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Japanese preorder bonus dawns for Tales of Symphonia

Posted May 5th 2008 11:00PM by Candace Savino

Adding to the ever-growing list of "cool stuff Japan gets that we don't," Bandai Namco is offering a sweet preorder bonus with Tales of Symphonia. The RPG, which releases in Japan in late June, will come with a Dramatic DVD for gamers that preorder the title. The DVD will include original animated scenes that add to the game's story, which sounds like a pretty nice extra to us.

We're sure the DVD will never see the light of day outside of Japan (officially), so the rest of us will just have to be content to look at screens and pretend that's dramatic. Some new screens might help you with such a task, so just click on the "Read" link below (or the picture above) to check them out.

Gallery: Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World


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More details on monsters in Tales of Symphonia

Posted Apr 28th 2008 9:00PM by Candace Savino
Filed under: News

Some of you may not be fond of Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World's fighting-with-monsters scheme, but we think it looks pretty neat. Spencer Yip from Siliconera gives us an even more in-depth look into the system than before, reporting that you can ditch your entire party (with the exception of the main character Emil, of course), for a party full of monsters, like in the screen shown above.

After you battle monsters, you'll often have a chance to negotiate with them and have them fight for you. It's not as simple as "catching" them all, though, since some monsters will refuse to join your party if they have a grudge against one of your other allied creatures. Since the game provides 200 different species of monster that you can fight with, which we think this can add a lot of depth to this Tales rendition. As long as you don't become obsessed with collecting them, that is, because then you might as well be playing something else.

Drawing more similarities from Pokemon, these monsters also evolve. However, you can cause their evolutions by serving them certain foods, so the cooking system in the game should be pretty interesting. We're not sure yet, though, whether these are true, outward-and-inward evolutions, or just stat alterations (as we reported before).

Those of you who are looking forward to this title still have a long wait ahead of you. The RPG is set to hit North America in Q4 of this year.

Gallery: Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World

Pictures of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World

Posted Apr 17th 2008 8:00PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: News, Screens


More delightful media has emerged from the Namco Bandai Editors' Day event! We've updated our gallery with new English screens (and a few inexplicable Japanese screens) of Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World.

The latest game in Namco Bandai's milked-to-death RPG series (though the relative milked-ness of the Tales name may not have any bearing on the quality of this game!) features a new twist in the form of 200 unique monsters, all of whom can (and, perhaps, gotta) be caught. You can swap out monster party members and alter their stats with various foods.

Dawn of the New World will dawn on the shelves this fall.

Gallery: Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World

Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the new screens

Posted Mar 2nd 2008 5:00PM by Candace Savino
Filed under: Screens


The more we see and hear about Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, the more excited we get. Not only are we craving some RPGs for the Wii (although Opoona and Baroque will be out relatively soon), but also we're happy to see how the game has improved. Tales has come a long way since its earlier screens, and we can't wait until it hits American shores.

To see a deluge of new Tales of Symphonia screenshots, make sure to check past the break.

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Namco Bandai is late with our invite to the localization party

Posted Feb 27th 2008 3:00PM by David Hinkle
Filed under: Screens


We guess Namco's PR people are running a bit behind, as they just sent us a press release today letting us know that Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World will get the localization treatment. Hey, Namco, we knew that.

Regardless, they did manage to help us beef up our gallery of screens from the game by providing us with a few new ones. Also, note that some of the screens are the same as some of the Japanese screens in our gallery. We included them because now the menus have labels. Labels that we can read.

So hit up our gallery below for the new screens and set aside some money for later on this year when the game releases.

Gallery: Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World


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Tales of Symphonia makes a date with Japan

Posted Feb 13th 2008 9:00PM by Candace Savino
Filed under: News, Screens


We know that many of you are looking forward to Tales of Symphonia: Knights of Ratatosk (or, we should say, Dawn of the New World). Those of you who live in Japan won't have to wait long, though. Namco Bandai is releasing the game in two months, placing an April 24th date on the title.

Although this news probably doesn't affect most of us directly, it's good to know that the game is in its final stages. Hopefully this means that American localization will soon follow suit. As for Europe and other PAL nations, we're still waiting to hear word that the game will be coming to those regions. We're assuming the "epic" RPG will show up, eventually -- it just might be a long wait.

In the meantime, check out our updated gallery below for tons of Symphonia screens.

Gallery: Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World

Nintendo Power's big reveal: Tales of Symphonia coming to the U.S.

