While I don’t agree with the move, but it’s still playable and not that big of an effect. I’m playing on normal mode without the dlc except the costume that came with standard edition. Was able to survive and only after third city did I have to grind a map or 2 for about 30 minutes coz I was sick of always lacking gald coz all used up in life bottle and cp gel. Farmed the storming beak with food buff.
Worked great and I didn have to grind anymore after that.

The artes lock behind dlc is a bummer but then again I’m just using 12 out of the many ones haha. And I don’t experiment much. Just found one set that worked for me and just stuck with it

Fairy circle , the most powerful Tales AOE healing is locked behind paywall , an exclusive pay-to-have artes of Dohalim .
It actually gets worse later when your character level up because Consumable item does not scale towards end game .

They only heal for fixed amount of HP instead of a % of your health unlike previous tales .

When you have like 8000 HP and you have only got Apple gels which heals for 400hp ?
I am right in front of the final boss now and found myself quite underleveled despite not ever escaping from combat and I have finished most of the side quests  .

Woah I’m at the final area too but I took a break to finish those monster hunts. What level you need to be to fight the final boss? Can pm me so no spoilers

the only question i have is how do I set my AI targeting the same enemy as I did?  everytime when the battle start the AI will aim another enemy and how to I cancel auto target? 

i just tested the AI targeting system. when u press L1 you will open target mode where u can switch which target u want to hit for the character u control by moving your L3 to switch target.

what u need to do is while u Press L1 , while u in target screen just press your directional button. it will switch your control character and from there u will know which target your AI is targeting and you will able to switch them to any target u wish.

I know that I want all my ai target the enemy I targeting but cannot set on the strategy menu 

this is how i set my AI who to target base on my preference..

you can see very clearly i set Law to attack other boar , while the rest is setting on the boar i want wish to attack.  i just went through strategy menu.. i don't think so strategy menu allow me to set anything on targeting.

You cannot transfer save atm , but developers have indicated the feature is coming in the future via patches .

PS5 version runs at 2 modes , native 4k uncapped and or 1620p 60 fps .
PS4 and PS4 pro runs ToA at 1080p and 1440p at uncapped frame rate , which can be problematic.

The loading time is also roughly 70% faster on PS5

I'm still early in the game but is there a way to tell or keep track  of which recipes you've already cooked?  Looks like there are 38 in total.

sadly no