For those of you who don't already know looks like one of the Tales of the World games is finally going to make it out side of Japan. Supposedly hitting stores in the US in summer, whether this'll stay the same we'll see, see the info at:

http://uk.psp.ign.com/articles/772/772627p1.html

Not played any of these myself and was wondering if anyones had any experience with this branch of the series - but hey it's a tales game on the PSP surely they can't mess it up!!!

Thats excellent news, i'm still enjoying Eternia on the PSP.

I was allowing myself to get hopeful, but since this is on the PSP, I will not be able to enjoy this game...Great news though, because maybe if it does end up being good, I'll get a PSP so I can play it.

They're going to release Tales of the World, which will contain characters from Tales games that never been released outside of Japan, before the other main installments of the Tales series? I would prefer seeing Tales of Destiny remake, Tales of Destiny 2 and Tales of Rebirth released outside of Japan before Tales of the World. So people can become familiar with every Tales character from the major installments of the series.

Yeah with you on that one - hope it doesn't spoil any charcter recruitment/storylines for the earlier games. Fingers crossed though that if ToW sells well then maybe they'll seriously consider the others as well!

So glad they're bringing the Unison Attacks back from ToS- ah Light Prism - the gateway to 100 hit combo!

I spy Luke. 8D

This is some good news, but completely unexpected. It'll be nice to see the certain characters returning (Is it just me or are there a lot of Symphonia characters???), but might be a little odd to see character from unreleased Tales games.

I agree with Eva's point of Tales of Destiny 2 and Rebirth released before this one. Now I'm really regretting not getting a PSP. Px

For those of you who are interested here's a couple of links with a bit more info about the game its self, just basic stuff but still worth it if you've got a minute or two to spare:

http://pspupdates.qj.net/category/Tales-of...-World/cid/2026 - has a decent copy of the intro to watch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_the_...diant_Mythology Has the full character list and the job classes you can chose from for you main character (a nice addition to the series i think, any preferences?)

This is news to me so thought i'd post it,

ToW:RM has been given the release date of 17th July (US)

A lot sooner than i was expecting but you wont catch me complaining.

OMG I CANT WAIT! I love this series. Its one of the best.

just read about this game since im about to buy a psp from a friend for 40 bucks.. I think i am going to have to pick this up

I definitely agree, the game looks pretty good. It has the same sort of battle system which is good, I enjoy it out of most other RPG's. Also they have some kind of a guild thing which seemed interesting, reminds me a little of the Suikoden recruitment. I've only played ToS and ToP so I probably won't know many of the characters, I was just surprised to see Lloyd when I saw the apparent cover when I was looking on Gamespot. This along with the new MGS game and Crisis Core may make me get a PSP.

Has anyone played this yet? I actually canceled my pre order for this game since I heard its just basically a fanfare made up of just fetch quests and virtually no story, i'm hoping I was misinformed but didn't want to take the chance, so any info about this game would be very much appreciated.

I think my sig says it all at the moment!
It only came through the other day cos of the post being in an uproar over the Harry Potter deliveries but what i've seen so far is good though only played about 9 hours and haven't progressed that far into the actual plot as i've been trying out the various classes before i continue.

If your looking for a traditional tales game then i think your going to be slightly disappointed - the entire games is based upon a quest system - the main ones of which progress the storyline and introduce new characters while the sub-quests provide Glad, EXP and fame points that open up the main quests. All these are accessed by entering the Guild building in each of the towns and speaking to the receptionist that'll show you the quests currently available.
The quests themselves can be split into a few main catergories:
Eliminate - that sees you destroying a set number of enemies of a particular variety
Collect - where you must collect particular items from search points within dungeons or by making them by crafting using raw materials from these search points
Rescue - rescueing town members/refugees from dungeons

I know this probably sounds really dull but it does actually work as you can choose the quests to better suite your gaming time - got 5 minutes free you can attempt one of the simpler collect quests, or if you've got the time to complete an entire dungeon then you can go for the main quests - and tbh the dungeon designs are not simple - i've seen final dungeons that are simpler to memorize the layout of than that of the second dungeon of this one.

