something i love about tales games is that even when i don't think they're particularly good, there's almost always a cutscene or song in there that hits so hard i still come back to it
xillia 2 for instance has multiple really sick cutscene-into-boss-battle sequences that i regularly go watch or listen to the music from, zestiria has fucking Rising Up, one of the sickest mid-fight music changes i've ever heard in my life, abyss has the asch duel and to a lesser extent the scene where luke cuts his hair
and that's not even counting all the parts in the games that i actually like that i return to all the time, far more than i do for these games which don't really mean as much to me (relative to other tales games)