Tales of the Heroes: Twin Brave

Tales of the Heroes: Twin Brave (テイルズ オブ ザ ヒーローズ ツインブレイヴ) is a console role-playing game for the Sony Playstation Portable, developed by Namco Tales Studio, published by Namco in Japan.

Battle System
Tales of the Heroes is similar to Dynasty Warriors' battle system, with the player controls one of the character, while AI controls the other character as back-up. Artes system doesn't use the button X + Directional Button anymore, rather L1 + O/X/SQUARE. Players are given freedom to traverse through the specific area given. In the area, the usual goal is to defeat the character in the innermost part. During the battle, if the Partner Gauge (PG) is full, the players can enter Twin Brave mode, which can make both your partner and character move faster and do the same thing together. Also, if both characters' Hi-Ougi has been purchased from the shop, they can initiate a Hi-Ougi respectively by pressing TRIANGLE button during the played characters' Hi-Ougi initiation.

Battle Menu
In the battle menu, the players are given a chance to customize and edit the equipments, artes or accessories of the characters. There's also a shop, which provides new weapons, artes and accessories. Some are available only if the required level is fulfilled. Battle menu are available before players enter an area.

Characters
There are 15 playable pairings from 13 Mothership Titles and two from Escort Titles. The antagonists are from the other Tales game as well. Each of characters have their own story. Some of them have references in their previous games.

Playable characters
From Mothership Titles:
 * Cless Alvein and Chester Burklight (Tales of Phantasia)
 * Stahn Aileron and Leon Magnus (Tales of Destiny)
 * Reid Herschel and Farah Oersted (Tales of Eternia)
 * Kyle Dunamis and Reala (Tales of Destiny 2)
 * Lloyd Irving and Zelos Wilder (Tales of Symphonia)
 * Veigue Lungberg and Tytree Crowe (Tales of Rebirth)
 * Senel Coolidge and Chloe Valens (Tales of Legendia)
 * Luke fon Fabre and Guy Cecil (Tales of the Abyss)
 * Ruca Milda and Spada Belforma (Tales of Innocence)
 * Yuri Lowell and Flynn Scifo (Tales of Vesperia)
 * Shing Meteoryte and Kohak Hearts (Tales of Hearts)
 * Asbel Lhant and Cheria Barnes (Tales of Graces)
 * Jude Mathis and Milla Maxwell (Tales of Xillia)

From Escort Titles:
 * Caius Qualls and Rubia Natwick (Tales of the Tempest)
 * Emil Castagnier and Marta Lualdi (Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the World)

Antagonists

 * Elraine (Tales of Destiny 2)
 * Schwartz (Tales of Legendia)
 * Duke Pantarei (Tales of Vesperia)

Game Modes
There are few game systems in the game:

In Story Mode, players played one of the characters one at a time. Each characters have their own pairings. Story Mode itself is divided in Serious Scenario, which is the main part of the game, and Comical Scenario, which is the side part of the game which is for laughs. These are the main story which is playable at the beginning of the game:
 * Story Mode
 * Cless's story
 * Stahn's story
 * Veigue's story
 * Chloe's story
 * Jude's story

Free Mode is not available in the beginning, but it will after completing few character's Story Mode. In this mode, players are given a freedom to choose the characters, the partner, and the area.
 * Free Mode

Tournament is also not available in the beginning. In this mode, players are also given freedom to choose characters and the partners. During Tournament, players will compete against AIs in a tournament battle until the winner is found.
 * Tournament

In this mode, players must race against time to get a score as high as possible. Characters, areas, and partners are free to choose.
 * Score Attack

In this mode, players are given a specific mission, using specific characters chosen by the computer. For example, must defeat 150 enemies in 100 seconds using Luke, etc.
 * Extreme