Retro Review: Tales of Graces F (PS3!)

It is the year of our lord 2026 and here I am writing a review for a game I played on PS3! Quick explanation: I was tinkering around with my PS3 a couple of months ago and found that because I had re-upped my PS+, I had access to my cloud saves, and I still had saves from the early 2010s!! Nice! This led to me wanting to play through a bunch of games that I enjoyed and played through back then but never got the platinum for. During that time, I wasn't super obsessed either with writing reviews for every game I play, so re-playing through them now more than a decade later also gives me a chance to write about them! And the first one up was Tales of Graces F, which I first finished back in 2013! Although Graces is the TWELFTH mainline title in the tales, that still feels insane to me because Graces is the FOURTH one I played. Before this, I last played Eternia on the PS1 (no. 3 in the series), so I skipped an entire console generations (which to be fair most of the in-between releases…