History YMMV / TalesOfVesperia

** Blah blah blah. '''''TIDAL WAVE!''''' Take Rita, Meteor Storm/Tidal Wave, over limit, a few skills, and you have yourself the infinite combo and tons of Grade. Spend it in [[NewGamePlus the Grade shop]] on your next playthrough and bam, you're on the easy road to level 200.

* ShipTease: It seems like there are ships all over the place in this game. Yuri/Flynn, Yuri/Estelle, Yuri/Judith, Yuri/Rita, Estelle/Flynn, Estelle/Rita, Rita/Raven, Judith/Raven, Karol/Nan (not to mention one-sided ship-teasing with Karol/Judith), Don Whitehorse/Belius, Duke/Elucifer. If you can think it up, you can probably rustle up 'evidence' of the ship tease within the game. I even read someone try to suggest there was ship teasing of [[{{Squick}} Estelle/Repede]] in the game.

* SuperlativeDubbing - When you have TroyBaker as you male lead, you know things can't go too wrong.
* TearJerker - [[spoiler:Everything involving Alexei controlling Estelle's power, up to and including the [[SequentialBoss second]] fight against her, fought with just Yuri and a heartbreaking simplistic rendition of ''Ring A Bell'' playing in the background. It almost makes you feel like [[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt he's actually going to kill her]], but thankfully the result is [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming heartwarming]] instead.]]

* XenSyndrome - Part 3.

* ItsTheSameNowItSucks - A frequent criticism tossed at ''Vesperia'' was how it's too similiar to previous TalesSeries entries, particularly borrowing quite a number of elements from the last mothership game released in America, ''TalesOfTheAbyss''.

* AssPull - [[spoiler:The Elemental Spirits]] are often accused of being one. It's ultimately [[YourMileageMayVary a matter of preference]].

* ItsTheSameNowItSucks - A frequent criticism tossed at ''Vesperia'' was how it's too similiar to previous TalesSeries entries, particularly borrowing quite a number of elements from the last mothership game released in America, ''TalesOfTheAbyss''. [[YourMileageMayVary Whether or not this is awesome or terrible is up for debate.]]

* XenSyndrome - Part 3 is accused of being this, despite its numerous sidequests, but YourMileageMayVary on that.

* {{Discontinuity}} - Many fans claim this towards ''The First Strike'' movie due to its arguably odd approaches to characterization and its [[DidNotDoTheResearch many inconsistencies with the game]]. One of many examples regards Rita being knowledgeable about Aer Krenes, when in the game, she never knew what one was until the visit to Keiv Moc.

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop - It is arguable whether or not Yuri's actions are for the greater good. [[TheyPlottedAPerfectlyGoodWaste Then again, raising that debate was the whole point of the game]].

* ThatOneBoss - Gattuso the wolf in Ehmead Hill was an extremely tough boss in the demo that turned off many people from the game. Developers claimed that the difficulty was turned up for the demo. Then the game came out...and the boss ''was'' tuned down, except that doesn't matter much since you have fewer attacks and options than in the demo.

** Khroma Dragon. ARGH!!! Aerial enemy!!

* CrazyAwesome -

* FanPreferredCouple: Yuri x Judith is ''much'' more popular than Yuri x Estelle, probably because they're both {{Blood Knight}}s with a fair bit of flirting and snark between them. The large amounts of HoYay in-game have also led to [[PortmanteauCoupleName Ristelle]] and Yuri x Flynn. Rita x Raven is also fairly popular, which has just as many fans reaching for the BrainBleach given that she's underage and he's [[spoiler:technically kinda sorta ''zombified'']], and even if he wasn't, he's still way older than her.
** This seems to be reversed in Japan, where Yuri x Estelle is the most popular pairing by far and Yuri x Judith is almost nonexistent.

* InternetBackdraft - Mainly over Yuri's alledged hypocrisy, Estelle's usefulness, and the vast number of {{PS3}} extras and whether or not the 360 version was stripped down. Expect lots of FanDumb on all sides.

* {{Moe}} - Estelle and, to an extent, Rita

--> '''[[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Lee from Still Gaming]]:''' "I was so dumb (Concerning the ''Tales of'' series in general) that, by looking at the cover... I thought Yuri was a ''chick''. After all, {{Yuri}} means... [[LesYay Uh]]... ''nevermind''."

** Not that Yuri x Estelle ''doesn't'' have many fans, of course...

* {{Discontinuity}} - Many fans claim this towards ''The First Strike'' movie due to its debateably odd approaches to characterization and its [[DidNotDoTheResearch many inconsistencies with the game]]. One of many examples regards Rita being knowledgeable about Aer Krenes, when in the game, she never knew what one was until the visit to Keiv Moc.

** Still, secondary characters did recieve a lot of love.

* FanPreferredCouple: Yuri x Judith is ''much'' more popular than Yuri x Estelle, probably because they're both {{Blood Knight}}s with a fair bit of flirting and snark between them. The large amounts of HoYay in-game have also led to [[PortmanteauCoupleName Ristelle]] and Yuri x Flynn. Rita x Raven is also fairly popular, which has just as many fans reaching for the BrainBleach given that she's underage and he's [[spoiler:technically kinda sorta ''zombified'']], and even if he wasn't, he's still way older than her.

* WhatAnIdiot - Judith's actions immediately following [[spoiler:Belius' death.]] Not so much what she did, but how she responded to the party's reactions.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome - Fury Sparks.

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop - It is arguable whether or not Yuri's actions are for the greater good.

* CharacterAlignment - A big theme of this game is the {{Deconstruction}} of this trope. The game goes out of its way to point out that people [[HiddenDepths are far more complicated]] than a simple label/alignment, and that the concept of Good and Evil is entirely subjective. (Hell, even the ChaoticEvil BloodKnight Zagi gets some CharacterDevelopment.)

* {{Discontinuity}} - Many fans claim this towards ''The First Strike'' movie due to its [[DidNotDoTheResearch many inconsistencies with the game]]. One of many examples regards Rita being knowledgeable about Aer Krenes, when in the game, she never knew what one was until the visit to Keiv Moc.

** Rita, Meteor Storm/Tidal Wave, over limit, a few skills, and you have yourself the infinite combo and tons of Grade. Spend it in [[NewGamePlus the Grade shop]] on your next playthrough and bam, you're on the easy road to level 200.

** Combining Estelle's "Eternal Support" skill with her "Force Field" arte. Each use of Force Field has a chance of making her invincible. ''For the entire battle.'' Sadly removed in the {{PS3}} version, though it was a fairly cheap tactic to abuse.

** A few have mistaken Witcher (aka "Apple Head" from Yuri) as a girl.
* WhatAnIdiot - Judith's actions immediatly following [[spoiler:Belius's death.]] Not so much what she did, but how she responded to the party's reactions.