Tales of Arise gets a lengthy gameplay showcase and September launch date

Originally scheduled for a 2020 loss, Tales of Arise now has a unfaltering release date: Sep 10, 2021. Alongside that annunciation is a substantial clump of footage from the instalment—and IT's a well-marked sensory system improvement over 2017's Tales of Berseria.

While the series has always flaunted an gum anime-inspired art style that doesn't exactly aim for realism, the footage above is definitely more detailed and elegant than we've seen before. The base textures in particular are more ornate (the sand and rocks don't just look like carpet), and the fight UI utmost less busy than the usual JRPG fare.

Move up is meant to be a reboot of sorts for the serial publication: talking to Famitsu back in 2019, producer Yusuke Tomizawa acknowledged that hot Tales Of games needed to work harder to appeal to "young users," thence the move to Unreal Engine 4. That said, the go by wasn't born of a desire to embrace photorealism. "It is completely new ready to draw unique graphics that look equal watercolors and models of familiar characters while having rich lighting and a feeling of tune," Tomizawa said (via Famitsu, Google Transform).

Simply disdain those seeming improvements, I father't think back you could misidentify this for anything but a Tales of game, which is fine: these things are nice roof of the mouth cleansers, and lean to step up at a steadier clip than new Dragon Pursuit games do.

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