Lately Namco Bandai's Tales of Xillia coverage has been focused on videos and new characters. With only a little over a month before the game's release the company has begun to release information about the game's DLC ---- and the first batch should very familiar to owners of Tales of Vesperia on the PS3.

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.

Just like in Tales of Vesperia PS3, Tales of Xillia will feature DLC school costumes for all of the game's playable characters. There's no word on the price of the costumes, however. Tales of Vesperia's costume DLC priced at 300 Yen and Tales of Graces f's costume DLC priced at 400 so it could be the same price or possibly higher depending on what Namco Bandai decides to do.

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.