The crafting ability is a great addition - expanding on the traditional cooking system - instead of just cooking at the end of each battle you can cook at anytime - what you can cook depending upon what recipes you've collected as rewards from quests, ingredients you've collected and your current skill level. But all doesn;t just cover cooking - it also allows you to forge materials that can be used further to create tools and items aswell as jewels that can be added to your weapons/equipment to improve stats

Of course there is a degree of fan service - but hell its a tales game so its not all a bad thing - with many of the original VAs returning it does all come together quite nicely as the story is presented through voiced skits (though many of the other skits are voiced over also - getting their money's worth out of the actors i suppose - but its a nice addition) in favour of the usual ingame cut scenes. To say there is no storyline is to do the game a bit of an injustice as their is an underlying plot to everything though as said earlier if your expecting the complexity of the Tales series - it might be best to avoid.

I'm enjoying it so far, but i do tend to be biased as i like the battle system of these games so much - thats been made even better by the fact you can adapt the main character and the party as a whole to your own liking more so than in the previous titles. In short i'd recommend but if there are other games you have your eye on then it might be best of waiting a bit until you can get a bit more info on this one to help you decide

EDIT : Did forget to mention about the party structure in this game though - the idea is you go to the local inn - speak to the keeper and thy'll show you a list of possible recruits from which you can choose from. Many of the returning tales characters will refuse your invitation to join at first - unless participation is mandatory for that particular quest - so you have to make do with the mercenaries that are lying around - though this seems a pretty decent way of making a customized group - there is one main failing.
When ever you complete a quest the group is disbanded immediately - so ever time you start a quest you have to visit an inn and go through the motions of selecting a party once again and hope the characters you want will still join you, as they do tend to be a bit fickle. This can all soon get a bit monotonous, especially with the shorter quests and you may find yourself taking chances by going in it alone - which is not a wise move as the higher levels of teh dungeons are far from forgiving.

My friend brought this home with him from his trip to New York. I didn't try it out yet though (there were so many games to try) but I'll check it out next time I'm over there.
Thanks for the info PAL RPGamer. Sounds interesting.

I didn't notice a reply on here until now so thanks for the info. I'll probably pick this up in the future at a price drop but I was kind of hoping for a traditional Tales game because for me in that respect they do everything right from the battle system, character development to the classic world map which I always prefer in my JRPGs, so i'll hang on and wait for Tales OF Rebirth if it gets released in the West.

Well it looks like the EU is finally getting another Tales game, not that it really matters when PSP games are so easy to import but all in all its a step in the right direction. (ToR for PSP PLEASE!) Maybe this is a sign that their aiming to make the Tales more main stream and fingers crossed that Ubisoft continue showing interest in the series for the future.

Not sure if anyone has put this up elsewhere, I didn't see anything. I tend to check games out through Gamespot though, and this is their official review of the game.

Gamespot

While I have a PSP, when I read the review and whatnot, I decided against getting it. In a way it seems like it is a bit like a fan service and I've only played Symphonia and part of Phantasia, so I don't know much to get excited about characters being thrown together. I wouldn't exactly be getting giddy. The graphics look a bit choppy as well. Reminds me of FFVII graphics...the original, which is not a compliment.

Has anyone else played this game to share some member opinions on it?

Played this game. It's pretty fun actually. I recommend getting a female character if I were you... Surprisingly, you can make your dude wear maid costumes and nekomimi. Christ. I was scarred for life. It's a good thing that you can change the design of your character via different equipments that you are wearing, but plenty share the same skin... apart from the Unique items that can be obtained from the dungeon, of course.

Not far off the start of the game, you are able to change your classes or get new classes. The best thing is that you are able to retain the level of the particular class which you just used. Meaning, LvL22Warrior-><-LvL1Swordsman. It's pretty n3@t if you ask me.

As for the battle system... I have yet to become bored of it so far... There's plenty of combos to explore xD Anyways... there's a new game+ if you didn't know... The only complaint on the game is, horrid english dubbing *sob*, why can't they just leave the jap voicings back in. ;-;

I was at Gamestop the other day and saw this but was hesitant to pick it up. Is it any good? I'm looking for a new PSP game and this is one of them that caught my eye.

Any fellow Dreamers play/complete this game?

This game is criminally being put under "january sale status" at my local GAME store. and namco bandai should hang there head in shame for not building up this franchise before.

+ Opening sequence, classic anime movie intro, looks great and introduces all the characters.

+ Each of the Tales of Characters gets there music from there game when you are doing a quest for them e.g. Tales of Abyss music with Luke and Tear for instance.

+ Combat system. Real time which actually works intelligent allies, who you can manually control at any time.

