Tales of Vesperia Coming To PS3, Tales of Graces (Wii) Announced

Originally Posted by Mr. Wonderful

I KNOW! It's the heroine this time! Not the hero!

It could have a twist..... or not. Let's hope the combat is just as awesome as ever

Meet Sophie. She may look innocent, but -- like pretty much every other heroine from a Tales game -- she's a mean lady to have around when battle breaks out.

An amnesiac who's reluctant to deal with others unless she has to, Sophie first meets up with Tales of Graces hero Asbel when they're caught up in a border conflict between two kingdoms. She's got amnesia so bad that she doesn't remember her own name, so Asbel calls her Sophie; she likes the name, and they go from there. You do not have to be the next George Lucas to figure out that she probably has some dark story lurking behind her.

While Tales of Graces isn't exactly rocking the boat when it comes to JRPG heroines, there is a new quirk to its action-oriented battles. Up to now, Tales games had you launching normal attacks with one button and special ones with another. This time, though, the button functions are divided up by the exact type of attack -- physical, magical, recovery, and so on. Asbel, for example, executes quicker physical moves with the Wiimote's A Button and more powerful sword strikes with the B Button; Sophie, for her part, executes martial arts with A and healing/status-ailment moves with B.

Game producer Hideo Baba calls it the "Style Shift" system, and he sees it as pretty revolutionary: "We wanted to construct something intuitive, exciting, and easy enough for anyone to taste for themselves. RPG gameplay involves fighting lots of battles, so it's always important that battles stay enjoyable after repeated play. Pursuing the characters' unique traits via the battle system is one way to fully explore the depth behind each one in a non-story manner."

The new Tales hits the Wii this winter in Japan and presumably sometime later in America.

Tales of Graces refines its battle system to Star Ocean III.

OH YES OH YES OH YES.

Suddenly I'm that much more excited about Graces. I hope it gets a PAL release sometime late 2010.

That's just fantastic. More reason to get this game!

The girl in the picture looks quite a bit like Presea. What little bit of the character's personality and backstory reminds me of Presea too. I'm not saying this is neccisarly a bad thing, I just thought I would say it.

Originally Posted by GK: 5895/9999

OH YES OH YES OH YES.

Suddenly I'm that much more excited about Graces. I hope it gets a PAL release sometime late 2010.

Considering Star Ocean IV was pretty much downgraded to a Team Symphonia level battle system, it's funny how things have worked out.

How is the gameplay in Tales of Graces? Is it still the battle system like the other Tales games where you touch a monster and go into the battle scene? And where up to four people can play? Or is it adventure like Zelda?

Originally Posted by Ganon the King

How is the gameplay in Tales of Graces? Is it still the battle system like the other Tales games where you touch a monster and go into the battle scene? And where up to four people can play? Or is it adventure like Zelda?

The first one, like a normal Tales.

Woot for our RPGs getting closer to being Fighting games!

nice the combat needs a little variety.

Originally Posted by Jeff

Woot for our RPGs getting closer to being Fighting games!

Take that back. Now!

I suck at fighting games, but i'm good at Tales. It's pretty much the only thing my friends can't do better than me. I want it to stay the same! ToV did it pretty well.

Originally Posted by GK: 5895/9999

I've decided to wait for the PS3 release instead of getting it on the 360, since I'm getting one soon anyway and there's all of that extra content. I mightn't get the PS3 version though if it takes almost a year again to come over to PAL again.

I was going to wait for the PS3 version too, but I caved in and got it for my 360 recently. I'm actually surprised I waited this long before getting it considering it might not even get a PS3 release here. I just didn't want to lose out on extra features.. but I guess I can always be stupid and get the PS3 version as well if it ever makes it over here.

Tales of Graces new footage from the Tales Festival.

Not even bothering to watch that until there is a higher quality version.

Originally Posted by Mr. Wonderful

Tales of Graces new footage from the Tales Festival.

Not even bothering to watch that until there is a higher quality version.

I'm with you I can't stand video s like that. Just please post the higher quality version when you find it.

I can't really tell whats going on in the video. Lol, first one to find a good version please post it here. ^^

The video is watchable. Bad quality, yeah, but it's not like he's flailing around.

It looks like more of the same so far. I'm still waiting on an in-depth battle gameplay video to see how it's working in the flesh, because those last notes had me excited. There's nothing really exciting in this new trailer, but nothing looking particularly bad either.

Tried watching that video. Couldn't stand more than a minute of it.

I just want TOG to have an awesome storyline (like ToS's story), awesome cel-shaded graphics, awesome customizing, awesome battle system (but even better than ToS) etc.

Originally Posted by Ganon the King

I just want TOG to have an awesome storyline (like ToS's story), awesome cel-shaded graphics, awesome customizing, awesome battle system (but even better than ToS) etc.

Lawl.

Originally Posted by Ganon the King

I just want TOG to have an awesome storyline (like ToS's story), awesome cel-shaded graphics, awesome customizing, awesome battle system (but even better than ToS) etc.

That would be the formula for sucsess.