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Dustin Bailey

JRPG fans crushed again as latest Tales announcement turns out to be another bust: "The way they hype things up is just terrible"

Tales Ufotable Bandai Namco
Four Tales characters stare out over the water.

It's been back-to-back disappointments for Tales fans. Bandai Namco, publisher of the long-running JRPG series, broke hearts last month when a teaser for an anime-style RPG turned out to be a Sword Art Online game, and now a hyped announcement for Tales' 30th anniversary has offered similarly disappointing results.

This 30th anniversary Tales announcement was first teased back in February by anime studio Ufotable. The fact that this teaser was coming from an anime company rather than Bandai Namco itself meant that it was always unlikely to be a new game announcement, but Ufotable has created cutscenes for numerous Tales games, and has even worked on a few smaller animated Tales projects. Something like, say, a full anime adaptation of one of the Tales games wasn't out of the question.

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