Bandai Namco's been on a mission to remaster as many Tales of [Something] games as possible in recent years, but its next revival effort may have just been leaked by an accidental age rating.
PEGI (or the Pan European Game Information board) quietly rated Tales of Eternia Remastered, a game that has not yet been officially announced, in a listing published on April 16 that's now surfaced on social media. The PEGI rating has subsequently been scrubbed from the site itself, but not before the internet took note of what was included.
"This game has received a PEGI 12 because it features moderate violence and use of bad language. Not suitable for persons under 12 years of age," the rating said (thanks, Gematsu!)
Squashing any doubt that the age rating may have been intended for a different game, the listing quite specifically describes 2000's Tales of Eternia, titled Tales of Destiny 2 in North America: "Role-playing game which follows the story of Reid and his friends, Farah and Keele, as they meet a mysterious girl named Meredy who speaks an unknown language. Their subsequent quest to discover her origins leads them across a dimensional boundary to an entirely different realm known as Celestia." Yep, that checks.
In the last year and a half, Bandai Namco has pumped out three games in its Tales Remastered Project that aim to dust off some of the series' older entries and get releases out more regularly.
What makes this potential leak interesting is that the publisher's other remastered projects - Tales of Graces f Remastered, Tales of Xillia Remastered, and Tales of Berseria Remastered - contain quality-of-life tweaks and visual improvements but are mostly otherwise unchanged. Should Tales of Eternia Remastered actually exist, it would be both the oldest and first 2D game in the series to be included in the Tales Remastered Project, and I imagine Bandai Namco would tinker with its bones more extensively than we've been used to.
Series fans have been waiting close to five years for a follow-up to Tales of Arise, and some were recently crushed at the relatively light news we got for the franchise's milestone 30th anniversary. Perhaps giving older Tales games a more substantial, new coat of paint can tide people over until Tales of Whatever It's Called is ready.
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