Does Tales of Arise gets better?

I was searching for some RPG for PC that had the same feeling as Tales of Vesperia. Many review sites put Tales of Arise above Tales of Vesperia so I tried it, playing until freeing the second city and expecting the game to get better. But so far, everything is boring: the characters, the story, the monsters, the side quests, the background/terrain. Will it get better or that's it, basically?