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Tales of Symphonia

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Published by

Namco Hometek Inc.

Developed by

Namco Tales Studio Ltd., Production I.G, Inc.

Released

Jul 13, 2004

Also For

PlayStation 2 | Combined View

ESRB Rating

Teen

Genre

Role-Playing (RPG)

Perspective

3rd-Person Perspective, Platform

Non-Sport

Anime / Manga, Fighting, Puzzle-Solving

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4.0

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Credits
Cast	Scott Menville (Lloyd Irving), Heather Hogan (Colette Brunel), Colleen O’Shaughnessy (Genis Sage), Kari Wahlgren (Raine Sage), Jennifer Hale (Sheena Fujibayashi), Shiloh Strong (Zelos Wilder), Tara Strong (Presea Combatir), Crispen Freeman (Regal Bryant), Cam Clarke (Kratos Aurion), Brianne Siddall (Mithos), Kim Mai Guest (Tabatha / Martel), Chris Edgerly (Yuan / Kvar / Magnius), Darren Norris (Rodyle / Shadow), Massasa (Pronyma / Luna), André Sogliuzzo (Forcystus), Wally Wingert (Remiel), Nika Futterman (Yutis / Undine), Hunter Austin (Celsius / Fairess), Keith Szarabajka (Efreet), James Arnold Taylor (Yggdrasill / Gnome), Debi Derriberry (Noishe), Debi Mae West (Sephie), Tara Strong (Presea Combatir), Robin Atkin Downes (Origin), Stephen Stanton (Maxwell)
Additional Voices	Dee Bradley Baker, Bill Farmer, Keith Ferguson, Susan Silo, Chris Smith, Fred Tatasciore
Character Design	Kosuke Fujishima
Namco Tales Studio
Directors	Kiyoshi Nagai, Eiji Kikuchi
Game Designer	Takashi Hasegawa
Assistant Game Designer	Ichio Takami
System Programmer	Yu Otsuka
Field Programmer	Katsutoshi Sato
Battle Programmer	Osamu Hisano
Battle System Support	Go Murai
Programming Support	Yoshimasa Tanaka, Toyokazu Endo
Script Writer	Takumi Miyajima
Script Director	Hiroyuki Kanemaru
Script Editors	Hiroyuki Kanemaru, Naoto Miyadera, Kenji Anabuki, Tatsuo Saito
Assistant Script Editors	Hiroyuki Suzuki, Nobuyuki Sawada, Toyokazu Endo, Takehito Nagasawa, Shinya Watabe
Level Concept Designers	Ichio Takami, Takashi Hasegawa, Hiroyuki Kanemaru, Naoto Miyadera, Kenji Anabuki
Level Designers	Kazuhiro Koizumi, Tsutomu Sugino, Yoshiyuki Aiuchi
Town Graphic Designers	Yoshiyuki Aiuchi, Shinya Hirota, Natsuko Terasawa, Tomohiro Hayashi, Erina Sibata, Taro Yamamoto
Interior Map Graphic Designers	Kazuhiro Koizumi, Yutaka Nihei, Nobuhiro Hatori
Dungeon Graphic Designers	Tsutomu Sugino, Satoshi Katsube, Kouichi Wakatsuki, Sadayuki Imai, Takashi Saito, Toshiyuki Hashimoto, Hideaki Fujisawa
Field Graphic Designers	Taku Matsuda, Masatoshi Haga
Battlefield Graphic Support	Yoshiyuki Aiuchi
Battle Graphic Designers	Chiharu Ishii, Akiyoshi Hoshi, Kaori Asado, Nobuo Kanuma
Character Modelers	Seika Arai, Masahiko Musha, Yoshinobu Maezawa, Takuya Kishimoto, Masaaki Kanbayashi, Fumihiro Kimura
Character Animators	Masashi Ito, Kaoru Kato, Maki Kojima, Go Motoyama, Hitoya Kitui
Monster Designers/Modelers	Satoshi Nakamura, Keisuke Nitta, Shinichi Yamaguchi, Takashi Shimano, Haruka Uchida
Monster Animators	Takashi Shimano, Shinichi Yamaguchi, Keisuke Nitta, Satoshi Nakamura
Assistant Modelers	Susumu Oomameuda, Miho Terada
System Graphic Designer	Nao Yanase
Effect Graphic Designer	Yoshiyuki Ozaki
