Summary
Fans of Bandai Namco’sTales ofseries of RPGs have something to look forward to, as a new remastered project has been announced. There’s no clear indication of whichTales ofgame will be getting the remastered treatment, but Bandai Namco plans to make that matter much clearer later this summer.
The popular RPG series is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2025.Tales of Phantasiawas released in 1995 as a Japanese-only title for the Super Famicom, and it didn’t make its way overseas until a Game Boy Advance port arrived in 2006. A total of 28 originalgames in the Tales of serieshave been released throughout the years, excluding remastered versions, with 2003’s Tales of Symphonia being its most celebrated.
Fans have been expectingmore remasters in theTales ofseriesfor several months, after series producer Yusuke Tomizawa announced in December 2024 that more games would be getting a revival for the 30th anniversary celebration. A new teaser posted on the series' official social media channels shows that the promise is nearing fruition, promising that the next remastered game will be revealed sometime before the end of summer 2025. The teaser is entirely text-based and is underscored with symphonic music, so there are few, if any, clues about which game players can expect to see getting the remastered treatment next.
A New Tales of Remaster Will Be Revealed This Summer
With such a long-reaching history, there are only a few games in the series that have been remastered so far, leaving a lot of choices on the table. The last two original games in the series,Tales of Ariseand the mobile-onlyTales of Luminaria, both came out in 2021, whileTales of Graces F Remasteredwas released this January.Tales of Symphoniahas technically been remasteredtwice; originally packed together with its sequel,Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, in 2013, and then again as a standalone remastered version in February 2023. Additionally, a remaster of 2008’sTales of Vesperiawas released in 2019, packaged as the game’s Definitive Edition.
Though there’s no way of knowing which game will be next, fans have theirTales ofremastered wish listsin mind. There have been several suggestions made by fans, but the two games that have been dominating the conversation appear to be 2005’sTales of the Abyssand 2011’sTales of Xillia. The latter title received a direct sequel in 2012, so it’s possible that Bandai Namco could be working to remaster bothTales of Xilliagames into one title, much like the company did with theTales of Symphoniagames a dozen years ago.
