Just when you thought they ran out of words to pair with Tales of..., Namco Bandai officially announces Tales of Graces and Tales of Versus.
Tales of Graces is a Wii game of a new...genre, says 1UP. "The RPG In Which You Come To Know The Power To Protect" is what they call it. Riiight.
In this game, due out in Winter in Japan, expect a seamless world, where towns and dungeons run into each other. The talented animators at Production I.G. are working on the cutscenes and character design will be done by Mutsumi Inomata. The new Style Shift Linear Motion Battle System will allow characters to switch battle styles on the fly. And forget waggle: game play was demonstrated with the Wii Classic controller.
Also announced at the same time was Tales of Versus for PSP, a 4-player Smash Bros. style Tales-based fighting game. A story mode will also be included. While the game will have 35 characaters, all we know now are four: Yuri from Vesperia, Luke from Abyss, Shing from Hearts, and Richter from Symphonia.
I'm interested in both titles. How about you?
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9:20 AM on 04.07.2009
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I'm really excited. For Graces, I may wait and see what comes up first. But yeah, I'm looking forward to Versus more than Dissidia! *hears horrified gasps in the crowd*
I know absolutely fuck-all about the Tales series except for when I played Eternia for some 2 hours back in the day. About the most I know about the other entries is that the most popular sources for hentai doujinshi are Abyss and Vesperia.
Is there anything I need to know for if/when I pick up PS3 rerelease of Vesperia (which I heard was a pretty good entry)?
Vesperia doesn't have any story links to any of the other Tales of... games, so there's really nothing you need to know beforehand.
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I'll wait until I know what the hell they're talking about.
Don't expect amazing stories, though. Pretty much every game in the series has the same plot with new character/place names.
I'm waiting to hear more info on these. A fighting game could be neat, but it could also go really badly if they stick too many RPG qualities in it. Graces looks nice so far, though.
But the seamless world with no instances at all, seems even better.
BUT...even better is the classic Wii controllers!!!!
"Style Shift Linear Motion Battle System"
That sounded a lot to me like:
"The RPG In Which You Fight Historical Battles of Feudal Japan"
"With Real-Time Weapon Change"
In other words, I think it's a bit soon to hipe over not-really-new-at-all RPG features.
Anyway, Tales of Graces looks great and Namco continue to please me with their genre names.
The 4 characters announced for versus rock. Although Shing is only cool because he has the same japanese VA as Simon.
Versus sounds like it could be awesome, and I finally have a PSP!!!! :)
But seriously, here's hoping.