What's the consensus on Tales of Vesperia? My JRPG experience is slim due to my general disdain for Anime tropes but I fell in love with the latest DQ and YS entries
It's decent, but not a must-play. Tales of Vesperia's big claim to fame is that it was the first Tales game on the 360/PS3 generation and the visuals were a noticeable step up from past games in the series. The series is generally very traditional for a JRPG except for the battle system which is Action-based, sort of like a much simpler fighting game.