History YMMV / TalesOfVesperia

** Dedecchi, the guy who stole the aque blastia. He appears only really three times in game, and then vanishes with no resolution to his plot or what he was doing. Thankfully the [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation3 PS3]] version has a small sub-event where the party finds him, and Rita Stone Blasts him before he is arrested, but due to it being optional, players can easily miss it, and the plotline never gets a resolution if you don't learn about it.

** A divide over Rita's popularity between her role in the plot and gameplay. Her fans love her [[LittleMissSnarker for her snark]] and game-breaking magic abilities, which allow her clear entire waves of enemies single-handedly. For her critics, she embodies [[InsufferableGenius every]] [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale single]] [[note]]Much of that abuse is unfairly directed at Karol — the aforementioned 12-year-old that almost never does anything to warrant this.[[/note]] [[NeverMyFault negative]] [[HairTriggerTemper tsundere]] [[DisproportionateRetribution stereotype ever.]] Some also point out how her only real role in the plot is being the party's Blastia expert making her feel more like a plot device and how she never really grows as a character, other than implied feelings towards Estelle.

* HilariousInHindsight:
** The real [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Estelle,_Duchess_of_%C3%96sterg%C3%B6tland Princess Estelle]] was born in 2012.
** The game's second and Third act have a few similarities to ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'''s ''Endwalker'' expansion, wherein a ClimaxBoss related to an empire turns out to [[spoiler: unseal an EldritchAbomination that threatens the entire world]], causing the conflict to become more about how to deal with ''that''.

* DiagnosedByTheAudience: The game very clearly states that Judith suffers from something relating to her past. To a certain extent it comes across as some level of sociopathy or PTSD. She has trouble explaining herself at times, loves combat to an unusual degree, and mentions she couldn't connect any more to her fellow Krityan's after the Great War.

* GrowingTheBeard: In terms of gameplay, this is when the series ''really'' grew into its own. The previous games in the series ''VideoGame/TalesOfInnocence'' and ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'' still do have their fans, many point out that [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny they are "showing their age" in terms of gameplay]], and this is essentially the point when games in the Tales series became ''much'' more frantic. In fact, when ''Innocence'' was remade for the Vita, it played much more closely to ''Vesperia''.

** [[BonusBoss Clint]] is an overall tough but reasonable fight, being a MightyGlacier who hits really damn hard, but is slow and has attacks with clear telegraphs to them. What makes him perhaps one of the most irritating fights in the game is his ability to use Fatal Strikes on you. Like the player, if he hits your characters enough times, he'll put a Fatal Strike circle and can automatically follow-up with a insta-kill if the AI gets a second to breath. This turns the fight into a frustrating slog of trying to hit him without having them appear, and if he lands his Mystic Arte, he ''automatically'' applies a Fatal Strike to everyone he hits, becoming an TotalPartyKill due to how wide the area of effect is. The fact he now appears in the 100 man solo arena makes it even worse, as he makes that fight nearly impossible without resorting to cheesing him.