+ Crafting. Cook, Forge new weapons, armour, add gem affects to robes, hats and so forth or make tools to help you gather resources and make medicines and so forth. Besides cook sushi owns XD

+ Customisation. You are the hero =p Gain titles for completing certain tasks, change appearance with different armour, weapon sets and compete against Tales of Characters in "Trial" events (sometimes 3 on 1 XD)

+ EX quests. Basically gain maps from killing certain creatures to gain access to harder version of the maps with tougher creatures but also bonus items (perhaps you will find a chicken, frog suit? XD)

+ Limit breaks. Yes limit breaks are in this game, once you master all your skills (basically the more times you use a skill, it will "level up" and unlock other moves) or reach level 45 with Tales of characters.

+ Hard/Mania mode and other unlockables when complete game and importantly everything carries on except quest completion I believe.

+ Quests. Eliminate, Rescue, Craft, Deliver, Trial. Okay some quests are lame like make 5 sandwiches, but the quests are flexible, (can be taken any time) and the Trial quests (beat up Tales of Characters) are very rewarding.

+ Team evaluation. More fame and they like you more ^^ If they do refuse though, leave town and re-enter.

- Grinding. Highest level is 250 ( I heard?) and your level is reset when you change job class ''

- Storyline. I actually did enjoy the storyline when there is voices and when characters are having banter at each other e.g. some quite funny jokes, fanfare I guess. However the actual main story unfortunatly has no anime custscenes and it basically involves, kill bad guy, move to location, save world, etc.

- The Wi-Fi mode. Wow I can swap certain items which I will probably not need as I can buy/craft better stuff and who else is likely to have this game?

- The beginning. When you are playing solo in beginning it pretty daunting and picking up logs, wheat, eggs, grapes, etc in beginning sounds lame until you unlock the crafting options.

Overall though this game did 4 things

- Brought Tales of Eternia which will indulge my anime fix I'm sure and also inner RPGness =p
- Brought Luke figurine (only to realise Tear is very hard to find ><)
- Tales of Abyss battle music equals epic win.
- Found me to these forums

Yea, my flatmate got the game out of gamestation the other day for a pretty decent price. I've yet to have an extensive play, but I was having a go, and it looks rather fun. More dungeon crawling than I expeced, but thats no problem for me, I like Dungeon crawl rpgs. The only trouble I had was when I tried to hit the enemies, my character would keep swiping on a slightly different axis and missing. Looks good though, I look forward to playing more.

Yeah I had a similiar issue, I think actually using the d-pad to run towards the enemy e.g. if enemy is on right of screen use d-pad to run there instead of using analog will improve your accuracy as it forces your character to "engage" in combat.

Also in regards to combat you can - block (magic including), jump, sidestep, overlimit (can't get knock over, stronger attacks, use limit break if learnt) or instead of overlimit, entire team artes spam.

Also Swordsman = epic win because of Rending Tiger Blade, its a 8 hit artes which costs 51 TP but you can spam it like crazy. I achieved like a 50+ hit combo XD

Finally for lazy gamers, there is a auto-control mode.

Oh I'm currently level 59, 50 hours 40 minutes spent.

Finally one more issue, lag when running on field map, only happened in one hard dungeon map where there was too many sandworms being generated. (oh reminds me, no random battles, you walk into enemies to trigger battle)

Edit: If its a axis issue, especially on small enemies use down and attack to swipe low or up and attack at same time to hit airbonre enemies.

Hahah, thanks for the tips, I was using the analogue stick so perhaps I'll try with the D-Pad ^^ Just one of those things I'll need to get a hang of though I guess, wouldn't put me off the game. I was playing for a good ten minutes before I even realised there was a block button. My flat-mate was was on the second dungeon and she hadn't realised XD She's a dumbass though.

The game is pretty much a learning experience, for example the limit breaks and mastering artes, I only learnt like two days ago I think

It rewards you for the grind I guess and also good old experimentation

Only thing I find kinda lame about Tales of the World, is that many of the games were never released here (had to wikipedia most of them and although most of them seem to have similiar plot e.g. save the world, they all seem like pretty good games) considering USA gamer feedback.

For example today I brought Jade Curtiss and Guy Cecil figurines

Haha yea, thats sure a problem :\ I've played Phantasia and Symphonia, but still to get a hold of Eternia. I have a plan though, that involves my flatmate buying it XDXD We didn't even get Abyss >_< or Rebirth >_< or legendia >_<I hate my life.

Tell me about it - ToW went down to £15 and into the BOGOF deal on PSP titles - pre-ordered the import so paid full price but I got my enjoyment out of it so i'm not complaining.

