Tales

That's out on PS5 and PC in its full retail release on October 15th.

Then we're going to get Tales of Eternia Remastered from Bandai Namco.

This one looks really good.

I never got to play this Tales game, so I'm looking forward to it.

That'll be on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X and S, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC.

Unfortunately, in North America, we will not get a physical release, but it will be physically available in other regions, so you can always look into importing it from places like Video Games Plus or whoever.

Next one.

So we have, we have Tales of Arise.

Tales of Arise.

We're getting into the, the Tales Of series a little bit here.

Tales, that's gonna be a...

Yeah.

There's a lot there.

A lot of Tales there.

Um, kinda like what Kevin had mentioned, uh, see if we can pick a game to piss someone off.

Uh, Tales of Arise.

Mm-hmm.

Um-

He loves it.

I, I, I do lo- I, uh, it's not like...

I probably wouldn't put it top three Tales games, but, like-

Okay.

Yeah.

Get, like, Bandai Namco, get the Tales team to make a Legend of Dragoon or whatever, and, like, that's the big new PlayStation exclusive RPG, especially if Square doesn't wanna do that for you anymore-

Yeah

... with the Final Fantasy, uh, ties there.

but also the modern ease games uh if you want to get more into jrpgs they inject a little more i would say story and like characterization than maybe the earlier ones and so that will give you a taste of what else this genre as a whole kind of offers outside of just really cool mechanical like action gameplay

yep exactly And then from like an action perspective, there's games like Tales of series.

Also well

known.

They sometimes do more fighting like combos rather than pure action.

But the most recent entry, Tales of Arise, I would argue is more of like a fluid sort of action experience that's less about the combos and more of like a...

Traditional, I guess.

Yeah.

It's interesting you say that because I do think that's a defining thing of both Trails and Nihon Falcom as a company is that you say like, I don't know if they'll go a whole year without releasing something, whereas other companies are spending years.

between their entries and so the nice thing about being a Trails fan is like you're never really hurting for something to be told I feel a weird like there's there's a parallel here between Trails fans and Tales fans maybe just because of the like syllabic similarities yeah but as a Tales fan I always felt like man, we're waiting forever for the next entry in the Tales series.

It's been a minute since Arise, and we are getting remasters.

you are welcome at home to question whether all of the remasters we're getting are really the ones that needed remastering or not.

I love Berseria.

Velvet Crow is one of my favorite Tales protagonists, but I don't know that we needed a new version of Tales of Berseria.

I think the old one worked just fine.

But there is a new, was it Tales...

Wow.

Have you ever played Tales of the Abyss? No.

It's a great game.

We'll talk about it on the Secret Reports because I have a lot of JRPGs from the Tales series that I love.

Yeah, I'll tell

you this.

I've never played a single Tales game.

Oh, my

Pretty sweet stuff.

And then, yeah, that evolved, especially through one franchise in particular that's one of my favorites, the Tales franchise.

Tales of Symphonia was widely lauded as, like, hey, you can play four-player co-op in the battles with your friends.

It's great.

I mean, you don't get your fourth character until, like, several hours into the game, so, like, it kind of sucks for the fourth person, but, you know.

But I think that also once the era of the MMO came out where you could just be four separate people out in the same overworld going four separate directions, I think that people were like, okay, this is better.

And I'm like, well, but I still like the singular focused experience, you know? I don't know.

The last Tales game did not include any co-op mode whatsoever.