Sound Programmer	Takeshi Arai
Sound/Music Engineers	Motoi Sakuraba, Shinji Tamura, Takeshi Arai
Sound Effect Editor	Takeshi Arai
Voice Over Editor	Shuji Ikegami
Special Thanks	Yoshifumi Osaki, Jyunichi Uchida, Shinya Watabe, Masahiro Abe, Takahiro Tanaka, Yuri Handa, Chiaki Sasakura
Polygon Magic, Inc. - Map Graphics
Director	Osamu Ogiwara
Map Graphics	Makoto Hayashi, Motoko Tohyama, Satoshi Yamaura, Wataru Kawahara, Mai Satsuki, Yukiko Sakurai, Rumi Kodera, Reiga Yasuda, Miho Tsuthiya, Nobumichi Sugawara, Youzou Kageyama, Aya Nagakubo, Yukari Saitou, Tatsuonoko Production, Takashi Takashima, Toshimasa Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Tanaka, Hideaki Makinouchi, Yoshinori Yoshimoto, Maya Hayashi, Yoshiko Miyahara
buildup Co., Ltd. - Map Graphics
Producer	Nobuya Okabe
Line Producer	Naoko Uchiyama
Technical Producer	Naoto Oonuki
CG Director	Masanori Kubota
CG Artists	Shugo Kayano, Satoshi Koshimizu, Teruyuki Ishikawa, Yukimidori, Yasuhiko Muraoka
Designer	Tetsuya Amabiki
buildup Co., Ltd. - CG Movies
Producer	Nobuya Okabe
Line Producer	Naoko Uchiyama
Technical Producer	Naoto Oonuki
CG Director	Minoru Kusakabe
CG Artists	Masanori Kubota, Seiko Endoji, Shugo Kayano, Daisuke Harada
Designers	Masayuki Goto, Tetsuya Amabiki
Animated Movies
Animation Producer	Hidekazu Terakawa
Lead Animation Director	Tokuyuki Matsutake
Animation Character Designer	Tokuyuki Matsutake
Opening Animation Director/General Illustration Director	Tokuyuki Matsutake
Event Animation Director/Illustration Director	Chikashi Kubota
Illustrators	Atsuko Nakajima, Hideki Tachibana, Makoto Yamada, Hirofumi Suzuki, Yoshiaki Yanagida, Shinji Ishihama, Koichi Arai, Yuichi Tanaka, Yasunori Miyazawa, Syouko Nakamura, Yuka Shibata, Ikuo Kuwana, Atsushi Nishigori, Naoto Hosoda, Hideki Takahashi, Ken Otsuka, Hiroyuki Imaishi, Terumi Nishii, Daizen Komatsuda, Chikashi Kubota, Hanako Enomoto
Art Director	Hajime Matsuoka
Background Designer	Hajime Matsuoka, Minoru Nishida (PAC), Mariko Iwaki (PAC), Kazuo Ogura (Kusanagi), Shunichiro Yoshihara (Bihou Inc), Takamasa Masuki (Bihou Inc.)
Animation Check	Maiko Nogami
Animators	Yukiko Mita, Kazunori Akiyama, Fuminori Sahara, Mariko Yamamoto, Masaharu Uemura, Yuko Yamada, Keigo Sasaki, Rieko Sakai, Yukio Araie, Masaya Kikuchi, Yumi Kuroiwa, Rieko Tuji, Yuuki Kawashima, Yuki Masuda, Eriko Sakai, Yukari Umebayashi, Kasumi Hara, Midori Yamamoto, Takashi Isomatsu, Ajiadou, JC. Staff, Anime R, DR MOVIE, Kyongan ANIA, BONES, RADIX, OH Production, Studio Live, Beetrain, Studio Mark, Magic Bus, GAINAX, Dougakoubou, Tamazawadouga, APPP
Color Design	Katsue Inoue
Clean‑Up Animators	Nagisa Abe, Mariko Simokawa, Kazu Doi, Emiko Ueno, Yuri Okada, Eiko Matsushima, Izumi Hirose, Mika Sugawara, Sayaka Tsuda, Yuko Fujita, Sumie Koga, Takayoshi Ishiawa, Miki Sakuma, JC. Staff
Filming Director	Makoto Kogawa
3DCGI	Eiji Mizutani
2D Works	Akiko Nakayama
Special Effects	Masahiro Murakami
Effects	Akira Saito, Sigenobu Kaihoko, Hisashi Ezura
Editors	Junichi Uematsu, Taeko Hamauzu
Production Supervisor	Tetsuya Nakatake
Process Manager	Yoshikazu Ui
Animation Production	Production I.G
U.S. Production
Original Translation	John Ricciardi (InterOne. Inc.), D. Scott Miller, Kevin Gifford, Cormac O’Conner
