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, Tales of Symphonia Tethe'alla Hen

Featured Video
Tales of Eternia Opening
Song: Flying
Artist: GARNET CROW

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)

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.

New Graces Scan-A Cameo and Some Costumes

Okay, Japanese Nintendo Channel has a new PV up. I don't know how long it'll be up here, but you can see it here on Dailymotion (Avex is getting YouTube to cut the audio on all of them so I can't use a YouTube link. Sorry).

Okay, first off to the right the preorder DVD's contents are revealed to be voice actor interview(s), the usual skit drama, illustration gallery, promotional video(s) for Graces, and something on the Tokyo Game Show stage event.
So moving on to the main article, there will be a survival type of thing where you fight through different floors. Veigue Lungberg from Tales of Rebirth is confirmed to be a cameo on one of the floors (KUREAAAAA!!!).

There will be cards featuring Tales series characters you can collect throughout the game. You'll use these to play a card minigame. Also here is a bit on the vehicles you can use to travel the map more quickly. Lastly, there are pictures of the swimsuit costumes you can unlock for the characters.

ToS OVA Site Update: More Sections Open

The Tales of Symphonia THE ANIMATION Tethe'alla-hen site updated by opening the sections that were previously under construction.

CHARACTER
The Character page has a bit on Sylvarant, Tethe'alla, and Cruxis at the top. Underneath that are the profiles of each character in this order (excuse my usage of the Japanese version's names): Lloyd Irving, Collet Brunel, Genius Sage, Refill Sage, Zelos Wilder, Shihna Fujibayashi, Presea Combatir, Regal Bryan, and Kratos Aurion. You can click the characters' faces at the top to Quick Jump (har har, bad joke) to their profiles.

STAFF/CAST
This section gives a list of the staff involved and voices for the main characters (also listed in their profiles).
CAST
Lloyd Irving-Katsuyuki Konishi
Collet Brunel-Nana Mizuki
Genius Sage-Ai Orikasa
Refill Sage-Yumi Touma
Kratos Aurion-Fumihiko Tachiki
Zelos Wilder-Masaya Onosaka
Shihna Fujibayashi-Akemi Okamura
Presea Combatir-Houko Kuwashima
Regal Bryan-Akio Ootsuka

STAFF
Original Work/Supervision-Namco-Bandai Games Inc.
Series Organization-Ryuunosuke Kingetsu
Original Character Design-Kousuke Fujishima
Character Design-Akira Matsushima
Director-Haruo Sotozaki
Animation-ufotable

THEME SONG
Opening Theme-Nana Mizuki

LINK
This page just links out to related sites: Namco-Bandai Games, ufotable, Frontier Works, Nana Mizuki's official site, Animate.tv, and the Tales of Phantasia THE ANIMATION site.

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!).