During Star Ocean Festival 2019's stream, it was announced that Tales of The Rays and Star Ocean Anamnesis will have a collaboration event. Check out the preview here!
Tales veterans and people who are just interested in the series history may know the story of Wolf Team, Tales of Phantasia, Tri-Ace, and Star Ocean. Long story short, creative differences over the development of Phantasia led many of developer Wolf Team's members to leave Namco and found Tri-Ace, where they would then develop Star Ocean, which became it's own long running series parallel to Tales. That makes this doubly exciting!
Update (05.27.2019): The collaboration's official poster looks stunning:
On the Tales of The Rays side of things, two guest characters from Star Ocean have been announced:
Claude C. Kenny from Star Ocean: The Second Story
Rena Lanford also from Star Ocean: The Second Story
In addition to the above two crossover characters, certain Tales characters will also be featured in the event with crossover costumes and artes!
Laphicet comes dressed as Ashton Anchors from Star Ocean: The Second Story
Sophie dons an outfit based on Meracle Chamlotte from Star Ocean: The Last Hope
Rondoline E. Effenberg will get a costume based on Nel Zelpher from Star Ocean: Till The End Of Time
Check out the previews for their new mirrage artes here!
Claude
Rena
Laphicet
Sophie
Rondoline
In addition to the above, on the Star Ocean Anamnesis side of things we get to see Cress Albane, Mint Adenade, Arche Klein and Chester Barklight!
You can check out their art and description in that game below.
Cress
Mint
Arche
Chester
Commemorative artwork featuring characters from Tales of Phantasia and Star Ocean: First Departure.
As always, we will be posting a more in-depth overview of the event later on down the line, so be sure to check back later!
Tales of the Rays is a Tales mobile game for the iOS and Android featuring characters designed by Hidenori Matsuraba and a new ADF-LMBS (Advanced Flick Linear Motion Battle System). The game tells the story of hero Ix Nieves and heroine Mileena Weiss in the world of Tir Na Nog. Characters from the previous Tales titles appear in this game. The game initially had an English version, but was short-lived and now currently runs exclusively in Japan.
