Liam has been a Features writer for Game Rant since 2021. He's a life-long gaming enthusiast, and started covering game news in 2019. Liam has a preference for melee-focused action games, and enjoys ...

In a genre obsessed with world-threatening crises, Tales of Vesperia's initial focus on a local emergency is refreshing. It's the fantasy equivalent of a burst water main: a magical fountain whose ...

If there’s one quality a JRPG player has, it’s patience. Patience to wait our turn in battles, patience to learn a game’s systems, patience to play for the ten or so hours it takes to get good, and ...

In an earlier RetroBeat this year, I talked about how I wanted to get back into Japanese role-playing games in 2019. But the way I game has changed since 2017, back when I was playing my Vita almost ...

Tales of Vesperia has been a long-awaited entry for anyone who never got their hands on it during the 360’s lifetime. Many of us, like yours truly, had to wait and wait while tons of other people ...

Hailing from sunny (not as much as people think) Italy and long standing gamer since the age of Mattel Intellivision and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Definitely a multi-platform gamer, he still holds the old ...

The Tales series of RPGs has been around for a long time indeed, first seeing the light of day on the SNES in 1995 (Tales Of Phantasia). Over its 14 year history, it’s appeared in many forms and on ...

A young hero on a quest is the classic start to any fantasy game story. Sprinkle in charming characters, dense worldbuilding, a ragtag group of friends, and tactical combat - then you have the ...

Tales is one of the longest-running JRPG franchises around, seeing countless entries on any number of systems over the last 24 years. While there are plenty of quality Tales titles, there are a few ...

Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition contains one of my favorite JRPG narratives, and it doesn’t appear any worse after being exposed to over a decade’s worth of genre tropes and similarities. It’s ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Tales of Vesperia radiates beauty. This role-playing game's most obviously inspired facet is its vibrant visual design, but even if you were to ...

Ten years after it first came to U.S. shores, the Tales series of role-playing games from Japanese developer and publisher Bandai Namco is still going strong. And to celebrate its longevity, Namco ...