Tales Series

Its really easy to play through it wothout knowing japanese, all you need to understand is the menu and gear and you usually get pointed to your next destination. Now if it was tales of rebirth, there's about 2-3 gaijin filters as the game literally requires you to type out simple answers in moonrunes to progress in the game.

Most of the "cringe" in Tales games is only there in the fucked up localizations.

i played tales of the abyss and literally wanted to kill myself it was so bad.
people told me "oh only the early game is cringey and then there's some really great character development later! and the other games aren't cringe at all, abyss is the worst one!" but i knew they were lying. and your OP confirms it for me. all these games are shit, i knew it.

and don't get me wrong, i'm probably the biggest weeaboo on this board at the moment. i lived in japan for a time even.
but this game is like every bad cliche from shitty Toonami animes combined in one cesspit.

by the way, as a japanese insider, let me tell you, these games are played by normalfag facebook wiggers in japan. true otaku there think it's shit.

Graces really does have great combat, and unlike a lot of other JRPGs there are bosses that will punish the shit out of you if you think you can just powerlevel and spam attacks. The story sort of goes full retard, but the characters themselves make the game really fun.

t. shit female-esque taste

I do. Weebshit is the only stuff I still play.

But what about the shitty AI that won't dodge a 2mph boar charge?