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

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Tales of Eternia Opening
Song: Flying
Artist: GARNET CROW

Cue list of games. Asterisks are marking the ones I own copies of.

Mothership Titles

Escort Titles

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 Festival

TalesRPG.com (English)

More To-VS Scans, ToV Scans, First Strike Site Update

Yes, after yesterday we have a few more Tales of VS scans from another magazine that show off some more characters (that were actually sorta revealed last scan).

You'll notice Philia and Mao have been officially introduced as characters instead of being speculation in a small screen like last post. Also, alternate colors for multiplayer confirmed. And...Lloyd and Collet are no longer Wineers, it would seem. Darn them correcting it.

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In ToVPS3, we seem to have a few new bonus bosses, such as the Sword Dancer and what's called the "Wandering Evil Skeleton Soldier" (彷徨う骸の凶戦士).
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And...some new artes, plus showing a bit of Flynn and Patty skit stuff (just a bit).
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The Tales of Vesperia ~The First Strike~ site got a slight update. There's now a list of theaters and a new picture of Yuri and Flynn.

Life: 05/20/09 | Posted By: cutepresea | 1 comment | Tales of (Series) | Tags: tales of vesperia, tales of vs, the first strike

ToV Movie Site

Just found it and added it to the World's intro. You can find it here. I apologize for the short, pretty much useless update.

Life: 04/08/09 | Posted By: cutepresea | 0 comments | Tags: tales of vesperia, the first strike

New Pics From New Tales

Yo! I just figured I should put up some of the pictures I mentioned last post (and some that I missed or looked over)!

Tales of Graces
*If anyone wants me to translate the story, just ask. I'll add it in because it'll take a while.
Asbel Lhant is the official name of the hero
He's 18, 175 cm, 65 kg. He's from the Kingdom of Windle in Lhant Territory.
The animated cut scenes will be by Production IG yet again, in Tales tradition.
Using Style Shift, you can switch between styles, one with the sword sheathed and one without is shown here.
Sidestep was added. You can sidestep 360 around the battlefield.
Seamless map confirmed. I'm very interested in seeing this feature.
Early battle screen
Running through town
Could this be the heroine?
Obligatory loli XD
A shot of Asbel Lhant

Tales of VS
The game will have its own story in its own world of Dairantia (literal romanization) made up of four areas:　the knight's kingdom Hresvelgr, the holy country Heidr, new empire Nidhogg, and alliance of free cities Dyne. Yggdrasil Battle Mode, whatever that is.
Colette, Lloyd, and Kratos?! Main scenario will be fully voiced.
I see Tear's name in katakana there.
Also, Philia?!
Chisaishou!
Shing Meteoryte from Tales of Hearts
Luke fone Fabre from Tales of the Abyss
Yuri Lowell from Tales of Vesperia
Richter Abend from...Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World (I'm suprised they opted for that name over the Japanese one after using "fone" in Luke's name)
Some battle shots
Yuri, come on! You can beat him! Hahaha. Okay, more like you can get beaten senseless judging from the screen.

Tales of Vesperia PS3
Yuri nano ja!
And Yuri's just standing there in the background...
No! Don't shoot!
Patty
More Patty
As if all the screens so far hadn't been Patty (even with those first few misleading link names)
At least other characters are in this shot
And in this one
Hey look Ma! No Patty!
UWA! It's a big skeleton thing with a sword!
Fighting the big skeleton thing with a sword
YurixFlynn cut-in! Bushinsoutenha!
Looks like Karol has a new hi-ougi too, and Repede has some costumes this time.

Patty Fleur
Age: 14
Height: 132 cm
CV: Chiwa Saitou

Tales of Vesperia ~The First Strike~
Yuri Lowell
Flynn Scifo
Puppy Repede!
Rita Mordio
Raven
Yuri again
Flynn again
And Flynn again again XD
Estellise Sidos Heurassein
Estellise again
Er...his name was Alexei, right? (haven't played the game yet, so I don't know all the characters)
Flynn and Yuri get in a lovers spat
and then ride off into the sunset, except with no sunset (making fun of yaoi fangirls aside...)
More Yuri concept (this picture would've been helpful when I drew him)
Estelle concept 1
Estelle concept 2
Rita concept
Raven concept 1
Raven concept 2
Raven concept 3
Female knight concept 1
Female knight concept 2
Female knight concept 3
Obligatory scenery

Life: 04/06/09 | Posted By: cutepresea | 3 comments | Tags: tales of graces, tales of vesperia, tales of vs, the first strike