Posted Feb 6th 2008 7:00PM by Candace Savino
Filed under: News

The newest issue of Nintendo Power reports what Tales of Symphonia fans in the U.S. (and, we're assuming, the rest of North America) have been hoping for. That's right -- the localization of the Wii game is confirmed, and Knights of Ratatosk will be heading to North American shores. Only, it's not going to be called Knights of Ratatosk. The game has a new subtitle, and will be known instead as Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World. At least that's easier to spell, albeit a lot more generic than the previous title.

Nintendo Power also boasts that the new Tales will be the Wii's first "epic RPG." Is that an insult to games like Opoona and Baroque, or are those games simply not "epic" enough? Whether it's the first or not, though, we're certainly glad that the game will be localized, especially since it seems to be shaping up pretty nicely.

Even though this is good news, is anyone disappointed that Nintendo Power's "secret RPG" turned out to be a not-so-secret game?

Gallery: Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World



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Animal-things of Symphonia

Posted Jan 28th 2008 12:00PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Imports, Screens


Two "Centurion Spirits of Ratatoskr," some kind of spiritual protectors, will join your party in Tales of Symphonia: Knights of Ratatoskr. The first is a grey, sort of feline Pokémon-looking creature called Tenebrae who works with the power of darkness, and is responsible for protagonist Emil's status as a Knight of Ratatosk. The second is a cat-child-thing called Aqua, who is unsurprisingly expert with water-based abilities. Aqua works with party member Richter.

We can't quite determine if the attachment between these Centurions and party members means that they'll be relegated to a support role or if they're in the party. We think a big magical cat-monster would be a pretty good asset on the team.

Tales of more Symphonia screens

Posted Jan 7th 2008 4:00PM by Candace Savino
Filed under: Screens

There's been a good amount of Tales of Symphonia: Knights of Ratatosk media around lately, and fortunately, it just keeps on coming. The latest screens show some battle action, as well as some stills from the Jump Festa trailer.

Aside from all that, there's also some nice character art to gawk at (like this picture of Malta to the right), so make sure to take a look after the break.

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Tales of spankin' new trailers

Posted Dec 28th 2007 1:30PM by Alisha Karabinus
Filed under: Video


Not only were we just treated to lovely new screens from Tales of Symphonia: Knights of Ratatosk, but now we finally get to check out the trailer from Jump Festa. The video is available on Namco Bandai's official site, and also on YouTube (see above, obviously) at slightly lower quality. Choose your viewing pleasure! The good news is that it's a lot less nausea-inducing than the last event trailer we saw from the game.

Gallery: Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World

Tales of Symphonia looks pretty again

Posted Dec 26th 2007 6:00PM by Candace Savino
Filed under: Screens


New screens for Tales of Symphonia: Knights of Ratatosk have popped up, and they're certainly an improvement over some of the older ones. Also of note is the fact that you can mate your monsters to make even stronger beasts for battle (ala Dragon Quest Monsters). Other than that, there's not much new information on the title. So, how about it, RPG fans? Is this game on your radar?

To see some drool-worthy character screens, make sure to battle your way past the break.

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Tales of Symphonia's Lloyd gets around

Posted Oct 17th 2007 7:00PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: News


Now that we can see the Tales of Symphonia: Knights of Ratatoskr trailer without taking Dramamine first, we can clearly see Tales of Symphonia's protagonist Lloyd in the final shot there. So he'll be making a cameo appearance, at least, in the new game. Siliconera pointed out the cameo, using the skill of maybe having played Tales of Symphonia.

But that's not the only Bandai Namco game Lloyd is wandering into. Via an appearance as what looks like a playable character in Soul Calibur Legends, Lloyd will instantly double the series' foppish dandy quotient (FDQ). But hey, having more Namco series characters in Soul Calibur Legends brings us one step closer to our dream of fighting as the Prince of All Cosmos.

Tales of Shakonia

Posted Oct 3rd 2007 5:00PM by Alisha Karabinus
Filed under: Video


This trailer for next year's Tales of Symphonia sequel is looking pretty good, but we'll warn you that it's a little on the shaky side. Yep, just when you thought we were done with TGS, a few last minute items keep popping up, like this little gem.

We know a lot of people have mixed feelings about Tales of Symphonia -- some people are just rabid for it, while others found it disappointing -- but how's Knights of Ratatoskr striking you?

Gallery: Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World

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