UGO writes: "At the Namco Bandai press event last week, we were given the opportunity to take a look at their two latest entries to their Tales of... series of games: Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World and Tales of Vesperia. The original Tales of Symphonia sold record amounts for the Gamecube in 2004, marking the highest grossing Tales title for the company. With a few years gone, and a new piece of hardware to play with, Dawn of the New World ushers in a few new advancements for the series.
After seeing the latest Japanese trailer, one thing is clear: this game moves brilliantly. This entry on the Wii utilized motion capture to build all the cutscenes and the characters' animations. While this may be blasphemous to proclaim at this stage, I'd go so far as to say that the animations in Dawn of the New World trounce those found on the 360's Vesperia. Of course, this is all from just a few moments with each game, but it's pretty easy to see that Symphonia's characters benefit greatly due to the motion capture system-especially in a genre where story ends up holding the player after 30+ hours."
41 trophies to unlock with a good amount of variety. Be warned, light spoilers.
New screenshots of Tales of Symphonia Unisonant Pack (aka Tales of Symphonia Chronicles in the West) from Famitsu.
Kotaku - This past weekend in Yokohama, 25,000 Japanese fans gathered for Tales of Festival 2013 over the course of two days. And since the conversation at an event like this turns to all things Tales, we at Kotaku East decided to give voice to a few fans about their favorite Tales games and more. As you’ll see from their responses, these fans have favorites across the entire series, and they are definitely loyal to the core when it comes to Tales.
Such a fantastic JRPG series
can't wait for Tales of Xillia in August, for North America
surprised I dont see Tale of Symphonia on here. Most of them seem to like the recent Tales games tho so i guess there only playing what they can get their hands on.
I'm kind of amazed at the popularity of Vesperia. Yes, the characters were fantastic... but the setting was pretty shallow for a Tales Of game, and the overall narrative was pretty dull IMHO.