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is the sixth title in Namco's Tales RPG series. Released on December 16, 2004 in Japan, it is unknown if Tales of Rebirth will ever be released in North America. Due to Sony Computer Entertainment America's policies, which forbid publishers from releasing individually-packaged games with sprite-based characters, it is highly unlikely that Tales of Rebirth will ever be slated for a North American release, much to the grief of fans in the United States, Canada, and Europe who are unable to import the game. Additionally, if Namco was going to port Rebirth to a market outside Japan, it would have announced its intentions to do so within a year of its Japanese release (by the end of 2005). Tales of Rebirth has an anime introductory video accompanied by the song Good Night by Every Little Thing.
Storyline Tales of Rebirth is set in a world where humans and Gajumas (beast people) coexist in relative peace. In ancient times, both races joined forces to found the kingdom of Galegia. At the age of 60, the Gajuma king , who has wisely governed the kingdom for years, gradually weakens and dies a mysterious death. On the day of his death chaos breaks out in the kingdom, and since then people refer to this day as "The Day of Ladras' Fall". His daughter , the only remaining blood relative and heir to the throne, is being advised by . The latter is often referred to as the princess, due to her close ties to the imperial family. Veigue Lungberg lives in a village, Sulz, located in the cold, yet beautiful northern region. While he has never thought about leaving the village, he begins pondering this option after his familiar surroundings, including Veigue himself, come under attack. Characters Battle system Tales of Rebirth breaks slightly from the series with a new take on the Linear Motion Battle System, the so-called "Three-Line Linear Motion" system. The player's characters and enemies are placed on three different planes and the player has the ability to switch between these planes during battle. This system makes pre-battle positioning of party members on the three different planes critical to success. Two possible options are to place party members on different lines or to stack all characters on the same line, which makes battles more closely resemble those of previous Tales games that in effect only had one line or plane. Also, a new "Force Gauge" replaces the Technical Points, or TP, of the previous games. Tales of Rebirth allows you to assign four skills to the four buttons on the directional pad. In battle, skills have a recovery time that is directly related to the strength of the skill. The Force Gauge is a set of four diamond-shaped marks near the character's portrait in battle, where each diamond corresponds to the recovery time remaining on each of the skills assigned to the four-way directional pad. The new "Rush Gauge", which measures a character's emotional levels during battle, is located in the lower left corner of the screen during combat. As the gauge fills up during battle, a character's offensive power will increase at the cost of decreased defense. The battle system also includes unique "Secret Justice" moves, extremely powerful combination attacks triggered by an attacking character and a supporting character. Due to the power of these techniques, they can only be performed under very specific conditions. Another innovative feature added to Tales of Rebirth to improve the Linear Motion Battle System is styled "Enhance". After victory in battle, the player will receive "Enhance Points" (EP) that can be used to improve weapons and armor. EP can be used to improve basic parameters of equipment, such as attack and defense, and unlock latent added effects. Some of these added effects include double damage and protection against status effects. Finally, enhanced features from one piece of equipment, such as a weapon, can be transferred to another weapon. Trivia The giant sword created from the Hi-Ougi Celsius Calibur looks like a giant blue version of the holy sword, Soul Calibur, from Soul Calibur, another Namco game. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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