As fans celebrate its 25th anniversary this year and with the new game, Tales of Arise launching this September, here’s a list of Top 6 Tales games that gamers have enjoyed over the years.
There is a relatively minuscule number of Tales of games to play on modern platforms compared to what the entirety of the series comprises, which has caused fans to grow increasingly frustrated.
And for Western fans, this conflict is twofold. Firstly, it’s worth emphasizing that there are several Tales of games the West has never received in any official capacity, even mainline entries. Then, numerous localized titles are stuck on older hardware, making them inaccessible to contemporary audiences.
I remember playing a fan translation for Tales of Phantasia. The SNES had so many great RPG's. When I wasn't playing FF 6, Chrono Trigger or Seiken Densetsu 3 another fan translated game I was playing Tales of Phantasia.
Games being stuck on older hardware is a part of gaming. I'd like alot of old games to make a return since most of the good ones are rare , hard to find , pretty expensive especially in the jrpg category. I'd love a remaster on all those old jrpgs from snes ps1 Era
The Tales series may not have the most powerful villains, but their unique ideas and human perspectives make them by far the genre's most interesting.
Bandai Namco has announced the best selling Tales of series games worldwide, and in Japan and Asia, North America, and Europe.
Shame Graces F is not on any of the lists it's one of my favorite Tales games along with Xillia. Now just need a release date and month for Graces F
Gameplay wise Xillia and Graces F are the best and hopefully Arise will be in same league as mentioned games.
Japans top 3 are easily the best ones. North americas too 5 really shows how much the country been sleeping on Tales of games. Vesperia having such a high number has to be for the multiple re-releases because that’s a tales of game I still struggle to enjoy..... granted I bought it on 3 different platforms so I should shut uo
this just shows you, how niche the tales series really is wow. i knew the sales werent, you know abnormalie high, but yeh.
symphonia, abyss, zestiria, graces f and vesperia are the best ones. xilia 1 is great too xD
Saleswise, most JRPGs are grossly overrated by their fanbases. Look at LoD or Wild Arms. People constantly want remakes of games that barely sold 400-500k. They only eeked out a profit because publishers only needed to sell that much to break even on PS2.
Graces f was better than both Xillia entries. Abyss is probably the best game in the series. It had the perfect mix of story and gameplay.
I think if Symphonia was released today instead of back then, it would be even greater than Vesperia. It was still considered a poor man's Final Fantasy series then, and some still feel that way about it. The only thing that pushed me to finish Vesperia were the quirky but likable characters. The story and fighting were pretty mediocre IMO though.
For me its Abyss, Vesperia, Destiny, Xillia, Hearts f, Eternia. Yes Symphonia is also great but its get way too much attention. Also I'm betting Arise unseats one of my top 6 by the time I'm done. Its a fantastic game
Eternal Sonata #1
Mine are
1.Tales of Phantasia
2. Tales of xillia 1/2
3. Tales of eternia
4.Tales of Graces F
5. Tales of Zesteria
6. Open slot
I’m currently playing tales of Destiny directors cut and vesperia. I gave up on tales of berseria after 40 hours. And I really want tales of arise.
I played Abyss, symphonia, legendia and tales of hearts R. Aside from symphonia (I beat it) I am pretty much at the end of all of these but just lost the spark to finish them.