#Tales of arise ps5 series#

#Tales of arise ps5 series#

For a JRPG not named Zelda, Pokemon, or Final Fantasy, that’s a staggering number.Īs the 17th installment in the Tales series, Tales of Arise, has – potentially – marked the series’ arrival into the big time, commercially.īut the question we want to answer today is this: Is Tales of Arise the best JRPG of the last ten years? And, is it the best Tales game ever (at least by my reckoning)? Has Namco/Bandai’s Tales Series caught up to the big AAA Hitters?Īside from Tales of Phantasia (which looked as good as a SNES game could look), and Tales of Symphonia (which looked decent enough on the Gamecube), the series has often received criticism for looking “a generation behind” Final Fantasy, Zelda (at least up to the Gamecube days), and many of its contemporary competitors.

It paid off–the game sold 1 million units in 7 days. Thus, with Tales of Arise, it moved the series to a modern engine (Unreal 4), and spent a considerable amount of marketing budget. Tales has never been a ‘AAA’ franchise in terms of sales and development budget, but Namco Bandai saw potential in the franchise (Tales of Berseria sold over 2 million copies).

In fact, apart from The Legend of Zelda, Pokemon, Dragon Quest, and Final Fantasy, there are few other JRPG series with as many entries on Consoles that remains a player in today’s market place. Namco’s Action-RPG series has managed to outlast Suikoden, Lunar, Grandia, Wild Arms, Legend of Legaia, and maybe even Star Ocean on home consoles. Since 1995, the Tales series has graced consoles every generation (from the SNES to the Xbox Series X/PlayStation 5).