Voice Over Production (Blindlight Media, LLC)	Lev Chapelsky, Dawn Hershey, Matt Chase
Voice Over Recording
VO Director	Brigitte Burdine
Recording Engineer	Danielle Hunt
VO Assistant	Charlotte Thomas
Namco Hometek Inc.
Localization Manager	Noriko Wada
Localization Producer	Nao Higo
Localization Engineer	Mayumi Matsumoto
Localization Associate Producer	Ryota Toyama
Localization VO Producer	Taiki Homma
Localization Assistant Producer	Minako Takahashi
Production Assistant	John Kenzo Hickey
Localization Staff (Japan)	Shu Miyoshi, Emi Takeuchi, Jeremy Clark
QA and CS Manager	Glen A. Cureton
QA Supervisor	Daryle Tumacder
Senior QA Lead	Jesse Mejia
Assistant QA Lead	Tim Jones
QA Testers	Philip Cohen, Geoff Tuttle, Caleb Corey, Todd Shimizu, Merwin O. Del Rosario, Narciso Angel, Steve Garcia, Joseph Damon, Terence Ramos, Kevin Nardi, Andrew Nicholson, Tim Yokoo, Matthew Bragg, Chris Morgan, Halbert Nakagawa, Jason Sinclair, Scott Pendleton, Ryan Jackson, Sang Ho Lee, Adam Gordon, Chris Sinclair, Ryan Lecha, Brad Trosin, Chris Simpson, Christopher Stanley, Brian Su, Kelly Davis, Danelle Sears
Senior Product Marketing Manager	Jeffrey Lujan, Ross Borden
Associate Product Marketing Manager	Tara Samuels
Public Relations Manager	Mika Kelly
Special Thanks	Nobuhiro Kasahara, Robert Ennis, Rodney Nakamoto, Garry Cole, Takefumi Hyoudou, Masanori Kato, Yoshito Higuchi, Shu Miyoshi, Emi Takeuchi, Jeremy Clark, John Kenzo Hickey
Namco Ltd.
QA Testers	Toshio Natsui, Shinichi Tsuruya, Yasuhiro Fukaya, Yuichi Sato, Hiroyuki Kaneshiro, Takeuchi Masakatsu, Keita Matsui, Tomoki Takahashi, Takashi Uchino, Kazuhiro Sumitomo, Yuusuke Hirabayashi, Satoshi Ohnishi, Go Mukouyama, Masaki Yoneyma, Yasuhiro Shinohara, Yuko Shikanai, Yoji Mizumura, Keisuke Hosotani, Seizo Akita, Yuki Kaneko, Masakazu Hino
Special Thanks	Yuichiro Sadahiro, Goro Iwasaki, Takaharu Suzuki, Jun Toyoda, All Testers
Production Supervising Editor	Kouji Shibue
Sub Character Illustrator	Daigo Okumura
Direction Support	Kazuhisa Oomi, Yuuichi Yoda, Hwang Mi Kyung
Director	Yoshito Higuchi
Lead Director	Shinichiro Okamoto
Producer	Makoto Yoshizumi
Executive Producers	Youichi Haraguchi, Kyushiro Takagi, Masaya Nakamura
Produced by	Namco. Ltd.
Namco Ltd. UK Office
Production Manager	Takashi Ebiike
Assistant Product Manager	Ed Valiente
Production Assistant	Nobuko Mihara, Hidetoshi Nakatsukasa
Nintendo of Europe
Management	Kai Zeh
Coordination	Marcus Krause
German Translation	Martina Deimel
French Translation	Sébastien Lizon
Spanish Translation	Palma Sánchez de Moya Rodríguez
Italian Translation	Massimo Maietti
European Validation and Testing Team	Silke Sczyrba, Britta Henrich, Daniela Schmitt, Jens Peppel, Nadine Straub, Sabine Möschl, Peter Swietochowski
European Manual Localisation and Layout	Silke Sczyrba, Britta Henrich, Daniela Schmitt, Jens Peppel, Nadine Straub, Sabine Möschl, Peter Swietochowski
European Marketing Manager	Matti Kuorehjarvi
Brand Executive GameCube	Walter Lorenz
Head of PR	Shelly Pearce
PR Manager	Claire Stocks-Wilson
Senior Account Executive	Sam Parlane (Cake Media)
Special Thanks	Tak Hyodo, Masanori Kato, Ko Kimura, Kevin Yanagihara, Nao Higo, Ryota Toyama, Yoshi Niki, Yoko Nakao, Tara Samuels, Martin Buchholz

