With Tales of Xillia's release only a couple weeks away it's about time for the review scores, namely Famitsu's, to start coming in. Tales of Xillia's official score has come in and it easily eclipses any other review the series has gotten in recent memory.

Tales of Xillia 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.

Famitsu gave the game a 10/9/10/10, just one point short of a perfect score. It isn't known at the moment what the reviewer found as a fault to give the 9 but it's still a perfectly respectable score for the game overall.

Tales of Xillia will be released on September 8 in Japan exclusively on the PS3. No word has been given on a North American or European release.