A new video interview of Gouda Tsutomu (Producer) and Higuchi Yoshito (Creative Producer) from Famitsu.com has surfaced (uploaded to the AC YouTube account by Synchyryn, our "mod in hiding" XD). This is actually an interview with similar contents to the recent Famitsu scans (check last post) and the previous Play Magazine interview. EDIT: and IGN recently made a detailed summary and translation of the said interview here. Together with that, a few higher quality versions of the screenshots shown in the scans before are also up, along with higher quality versions of Yuri and Estellieze's official art (although it's not the full view).
Additional info you might want to know: Yuri: Yuri left because of a certain "truth" he found out within the Knights group. Apparently, both Yuri and Flynn (blonde-haired guy) are members of the same band of Knights, only, like we said before, only Yuri left. He has the attitude of an older brother to everyone. Estellieze: The name "Ester" was given to her by Yuri, probably because he found her full name too long... She also leaves a good impression on other people with her polite manners and behavior. Ester loves reading books and is very knowledgable about a lot of things. She is surprised on how the outside world is so much different from what she had imagined, but she has to confirm everything with her own eyes.
That said, I won't be online at all tomorrow (probably) up until Wednesday-Friday. My finals are up (it ends on Wednesday, but Thursday to Friday are holidays... which means no access to the internet 'cause all net shops will be closed :/), and I have to do good (or else). In the meantime, sukotsuto, Natsumi, Picup and miken-chan (SV's on a leave :3) will have to fill in for me, so please keep an eye on the Tales Forums or any of our other sources of information (especially you miken, I know we're online at almost the same times XDDD)
Thanks to Rpgmonkey from the Official Tales Forums, we have four new magazine scans about Tales of Vesperia, revealing more info on the characters and the game.
Yuri Rowell (katakana: YURI ROWERU) Age: 21 (O_O) Height: 180 cm Voice Actor: Toriumi Kosuke Apparently, Yuri runs, or is a member of, some kind of guild known as "Brave Vesperia."
Estelle/Esther (Full name Estellieze, no last name yet) (Katakana: ESUTERIIZE) Age: 18 Height: 165 cm Voice Actor: Nakahara Mai
Some other interesting things in the scan: || The overseas version of the Japanese theme song will be sung by the same artist, who will happen to be Japanese. || Produced by the Abyss staff. || The scenario writer's of Abyss and Symphonia won't be working on Vesperia. || The game will have weapon synthesis. || The dog is indeed a party character, and can be used in the same way as the others. || Up to 7 or 8 enemies can appear in a single battle. || As stated before, the battle system will be the EFR-LMBS, or the Evolved Flex-Range Linear Motion Battle System, but no news yet on how it'll be evolved from Abyss' original FR-LMBS exactly. Although the system does include something about staggering the enemy with a single blow once Free Run is used.
If you'll notice, Yuri is the oldest Tales hero to be created ever... It really seems that Namco's leaning to the more mature side of gaming. And on March 14th, Famitsu.com will have an interview from Yoshito Higuchi and Tsutomu Gouda online.
Yeah, I'm aware we forgot to upload those new Tales of Rebirth PSP screenshots that were recently added to the Tales Channel. They're now up, and you can view them here. The screenshots include sneak peeks of the villain's Hi-Ougi's (Saleh XD), the new gallery feature in the game (similar to ToD2's PSP port), the additional Eugene scenes/quest, and the like. Only 8 days until it's release, folks! Preorder XD~ The bonus comes with a peach pie recipe XD.
Also, Nore139 has just uploaded the first commercial for Tales of Rebirth PSP, which you can find here. It'll surely be up on the Tales Channel in a few days, so expect the downloads then.
And expect the official art sections of the Gallery to be filled in the next updates. As my friend Swordian Leon Magnus from the Tales forums commented, we need more official art up =D.
Haha, not much really. They just updated the Tales Channel homepage with this screenshot of Vesperia (we've seen that already, the main difference is there's a dialogue box). The main update was that, yes, it's for the XBox 360. The Vesperia main page is still the same, only with an XBox 360 message on it... They did however state that updates will becoming steadily in the next few days, so expect that.
AND, I think I managed to upload at least more than half of what was left of the Tales of Destiny: Director's Cut Premium Box Artbook Scans. There're only a few left, but please, let me go through my finals before I upload them (I have an oral Chem exam, a long Botany exam, an extemporaneous speech in English, a departmental exam in Trigo and Sociology, and a dance for P.E.). Okay, that's enough ranting... You can view the scans here.
Thanks to Kasn from the Official Tales Forums, we have a new Weekly Shonen Jump scan of Tales of Vesperia.
The scan shows the colored official artworks of the hero and heroine, plus some screenshots and character info. As well all know, the hero's name is Yuri, and now, it is revealed that the heroine's name is Esther/Estelle/Ester (katakana read as ESUTERU). From the screencap, her name is written as Estellize (katakana read as ESUTERIIZE) From what I could make out from the scan...
>> Yuri - A knight of the kingdom who quit his work because of some conflicts in their goverment, and is now working as a hired mercenary. He dislikes the nobility and the aristocrats, and is cynical when it comes to them, despite that, he's actually good-natured. He meets Estelle when he gets arrested in the castle.
>> Estelle - A retainer working as a healer in the castle who has pink hair. She meets Yuri when he gets arrested and taken to the castle.
And yes, it really is for the XBox 360. Sale date and price still undetermined.
A few new screencaps from Jeux-France. Features a some event scenes, battles, Lloyd holding someone who looks a bit like Regal by the arm, and monster catching.
That said, my chem professor just lightened the load on our finals, so expect some of the media to be up a little earlier. Our last day of school is on March 19, and after that are holidays (meaning, I can't go to the net cafe 'cause it'll be closed ;_;...). I'll start working on stuff after the Holy Week.
And I think it's about time we opened the "Other Videos (Non-Tales)" section sometime this summer. Expect a lot of NISAmerica game cutscenes... 'Cause your admin likes NISAmerica XD...
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