Meet Some More Tales of Graces Characters

By Laura . July 21, 2009 . 8:38pm

Meet Some More Tales of Graces Characters

Lately, every Tales fan has been looking at the new game for the series, Tales of Graces, for Wii, set for release in winter of 2009. Famitsu released a few more details relating to new characters and hints about the re-vamped battle system.

 

New to the battle system is an option called “Style Shift,” where, with the press of a button, players can change a character’s equipment, spells, and battle style depending on the situation. For example, Cheria can fight physically with daggers, or she can stay back and focus on healing and support spells. Hubert, on the other hand, can either fight using two blades, or he can swap those blades for two guns.

 

Although this doesn’t sound like a newcomers, old Tales fans should remember that previous battle systems allowed for blocking and backstepping when an enemy attacked. In this game, a new feature is added –- sidestepping. Not only does this allow you to dodge, you can attack the enemy’s unprotected flank!

 

The first new character introduced is Cheria Barnes, voiced by Shiho Kawaragi. She is the granddaughter of the butler to the Lhant family, and a childhood friend to Asbel Lhant, the protagonist. She has a reliable personality, although she can’t really stop acting shy around Asbel due to certain *cough* feelings. She wants to do her best to help out the Lhants because she’s lived with them all her life.

 

Her Mystic Arte (called this because Tales translations haven’t been consistent, so I’m taking Tales of the Abyss’ translations for now) is called Alterism Line, in which she throws all the daggers she has hidden up her sleeves. The attack seems to affect a wide area.

 

Some of her other moves are Thunderbolt and Nurse, as can be expected from a mage.

 

The second is Hubert Ozwell, voiced by Takahiro Mizushima. He’s actually Asbel’s younger brother by one year. When he was little, he used to be nice, quiet kid, but as he grew up he started to discipline himself into being stronger. Now, he is a Major in the Strata Army. He always seems to be depressed when he’s around his brother for some reason.

 

His Mystic Arte is Instant Waltz, in which the two swords split and become two guns and all enemies are hit. One of his normal skills is Raigashourai, probably translated as Thunder Fang Rush, performed with his swords, and another is Rail Arrow, a skill utilizing his guns.


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  • Aoshi00

    I swear I heard Kaida Yuki in one of the earlier trailers doing the narration, I thought she was going to be the voice of the main char but now it turns out to be a male voice.. The graphics are kind of horrible in this one..

  • Teal

    Alterism Line and Instant Waltz, they sound alright for Hi-Ougis…
    Wait, did they ever release the names of Asbel and Sophee's Hi-Ougi? D=

  • Name

    Tales fans have arguably been waiting for a new Tales game for many years now.

  • http://mmv-wii.proboards.com/index.cgi Hero of Legend

    How'd you get that unwatermaked screen?

  • http://www.twitter.com/christaran Taran

    Photoshop.

  • terracannon876

    Mizushima Takahiro is a bit more known, I think. He did Chris in Scrapped Princess, Rolo from Code Geass R2, and…some other roles…

    Don't know Kawaragi Shiho all that much. Do you know what role she plays in Law of Ueki?

  • terracannon876

    Ah, true. I forgot. What WAS the last English Tales Of game? I counted Hearts and Innocence too, but those are Japanese only… Not to mention the hellish load of remakes for PSP the Japanese have…

  • http://www.siliconera.com Spencer

    Cropping.

  • http://www.siliconera.com Spencer

    I think Vesperia was the last mothership game. So far we've missed out on all the remakes and most of the side games so yeah, it's been awhile for Tales.

  • terracannon876

    Oh yeah, Vesperia! I don't have an Xbox360 (or a PS3) so I kinda forgot. Shouldn't have, considering how I've gone into the fandom and all…

  • terracannon876

    Not that I know of…

  • lostinblue

    wait what, horrible graphics? I can't agree O_O

  • Konchaku

    It's may not exactly be a hiougi. The Famitsu scan listed them as hisatsuwaza, it means instant killing attack or some variation of that, and it can be a new game mechanic(something like the burst artes and the final strike were in vesperia) or a new name for hiougi in this game.

  • http://www.myanimelist.net/profile/Hraesvelgr Hraesvelgr

    Same here, they look great to me. Definitely much better than your average third party Wii game.

  • http://www.myanimelist.net/profile/Hraesvelgr Hraesvelgr

    If they've been waiting “for many years”, then they obviously missed the two that were released just last year… one if you only want to count mothership titles.

  • lostinblue

    more than that, from a graphics standpoint it even does stuff that no Tales ever did, even counting Vesperia… such as self shadowing. And coupled with Motion Capture no less (that Vesperia lacked)

    Looking real, real good.

  • Aoshi00

    I'm not sure if he's well known, it seems like he voiced a lot of bit roles and just started in the last couple of years. And I haven't really watched any new anime for a while except following every week Dragon Ball Kai and Cross Game — anime based on the latest Adachi Mitsuru baseball/romance manga, (the author of classics such as Touch, Slow Step, H2, etc)

    Kawaragi voiced Ballow Echalote in “the Law of Ueki”, the brown hair kid who wears a backpack; captain of Team Ballow. I really like her voice there. She also seems to be in Ikki Tousen, Claymore, Shion no Ou (Seto Kazumi), Rozen Maiden, Koihime Musou, etc. It seems like she did a lot more important roles than Mizushima. At any rate, I'm not too familiar w/ either because they're quite new and I almost don't watch anime these days.

  • RavenSchwann

    Character in white looks like Suzaku from Code Geass R2.

  • Aoshi00

    I'm not sure if he's well known, it seems like he voiced a lot of bit roles and just started in the last couple of years. And I haven't really watched any new anime for a while except following every week Dragon Ball Kai and Cross Game — anime based on the latest Adachi Mitsuru baseball/romance manga, (the author of classics such as Touch, Slow Step, H2, etc)

    Kawaragi voiced Ballow Echalote in “the Law of Ueki”, the brown hair kid who wears a backpack; captain of Team Ballow. I really like her voice there. She also seems to be in Ikki Tousen, Claymore, Shion no Ou (Seto Kazumi), Rozen Maiden, Koihime Musou, etc. It seems like she did a lot more important roles than Mizushima. At any rate, I'm not too familiar w/ either because they're quite new and I almost don't watch anime these days.

  • Tim N

    Character in white looks like Suzaku from Code Geass R2.

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