Apr 242020
We haven’t talked too much about Tales of Crestoria, the next upcoming mobile Tales game.
Tales of Crestoria was first revealed in 2018 as basically a full original Tales game (although one with a turn-based combat system) for mobile devices, with its own original plot, cast of characters, etc.
It also managed to look even edgier than Tales of Berseria, being described as “An RPG Written in Blood and Betrayal” where characters deemed sinners are marked by the “Stain of Guilt” and hunted down by enforcers.
Despite them making a point of how it’s not a crossover like the past mobile Tales games, it… is? They’ve shown protagonists from past Tales games who will make an appearance in Crestoria. I assume the main story will deal solely with the original cast and that’s why they say it isn’t a crossover, but the returning characters make it feel like it’ll have typical character-collecting gacha mechanics.
Anyway, we’ll be able to find out for ourselves what Tales of Crestoria is like next month! A new announcement revealed not only a June 2020 release window, but also an open beta in May.
Crestoria will be the first Tales game to get a simultaneous global release, so the beta test in May is meant to test the network load of the English version.
I’m interested enough that I’ll probably give the beta test a try if I’m able to. I’m not a big mobile gamer, but I’m still disappointed over the loss of Tales of the Rays. Of course, what I really want to hear more about is Tales of Arise… Is that still coming out this year?
What do you think about Tales of Crestoria? Will you be trying the open beta in May?
I miss Tales fo Rays sometimes, but I’m also glad it cleared out my mobile gaming addictions by forcibly going away….
… But I may have to get this one…
It looks interesting enough.