If your not a fan of Tales already you might have a hard time enjoying Graces F.
When i started to play this game i was disappointed really fast by the battle system, but after a few hours once i got used to it it started to be fun.
The graphic are bad, i didn't expect to have some of the best graphic on a Tales games, but not last era graphics.
Also unlike any other Tales i played before Graces F is a lot linear it will happen a lot of time you will be blocked to go through a door or changing location.
The stories is pretty bad, this along with the battle system was something i expected to be good and at the beginning during the child arc i thought it was pretty good, but once you reach farther in the game it start to be annoying how it's all friend this, friend that.
Well it's hard to explain properly without spoiling anything.
Really few npc in game you see maybe 10-20 npcs each town and they are almost all lifeless most of the time the always stay at the same place and thoses who do move are always moving in the same patern.It isn't that much different then what npc was in rpg during the nes era.
Voiceacting is pretty average nothing more to say about that.
Anyway personally i don't really hate graces F i think it's somewhat enjoyable, but that's might be because i was a fan of tales to begin with, but i'm not one of thoses blind fanboy who can't see problem where there's problem.