Tales of...

[Loki]

Since the Tales of... Series is my favorite RPG series. Examples are Tales of Symphonia, Tales of Abyss, and then some more. The series is based on the Aerial Linear Motion Battle System, think of it as if you were fighting in Street fighter, but with more capabilities. I am going to talk about the two new Tales games that are named, Vesperia and Symphonia: Knights of Ratatoskr.

From it's predecessor, Tales of Symphonia. Knight of Ratatosk takes place two years after the events of Tales of Symphonia. The protagonist is named Emil, and characters from the original Symphonia will return.

The story is,
Long ago, Sylvarant and Tethe'alla were united as a single world that drew strength from the Giant Kharlan Tree. Divine intervention tore them apart, however, and the Tree withered and died. It was eventually left to a boy named Lloyd to restore the world to its true form. At his journey's end, a new Tree was planted to replace the Giant Kharlan Tree and to hold the two worlds together. This was the story of the Journey of Regeneration.

Together once more, the world is now entering a new era. However, its people are still faced with many problems. After the lands became one, maps were rendered useless and the climate went through many vast changes: desert towns became frozen wastelands and lakes dried up into valleys. All of this stems from an overlooked factor in the unification of the worlds: the spirit of the old Kharlan Tree, Ratatosk, still exists somewhere, and its slumber has sent the world into chaos.

However, Ratatosk isn't the only problem: the people of the two worlds are starting to hate each other. The citizens of Tethe'alla look down upon the citizens of Sylvarant due to their inferior technology, and the citizens of Sylvarant fear the citizens of Tethe'alla because of their power. Two years have passed since the worlds were first merged, and the people of Sylvarant have created a vanguard with which to rise against the Church of Martel and the people of Tethe'alla.

One day, the Church of Martel went to war with the vanguard, and Sylvarant's city of Palmacosta was caught in the crossfire. Countless innocent people died and Palmacosta was consumed in a terrible fire. This event came to be known as the "Purge of Blood", a massacre led by Lloyd Irving of the Church of Martel

If you wish to read more, click this link about this Tales game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_S ... f_Ratatosk
For trailers(Sadly they are in Japanese, please live with it for now),
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iBTfarLVMs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaTReHTr ... re=related

Announcements of this game is said to be in the Spring of '08, news of this game coming to America has not been announced.


Tales of Vesperia is the newest announced game in the Tales of.. Franchise. It is said to come out around 2008.
Not much is known about this game except that it is rumored to be on the 360 and not on the Wii or the PS3. Production of this game is the Character Designer is Kōsuke Fujishima, the Chief Director and Producer is Yoshito Higuchi (who previously worked on both Tales of Symphonia and Tales of the Abyss), the game is being developed by Namco Tales Studio and its animated movies will be done by Production I.G. Not much is said about Vesperia since the announcing of the development was in December 22th.

Trailers of this game,
[HD Version]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nac2GF0tSM0
[LQ Version]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmInJrQe3Tk

[Bane]

Tales of Symphonia is one of my favorite RPG's of all time! The story is great, the world fun to explore, and the combat brilliant. Plus, Colette names a dog Pookie in it!

I have yet to play any other Tales games, unfortunately. They're not very common in the area I live.

[Loki]

Nice to know that there is a Tales of Symphonia lover here

[Crevax]

ToS stole my soul for a while. I still need to go through and see every ending. xD And reading about this new game made me 'gasm.

[Loki]

ToS still captivates me of the EPICNESS. xD

[Thanatos]

I played ToS last week, it was fun. I couldn't find the so called "chefs" hidden in the background(s)

[Steve]

ToS looks okay... I've only really played Final Fantasy in terms of RPGs though.

[Loki]

ToS looks okay...

Get out of my thread.

[Sabertooth]

Tales of Symphonia was uber fun gamageness. Too bad i rented it = / I didnt expect it to be as good as I thought it was.

[Loki]

We can all agree that ToS is one of the best RPGs created on Earth, amirite?

[Steve]

From what I've seen it may actually cause me to search for my Gamecube. I've heard good things of it, siriuz bizniz.

[Mr_Poppykins]

You guys should really play Tales of Phantasia. I believe it's the first one of the series and the SNES ROM is easily findable. Unless you're against emulation or something.

[Loki]

Poppy speekz teh troothz. If you guys didn't know. Tales of Phantasia was remade several times and I think their lastest remake is on the PSP for woot for those who have it. And also, Tales of Phantasia is the same world of that of Tales of Symphonia when the two worlds became one. If you try and look at the minimap screenshots and to the Tales of Phantasia map. They are similar in many aspects.

[VZhitogoroshi]

Poppy speekz teh troothz. If you guys didn't know. Tales of Phantasia was remade several times and I think their lastest remake is on the PSP for woot for those who have it. And also, Tales of Phantasia is the same world of that of Tales of Symphonia when the two worlds became one. If you try and look at the minimap screenshots and to the Tales of Phantasia map. They are similar in many aspects.

I has a PSP! This interests me.

[Thanatos]

There's a psp version? Sweet someone remind me to pirate it.