Tales of Hearts

Tales of Hearts (テイルズオブハーツ) is an upcoming, and the eleventh, mothership title in the Tales series exclusively for the Nintendo DS. The character design is by Mutsumi Inomata. The game will use 2D sprites, 3D backgrounds, and is the first entry in the series to use CG for the characters in event movies. The theme song, Eien No Ashita (永遠の明日) will be performed by DEEN, who previously performed Tales of Destiny's theme song. The animation is produced by Production I.G., and the CG is produced by Shirogumi. Tales of Hearts' characteristic genre is "A meeting with hearts RPG" (心と出会うRPG).

Battle system
Tales of Hearts uses the "Combination Aerial Linear Motion Battle System" (コンビネーションエアーリアルLMBS), or CNAR-LMBS. Like previous games in the series, Tales of Hearts uses 2D sprites, with combat taking place on a single two-dimensional line. Similar to Tales of the Tempest and Tales of Innocence, only three party members are on the battlefield, but it allows the player to let party members not currently in battle participate when certain conditions are met, along with using aerial combat, first introduced in the "Aerial Linear Motion Battle System" (AR-LMBS) of Tales of Destiny.

Characters
Shing Meteoryte (シング・メテオライト)

Japanese voice: Tetsuya Kakihara

Age: 16

Height: 167cm

Weight: 54kg

A boy with an unusually strong curiosity for the world. He lives with his Grandfather Zeks in the town of Seeble. He inherited the ability to use Soma from his Grandfather and mother, but he hides this fact from them. Because of his curiosity and personal inexperience, he lacks delicacy in his speech and conduct. He notices his mistakes, and is is able to properly reflect upon them.

Kohak Hearts (コハク・ハーツ)

Japanese Voice: Marina Inoue

Age: 17

Height: 158 cm

Weight: 45 kg

A girl setting off from her home town for a certain reason, she is in need of Soma. Shing found her collapsed on the beach. She sometimes refers to a being known as "her."