While I definitely had fun while playing it isn't as good as the original . What it is is the casual gaming equivalent of a DLC story centered on people who exist on the sidelines within the universe. More so than the original Tales, as that had more of a tighter correlation with the main stories of Borderlands.
If you wonder what the story and writing feel like in this game, please go and watch this analysis of the phenomenon described as "millennial writing" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyHG8EfcA5c&t
Bought this when it first dropped off the faith of the first game. It made my skin crawl so much I could not finish it... I don't know if I would coin it as "millennial writing" but I can agree to a lot of the videos sentiment with modern writing in games.
At first, I couldn't quite put my finger on what millennial writing is until I watched the Netflix show "Love On The Spectrum" and it hit me. All they characters talk like they are on the spectrum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyHG8EfcA5c&t
https://youtu.be/PZ_DLdpvruc
https://youtu.be/4AsibWq1cLA
https://youtu.be/NuS2oWPvUWQ
https://youtu.be/rmwmcLLDoSw
https://youtu.be/oQb3ftpT4Yg