Gorgeous animation as expected from Sunrise (between this and Vesperia, the Tales franchise has been pure eye candy lately) and a very solid first episode.

I'm happy that they finally decided to a 26 episodes long series for Tales since that mean it will have enough time to present a solid story line without ending prematurely.

From the look of the episode, OP and preview for next episodes it looks like they will be following the game story quite closely but there is always the possiblity of them branching off into a brand new anime only storyline, while that would be interesting to see i'd personally prefer to watch the game excellent storyline unfold in gorgeous HD animation.