So I'm now $25 bux poorer and one preorder richer.
After carefully weighing my options, I've decided to pick this up in spite of not being a Tales of Fan since the most modern Tales of game I have hands on experience with is Symphonia which came out nearly a decade ago (though the most recent Tales of release I've played was that shitty GBA port of Phantasia).
Either way its a great excuse to dive back in and see how the gameplay has evolved in the last decade, and the game having an actual female lead for once is just icing on the CE's figurine (admittedly, the real reason why I am getting this; and yet, somehow, I have a feeling that this will end in disappointment and tedium, but then again, what JRPG doesn't?).