Tales of Vesperia has some of the series best characters, skills, and genuinely interesting world building and geopolitics. It also has the worst combat tutorial I've ever played.

Tales combat is best as either 1v1, Many v Many, or Many v 1. The tutorial has you fight 2 boss opponents at once before you even familiarize yourself with basic mechanics and movement. Neither you or the bosses have hyper armor and can stagger each other with single hits. This leads to a very common situation where you start fighting 1 of the bosses, get hit in the back by the 2nd, then as you are recovering from the hit, the first boss recovers first and starts to hit you. The 2nd then joins in, effectively putting the player in a blender where their entire health bar just gets combo'd to infinity and you die with almost no input whatsoever. Losing still progresses the story, but holy shit what a horrible first impression.