I have bought Shining Resonance Refrain for a 50% discount. From watching a video the battle gameplay looked very similar to the Tales of series. Since I am a fan of this series and Action RPGs in general, and unfortunately the amount of games of this genre is rather low, SRR got all my interest.
And my first impressions after two hours gameplay proved me this buy was justified. It plays similar to Tales of with slightly more complexity, for example by letting the protagonist turning into a dragon for a short time which grants him superpowers. The issue might be that higher leveled enemies turn into a solo fight because the other party members are too underleveled and will most likely die.
The characters are very well represented and likable so far. It is nice that certain answers can affect the relationship to a co-partymember. It is even cooler that a few questions are based on time which makes it kinda hard to go for the right answer. I only have seen it in Tales of Xillia 2 yet (unfortunately) and was positive surprised to see it in SRR.
That said I figured out it is an entire series. Since SRR is my first part, I would approve recommendations or discussions of the other parts like a discussion just about SRR. I am fairly sure that I am going to get stuck sometime later and going to use this thread for the one or other question.