For 300 years, Rena has ruled over Dahna, pillaging the planet of its resources and stripping people of their dignity and freedom. Our tale begins with two people, born on different worlds, each looking to change their fate and create a new future. Featuring a diverse cast of characters, intuitive and rewarding combat system, and a captivating story set in a lush world worth fighting for, Tales of Arise delivers a first-class JRPG experience.

There are a number of premium DLCs you can purchase to speed up the completion for this game. You can purchase a total of 40 character levels, 400k gald (money), and packs that contain artifacts that will cut down prices in shops, the materials required to craft weapons, etc. None of it is required by any means, but we're also talking somewhere in the range of 5-10 hours less grinding depending on how much you spend. Time is money, as they say. Oh, and nicely the DLC packs work for both the Xbox One and Xbox Series versions of the games independently, so you only need to purchase them once to get the benefit in both achievement lists.

I personally only bought the "Premium Traveler Pack" to get the artifact that lowers all crafting requirements. The others are nice, but in-game artifacts are available to boost SP and XP gains, and you won't be buying much from the general store, so the others are far from necessary. The "Growth Boost Pack" could be helpful in the early game as it doubles CP/XP/SP gains to make the first half of the game easier before you get the in-game artifcats later on.

Your first focus should be to complete the story, which you can do on any difficulty you'd like. There is no long term negative effects from playing on easy, though you will earn more XP/SP on higher difficulties. You will want to collect owls, artifacts, and recipes as you go, and be sure to hit the prompts to initiate skits to get them out of the way during the story, though you can knock them all out at a campfire later if you wish. Complete any subquests you can, as the extra money and SP will help for crafting weapons and leveling your characters. Also keep the requirements for unlocking the skill panels/titles in the back of your mind as well, as completing each panels give a permanent stat boost.

The game gives you a bit of leeway to miss some things for the final completion, but not a lot. You don't need 100% on the skits, recipes, skills, enemies, or crafting for instance - but still nearly 90% or more for each, so be thorough. You can mop up the remainder of anything missed in the next step. Thankfully nothing in the game is permanently missable!

Once you have completed the main story, more subquests will unlock to complete. You can now finish getting to Level 100, completing all side content, finding the rest of the collectibles, and crafting any remaining weapons. The rest of the skits will unlock doing these tasks, and you should get to 300 just by finishing the rest of the achievement list. Some of the skits are unrelated to achievements, so you can see the solution below for some more tips on ways to unlock them if it doesn't come naturally.
 
Xbox One --> Xbox Series Save Transfers
If you have an Xbox Series console and own both versions of the game, you'll be able to strategically use the associated save transfer system to get the DLC completion done on both versions only having to play through it once. Make sure you play on Xbox One first, and anytime you're about to unlock an achievement, save your game. Go back to the DLC menu, and choose to upload your save data. Once it uploads, load up the Xbox Series version and on the DLC menu there, download the save data you previously uploaded. Now you can do whatever you were about to do and unlock the associated achievement, then continue playing the Xbox One version until the next achievement point. Here is a list of when to do this:
 

• Just before the boss door of Mausoleum of the Ruins: Helgal-Ryugola 238. The First Seal (15G) 
• When you return to Niez and it is under attack. Resolution (15G) 
• When you arrive in Ulzbek and meet with Doc. True Freedom (15G) 
• Just before the boss door of Mausoleum of the Jungle: Helgal-Ryugola 67 The Second Seal (15G) 
• In Keystone, before jumping in the well for Hero of the Summit (15G) 
• In Keystone, as you're about to collect the final portrait for Always on Her Mind (15G) 
• Just before the final boss of Keystone Departure (35G) 
• Before crafting the ryugola core weapons Arms Master (15G) 
• Before completing the 40th sub-quest Unparalleled Problem Solver (35G) 
• Before completing the 12th character sub-quest Individual Growth (15G) 
• Before fighting the Ultimate group training ground fight Elite Vanguard, Again (15G) 

You can upload and download save files as often as you'd like. Each time you upload it overwrites the previous one in the cloud, and each time you download it will overwrite the local saves (so make sure you don't have a save on Xbox Series you actually need, because it will disappear when you accept the Xbox One version from the cloud). This system is really nice though as it will save you a full 15 hours of playing through the DLC a second time.

Starting the DLC
The Beyond the Dawn DLC is accessed through the main menu of the game, and played completely separately from the main story. It takes place after the main story, and will give you bonuses based on your main game completion. I got 110k Gald, 3100 SP, and 100 CP for completing the story and all sub-quests, plus a special weapon for each character for having all characters at Level 100. If you completed the original 1000 Gamerscore prior to starting the DLC you should have the same. You can choose to accept them or not, but it will obviously make things easier if you do. You can then choose all your gameplay settings, and can feel free to use Story difficulty to once again make things easier. You will begin the additonal story at Level 65. Be sure to go into the Settings immediately and accept any unclaimed DLC items, these transfer separately to the DLC from the main game, so you may have even more additional money and items in there to ease your completion. There is even a free "Very Easy" difficulty that you can download from the Microsoft Store to yet again make things easier on yourself. 

Playthrough
There are no missables in the DLC to worry about, so aside from managing the save transfers and switching back and forth between the Xbox One and Xbox Series versions (if applicable), the completion is very straightforward. Simply follow the story, grab all side-quests when possible, and the few collectibles needed for the weapons and portraits achievements. Unfortunately this DLC I really wouldn't say is worth the price of admission. It doesn't add much to the story, and the actual story quests are only like 6-8 hours long, with the other half of the completion time coming from the boring sub-quests. For $30 it's just not justified with no new playable characters, no additions to the battle system, etc. Grab it on sale if you can, but otherwise don't bother. It's very strange this came out two years after the main game and was this short and underwhelming.

It feels good to play a Tales game again! This franchise has been dormant on Xbox since Tales of Vesperia in 2008, though we got to enjoy that a second time when it was remastered. This is just as good if not better, combining the incredible story-telling, fantastic characters, and tight combat. What is definitely does better is the achievement list. While it has most of the same requirements, they are much more lenient and much less is missable. The time investment will still be there for the most part, though instead of requiring 100+ hours easily, this one can clock in a bit lower. There is a stackable version on Xbox One and Xbox Series consoles, so if you enjoy it you'll be able to knock a second completion out even more quickly if you skip the story on the second go around.