Bandai Namco has kicked off its Tales sequence Thirtieth-anniversary celebrations with the Anniversary Undertaking Particular Broadcast. And whereas there have been no particular surprises or bulletins, sequence producer Yusuke Tomizawa did reiterate that the workforce can be engaged on extra remasters.
Within the unique Japanese broadcast (reported on by Gematsu), Tomizawa-san said that he could not reveal particular plans, however did say that Bandai Namco intends to “present [remastered games] pretty persistently.”
The builders revealed the Anniversary Undertaking shortly after the reveal of Tales of Graces f Remastered, which is made up of a workforce that’s devoted to bringing older video games within the sequence to fashionable methods. Graces f Remaster is the primary recreation in that “sequence”, and it launches in January 2025.
Tomizawa-san said through the broadcast that sure, the event line of the Remastered Undertaking has been established and that the workforce is working exhausting. The truth is, an English Thirtieth Anniversary web site is now dwell, following the Japanese web site which launched earlier within the 12 months.
A separate English stream, titled 2024 Tales of Anniversary Celebration, did not add a lot to the dialog, however Graces f producer Yuki Ishikawa did reply a fan query about remastering 2D video games within the sequence, saying that he would not suppose “the one right reply” to rerelease or remake a recreation is to transform it from 2D to 3D. Whereas he likes that “type of expression”, he additionally says “there’s something great about pixel artwork”. And we could not agree extra.
So there isn’t any information about any new remasters or remakes, however they’re coming! We’ll nearly actually right here about them subsequent 12 months, anyway, so we’ll hold our eyes peeled. Plus, Tales of Graces f Remastered is sort of a month away, as the sport launches on seventeenth January 2025.
Tales of Phantasia celebrated its twenty ninth birthday over the weekend in Japan. Initially launched on the Tremendous Famicom on fifteenth December 1995, Phantasia grew to become the very first recreation within the Tales sequence. We have solely ever seen the sport on GBA within the West.
North America first acquired a style of the franchise on PlayStation due to Tales of Future (which has a wonderful Japan-only PS2 remake), whereas Europe first skilled the sequence on GameCube due to Tales of Symphonia. The most recent recreation within the sequence is Tales of Come up, which launched on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC in 2021.
Earlier this 12 months, a Change launch of Tales of Xillia was noticed on-line, sparking some hypothesis concerning the PS3 unique getting a rerelease. Graces ultimately acquired introduced, however it has many questioning whether or not the Xillia duo is subsequent on the playing cards.
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