Tales is a video game series published by Namco and primarily developed by Namco Tales Studio. Since it debuted in Japan in 1995 with Tales of Phantasia, the series has become one of Namco's (now Bandai Namco) flagship RPG franchises, with several releases in Japan, and some localized for North America and Europe. The series later branched out into multiple game genres, such as tactics games or MMORPGs, and other types of media, such as televised anime. Since its debut on the Super Famicom, the series has had titles released for nearly every major platform, including the PlayStation 2, Game Boy Advance, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, and PC. As of December 2007, the series has sold over ten million copies.
Currently, fourteen games have been released that are a part of the main ("Mothership") series, with over seventeen spin-offs or related titles ("Escort") and four animated productions released. Several titles within the series have been ported or remade for other systems, while one has had a "Director's Cut" rerelease. More than half of the games, both Mothership and Escort Titles, have their own "Characteristic Genre", a short "Genre" label that in addition to labeling them as RPGs, illustrates a particular storyline theme or noteworthy aspect of that game. Most titles within the main series take place in their own individual worlds with original characters, though some titles in the series, such as Tales of Destiny 2, take place in the same universe as one or more games. The following is a list of the games or media in the franchise, their original release dates, characteristic genre names, development teams, systems, the regions they were released in, and the original release date for each region.
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“Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime.”
—Janet Frame (b. 1924)
“...I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives’ tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock around a brilliant one. It is but fair to say that, after getting out in the world, I had never seen this happen ....”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)
“The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.”
—Michel de Certeau (1925–1986)