The Tales Series is Disappearing in the West

Being a Tales fan is suffering. And rest in peace to Mutsumi Inomata, who passed away last month. She designed a massive chunk of the series' characters. :(

I distinctly remember Harada, director of the Tekken series, making a tweet about being fed up with Bamco having, apparently, a revolving door of executives who's only concerns were maximizing profits and advancing their careers.

It's baffling to think there wasn't a single original title for the Switch, the most popular platform uh Japan, this generation. Remember how many titles they put out in the DS/PSP era? Yes we didn't get most of them but still. What happened to those studios ? Probably moves to those now dead mobile games... Whoppeeee....

Mutsumi Inomata's character designs for the titles she designed for are so iconic and colorful and fun and her art is so gorgeous, it's heartbreaking to see Bamco letting her legacy rot like this.

Graces and Xillia need to be ported to PC and current gen consoles

I'm getting really disheartened with the Tales series and Namco. They practice some lame business decisions. Symphonia's recent release is plain SAD...

Where’s my Abyss re-release Bamco

It hurts my soul to see legacy of tales slowly being erased because Namco hasn’t rereleased anything on steam/ modern consoles outside of a verspira and symphonia or the last few mainline games

I love the Tales series and Symphonia on the Gamecube is THE game that got me in to JRPGs. I am actually playing a fan translation of Tales of Innocence on DS right now. My favorite is either Symphonia or Berseria.

See guys? Jon isn't the only person that makes good videos in this channel. You can complain about other people opinions, but going to hate the person behind it is wrong.

The way Bandai Namco treats fans of this series is like having an Evil Stepmother on steroids.

Dude thank you for the call out to legendia. That soundtrack was pure gold and I loved the hell out of that game! This is a game that needs a full remaster just so it can be playable in the way it deserves to be. It'd probably be a huge money sink and terrible for them profit wise because this game isn't popular enough, but it'd be so nice to have for the OST alone. Plus poor Moses could actually hit something if it got a full overhaul. Also, I love Abyss. It's a game you have to play at least twice to truly see the MC as he is. He is the "hated" MC on your first play through. It's the second one that shows you just how much of his true growth and personality is there all along. Abyss needs more love. ❤

It's ironic the developers spoke about changing the art style of Arise to be more "threatening" in order to appeal more to male players just as we were entering an era where cute art styles like those in Genshin are absolutely thriving.

My favourite video game series. There is so much potential in rereleases alone. And then there's Bandai Namco who just does nothing with it.

This makes me happy that I have them all physical. I'm still eagerly awaiting the next Tales of... game!

The recent Xenosaga collab for the mobile game makes more sense now. The series is joining Xenosaga as a series destined to not be available for download.

Another reason why piracy is necessary, the good thing here is that these games and the DLC are pretty much preserved thankfully so you can still play them on modded systems

I recommand a lot to follow "Life Bottle Production". It's a Tales of fan group who are doing more than Bandai Namco for this game series. They have done the recent Tales of Destiny (PS2 English patch translation) and Innocence R English patch translation. They also done HD texture pack for Abyss, Hearts R and Legendia. Now they are working on the Rebirth English patch translation. 😁

Being a fan of any Namco series is crushing, I wish they would respect their games like they deserve. Tales has always been my favourite franchise and it feels like they gave up right when JRPGs started to become successful again. At least The Legend of Heroes has blossomed in its place and eventually filled the hole in my heart that Tales left behind <\3

I would attend a college course on the Tales series taught by Dan.