Tales of Festival: Day 2 News

Sun, Jun 6th, 2010, 2:03 pm (EST) by Shawn

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Earlier today was the second day of Tales of Festival 2010, but unlike yesterday there doesn't seem to be that much news coming, except for the rest of the popularity poll results and some other minor Tales news.

As we reported on earlier, Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon X will be receiving a pre-order bonus DVD. The name of the DVD will be Dramatic DVD Tales of Costume!?. There's also rumours that an Asbel costume for Dio will be made available, which would make sense considering he appears on the DVD.

Continue reading on for the rest of the results of the popularity poll.

Tales of Festival: Day 1 News

Sat, Jun 5th, 2010, 2:06 pm (EST) by Shawn

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Earlier today was the first day of Tales of Festival 2010, which brought some new news along with it, along with partial results of the Tales of Popularity poll that was going on at Tales Channel earlier this year.

Namco Bandai has confirmed the rumors that Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon X will be having demos. The first demo will hit in early July, which will focus on the improved battle system in the Tales of Phantasia part of the game. Later in the month, a second demo will hit which features the Narikiri Dungeon X portion of the game. The rumored August 5, 2010 release date was also confirmed at the event.

As for the rumored PS3 Tales game, known as Tales of Unitia, the game was a no-show at the Festival except for a mention that this Summer a "major" announcement would occur. It's unknown why they would push the unveiling that far, but they may be putting some extra polish on the game and didn't want to unveil it just yet.

More news as well as the results of the popularity polls can be found in the full story.

Improved Tales of Vesperia Abyss Costumes Now DLC

Wed, Dec 9th, 2009, 9:51 am (EST) by Shawn

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According to an update on Famitsu's website, Namco Bandai will be re-releasing the Tales of the Abyss cameo costumes on the PlayStation Store later this month. Originally, said costumes were only available to those who had pre-ordered the game before it's release earlier this year.

However, these costumes are not exactly the same as the ones that were released before. The hair color and other modifications were made to match the original Tales of the Abyss characters better (the pre-order costumes merely just added the clothing onto the characters), and the "clothing" icon that appears next to DLC costumes is also there now.

Namco Bandai will release these new costumes on December 15th for 150 Yen each as a tie in to mark the fourth anniversary of the original game's release in Japan.

Tales of VS: Five New Characters Revealed

10 July 2009 by Shawn

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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.

More information, as well as the videos, can be found in the full story.

Tales of VS: New Director's Corner Video

08 July 2009 by Shawn

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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.

The video can be found in the full story.

Tales of Vesperia PS3 Will Have New Costumes

14 June 2009 by Shawn

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Today was the 2nd annual Tales of Festival, a fan event for the Tales of fans in Japan. Among the news announced was that some downloadable content that will be available shortly after the game's release.

The PlayStation 3 port of Tales of Vesperia includes numerous extras and changes, such as a brand new character, Patty Fleur, the addition of new bosses like the Sword Dancer, Flynn being playable for more that just one battle, among other changes. The game will also be fully voiced and will include new and altered scenes, such as Yuri fighting Don Whitehorse when the party visits Keiv Moc.

Each game will have a product code that can be used to download special costumes for Yuri, Estelle, and Flynn. The costumes will be Asch, Tear, and Luke's costumes, respectfully. Rumors are going around that more DLC could be on the way later this year.

More Tales of VS. Characters Revealed

10 June 2009 by Shawn

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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.