Monday, December 22, 2008

Next Tales of Officially Shown

According to Japanese gaming blog GPara, Namco Bandai's Hideo Baba took some time during Namdai's stage event at this weekend's JumpFesta to officially show off the next title in the long-running Tales of series.

Still without an official name, Baba reportedly referred to the game as Tales of 10, though Namdai has since revealed that to be only a working title, and have reverted to referring to it as simply Next Tales of again.

The game has reportedly been in development for nearly 2 years with Baba as the producer, though they haven't yet revealed who is handling the character designs, which leads me to believe its neither Mutsumi Inomata or Kousuke Fujishima.

The game's setting is described as middle ages European-esque, though further details have not been revealed. Baba said to expect more news sometime this next spring. Additionally, he mentioned that some sort of footage for the game is available on the bonus DVD that comes with the recently released Tales of Hearts Anime Edition.

Frankly, this is getting annoying. It seems like they're taking a page out of Final Fantasy XIII's book on this one - a move that does not impress me.

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