They are making a spin-off of the origional Tales of Symphonia for the Wii. It is going to be called Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World
It is going to be different than the other Tales games in that you only have two permanent human characters. Every other human character is temparory. The thing that makes it so different though is that you can recruit the monsters that you fight.
The monsters can level and evolve and your two main characters can gain skills by fighting alongside monsters.
What I am wondering right now is if there are going to be skills that you can get from a power source like the gems last time or if you can only get them from monsters pretty much.
One thing I heard that made me pretty happy is that even though it is for the Wii it isn't suppose to be too motion sensative unless you want it to be.

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Beware. Midna killed me. Now, all that is left is my ghost.

"he's doing me first, hylian!!!" -Kate

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience,
which is the bitterest."
~Confucius

I prefer to call it a sequel... Well it is technically. It happens 2 years after the original game and after the w-......

I don't want to say more it's too much spoilerific!

Anyways, I'm looking forward to it. Wii needs some RPGs!

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Sounds like one to think about buying! Had good fun with the original.

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Yeah. The only thing that truely saddens me about the Wii is its lack of good RPGs. I can't wait for this to come out. I still don't know when this is coming out though.

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Beware. Midna killed me. Now, all that is left is my ghost.

"he's doing me first, hylian!!!" -Kate

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience,
which is the bitterest."
~Confucius

I loved the original, but I'm not expecting too much of this. Unfortunately the gain of popularity of the Tales series in the west has led to a mass production of Tales games which didn't really help their quality.

Also, I never really like a monster system in an rpg, since it's always some inferior variation on Pokemon. Though it's actually fun sometimes, like Shin Megami Tensei III for the PS2.

Of course I still hope this is going to be good :)

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This sounds like it would be similar to Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne, where you could recruit monsters to battle with you, and even mix monsters to create whole new ones to fight with you. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Me...nsei:_Nocturne)

Hey, I SAID THAT!

(Déjà vu?)

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