I would like to know what the Tales of the World games have in common. What is the "point" of these titles? Better: Why aren't they just called Tales of ... 2, 3, ... if they're sequels? --78.53.14.171 23:34, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
- The current category is Category:Tales of the World. This one is to be deleted for consistency purposes.
- Anyway, it's not like we know what Namdai JP is thinking when they choose the names. These are only my personal observations on the content to determine how they chose the names, but it could very well be that they named the games this way because "they felt like it".
- The first game in the "World" series doesn't even have "World" in the name - "Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon". This was a direct sequel-spinoff of Phantasia, in precisely the same vein that DotNW is a direct sequel-spinoff of Symphonia. The name "Tales of the World" was chosen for everything after that most likely because these games tied together all of the main series games that existed up to that time into a massive crossover scenario, making them not bound to Phantasia alone. Summoner's Lineage is another direct sequel of Phantasia, but it is also a crossover with one other non-Tales Namco franchise that I cannot remember, a convenient excuse to continue to use "Tales of the World".
- The name "Narikiri Dungeon" refers to the "ability" of the pair of main characters in each game to equip Narikiri costumes, allowing them to mimic the powers of the class or character associated with that costume. The "dungeon" part refers to instanced dungeons. All of the NariDan games have nothing to do with each other, despite what some people might insist on other sites. Again, the first NariDan is a sequel of Phantasia, taking place in Aselia some hundreds of years after the future timeline. NariDan 2 takes place on another world, and NariDan 3 takes place on yet another. The two main characters of NariDan 2 (Frio and Kyaro) happen to share names with the two main chars of the third game, but they have no relation to the previous heros, and the game dialogue explicitly states this fact rather early in the game.
- The name "Radiant Mythology"... I haven't played either of the games, so you would be better off asking someone else. I should point out that it should be pronounced "MY-thology" to emphasize that the main character is your own, created through a char creation screen with face/hair/etc options like any generic MMO game. Similar to the NariDan games, the RadiMai games have nothing to do with each other. Both of them take place in completely different worlds, with completely different Kanonno incarnations.
- The reason they end up with NariDan 1+2+3 and RadiMai 1+2 is that they share similar styles of gameplay. The NariDan games feature costume changing and construction to allow you to "play as" Tales chars (with severely nerfed arte access), using a 2D system modified from Eternia's graphics, with a very complete cast of characters up to each game's date of release. The RadiMai games feature class choosing, more complete Tales char arte lists, a 3D system with Free Run directly copied from Abyss, and a (very) limited selection of Tales chars. So the sequel numbers merely group together the games that follow the same style. Summoner's Lineage is a strategy game in the same style as Fire Emblem, involving monster control and summoning (DotNW wasn't the first!) so it can't be grouped with any of them. Material Dungeon (one of the mobile games that uses "Tales of the World") is similar to the NariDan subseries, instead using overhead-view turn-based battles on the dungeon maps themselves, instead of the traditional LMBS on a separate battle screen.
- So basically, none of the games are sequels of each other, excluding NariDan 1 and SamoRine, which are direct sequels of Phantasia. The other games have zero relation to each other, even despite sharing names for the main characters. Their only unifying element is that they are crossover games (again excluding NariDan 1, and SamoRine unless you want to be technical). And even so, Tales of Tactics and both Tales of Fandom games are crossovers that are NOT in the World series.
- Anyway, feel free to rewrite what I said here on the correct Tales of the World article (do not use the category page for articles). I don't feel like writing these things myself with the "neutral point of view" and all that, since I already wrote this much. Or maybe I'm just lazy.
- Yumemi Hoshino (talk) 00:45, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
- Wait wtf? Apparently the real article doesn't exist after all, and it's redirecting to the deleted category page. Or maybe I'm blind and I don't know where the real page is? Bah, someone else can sort this out.
- Yumemi Hoshino (talk) 00:48, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
tales of the world it say that is a sequel to phantesia but then agian it it is a sequel of phantesia why there lloyd and the other then.. hmm i asume this is a a other game or a crossover of games call tales of the world like saying all tales world united ? to make a diffienrt story ? i supost.