Tales of Phantasia

Video Game
1995
E10+

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A sinister being who calls himself Dhaos wishes to suck the earth dry of its resources. He seeks the power of the Tree of Life to create a Mana seed. Cless, Klarth, Chester, Archie, and Mint... Read allA sinister being who calls himself Dhaos wishes to suck the earth dry of its resources. He seeks the power of the Tree of Life to create a Mana seed. Cless, Klarth, Chester, Archie, and Mint must stop him before he destroys the world. Use the Eternal Sword to travel through time ... Read allA sinister being who calls himself Dhaos wishes to suck the earth dry of its resources. He seeks the power of the Tree of Life to create a Mana seed. Cless, Klarth, Chester, Archie, and Mint must stop him before he destroys the world. Use the Eternal Sword to travel through time and meet interesting characters. Learn and execute a myriad of attack techniques using Str... Read all

Directors
- Eiji Kikuchi
- Lynn Harris
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7.3/10

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Directors
- Eiji Kikuchi
- Lynn Harris
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Takeshi Kusao

Cless Alvein
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Satomi Kôrogi

Mint Adnade
(voice)

Mika Kanai

Arche Klaine
(voice)

Kazuhiko Inoue

Klarth F. Lester
(voice)

Kaneto Shiozawa

Dhaos
(voice)

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Trivia
This game was released/re-released/remade a total of three times, originally for the Super Famicom, a second time for the Playstation, and the most recent time for the Gameboy Advance. Much of the controls and such were reworked for later versions (very similar to later games in the series, such as Tales of Destiny, in fact.)

Goofs
The Float status isn't present when fighting.

Crazy credits
Both the SNES and GBA versions have a quote, by Edward D. Morrison, at the start of their intro, which is spoken aloud as well as printed. Morrison is the name of one of the NPCs who helps you on your quest.

Alternate versions
The SNES version has a blue and pink outfit for the two healers, instead of the correct white one. All other instances of the outfit, including in a illustration in the intro of the same version, have the correct outfit. It is unknown why.

Connections
Featured in Tales of Puppet: Tales of Phantasia (2018)

Soundtracks
PREMONITION
Composed and Arranged by Motoi Sakuraba

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10/10

This game is indeed a classic.

It's kinda funny that the first game in the "Tales of" series that hit any country outside of Japan was Tales of Destiny for Playstation, seeing as how this game is just as advanced, if you ignore that high resolution cut scenes and music are present in the other games. I highly recommend downloading the fan-translated ROM of the SNES version of this game, rather than getting the dubbed version, released not too long ago on Game Boy Advanced (the dubbing is atrocious, and they replaced the intro with some crappy little jingle). This Winter, Tales of Destiny is going to be re-released on PS2 in Japan. Hopefully we'll be seeing it hit stateside, seeing as how it's just as great as Tales of Phantasia. For anyone who wants to play an RPG that actually has some life to it, that isn't the same old stale crap, I highly recommend this series.