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)

ToV PS3 Site FINALLY Open + TV CM1

The Tales of Vesperia PS3 version site FINALLY opened! *everyone dances* Nah, I'm kidding about the dancing, but with the release date being so close, I'm surprised it didn't open sooner.

Blast off! Actually, I should go back to decorating my posts with screens like I used to in the ToV360 and KoR days!

So anyway, the sections are in this order:

• News
  -8/27: Official site open!

• Spec
  Release date: September 17, 2009
  MSRP: 7800 yen
  Genre: To enforce one's "justice" RPG
  Platform: PlayStation 3
  Number of players: 1 (4 in battles)
  CERO Rating: B (12+)

• Character
  Has character profiles for Yuri, Estellise, Flynn, Repede, Karol, Rita, Raven, Judith, and Patty up.

• (Story)-Not open yet
• System
  At the moment, they just have battle screens up...most of which are Patty (this will be the first subsection. When they open, the rest will be Items, Battle, Cooking, Custom, Skit, Download)

• (Special)-Not open yet
• Trailer
  Has the first two trailers. Nothing new here.

Okay, so here's the commercial.

ToV PS3-more Tales costumes

I found these pictures on 2ch, there are two new costumes plus you can see some of the newly announced costumes for Tales of Vesperia that have been harder to see in recent scans more clearly. This should be the rest of the Tales cameo costumes.

Flynn will get a costume of Cless Alvein (Tales of Phantasia) and Patty will get a costume of Anise Tatlin (Tales of the Abyss). I guess Eternia gets no love in this. So this would seem to be the final list of Tales cameo costumes:

Yuri-Judas (Tales of Destiny 2)
Estelle-Chloe Valens (Tales of Legendia)
Flynn-Cless Alvein (Tales of Phantasia)
Repede-Caius Qualls (Tales of the Tempest)
Karol-Lloyd Irving (Tales of Symphonia)
Rita-Mao (Tales of Rebirth)
Raven-Ricardo Soldato (Tales of Innocence)
Judith-Rutee Kartret (Tales of Destiny)
Patty-Anise Tatlin (Tales of the Abyss)

New Scan-More Vesperia PS3 Costumes!

I will edit if more come up.

Basically, what we got here is that Yuri gets a Judas (Tales of Destiny 2) costume, Repede gets a Caius Qualls (Tales of the Tempest) costume, and Rita gets a Mao (Tales of Rebirth) costume. (Estelle as Chloe, Karol as Lloyd, Raven as Ricardo, and Judith as Rutee were previously confirmed. Yuri as Judas was discovered in the last scan, but I waited for official confirmation).

A commercial confirmed Raven's second hi-ougi to be called Crisis Rain.

Now that I know a commercial aired, I'll wait for video of it to pop up.

New ToG Scans +ToV Card Image +To-VSHamidashi Corner

Sorry for hitting you guys with so many posts in a 24 hour period.

Two new scans for Tales of Graces.

First one discusses the Eles Pot (I'd call it "Eres," but English Legendia kinda used that term already). You put stuff in and create items and such while walking. It cooks, too. Second one covers Skills. It would seem Skills are attached to titles this time around, making titles actually useful for once.
EDIT2: It would seem artes are also attached to titles. I just noticed Majinken (Demon Fang) in the list.

Next, Amazon JP put up an image of the card that will have the Tales of the Abyss costume code for Tales of Vesperia on it.

EDIT: Tales of VS. Hamidashi Corner updated with an Asch and Kratos combo video.

ToV PS3--Even more costumes!

The image quality is TERRIBLE, so I will tell what it's supposed to be:
Two new costumes for Tales of Vesperia PS3 are revealed here (okay, the article shows three, but the Karol one was previously revealed). Estelle gains a title called "Fukushuu no sei(?)kishi" (Vengeful Holy Knight) which gives her a costume of Chloe Valens (Tales of Legendia) and Raven gets a title called "Sugoude no hitman" (Remarkably Skilled Hitman) which gives him a costume of Ricardo Soldato (Tales of Innocence).

If any higher quality pictures surface, I'll be sure to edit them into this post.