So I've totally beaten Tales of the Abyss.
The game was... horrendously easy, with the occasional
one difficult boss here and there.
To remedy this, I've chosen to NG+ on Very Hard. Watch me flail around and try to beat the first boss!
Legretta, on both counts, was not nearly as difficult as I had heard. I had a legitimately harder time fighting Sync, even if I beat them both, and Largo, on the first try.
The final boss took two tries, and Asch took three.
Asch took three tries primarily because of his hax abilities to shrug off knockback once he hits a certain HP threshold. I had to resort to Mystic Arte-ing to take off the last 9,000 HP, provided I was able to get as far, because he kept breaking all my Rending Blasts and White Tiger Strikes.
I'm also surprised how breezily the first two forms of the final went, and how nonindicative it was of the final form.
(The party is level 62.)
He spammed Judgement. I counted. He used it ten times consecutively. He didn't bother to move. He just let another one out as soon as the last stopped. It was really frustrating.
Another horribly disappointing boss was
Took a little over a minute.
*sigh*