Tales of Phantasia Escapes Japan
Tales of Phantasia, the start to the Namco's Tales series of RPGs, will have it's 2003 Game Boy Advance port hit Europe in the first quarter of 2006, according to Nintendo of Europe. There is no word on a possible future release in the US, but rumors are circulating that a 2006 release is probable, but details are fuzzy thus far.
ToP was first released on the SNES in 1995, then ported to the Playstation in 1998, and most recently ported to the GBA in 2003, all only in Japan. This new release is likely in large part thanks to the popularity of the most recent Tales game, the publicly and critically acclaimed Tales of Symphonia. The Tales series has enjoyed only a small cult following outside of Japan previous to Tales of Symphonia's success with the Playstation games Tales of Destiny and Tales of Destiny II (the latter is known as Tales of Eternia in Japan; this is extremely confusing because a direct sequel to Tales of Destiny was made for the PS2 in 2002, also called Tales of Destiny 2) and widespread emulation of Tales of Phantasia thanks to DeJap Translations' 2000 translation patch. Now the rest of the world (hopefully including the US at some point) can legally enjoy one of Namco and Wolf Team's masterpieces.
Sources: RPGamer.com (news source)
Wikipedia (Tales series background info)
ToP was first released on the SNES in 1995, then ported to the Playstation in 1998, and most recently ported to the GBA in 2003, all only in Japan. This new release is likely in large part thanks to the popularity of the most recent Tales game, the publicly and critically acclaimed Tales of Symphonia. The Tales series has enjoyed only a small cult following outside of Japan previous to Tales of Symphonia's success with the Playstation games Tales of Destiny and Tales of Destiny II (the latter is known as Tales of Eternia in Japan; this is extremely confusing because a direct sequel to Tales of Destiny was made for the PS2 in 2002, also called Tales of Destiny 2) and widespread emulation of Tales of Phantasia thanks to DeJap Translations' 2000 translation patch. Now the rest of the world (hopefully including the US at some point) can legally enjoy one of Namco and Wolf Team's masterpieces.
Sources: RPGamer.com (news source)
Wikipedia (Tales series background info)
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| alphasmart | Comment 1: 2005-11-04 17:08 |
| well I'll be danged...was almost as looked forward to as FFVI advance! I can't wait to get it. Then I'll have something worthwhile to play on journies. also, awsome avatar Laszlow! | |
| Shotgunnova | Comment 2: 2005-11-07 05:04 |
| One of my top five games of all time. Get that down to the States (and maybe the rest of North America, too), Namco! | |
| laszlow | Comment 3: 2005-11-08 17:00 |
| Okay, it seems that the US is indeed getting ToP as well, but for some reason Nintendo of Europe revealed their first quarter lineups before their North American counterparts did. Right now the US release is scheduled for March 6th, 2006, while the European release is scheduled for March 31st, 2006. Edit Whoops, forgot my source: http://www.gamespot.com/gba/rpg/talesofpha...v> | |
| GamblingCat | Comment 4: 2005-11-10 00:31 |
| Sweet, about time Namco, now just do us all a favor and make a sequel to Tales of Symphonia, Namco's true masterpeice. But ToP will work for now, about time they are going to release it in the states. | |
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