You seem to have stumbled across my Tales Updates, whether you meant to or not. Here, I give info on Namco-Bandai's Tales of RPG series, known for its real time battle system (the LMBS) and its animated cut scenes made by Production I.G. It all started on December 15, 1995 when Wolf Team's Tales of Phantasia was released for the Super Famicom in Japan. (Members of Wolf Team later broke off and made Star Ocean, but that's another story for another time.) With the development of the series' fifth game, Tales of Symphonia, Tales gained its own studio dedicated solely to making new games in the series.

Currently covering: Tales of Graces

Featured Video
Tales of Rebirth Opening
Song: Good Night
Artist: Every Little Thing

Cue list of games. Asterisks are marking the ones I own copies of.

Mothership Titles

• Tales of Phantasia* (Super Famicom/Playstation/Gameboy Advance/Playstation Portable)
• Tales of Destiny* (Playstation/Playstation 2/Director's Cut-Playstation 2; English)
• Tales of Eternia* (Playstation/Playstation Portable; North American/European)
• Tales of Destiny 2* (Playstation 2/Playstation Portable)
• Tales of Symphonia* (Gamecube/Playstation 2; English)
• Tales of Rebirth* (Playstation 2/Playstation Portable)
• Tales of Legendia* (Playstation 2; English)
• Tales of the Abyss* (Playstation 2; English)
• Tales of Innocence (Nintendo DS)
• Tales of Vesperia* (Xbox 360/Playstation 3; European)
• Tales of Hearts Anime Movie Edition* (Nintendo DS)
• Tales of Hearts CG Movie Edition (Nintendo DS)
• Tales of Graces (Wii)

Escort Titles

• Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon* (Gameboy Color)
• Tales of Fandom Vol.1 (Playstation)
• Tales of the World: Narikiri Dungeon 2 (Gameboy Advance)
• Tales of the World: Summoner's Lineage* (Gameboy Advance)
• Tales of the World: Narikiri Dungeon 3 (Gameboy Advance)
• Tales of the Tempest (Nintendo DS)
• Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology (Playstation Portable; English)
• Tales of Fandom Vol.2 (Playstation 2)
• Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World/Knight of Ratatosk* (Wii; European)
• Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2 (Playstation Portable)
• Tales of VS* (Playstation Portable)

Tales of Mobile

• Tales of Tactics
• Tales of Breaker
• Tales of Commons
• Tales of Wahrheit
• Craymel Check
• Craymel Lab
• Groovy Arche
• Klondike
• Mieu no Daibouken
• Reversi
• Scramble Land
• Tales of Quiz
• Tales of Wonder Casino
• Whis Battle
• Material Dungeon
• Tales of VS. for Mobile

Online

• Tales of Eternia Online (discontinued)

Animations

• Tales of Eternia: The Animation
• Tales of Phantasia: The Animation
• Tales of Symphonia: The Animation ~Sylvarant Chapter~*
• Tales of the Abyss
• Tales of Vesperia ~The First Strike~
• Tales of Symphonia: The Animation ~Tethe'alla Chapter~

Tales of Festival

• 2008
• 2009

TalesRPG.com (English)

ToG Chara Vids 4+Some

*yawns*
Morning, everyone. Another Tales of Graces site update today. The Character page has new videos for Asbel and Pascal (Asbel's new one is the first listed in his section, Pascal's is the third in her section).

The Special page has the cover art and tracklistings for the three versions of the Mamoritai ~White Wishes~ single (see here for the Graces version art) and the Spec page has the bundle pic up if you click the blue box (see here).

ToG Dramatic DVD and Special Pack Art

The art for the box of the Tales of Graces Special Pack has been revealed. (I'd still rather have a different color Wii than white for it but...whatever.)

The art for the Dramatic DVD, "Tales of Graces Dramatic DVD ~Otona ni naritai? Hen~" has also been revealed.

Oh, and on another subject, the Tales of Vesperia PS3 site updated its System page with the school costume DLC. You might notice they're 300 yen apiece (totaling 2,700 yen altogether if you get all of them...that's almost $30 USD for some costumes!).

ToG Scan, Site Update

Jump scan time, Jump scan time! Jump had Tales of Graces in it~.

The art shown in the scan is Asbel and Sophie's Blast Caliber cut-ins. As we've already seen in videos from TGS, Asbel's Blast Caliber is called Juuha Goushouzan and Sophie has Critical Blade (anyone familiar with Tales of Destiny 2 or the PS2 version of Tales of Symphonia should recognize that name).

Over to the side you can see a bit on the Arles Gauge, which will activate Arles Rise and Arles Break when you fill up either side as we saw in the TGS demo (they mention Arles Rise under the top screen that's obviously Arles Break...I think they might've messed up a bit). It says that the gauge that appears in Arles Rise is the hi-ougi gauge. Judging from the fact there's a 1 on it and it's not even filled up yet, I'm guessing there will be more Blast Calibers as you fill up more levels of the gauge (similar to the Tales of Destiny remake for PS2). Don't ask me about Arles Break yet..I'm still not quite sure what it does.

At the very bottom of the scan, you can see the BoA costume for Cheria you can unlock if you buy the Tales of Graces version of Mamoritai ~White Wishes~. (Remember guys, the single gets released the day before the game does as usual--December 9.)

The Tales of Graces site has updated its System section with old information on the Arles Pot. This is all you need to know: Synthesizing. Cooking.

White Wishes ToG Ver. Cover Art

Slow week so far.
Other than the Graces official site slightly updating its Special section with a bit more on BoA's single (with information we already knew and I didn't even notice that anything was different at first), we really don't have much of anything at the moment.
Bear with me.
Someone on 2chan posted a pic of the jacket art for the Tales of Graces version of BoA's upcoming single Mamoritai ~White Wishes~. Unfortunately they uploaded it elsewhere themselves and I can't find the source for the life of me, but that's probably only because I fail at stalking finding stuff concerning Japanese music (Tales games, sure...music, not so much).

ToG Character Video Update 3+More System

The Tales of Graces site put up its third update to the videos they've been putting on each characters' profiles. This time, we're given a video for Sophie, Hubert, and another for Malik. (Malik's new video is the third one listed on his profile.) Sophie doesn't even talk in her own video. Hahaha. However, we do get to see a bit more of younger Asbel and Hubert.

EDIT:
A bit more was added to the System page. Yes, it's still under the old battle section, but three tabs have been added under that: Chain Capacity (CC for short), Around Step, and Character Chain.