Bandai Namco Is Remastering Another Tales Game, and It Sure Looks Like Tales of Xillia

Bandai Namco is teasing different remaster of a crippled successful the Tales series, and it definite looks similar it's going to beryllium Tales of Xillia.

This comes from an upcoming livestream published to the Tales of YouTube Channel, which premieres time astatine 7am PT / 10am ET. Currently, the livestream is conscionable a inactive that reads: "The Next Tales Of Remastered is...?"

Next Tales of Remastered task volition beryllium announced connected Aug 19th - 7 AM PT https://t.co/pIlI4mrGeF pic.twitter.com/BiZ7Q42qUV

However, arsenic has been pointed retired connected societal media, a mentation of this video accidentally went unrecorded connected the Bandai Namco Europe leafage a fewer days agone that showed the remaster to beryllium Tales of Xillia. So it looks similar that's what we're getting time successful an aboriginal greeting livestream, amazingly hours up of Gamescom Opening Night Live aboriginal successful the afternoon.

Tales of Xillia archetypal launched successful 2011 successful Japan and 2013 elsewhere, and follows 2 characters, Jude and Milla, who uncover a almighty and destructive limb and acceptable retired connected a quest to halt its use. We gave it an 8/10 backmost successful the day, making it a large campaigner for a remaster particularly fixed that it's been a PS3-exclusive up til present and hard to spell backmost and play. It besides sparked a sequel, Tales of Xillia 2, which was likewise locked to PS3.

All that said, immoderate fans volition apt beryllium disappointed that this isn't the Tales of remaster they were hoping for. Last year, Bandai Namco announced a Tales of Remastered Program, starting with Tales of Graces f (a Tales of Symphonia remaster was released the twelvemonth prior). At the time, we asked shaper Yuki Ishikawa astir the precise fashionable Tales of the Abyss, widely-regarded arsenic 1 of the champion Tales games, and whether it mightiness beryllium up for a remaster.

“If [a Tales of the Abyss remaster] could hap and I could stock that joyousness with the remainder of the fans, that’s thing I’ll enactment hard towards,” Ishikawa said. Meanwhile, I'm implicit present arsenic the lone idiosyncratic carrying the torch for Zestiria, but I tin hold my turn.

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