Not a fan of the Tales series? I quite like them, but I find them too long, it always takes me like 4-8 months to get through one. That is actually a disapointment, I already knew that information, and was already looking forward to playing that game a year ago.
The new one looks good but I still haven't got around to playing the first Tales of Symphonia game.
I played about six hours of a Tales of Something-or-other for the PS1 a while back, and I completely lost interest when I realized the game was an assemblage of every JRPG cliche I was aware of.