After teasing a new bit of Tales of Graces f-related news via Twitter earlier today, Namco Bandai's community Manager Richard Bantegui has came through with a new English trailer and more importantly: a release date for the North American release.
Tales of Graces f (the f stands for "future") has an extra post-game story which takes place after the game's original ending. Without spoiling anything, there seems to be an increase in the monster population, which increases the amount of monster attacks around the world. This causes Asbel and his group to set off once again to determine the cause behind the recent disturbance.
According to the trailer, the release date is set for March 13, 2012.
Keep on reading to see the brand new English Tales of Graces f trailer.
UPDATE: Added some more information about the details revealed in the trailer.
Earlier this week there was a leaked scan detailing the new Rave system in Tales of Innocence R. Another new scan has been released which shows an eighth new character to the already revealed seven characters (including QQ) along with the game's release date.
According to Namco Bandai the R in the title means "re-imagining", not remake like some had previously thought. Tales of Innocence R will include a revised game theme, a new battle system and a new gameplay system alongside a new opening movie.
The new character, Conway Tau, is a male and is voiced by Nojima Kenji. The scan also reveals that the game will be released on January 26, 2012 in Japan.
Keep on reading to see the new Tales of Innocence R scan.
UPDATE (11/6): We've replaced the partial scan with the full scan.
As Tales fans in North America already know Namco Bandai has only stated a vague TBA 2011 release date for the Tales of the Abyss 3DS in North America. According to Nintendo Power it appears fans will have to wait somewhat longer as the game's release date has slipped into 2012.
Tales of the Abyss was originally released on the PS2 on December 15, 2005 and was localized in North America on October 10, 2006. The game was regarded as an improvement over Tales of Symphonia, extending that game's multi-line battle system into a battle system which allows players to freely move about the field in battle.
According to the article the game will be released in North America during Q1 2012 which would likely put it around January or February. The European date, November 10, hasn't change as of yet so this might just be relative to North America due to the huge influx of titles releasing this November in the west.
Last week Namco Bandai revealed that they would be attending Japan Expo 2011 and would be showing off Tales of Graces f and Tales of the Abyss 3DS, among other titles. We have information about the games thanks to early reports from people who went to the event, including Tales of the Abyss 3DS's finalized European release date.
Tales of the Abyss was originally released on the PS2 on December 15, 2005 and was localized in North America on October 10, 2006. The game was regarded as an improvement over Tales of Symphonia, extending that game's multi-line battle system into a battle system which allows players to freely move about the field in battle.
According to reports, a couple trailers for Tales of the Abyss 3DS were shown off. Tales of Graces f was supposed to receive a trailer but was canned due to technical difficulties, so it was replaced with the Tales of Xillia scenario trailer which received a huge applause when Hideo Baba asked fans if they wanted the game in Europe.
Keep on reading to find out more about the day's events.
Fans have been waiting since the original announcment of Tales of Graces f's localization for the game's release date. Namco Bandai has just announced it at their Level Up 2011 event in Dubai alongside an official announcement of the game's fate in Europe.
Tales of Graces f (the f stands for "future") has an extra post-game story which takes place after the game's original ending. Without spoiling anything, there seems to be an increase in the monster population, which increases the amount of monster attacks around the world. This causes Asbel and his group to set off once again to determine the cause behind the recent disturbance.
According to Namco Bandai, the game will be hitting North America and Europe sometime in 2012 and was confirmed for release on the PS3. No exact date was given, however, along with no trailer as of yet. Tales of the Abyss was also confirmed for a 2011 release in North America in Europe.
UPDATE: According to thesetweets, the 2012 release date was only for Europe. This might mean a 2011 release is in the cards for North America and could be announced next month at E3.
UPDATE 2: Recent press releases for Tales of Graces f and Tales of the Abyss 3DS from Namco Bandai have confirmed a 2012 release for Tales of Graces f in both North America and Europe and a 2011 release for Tales of the Abyss 3DS in both North American and Europe.
Up until now, fans waiting for news about Tales of Xillia's release date in Japan have only had a vague TBA 2011 release date given to them by Namco Bandai. According to a breaking leak, fans might have the date they have been waiting for --- and it's quite soon, indeed.
The game will utilize the contrast between light and shadow, which will lead to the game having a different art style direction than Vesperia's anime-style graphics or Graces's watercolor-style graphics (it could be more of a hand-painted or oil painting-like feel if the concept artwork is any indication). Baba stated that when he saw some of the concept artwork images running on actual hardware he was very impressed.
Keep on reading to find out what the rumored release date is.
UPDATE: Added the original source of the leak.
UPDATE 2: Hobby Channel has removed the text in question, but JaySonic, a Japanese blog, was able to capture the text in an image, which can be found in the full story.
Last week we brought word that Namco Bandai would be bringing Tales of the Abyss for the Nintendo 3DS to North America, but with no word on an European release. Early reports from the latest issue of NGamer Magazine indicate that Europe will be getting the game as well.
Tales of the Abyss was originally released on the PS2 on December 15, 2005 and was localized in North America on October 10, 2006. The game was regarded as an improvement over Tales of Symphonia, extending that game's multi-line battle system into a battle system which allows players to freely move about the field in battle.
A post from one of NGamer's staff members, Matthew, indicates that the game has a Spring 2012 release window. Unconfirmed reports indicate a Fall 2011 release date in North America, so it's not too long of a release gap for Europe with all things considered.
Last month, we learned that Tales of the Abyss 3DS would be present in video form at Nintendo's Nintendo 3DS event. What we were expecting was a nice surprise indeed --- a tentative release date for the game.
Tales of the Abyss was originally released on the PlayStation 2 on December 15, 2005 and was localized in North America on October 10, 2006. The game was regarded as an improvement over Tales of Symphonia, extending that game's multi-line battle system into a battle system which allows players to freely move about the field in battle.
According to Nintendo of Japan, Tales of the Abyss 3DS will be released in Japan sometime during Spring 2011. Since little to no information about the port has been released, it's quite an unexpected, but welcome development nonetheless. This likely means the game is nearly complete, although no solid figures of the game's completion appear to be released on the website.
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