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 6+Spec, Special, Movie & ToS News Update

Guess Friday will be the normal day for major updates to the Tales of Graces site, like it was for most of their other sites. (The Special page update was actually done yesterday, but ignore that fact for a moment.)
The Character page has two new character videos for Asbel and Sophie. For Asbel's new video, click the second thumbnail in his section, and for Sophie it's her first thumbnail. (Can they at least order them in the order they upload them so it's not so confusing to explain?)
Spec section just updated with what's on the preorder DVD. I've already covered that before in a previous post. It also has a sneak peek of the Yappari Tales of at Tokyo Game Show digest and the skit drama.
The Movie section reposted PVs 1 and 2, and also put up the third one. If you remember, 1 and 2 were up before the site officially opened but weren't put back up afterward. The third PV is the one that was put up on the JP Nintendo Channel a while back. Also here is an interview with Asbel's voice actor, Takahiro Sakurai, which is actually what you'll be taken to as soon as you go to the Movie section.
The Special section put up a link where starting yesterday until December 4, you can send Mutsumi Inomata a question (Japanese of course) or a piece of fanart. Both the answers and the art may possibly be put in the Complete Guide. Sending either gives you a wallpaper. I didn't bother doing it nor am I going to, but a745 over at AC sent a question, so she has the wallpapers up there in 1600x1200 and 1280x1024.

The Tales of Symphonia OVA site updated it's News page. It has a bit of info on the advanced showing in Ikebukuro Theater Dia in Tokyo and Umeda Theater in Osaka. As we already know, the advanced screening will be from December 12 until December 18. The showing in Tokyo will be 1,800 yen and the one in Osaka will be 1,200 yen and during those days, Tokyo will also have a late show at 21:00. The packaging for Refill-sensei's Cream Stew was put up. *chuckles weakly* Again, I think I'll pass on that one.
Also up is a tiny bit of information on the Tales of Symphonia Comic Market 77 Limited CD (aw, heck no! I don't approve of these things that end up being sold on sites that don't ship to America. I ended up having to listen to the last one on Nico Nico Douga before it got taken down. Funny stuff, but it's really not fair). It'll be 2,500 yen and will have a radio part with Katsuyuki Konishi (Lloyd) and Masaya Onosaka (Zelos) and a drama part, like last time. The drama part will feature the full main cast, just like the last one. General sales will start on January 27.

ToG New Scans-Costumes and Kamenin Merchant DSiWare

Not really anything great for now, but there are a few new costumes for Tales of Graces revealed (personally I just hope they don't reveal all of them before the game is released).

Also, the DS minigame Kamenin Merchant will not only be released with ToG, but also as DSiWare. It's for Japanese DSi only (thanks to region locking being stupid) and will be available for 200 points starting December 2.

ToG Site Update-Swimsuit Edition

The Tales of Graces official site updated. Head over to the System page to see a rather small update on the swimsuit titles. There's a very short video (about 5 seconds or so) and a few screenshots. The costumes will be obtainable from an event scene in the game at some point. So yeah, short update.

ToG Chara Vids 5+System Update, ToS News Update

The Tales of Graces site put up more videos on the character page. So drop by the character page and watch videos for Hubert (click his second thumbnail), Cheria (click her first), and Richard (click his third). The System page also has an update, but it's on titles and synthesizing and we pretty much covered that about two or three times already in magazines, so...

Also, I forgot to cover this, but the Tales of Symphonia OVA has an official blog now (is that the new thing to do with these things?). There really isn't anything there now...in fact, these things rarely get interesting...the Tales of Hearts one was a fun read, though.

Tethe'allans are huge compared to Sylvaranti, apparently. Nah, just kidding.
The News Page of the ToS OVA site also updated with a bit more info on the advanced screening in December. Not really much, just that there will be special guests from the cast and staff at the showing, though it doesn't reveal who yet, and er...does that say people who show up will get "Refill-sensei's cream stew" as a gift? In that case...count me out. Hahaha. Not like I can just go to Japan for the showing, anyway.

Something a Bit...Unrelated to Tales

de arimasu.
Yes, I know what you're thinking. "What? She's posting something not Tales related in Tales Updates?" I'm sorry, this was just too good to pass up, and by that I mean I found it hilarious.

It's been confirmed that the upcoming Namco Bandai RPG, Project K for the DS, is indeed a Keroro Gunsou game (just as a good number of people, including myself, guessed from the K 66 in the URL of the site). The game will be made by none other than our very own Tales Studio...that's right TALES STUDIO IS MAKING A NON-TALES GAME. Take a moment to recover from the shock of that. It will feature the LMBS of Tales for its battle system (even sporting the Tales of LMBS logo in the trailer) and will have skits...like Tales. This technically doesn't count as a Tales game so this is the only post on this I'll be making in this world unless they suddenly change the name to Tales of Keroro. Hahaha.