It's been almost five years since the release of Tale of Arise, which was the last mainline game in the Tales series to launch. We know that games take a pretty long time to make these days, but given that there's still absolutely no sign of a new Tales game being announced in the near future, we're going to have been waiting an abnormal amount of time when the next game does drop.
Bandai Namco has been doing its best to try and keep Tales relevant while work on the next game progresses, having remastered a series of classic Tales games from across its entire history, but they're still not that much of a substitute for the Tales fans that have already seen and played them before.
Thankfully, Bandai Namco is fully aware that it's been a long time since the last new Tales game, as in an interview with Famitsu (translated by Automaton), general producer Yusuke Tomizawa essentially apologized to fans that have been waiting.
A dedicated team has also been established.
"The bar has risen when it comes to the scale of development and other factors, and to be honest, we’ve kept players waiting for quite long," says...
