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 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)

DSiWare

• Kamenin Merchant

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 Episode*
• Tales of the Abyss
• Tales of Vesperia ~The First Strike~
• Tales of Symphonia THE ANIMATION Tethe'alla Episode

Tales of Festival

• 2008
• 2009

TalesRPG.com (English)

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.

ToG Site Update-System and Screens

Just woke up and noticed the Tales of Graces site updated again. This time the System page was put up and the Story one was updated.

The System page covers the battle system (the Style Shift Linear Motion Battle System, or SS-LMBS) at the moment. There are little circles with the characters' faces in them. Clicking each one shows you two screens of their different styles. I might note, on Cheria's page the one you click for her Shinseijutsu (her B button style) is Nurse but takes you to a bigger screen of...her using Flash Tear. Kinda hoping that doesn't get fixed...just like "SPECAL" on the Tales of VS. site. Hahaha. EDIT: Looks like Malik's Soujinwaza (his A button style) screen suffers from the same issue.

The Story page has a new Animation Movie section. Basically this has screens of the anime parts of the game (magazines have referred to all the scenes here as being from the opening). It mentions "event scenes" as well as the OP so I'm hopeful in the fact that probably means we get more than just the opening.

Bit of a Late Update

Yeah, sorry about that. I missed a few updates due to still being sick, but that's okay. I'm getting it up now before I forget.
Okay, so the Tales of Graces site updated its Story section with a Prologue. Each of the blue squares under the screen have more screens.

Bit of a smaller update, but the Tales of Symphonia THE ANIMATION Tethe'alla-hen site updated its News Page just to tell us that there will be an interview with Nana Mizuki (voice of Colette and singer of the new opening) in Dengeki Maoh.

Oh! The Product page has the cover of Sylvarant Songs up now (thanks for the warning, I randomly checked it for no reason and saw it). Remember, this has all the vocal songs associated with the Sylvarant-hen of Tales of Symphonia THE ANIMATION.

Quite a few scans concerning Graces skits and Tales of Vesperia PS3 costume DLC have popped up. I don't feel like uploading all of them in my Photobucket album and linking them here, so just check those out on Abyssal Chronicles if you must. a745's better than me with keeping up with that kind of thing and she's already got all of the info translated and such.

(By the way, it's already the 28th in Japan so that means Nana Mizuki's single Mugen was released today! It has the song Tenkuu no Canaria on it, so pick it up if you must. My copy that I preordered back on my birthday has been shipped and I'm waiting for it to arrive. )

ToG Site Update-More Chara Vids

The Tales of Graces site updated today.

Let's see...The Character Section has two new character videos up--one for Cheria and one for Pascal. (Just where and how was she storing that drill, anyway?)
The Story Section was put up and for the moment has info on the countries of Strata, Windol, and Fendel...most likely not in that order but I'm too lazy to check.
And lastly the Movie Section put up that commercial I already posted before.

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.