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 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.

To-VS Hamidashi Corner Update 8/26

The Tales of VS. Hamidashi Corner has updated yet again with a combo video for Barbatos and Kohak. (I'm currently waiting to confirm something...I'll post again if I do.)

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.

To-VS Hamidashi Corner Update 9

Tales of VS. may have been released last week, but that doesn't mean the director is finished with us yet! Today, the Hamidashi Corner on the official site updated with a combo video for Yuri and Shing.

Tales of VS. Release Day!

Today's the release day of Tales of VS. in Japan! (No, I didn't get it early this time like I did with Hearts. They shipped it yesterday so I haven't gotten it yet.) From today until October 11 (hey, my birthday) there will be a survey. Once you finish the survey four wallpapers, one for each nation, will be available. (Actually, here's all four linked from AC since I know not everyone can deal with struggling through the Japanese.)

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Someone went through the image files and made a list of every character in the Tales of Wall Breaker minigame.

• Cless (Cress)
• Suzu
• Stan (Stahn)
• Rutee
• Lion (Leon)
• Philia
• Woodrow (Garr)
• Chelsea
• Mary
• Kongman (Bruiser Khang)
• Rid (Reid)
• Farah
• Fog (Max)
• Chat
• Race (Ras)
• Dhaos
• Lilith
• Celsius
• Frio*
• Kyaro*
• Valkyrie**

*From Narikiri Dungeon 2 and 3
**From Valkyrie no Bouken