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)

ToG Site Update-Character Videos, ToV and To-VS slight update

The Tales of Graces site updated its Character section with three videos. One for Asbel, one for Richard, and one for Malik. It says there are more coming soon, so I'll be on the lookout for those.

Oh, and in other news, the Tales of Vesperia PS3 site finally put up its Story section which I must've missed. There are four tabs: World (talks about Terca Lumireis), Story (basic background story), Screen Shots (self explanatory), and Animation Movie (three anime screens that include Patty).

Also, the Movie section of the Tales of VS. site has updated with a Hamidashi section with all the videos from the Hamidashi Corner, including a new omake video of Leon and Farah.

They're doing it again, I still lol'd

Remember around the time Tales of Hearts was getting released last year? Remember when Tales of Hearts Mabo Curry was being made?

They're doing it again for Tales of Graces. *laughs* This time it's House Foods Corp. involved (last time it was Circle K Sunkus doing it). Seriously, I find news like this to be hilariously great. Keep it up, guys.

ToG New Scan--Skit

Once again, sorry for the quality because it's just plain terrible this time, but there's a new Tales of Graces magazine scan this week.

It covers the "Groovy Chat" system (*snort* it's the skits for this game basically). As we already knew from TGS, it features half body shots of the characters (as seen in Tales of Destiny 2, Tales of Rebirth) and this time around has chibi cut-ins that'll pop up for comical effect at times.

Small ToG Site Update

Oh hey, back to Tales of Graces. An almost unnoticeable update has come up on the official site. Go to the Spec page. You see there at the top where there are different sections you can click on? Go to the third one (the one that has a 2 in it). There's a video (without audio) showing off Asbel, Cheria, and Sophie's preorder costumes.

Also, Japanese Amazon put up the tracklisting for the Tales of Graces version of the Mamoritai ~White Wishes~ single.

• Mamoritai ~White Wishes~
• Mamoritai ~White Wishes~ (Tales of Graces Opening Version)
• Mamoritai ~White Wishes~ (English Version)
• Mamoritai ~White Wishes~ (Original Karaoke)

ToS OVA New PV+Small ToG Site Update

Animate.tv has the new PV for Tales of Symphonia THE ANIMATION up...WITH SOUND. I'll put a YouTube video in this post as soon as someone puts it up.

Also, the Tales of Graces site made a very small update. If you go to the Spec page, you'll see a bit of info on the preorder bonuses. One of the new pages in this section has a bit on the bonus DVD and the other new one shows the Tales of Vesperia costumes I mentioned before.