beat it for good this time. I also played a teeny tiny bit of ToS2 with a friend and remember being hyped at the MC being voiced by Johnny Yong Bosch, but I never actually owned it myself and remember people said it wasn't as good as the first sadly. But maybe one day I'll play that too!

And of course I'm interested in more Tales too! I wanna say the main ones I'm eyeing are Vesperia, Abyss, and Berseria which I'm all anticipating pretty strongly, but hopefully assuming I enjoy those I also find the time for some other good entries in the series. I think I have both Xillias and Graces sitting around too if I remember right, but I also don't have a working PS3 rn so I'd probably have to hunt for one to play those......well, maybe one day. Tales is a series I'm really interested in getting more into but also JRPGs are long so I wouldn't be surprised if I beat one, go "wow that took forever I need a break" and then take forever to pick up another one but we'll see