As for Pokemon, I liked them (kids have one of each, I have Pearl) but it wasn’t good enough (IMO) to crack this list.

As for Tales of the World (the PSP game), I had it in #7 of my ‘Whole Game In My Hand’ at RPGWatch … here is what I said:

“While this game starts with a bang – you get to fully customize your character from the very start, a rarity in the jRPG genre, and you actually get to make occasional choices through dialogue that have some impact on the overall flow of the game – it quickly abandons all visions of novelty and descends into being content as a very average and traditional addition to the Tales series. The story fizzles before it really starts and is replaced by a bunch of simple fetch quests that seem to have no purpose outside of allowing you to gain enough favor to meet and recruit members from other games in the Tales franchise. And that reveals the sole appeal of the game – by utilizing the same combat engine, including popular characters from the series and allowing players to customize the look and play style of the main character, Namco has made a game specifically tailored for loyal fans of the series. The problem is that it holds little to appeal to anyone outside of that specific group.”