Tales of Arise previews

[Izanagi89]

Seems some Tales of Arise impressions and previews are dropping

Gameinformer hands-on

Tales of Arise Hands-On Preview – Next-Gen Tales Approaches

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The actual battle theme sounds amazing! Also, tried searching, nothing came up so Demon Fang me if old.

 

[Seijuro]

The game looks absolutely amazing. Thanks for posting.

 

[Jencks]

Super excited for this game

 

[Xenosaga]

Holy shit the battle theme sounds amazing!? Sakuraba actually doing great work again!?

 

[Hopz2Brew]

Sounds promising.

 

[tiebreaker]

Nice. Gonna check the videos out.

 

[Gezech]

That battle theme sounds straight out of Eternal Sonata and I'm all for it.

 

[CrazyDude]

I really hope they didn't take out skits.

 

[Jencks]

I really hope they didn't take out skits.

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iirc they said skits are still in

 

[Huntersknoll]

This looks pretty great. I've never played a Tales before so this may be my first.

 

[Fisico]

I really hope they didn't take out skits.

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Skits are in, what form they take is a big question and they will talk about it later on.

 

[Dlanor A. Knox]

This looks so good.

Hopefully they make the demo public at some point, I remember reading that they wanted to release a demo.

 

[Arubedo]

This looks so good.

Hopefully they make the demo public at some point, I remember reading that they wanted to release a demo.

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They will probably have a demo for sure.
It's the same pattern as with Scarlet Nexus, they gave the same demo to the press a few weeks before release, then dropped it on consoles a month later.

 

[Akelisrain]

Music sounds great, and I look forward to playing this installment.

 

[Izanagi89]

I really hope they didn't take out skits.

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Skits are in but the form is unknown. Only thing confirmed to be removed is post battle screens. So no more post battle character interactions, which kinda sucks but not a deal breaker for me personally in any way.

 

[Amauri14]

Nice! Will check out later.

 

[StrangeRoboMemory]

Damn, this looks good. So the characters have unique team up supers ala Chrono Trigger?

 

[Helix]

Tales of Arise is actually looking super hot right now. good shit BAMCO!

 

[Synohan]

Tales is back

 

[RochHoch]

Sure looks like a Tales game, just waaaaaay prettier

Looks like they got rid of the end-of-battle status screen to seamlessly put you back in the overworld. Shame we're losing the party interactions that went with it.

 

[John Frost]

Looking good.

 

[burgerdog]

Is this game getting a free ps4 to ps5 upgrade? I pre ordered it for ps4 a long time ago when amazon had a good deal on buy 2 get 30% off.

 

[machtia]

That battle theme is giving me heavy Baten Kaitos vibes. It's like they finally took the shackles off Sakuraba and let him compose how he wants for this game.

 

[wouldyoukindly]

This looks so good. I just hope it can convince me more than Tales of Vesperia.

 

[Strings]

Outside of the LOD still being somewhat distracting, I love basically everything else about this. The UI is crazy clean, and the ability stuff the Gameinformer preview describes sounds cool (Kisara doesn't seem to have a dodge, but instead blocks everything, including damage aimed at allies).

Is this game getting a free ps4 to ps5 upgrade? I pre ordered it for ps4 a long time ago when amazon had a good deal on buy 2 get 30% off.

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Yeah, free upgrade.

 

[Mediking]

Looks so good. I just hope the story is good

 

[touchfuzzy]

You guys can hear the battle theme? All I hear is the character's jabbering the stupid names of their attacks. Hope you can turn that off.

 

[criteriondog]

Excluding bits of Symphonia that I played on the Gamecube when I was younger, this will probably be my first Tales game.

 

[Synohan]

The battle theme is great and sounds completely different from the demo with the rocky area and snow mountains. Maybe each region has a different battle theme like Kingdom Hearts.

 

[Inglorious Man]

Do we know if Tales of Arise will have Smart Delivery for Xbox Consoles? I know it has a free upgrade but the box art and the Microsoft website says it does not have Smart Delivery. I know that the other Namco Bandai game Scarlet Nexus has Smart Delivery for Xbox consoles.

 

[MrSaturn99]

This...actually looks good?

Like, really good. Holy hell.

Don't let me down, Namco.

 

[Kalor]

The previews are looking pretty good. Still weird to think that this is only the first Tales game without the PS3 generation, just when the PS4/XBO are winding down.

 

[HitMissYeah]

wow looks goods. And combat seems fun, hope this demo ends up in PSN.

 

[Xenosaga]

Outside of the LOD still being somewhat distracting, I love basically everything else about this. The UI is crazy clean, and the ability stuff the Gameinformer preview describes sounds cool (Kisara doesn't seem to have a dodge, but instead blocks everything, including damage aimed at allies).

Yeah, free upgrade.

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I am still sad that character portraits in the Menu are not 3D model... :(

 

[Kromeo]

Love me some linked artes, they were great in the Xillias

 

[Strings]

I am still sad that character portraits in the Menu are not 3D model... :(

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Well, in general, less 2D art is a bummer :( I reaaaally hope skits keep it, but I'm a bit worried with them not showing them yet.

The models are great at least, and they nailed the faces.

 

[DangerMouse]

Can't wait.

 

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[Alucrid]

Is this game getting a free ps4 to ps5 upgrade? I pre ordered it for ps4 a long time ago when amazon had a good deal on buy 2 get 30% off.

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yeah i did that with this and elden ring. thankfully namco is doing free upgrades for both

 

[Tyaren]

I wished this was open world... :(
A Genshin Impact open world with the rest of Tales and it'd be my fave JRGP ever.

 

[AgeOfZelda]

Skits are in but the form is unknown. Only thing confirmed to be removed is post battle screens. So no more post battle character interactions, which kinda sucks but not a deal breaker for me personally in any way.

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According to Arekkz, the post-battle skits have been moved to the overworld. We probably aren't getting anything animated, but banter while resuming exploration sounds like a fair trade-off.

 

[Wise]

This definitely has a high budget right?

 

[Refrain]

Skits are in but the form is unknown. Only thing confirmed to be removed is post battle screens. So no more post battle character interactions, which kinda sucks but not a deal breaker for me personally in any way.

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From what I've seen and from Japanese videos, post batter character interactions are still in. But not as a scene but the same as field dialogues.

 

[Ricker]

Calling one of the character not in party for 1 attack is pretty cool...looking great.

 

[Icarus]

This is shaping up really nicely.

 

[Vault]

Skits are probably in Inns

 

[-Pyromaniac-]

I mean it looks good but it's about how it all comes together.

 

[Ricker]

I am okay with a semi open world style...skits are in.

 

[Strings]

This definitely has a high budget right?

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At the very least, it's the most time they've ever been given between entries by a significant margin.

 

[Deleted member 511]

You guys can hear the battle theme? All I hear is the character's jabbering the stupid names of their attacks. Hope you can turn that off.

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Yeah, characters shouting constantly in battle is something I've noticed about this game since I started paying more attention to it. I never notice stuff like 'anime grunting' people complain about but the constant shouting of abilities, quotes, etc. in battle is starting to become a little grating. The repetitive battle dialogue in VIIR annoyed me too.