Swordsman is definitely the way to go - 100% with you on that - Tiger Blade > Light Cannon> Rending Tiger Blade combo FTW. I was really lucky with mine - in the first duel with a named character they dropped a Long Sword with a great stats boost - that thing lasted me right until the last few dungeons when upgraded to the radiants.

And dont forget the duels!
For anyone who liked the 'legends' battles at the end of the colosseums in ToS, ToE and TotA this game is for you - you get to battle each of the named characters. At first its just 1 on 1 battles but nearer the end its just you versus three of them - can be quite interesting and difficult depending on what class you've gone with.

Really liked the Crafting system - a good mix between Djinn's shop in TotA and Star Ocean IIIs Item creation system. - managed to get a lvl 100 in all but the attire skill - had real trouble leveling that one for some reason.

I got ~75 hours out of mine before i finished it - but that was with only 90% of the quests completed and huge gaps in both the monster and collectors books. Trained up all the Tales characters to lvl+50 and used 5 out of the 10, never been big into using the magic users (except for Tear). There's really tonnes of stuff to do.

As for controls - stick to the D-Pad for your attacks - stay clear of the analogue stick except dodging attacks and the likes. And if your having problems with the control system now - just consider it good practice for when the new titles come out (or if you get hold of TotA).

The big enemies are terrible for lag in this one - i think the scond to last and final dungeons are the worst for it.

Overall a real good game if you dont mind a quest based system, a bit of dungeon trawling and aren't bothered about a detailed storyline thats usually expected from a Tales game.

Ah nice feedback there

I'm currently pimped up in all radiant gear except greaves (for swordsman and hunter, I need to start the long grind on the other job classes eventually) because I happened to have found gilgamesh jet boots in a hard dungeon

As for crafting, yeah the attribute skills is a pain in the arse, mainly due to gathering enough rocks for grind stones, to polish up all the gems.

I'm currently only level 100 in cooking although u can increase them to up to 110 by crafting certain weapons, armour, etc

Oh I also brought ToW for only £9.99 as I had £5 on my GAME card ^^

Also yeah duels are pretty funky but I have to admit in 1 vs 1 I just spammed demonic chaos XD

Finally Tear > Holy Song > win

Finished Tales of the World finally today.

Level 67 Swordsman with like 60 Luke, Tear and a 45 Leon.

Also like the ending, how all the Tales of .. characters get some little speech and happy ending ^^

I completed like 86% of the quests (radiant ones, flourite making ones and I think senel/ninja quest are remaining)

I have to say the final boss wasn't too difficult, unlike all these gamefaq, articles, I was expected him to come back alive in 2nd form. (although he reminds me of sephiroth, gilgamesh from Fate Stay Night with the ****) but hey more challenging then FF bosses.

Needless to say, even when he does his cool super, I think only leon died as he had low hp but Tear and Holy Song ftw. (hp restore, damage, defence boost)

Plus a Radiant Howl from Luke and my own limit break helped as well =D

In regards to skills I got all mine up to 100 (including attribute) but damn making atrribute armour was boring >.<

Awesome, glad to hear you got it polished off now get playing ToE more XD

Nice one - will agree with you that the final boss was a bit anti-climatic but it was still good - managed to end my battle with my Swordman's Hi-Ougi - which just made it all the sweeter when the boss fell on the last stroke - timing of the animation was perfect! Though i did loose Lloyd to a powerful attack just as i activated my attack so didn't get round to revive him to gain the EXP.

Did you have any lag problems in the final dungeon?

Shame you didn't get the ninja - it was a good character once you got some of the higher move sets, though his radiant armour was a bit crappy, i think the best stat wise was the swordman - while the best looking was probably the thief - the hunter loosing marks just for the hat!

Did you manage to complete all the duels? How did you go with the Reid/Chester/Arche combo? I actualy lost my first go when Arche wiped me out with a Tractor Beam - got caught in Reid combo so wasn't able to stop her activating it!

Fortunatly no lag from those jabbywocky monsters. I have to admit the radiant swordsman helmet looks like rubbish.

I completed all the 1 v 1 1 v 2 and 1 v 3 duels except the Senel one for ninja invitation hence why I don't think I have that title for defeating all tales characters.

