Tales of ¿¿¿Graces???, lol, I beat Plant Options

[Plant42]

"Tales of Wii 2" has a CODE NAME!!!

It's codenamed "Tales of 10" for now in this article covered in moonspeak:
http://www.gpara.com/article/cms_show.php?...71&c_num=56


AbyssalChronicles.com credited "Yume Hanabi" for these translations from the insightful article:

"Apparently, the game has been in development for two years, around the same time they started Vesperia and Hearts. The game's setting is based off Middle Age Europe. The character designer is still being kept secret, but the voices are already done, they say. They announced that more news will be released by Spring of next year."

OH, AND IN CASE YOU ALL MISSED IT, I POSTED THE FIRST TRAILER FOR THIS GAME ON THE PREVIOUS PAGE!

This post has been edited by Plant42: Dec 21 2008, 12:43 PM

[Plant42]

This game now has an official name. It's kind of gay that it had to happen on April 1st (as three other Tales announcements were made yesterday, making it more worthy to treat this as hoax), but this looks official enough. They have been tossing around these names, and it seems they've finally decided on:

Tales of Graces

In Graces, players take control of Aspel Rant ("Asvel Lant" according to AbyssalChronicles), an 18-year-old who resides on the outskirts of a kingdom. He is the son and successor of a Frontier Lord. Some unspecified event takes place that leaves Aspel desiring strength. A catch phrase for Aspel listed in the magazine says "I don't want to lose anyone again," suggesting that the unspecified event involved someone's death.

All the other details in the magazine are on the vague side. The game will have the theme of "Protect" or "Defend." Players can look forward to a large scale story along with new gameplay systems.

The character designer for Graces is said to be Mutsumi Inomata--the one who did the characters for Destiny, Hearts, Innocence, and others, instead of Kosuke Fujishima, who was responsible for the latest console installments such as Vesperia, Abyss, and Symphonia.

This post has been edited by Plant42: Apr 2 2009, 04:30 PM

[Ngamer01]

http://gonintendo.com/?p=78106
http://gonintendo.com/?p=78119
http://gonintendo.com/?p=78145
http://gonintendo.com/?p=78149

Ok, Namco has their Tales of Graces site up (currently a teaser site) here (Japanese). More details about the game have also been revealed:

>> Aspel Rant is from the Lhant territory of Windol Country.
>> Graces will be utilizing the Style Shift Linear Motion Battle System.
>> This battle system will allow characters to have more than one fighting style.
>> Skills can be set to the A and B buttons.
>> You will be able to sidestep around enemies for full 360 degree movement.
>> The game will be supporting the Classic Controller/Classic Controller Pro.
>> The animation/anime segments will be handled by Production I.G.

There are some new screens up:
http://forum.tales-cless.org/tales-series/...15037/#msg15037
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p...p;postcount=158

Prime, can you rename this thread to be Tales of Graces? Also punting this over to Nintendo General Discussion would be nice.

This post has been edited by Ngamer01: Apr 6 2009, 05:54 PM

[Plant42]

I was gonna update this thread earlier today, but I didn't.

Anyway, the protagonist's name is officially/properly:

"Asbel Lhant"
"I don't want to lose anyone anymore..."
Age: 18 years old
Height: 175cm
Weight: 65kg
~ Asbel is a straightforward, unimpeachable young man with a strong sense of justice. One can always see a strong will in his eyes.

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I took some of the screenshots earlier today and warped them so they aren't at an angle (they were taken from a photo camera during a presentation).











Those at AbyssalChronicles believe the girl with the pink hair might be this game's lead Heroine.
[edit]
Nope, it's actually the purple-haired gurl

This post has been edited by Plant42: Jun 10 2009, 10:46 AM

[Ngamer01]

More scans of Graces are out.

http://gonintendo.com/?p=78369

EDIT - More info: http://gonintendo.com/?p=78440

>> The game is 30% complete.
>> The game will have large battlefields.
>> Asbel has leadership qualities.
>> Graces marks the first Tales game where Inomata's designs are transferred into 3D without any modification.
>> Magic and skills have a greater connection in Graces unlike in past Tales games.
>> There's some secret hint hiding within the logo. What this hint is or what it reveals is unknown.

EDIT 2 - http://gonintendo.com/?p=78672

New vid promo!

This post has been edited by Ngamer01: Apr 10 2009, 08:26 AM

[Plant42]

HOLY SHIT111

I just saw this now and I was gonna post it now, but you already did... 2 DAYS AGO1?!! Oh wait, nvm, you only Edited your post. -__-;


But yeah, I can't fuckin' waiitt1111411

This post has been edited by Plant42: Apr 10 2009, 10:31 AM

[Ngamer01]

A little more info has been released about Graces!

http://gonintendo.com/?p=78832

>> Graces' producer says this title is a compilation of all his work thus far.
>> Graces could be on track to be the longest game in the Tales franchise clocking in about 60-70 hours (barring setbacks).
>> Battles should be fairly surprising unlike in past Tales games.

EDIT - http://gonintendo.com/?p=78899

More art and screens!

EDIT 2 - http://news.dengeki.com/elem/000/000/152/152569/

More screens (and the old screens/art are still up for viewing as well)!

This post has been edited by Ngamer01: Apr 16 2009, 12:59 PM

[Plant42]

Yeah, when I heard the game was going to be 60-70 hours for the main story alone, I fuckin' creamed.

I don't know what you/they mean about the battles being "fairly surprising" unlike other Tales games. Surprising in what way?

Rooting back to Rpgmonkey's blog, all it says is that "he was surprised at the battles." Graces's battle system has new shit like a 360º pivoting around enemies as well as multiple fight styles for each character, so it would be surprising in its own right as it's something never done before in a Tales game, but I wouldn't say it makes the battles are "fairly surprising unlike the other Tales games." Every Tales game I've played has had a different battle system that makes it unique, or "surprising." I know you're just trying to reword the news in your own terms so you don't rip off GoNintendo, but between the website's rewording of Rpgmonkey's post and your own rewording of GoNintendo's post, it went from Baba being surprised at the battles, to the battle system being surprising unlike all other Tales games in the past.

This post has been edited by Plant42: Apr 18 2009, 09:49 AM

[Plant42]

Tales of Graces is going to be featured in the next issue of Nintendo Power which will be available on May 12th!!!!

This means the US will likely have a really good chance of getting this game, seeing as Dawn of the New World got the same treatment. Hopefully we won't have to wait more than 5 months after a Japanese release as we did with Dawn of the New World.

Below is an image from the site's "preview" for the next NP issue.






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You can click to enlarge that image, but Here's the part I'm pointing at.





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A while back AbyssalChronicles subtitled the second Graces trailer so you can understand all the moonspeak:



This post has been edited by Plant42: May 1 2009, 09:51 AM

[Plant42]

Tales of Graces's heroine has been revealed!

Sophie (ソフィ, sofi) - ToG's heroine.
"I will protect Asbel."
- Sophie is a young girl Asbel meets. She has lost her memories and has no recollection of her past. Her name "Sophie" was given to her by Asbel himself.

-AC

In one of the screens in this scan you can see Sophie attacking a monster. This is the first time you see another character fighting other than Asbel.