Tales of VS: Five New Characters Revealed

Lloyd Irving (Tales of Symphonia), Senel Coolidge (Tales of Legendia), Tear Grants (Tales of the Abyss), Rita Mordio (Tales of Vesperia) and Colette Brunel (Tales of Symphonia) have all been officially revealed to be in Tales of VS in one massive update to the official minisite on Tales Channel, Namco Bandai's hub for Tales series updates in Japan. The game will pit the various Tales of characters in a fighting free-for-all, using their well-known Artes, locations from the different games, and even items from the various games, as well as each character's unique Mystic Arte.

The two male updates consist of Lloyd Irving and Senel Coolidge. Lloyd retains his Mystic Arte from Tales of Symphonia, Falcon's Crest. As can be seen in the video, he combines his two swords to form the Eternal Sword and then performs the Mystic Arte. Senel uses Lord of Creation, which was one of his higher-tier attacks in Tales of Legendia. Not surprisingly, most of his attacks are throwing-based.

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Tales of VS: New Director's Corner Video

A new Director's Corner video has been released on the official website for Tales of VS. The game will pit the various Tales of characters in a fighting free-for-all, using their well-known Artes, locations from the different games, and even items from the various games, as well as each character's unique Mystic Arte.

The video first features Philia Felice (Tales of Destiny) and Tear Grants (Tales of the Abyss). This part of the video is meant to show how you can use items in conjunction with special attacks (in this case spells) to deal more damage, as Philia does to push Tear into the mine-like object. The other half of the video features Senel Coolidge (Tales of Legendia) and Stahn Aileron (Tales of Destiny). This part of the video shows how one can use the walls in the battlefield to chain together attacks by hitting them before they can land, as can be seen in Senel's 19-hit combo.

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New Tales of VS. Trailer

The Tales of VS. trailer from the recent Tales of Festival in Japan has been released. The game will pit the various Tales of characters in a fighting free-for-all, using their well-known Artes, locations from the different games, and even items from the various games, as well as each character's unique Mystic Arte.

The trailer shows off all of the currently revealed characters, such as Yuri from Tales of Vesperia. It then cuts into footage of the game in action, showing off basic attacks, Artes, and the environmental traps revealed a while back, which are much like the ones found in games like the Super Smash Bros. series. Shots from the menus are also shown, including the area where you can give new skills and increase your character's stats. The trailer finishes off by showing some scenes from the game's opening video.

Tales of VS. is due to be released in Japan on August 6th. No North American release date has currently been announced, although Namco Bandai has filed trademarks for both this game and Tales of Graces (Graces also is trademarked in Europe).

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More Tales of VS. Characters Revealed

A new scan from the new issue of Weekly Shonen Jump has officially revealed six more of the characters that will be appearing in Tales of VS. on the PlayStation Portable. The game will pit the various Tales of characters in a fighting free-for-all, using their well-known Artes, locations from the different games, and even items from the various games, as well as each character's unique Mystic Arte.

Lloyd Irving and Colette Brunel, both of which were shown in one of the game's chats in an earlier scan, have been officially announced in this issue. The remaining four (Senel Coolidge, Kyle Dunamis, Tear Grants, and Rita Mordio) were never revealed up to this point. No other information was revealed in the scan.