A new dawn breaks.
Though the Tales series goes back all the way to the days of the Super Famicom, it feels like it’s always been one of the lower-budget ‘B-tier’ RPG franchises that only the most dedicated genre fans engage with regularly.
To counter this and try to bring the series to a bigger audience, the developers decided to go for a ‘soft reboot’ with Tales of Arise, which first released in 2021. The idea paid off, as Arise went on to become the bestselling game in the series and was even