"One of the pleasant surprises though was seeing characters from previous Ar Tonelico games show up to help me out in my quest, it made the world as a whole feel a lot more cohesive.Combat started out as an interesting new take on a real time combat, until I realized it was like a weaker version of the Tales series that Namco Bandai produces, only with a character being a sort of side player who ha" . . . .