Since the series’ 30th anniversary celebrations last year, Bandai Namco has been doling out remasters of the Tales Of games at a steady clip. Last year Tales of Graces f and Tales of Xillia both got the remaster treatment, and in February we got Tales of Berseria.
The first two were welcome: both were PlayStation 3 exclusives and hadn’t been released for other platforms (unless you count Tales of Graces, which released for Wii). By comparison Tales of Berseria felt a little unnecessary: the non-remastered version looked fine, both on consoles and PC.
Thankfully, it looks like Bandai Namco is going back to rescuing entries from antiquated platforms. According to a recent PEGI listing, Tales of Eternia Remastered is the next cab off the rank.
Originally released in Japan in 2000, Tales of Eternia was released as Tales of Destiny 2 in the United States (which isn’t to be mistaken for the Japan-only Tales of Destiny 2—an entirely different game!). Like its predecessor Tales of Destiny, Eternia is a 2D pixel art JRPG, which was pretty unusual for a PlayStation exclusive in those 3D-crazed times. It was popular enough in Japan to warrant a PSP port which was also released in Europe and Australia.
I’m slightly surprised this one is getting remastered ahead of other possible contenders, chiefly Tales Of Xillia 2, since its predecessor has escaped PS3 limbo. Surprised, but not disappointed: I’m no big fan of the series but I love to see older platform exclusives made available again.
No word yet on when Tales of Eternia Remastered will release, and currently the PEGI website only lists Nintendo Switch as a platform, but it’s highly unlikely to be an exclusive.
