Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition Review

July 30, 2023

Platform: Xbox One
Review Score: 10/10

Tales of Vesperia is one of the most entertaining JRPGs I've ever played, and the Definitive Edition is the best way to play it. The game has full voice acting and quality writing, making for hours of great interactions between all of the main characters/party members. In particular, the main protagonist Yuri Lowell is incredibly interesting and charismatic, and has been banned from official Tales popularity polls because of how many people like him as a character. I also found Raven to be very entertaining. The plot of Tales of Vesperia has many twists and is an interesting story. The gameplay is standard action-JRPG fare, with battles taking place in the series' trademark battle system. The soundtrack is also good, written by longtime Tales series composer Motoi Sakuraba.