GamerSyndrome writes:
"The “Tales Of” series has always been successful in Japan, thanks to the anime themes the series has always pushed during the years. The Namco Bandai series has struggled a bit more in the west: sporadic releases with localization jobs chopping content out of the North American and European released didn’t do justice to the game. The series has started getting some recognition thanks to Tales Of Symphonia, originally released on Nintendo Gamecube, the first game in the series featuring fully 3D graphics. Since then more games have made it to the west, with each one marking a slight improvements in sales. During the current generation almost all of the Tales Of games released on home consoles have been released in the West, with the first Tales Of Xillia coming in 2013. Tales Of Xillia 2 was released in Japan a couple months ago: did the game fix some of the first game’s problems or is it just a quick cash-in? Let’s find out. Just a warning: if you don’t want to be spoiled about Tales Of Xillia’s plot stop reading since there may be spoilers."
Today it was announced that the gaming and anime industry has lost another beloved artist and creator. Mutsumi Inomata has passed away.
The Tales Of series are some of the best RPGs I've ever played, and the characters are a big reason for that. I don't think I played a single game in the series that I didn't enjoy. Rest in peace.
We're 3 months into the year and I feel like we're taking nothing but L's.
Wow she was the character designer for Tales of Destiny one of my favorites of all time =(
I love the Tales games. Phantasia will always be my favorite. Ironically I felt like as the series progressed the character design became too “anime cliche.”
The Tales games may be less recognizable than the Dragon Quest or Final Fantasy games, but that doesn't mean that they aren't worth playing!
“Tales series is considered one of the top three Japanese RPG series next to RPG giants like Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy.”
How you gonna talk about the top three JRPG franchises and not mention Pokémon, the top selling series in the genre?
This is how the top JRPG series stack up
1. Pokémon - 340M
2. Final Fantasy - 144M
3. Dragon Quest - 78M
4. Monster Hunter - 52M
5. Kingdom Hearts - 30M
6. Souls - 25M
7. Tales of - 20M
Lots of great Japanese games have major Japanese rock and pop singers providing the theme songs for them. The Final Fantasy series had Gackt providing "Redemption" for Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus and Hikaru Utada always provides the theme song for each Kingdom Hearts game. But if there is one series that reliably brings out the best singers and songs, it is Bandai Namco's Tales series. It routinely brings the bangers.
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 has one of the best soundtracks ever and the first Xenoblade Chronicles soundtrack is even better.
