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Finally we got Graces F on the Steam, thank you so much for adding this game to Steam. Personally for me, Graces F is the best of all the Tales of games, story, battle system, and the characters are one of the best, so I'm really glad they add this to the Steam. So far I see, the game work perfectly on my PC, no lag at all. They also let us to pick all the bonus from the grade shop from the very beginning in this version. This is good for the veteran player that have play the game before, either to make the game more difficult, or to be able to finish the story faster. All the DLC are available too, minus the exclusive Collabo DLCs. Kind of wish they add the exclusive Collabo DLCs too in here though.

Runs fine, using very little resources, no emulator type jank or bad port nonsense.

The game itself is one of the best Tales Of, with some anime trope characters, really great writing and character interaction, a decent anime plot, tons of sidequest/farming/crafting BS to mess with, and IMO the best version of the non-aerial, not 2d-fighter-like combat, as opposed to the 2d fighter, aerial/ATG/juggle style combat from Symphonia through Xillia 2. The Graces F style is the one iterated on in Zesteria, Berseria, Arise, but IMO it still plays best (and makes the most sense) in Graces F.

It already seemed kind of old school in 2013 on the PS3, it feels very retro now.

Tales of Graces is one of the best games in the entire series.
And so far, this Remaster is about everything it needs to be. Runs well, looks well, very nice quality of life changes.
I would call this game, together with Vesperia, the high-point of the series. It was my first Tales game over ten years ago and I love it even more now.
Besides the obvious things people like about it, it also comes with a ton of charm and things you don't see much in modern entries.
Simply talking to random NPCs yields funny dialogue, sassy tutorial text(Like the Lady yapping about her life with the game interrupting her to tell you how to fast-forward dialogue), or a item/crafting system that's not too reliant on weird RNG and is actually fun to use.
The whole Item Mixer and Dualizing (which is pretty much just crafting) are wonderfully implemented into this game and give you a long-term goal to work on and try to grow stronger with.
It feels like I'm actually figuring stuff out again and am constantly rewarded for doing so.

I cannot stress enough how good some of these changes are. Replaying Vesperia (it's varying performance on PC aside), always felt like a bit of a hassle despite being one my favorite games ever, because there is so much missable stuff. Some of it very obscure even.
Now Graces has a time-limited quest marker and it really makes me wish we had waited on Vesperia Remaster longer for it to get the same treatment. But damn I'm glad Graces got it.
Only thing I'm really missing are playstation button prompts for when using a dualshock/dualsense controller. But that's not really that important.

EDIT: Added a bunch after i had a nap lol