The Reid/Chester/Arche combo was annoying at first mainly due to Arche casting dragon breath or whatever that spell is called causing major damage (1000+) whilst chester would knock me down with giga shot and Reid catching me in his combo. First time I got defeated I think (I reset) but I think I wasn't looking at the screen or something, as in my next go I just rushed Arche with rending tiger blade and my Swordman's Hi-Ougi as like Chester/Reid only did like 2-10 damage per hit? (had like 700+ defence by then) Also I think changing my title to "Master Hunter" instead of "Bearer of Love" helped a lot lol

I probably would have finished it later but the craft flourite quest was seriously pissing me off as I was trying to attribute armour with attribute bonuses (as for raising attribute, a good tip is to check if attributing actually rises the stats as I know once you are in the high skill level only polishing emeralds, rubies, sapphires has any affect and of course making them in jewellery to sell or for equipment obviously)

I had serious lag problems for that one - it took me forever to do anything, which was a particular pain when trying to get to the treasure chests cos where-ever i went there was at least two of them in every direction - easily doubled my time in the dungeon because of that.

Couldn't believe how powerful Arche was in those battles - wish she'd been that strong as a playable. Was expecting more problems with ToS trio than i did - though the most fun had to be the 'New Generations" duel - though i would have liked to have seen a Kratos/Lloyd/Raine trio.

hmm maybe EU version got optimised slightly? lol

and yeah Arche was overpowered, even quite annoying in that treasure hunt quest 3rd floor of the world tree.

I think they only learn there godly moves at like 60+ (e.g. Tear and Grand Cross)

Also fully agree on "New Generations" battle =)

Haha, I soooo have no idea what you guys are talknig about XD I definetely needs to schedule some time with ToW, somewhere in beside all the other game sin the line ^^;

Hey its a possibility they work on the bugs all the time - i just felt sorry for the people who got the early versions of ToE - if they started their game without the right software update as soon as they reached Volt the game would freeze and would go no further - you'd have to start from the very beginning with the update.

See i didn't take mine that far - spent too much time training them all equally and got a bit disheartened when the ones i needed to train kept refusing to join my party - damn you Kratos/Leon! - then just decided to go for the final boss once i'd got everyone's Hi-Ougi.

Ah I see, I was just Luke/Tear biased and so my 3rd member (Leon) was support Its also because I found Tears/Lukes moves so damn cool in that New Generations fight. Also I think two characters don't have Hi-Ougi? One being Chester I believe? In regards to Hi-Ougi learning, I only got Rutee, Stahn, Leon, Luke, Tear to the required level (45 I believe)

IIRC four of the characters dont actually have Hi-Ougis, though its a shame you didn't train up Kratos/Lloyd/Genis/Reid as theirs are pretty powerful and visually among the best.
If you liked Tear's/Luke's skill set in this one then you should see them in Abyss - Tear is considerably better both magically and physically, I would actually feel comfortable using tear as a melee character with her abyss stats.
Wish i'd taken the time to take a few character a bit higher to see the more powerful moves in-particularly Leon/Rutee as I doubt i'll get round to getting ToD if they don't do a localisation of the directors cut so I wouldn't have minded seeing them two at their most powerful.

Bloody Rose with Rutee is quite yummy (72 TP!)

Oh PAL RPGamer its all about Holy Song thanks to that, last bosses final attack did like a lot less damage. Also its interesting personally controlling Luke in Abyss, as you get different starting battle quotes, and using coil and slag assault, light spear cannon is funky

Well yeah always had Holy Song or Raine's Barrier Field and Nurse (or better) on the shortcuts - thats just self preservation - Rutee could handle the healing at a push but if i needed a secondary healer Kratos was the option of choice as he could take the damage better than most and still use moves like Healing Wind.

Well if you liked Slag assault - then check out Rending quake in TotA one of Lukes better FOF attacks.

Hey all, I bought the game a week ago and now I'm in Doplund. I'll tell you what I think of it.

Pro's
-Many characters, chars from ToS as well
-Good combat system
-cooking, forging, attire etc.
-cool lore and story
-nice environment and decoration


Cons
-not being able to stick with one team because the party always gets dismissed after completing a quest (annoying)
-having to load area's, so not like in ToS where you walk to another region
-Mage and priest professions still have the same skills as in ToS.
-Mini quests are boring as hell

I have a question, my team is normally made up of me (mage), a priest (segal or raine), and 2 magic knights(leon and stahn I think). Is this a good team?

The developers should keep new games to one system. Now I have to buy a whole bunch of systems to play the Tales games I don't have. =[

Sorry for late reply but you are gonna find the cameo fights e.g. 1 vs 1 1 vs 2 1 vs 3 very hard if not impossible and your final fight will be much tougher as well.

Its better if your a tank class e.g. warrior, swordsman, so you can take damage whilst others attack. I also perfer tales characters as they got unique abilities. In the end I find physical attack characters more useful due to no charge time.