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...at least it was solely until they revealed in 2009 that they were working on Keroro RPG.
Currently covering: Tales of Symphonia THE ANIMATION Tethe'alla Episode
Featured Video Tales of VS. Opening
Song: Be Your Wings
Artist: GIRL NEXT DOOR
Ignore the fact I just typed that, but there are more Tales of Vesperia costumes coming to the PS3 version of the game. Starting February 10, the "Most Powerful Equipment" compilation of costumes will be available for download on the Japanese PlayStation Store. As usual, they're 300 yen each.
The name of the titles that give these costumes are:
Yuri-Kougin no Yaiba (Golden Blade)
Estelle-Royal Heart
Karol-Brave Vesperia
Rita-Force Master
Raven-Dark Glorious
Judith-Dragonic Lancer
Repede-Shippuu Jinrai (Gale Thunderclap)
Flynn-Arch Lord
Patty-Pirate Queen
Another trademark has been spotted.
This time, Namco Bandai put in a trademark for Narikiri Dungeon X (pronounced Narikiri Dungeon Cross). Now for those who need reminding, the Narikiri Dungeon series started off as a Tales of Phantasia spinoff for the GameBoy Color and went on to form the Tales of the World series, eventually being replaced by the Radiant Mythology games.
Could this mean another NariDan game is coming?
The voice actors to show up at Tales of Festival 2010 have been revealed. Nothing on the hilarious level of revealing Tales of VS. and its theme song performer before its announcement like last year, though. Note: Some may be added later as has been done previous years. June 5
Masaya Onosaka (Host, Zelos Wilder/Tales of Symphonia)
Mai Nakahara (Co-Host, Estelle/Tales of Vesperia)
Hikaru Midorikawa (Lion Magnus/Tales of Destiny)
Katsuyuki Konishi (Lloyd Irving/Tales of Symphonia)
Chihiro Suzuki (Luke fone Fabre/Tales of the Abyss)
Kousuke Toriumi (Yuri Lowell/Tales of Vesperia)
Rika Morinaga (Rita/Tales of Vesperia)
Takahiro Sakurai (Asbel Lhant/Tales of Graces)
Others
June 6, Day Show
Masaya Onosaka (Host, Zelos Wilder/Tales of Symphonia)
Mai Nakahara (Co-Host, Estelle/Tales of Vesperia)
Katsuyuki Konishi (Lloyd Irving/Tales of Symphonia)
Takehito Koyasu (Jade Curtiss/Tales of the Abyss)
Kousuke Toriumi (Yuri Lowell/Tales of Vesperia)
Rika Morinaga (Rita/Tales of Vesperia)
Takahiro Sakurai (Asbel Lhant/Tales of Graces)
Shiho Kawaragi (Cheria Barnes/Tales of Graces)
Others
June 6 Night Show
Masaya Onosaka (Host, Zelos Wilder/Tales of Symphonia)
Mai Nakahara (Co-Host, Estelle/Tales of Vesperia)
Katsuyuki Konishi (Lloyd Irving/Tales of Symphonia)
Okay, Pascal's costume was previously revealed while Hubert's is new. These costumes, designed by Tales of Graces character designer Mutsumi Inomata, will be available for download starting February 10 for 400 Wii Points each.
Hubert-Strata Kaijin (Strata Phantom)
Pascal-Fuwafuwa Fur (Fluffy Fur)
Tales' first animated movie, Tales of Vesperia ~The First Strike~, has been dated for release.
The movie will be released in Japan for Blu-Ray, DVD, and UMD on May 28. Blu-Ray will cost 8,190 yen, DVD will cost 6,090 yen, and UMD will cost 2,940 yen.
And wait for it...You knew this was coming...
The Blu-Ray version will snag you some costumes for the PS3 version of the game (not sure if this will be with all releases, first press, or what). A ticket will be included to allow the download of "Yuri Narikiri Costume Fedrok Corps. Uniform Lightweight Ver." and "Estelle Narikiri Costume Fedrok Corps. Uniform Hisca Ver./Chastel Ver."
It mentions a booklet and audio commentary from cast and staff, too.
