The latest “mothership” Tales title is Tales of Graces for the Wii, due for release soon and by the looks of the trailers featured below one of the most impressive Tales games to date.
Few could help but notice the fairly impressive graphical quality appears on par with the other “nextgen” Tales mothership title, Tales of Vesperia.
This either suggests the Wii’s hardware has been skilfully employed, or perhaps that the less than spectacular graphics of Tales of Vesperia on the Xbox 360 beta and the even worse graphics of the “Perfect” PS3 version are evidence of Namco’s poor handling of these systems…
The game itself is said to be one of the longest Tales games yet (impressive considering length of such titles as Tales of the Abyss), but other than Tales of Hearts style seamless world navigation it appears the game follows the usual Tales formula.
Character design is handled by Mutsumi Inomata, whose shoujo-esque designs may be familiar from Tales of Destiny and Tales of Rebirth, amongst others. The game is voiced by the usual cast of top seiyuu.
Tales of Graces is due December 10th, perhaps an unfortunate choice of release date for RPG fans considering Final Fantasy XIII is due a week later.
No information on an international release is yet available, and nor is it clear whether the title will later find its way onto the PlayStation as with previous Nintendo to Sony Tales ports – there is certainly some suspicion that it will.
You fuckin grahpic whores are the reason rpgs are starting to suck! Tales series looks fine that is there style leave them the f♥♥k alone…..I have not played a tales game that didn’t have a decent story and fun gameplay and guess what this game brings back freaken blast calburs now I can spam arts again!!!
Isn’t Tales Of Graces coming to the Wii because they don’t have a Mothership title yet? We had DoTNW (Which I… enjoyed…) but we kinda need a Mothership!
Tales’ games are built upon over dramatic”ness” and typical characters because it’s Japanese.
Have you ever watched an anime show? They are like BUILT upon angsty pasts, and out-of-this-world drama.
It’s like you’re playing an anime. I find it quite tasteful.
I’m very excited for Graces. (: It looks great, for a Wii game. (Keep in mine Nintendo is actually directed toward a general family audience. Hardcore gamers? Maybe you should buy a different console instead of complaining.) I’m really pumped, I hope it gets dubbed- no matter how “horrible” dubs can be. It’s more enjoyable, like watching a movie.
Anyway. /Excited!
HOpe for PS3 ver like Vesperia .
This game looks beyond impressive! Although I wouldn’t say that it has impressive graphical quality, it’s not bad by any means but Vesperia I think looks better.
Tales have always been my favorite JRPG. I never really liked Final Fantasy always too overrated (IX, XII, and XIII are the only exceptions) The battle style looks great, defiantly the best in the series I only hope the characters and story can match or even top Vesperia. This actually makes me wish I didn’t sell my Wii! lol Either way I hope it gets ported to the PS3 or hell, even the Xbox! I’ll be keeping an eye on this; it looks to be one the best RPGs I’ve seen.
yay!! they’re bringing back CC!!