The Tales series is a franchise of console role-playing games published by Namco. Several entries have been localized for North America and just three for Europe. Tales of Phantasia was developed by Wolfteam in 1994 and published in 1995. Most of the Wolfteam staff involved left Telenet Japan after the game was released and then formed tri-Ace, who now make the Star Ocean and Valkyrie Profile game series, published by Enix (now Square Enix).
The Tales of games continued to be developed by Telenet Japan and published by Namco until after Tales of Destiny 2, when both companies formed the dedicated joint venture Namco Tales Studio. The only remaining staff from Tales of Phantasia at that point were series director Eiji Kikuchi and music composers Motoi Sakuraba and Shinji Tamura. Namco Tales Studio has developed every subsequent Mothership Title in the series other than Tales of Legendia, and Tales of Innocence, which were developed by Team MelFes (a Namco in-house development team, with members who worked on the Tekken, and Soulcalibur series), and Alfa System respectively. Every Mothership Tales game has used character designs of either Kosuke Fujishima (Phantasia, Symphonia, Abyss, Vesperia), Mutsumi Inomata (Destiny, Eternia, Destiny 2, Rebirth, Tempest, Innocence), or Kazuto Nakazawa (Legendia).
In 2007, series producer Makoto Yoshizumi announced two classes of Tales games, "Mothership Titles" and "Escort Titles". All of the main games up to Tales of the Abyss became "Mothership Titles", while Tales of the Tempest was classified as an "Escort Title", thus removing it from the main series, Tales of Innocence was classified a "Mothership Title", and became the first one on the Nintendo DS.
Here are a list of all of the Tales games
Tales of Phantasia
Tales of Destiny
Tales of Eternia
Tales of Destiny 2
Tales of Symphonia
Tales of Rebirth
Tales of Legendia
Tales of the Abyss
Tales of the Tempest
Tales of Innocence
Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World
Tales of Vesperia
Tales of Hearts
Welcome
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Tales News
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Tales Of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World
A sequel to the amazing JRPG for the GameCube is coming out for the Wii sometime in November 2008. It can be pre-ordered on Amazon now.
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PSP Tales of Eternia
Out for the PSP this game was originally released for the psone. For its North American psone release it was entitled Tales of Destiny II due to copyright issues. Tales of Eternia (or Tales of Destiny II) is not in anyway a sequel to the psone game Tales of Destiny. That later received a Japanese only release for the PS2 and is called Tales of Destiny 2. Yes it can be confusing.
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Tales of Phantasia - The Animation
A brilliant four episode animation of the game that began the Tales series. Tales of Phantasia is a great little GameBoy Advance Game. The very first game in the Tales series, originally released for the SNES but only in Japan, has for the first time been released in the US and Europe.
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Tales of Symphonia the Anime/4
Four episode animation of popular GameGube game. It only follows half the story of the game, but I hear that they are planning on producing another four episode to conclude the story.
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Tales of the Abyss
The last Tales game to have been released for the PS2. Also available for the PS2 is Tales of Legendia.
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Tales Images
Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World for Wii
Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World screenshot
Tales of Vesperia for XBOX 360
Tales of Vesperia for XBOX 360
Tales of Vesperia for XBOX 360
Tales of Symphonia for GC
Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology cover
Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology screenshot
Sheena from Tales of Symphonia
Asch and Luke from Tales of the Abyss
Tales of Phantasia
Tales of Phantasia: The Animation
Tales of the Abyss group
Luke and Asch from Tales of the Abyss
Tales of Destiny for ps
Leon Magnus, Tales of Destiny figure
Tales of Destiny II (or Tales of Eternia)
Tales of Desting II (or Tales of Eternia)
Tales of Destiny II (or Tales of Eternia)
Tales of Phantasia ending pic
Tales of Phantasia (SNES version) screenshot
Tales of Vesperia for XBOX 360
Tales related YouTube vids
More Tales News
- Critical Reception: Namco Bandai's Tales of Vesperia
- Spanning multiple console generations and platforms including the Super NES, Gameboy Color, and the PlayStation and PS2, Namco's Tales RPG series has ...
- Tales Of Vesperia Review - A New Chapter Unfolds
- Namco Bandai's Tales series of RPG titles have been delivering their unique take on the action RPG since Tales of Phantasia hit the Super Famicon in Japan ...
- Interview: Xbox 360's Japanese Saviors Talk Tales Series
- HB: Namco Tales Studio is an affiliate subsidiary of Namco Bandai Games, Incorporated, and a primary developer of the Tales series with some exceptions. ...
- Tales of Vesperia Review
- In bringing Tales to current-generation consoles, Namco Tales Studio stuck to most of the conventions it has created for the series over the years and added ...
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