Tales of Phantasia
Tales of Phantasia is the first installment of the Tales series, and was released by Namco in 1995 for the Super Famicom. Released at the end of 1995, Tales of Phantasia is considered one of the crowning…
Tales of Phantasia is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Wolf Team, released 15 December 1995 on Super Famicom. The main story takes about 25 hrs to finish.
What Tales of Phantasia is
Tales of Phantasia is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Wolf Team and released in 1995. It was published by Namco. It is available on Super Famicom only. It runs on Custom Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Tales of Phantasia begins by showing a heroic battle between four unknown warriors against an evil sorcerer, Dhaos, the outcome of which changed the fate of the world. The warriors are victorious, but Dhaos escapes through time. However, four different heroes await him: they seal the weakened Dhaos away by using the power of two pendants, thus returning peace to the world.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Tales of series
Tales of Phantasia is the first of 96 entries we hold in the Tales of series. The next entry was Tales of Destiny in 1997. Its critic score of 65 is 10 points below the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is Tales of Symphonia at 89.
How it was received
Tales of Phantasia holds a critic score of 65 out of 100. That places it above 21% of the 3,813 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 1995 averaged 66, so it scored about average for its year.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 25 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 35 hrs, roughly 1.4 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
Tales of Phantasia launched on 15 December 1995, within three weeks of Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Suikoden, Neo Turf Masters and Rayman. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, Suikoden, Neo Turf Masters, Rayman.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Tales of Phantasia yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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