Other Games

In addition to this game, the following people are listed as working on other games. No more than 25 people are listed here, even if there are more than 25 people who have also worked on other games.

Fred Tatasciore, 126 other games
Jennifer Hale, 99 other games
Robin Atkin Downes, 99 other games
Glen A. Cureton, 97 other games
André Sogliuzzo, 85 other games
Dee Bradley Baker, 78 other games
Christopher Stanley, 72 other games
Daryle Tumacder, 71 other games
Cam Clarke, 69 other games
Garry Cole, 68 other games
Keith Ferguson, 65 other games
Kim Mai Guest, 64 other games
Wally Wingert, 55 other games
Mika Kelly, 53 other games
Nika Futterman, 52 other games
Chris Edgerly, 52 other games
Nobuhiro Kasahara, 51 other games
Dawn Hershey, 50 other games
James Arnold Taylor, 49 other games
Stephen Stanton, 46 other games
Keith Szarabajka, 46 other games
Robert Ennis, 44 other games
Tara Strong, 43 other games
Yoshi Niki, 43 other games
Bill Farmer, 42 other games

Collaborations

People who have worked on this game have also collaborated on the creation of the following games:

Tales of the Abyss, a group of 83 people
Tales of Legendia, a group of 46 people
Tales of Destiny II, a group of 38 people
Tales of Phantasia, a group of 35 people
Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World, a group of 29 people
Katamari Damacy, a group of 26 people
Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War, a group of 26 people
Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean, a group of 26 people
Xenosaga: Episode II - Jenseits von Gut und Böse, a group of 24 people
Mr. DRILLER: Drill Spirits, a group of 23 people
Tekken 5, a group of 20 people
Breakdown, a group of 20 people
Xenosaga: Episode I - Der Wille zur Macht, a group of 20 people
Xenosaga: Episode III - Also Sprach Zarathustra, a group of 17 people
Tales of Destiny, a group of 17 people
SoulCalibur III, a group of 16 people
Bounty Hounds, a group of 15 people
Ridge Racer 6, a group of 15 people
Urban Reign, a group of 14 people
Spawn: Armageddon, a group of 14 people
Pac-Man Pinball Advance, a group of 14 people
Klonoa 2: Dream Champ Tournament, a group of 14 people
Death by Degrees, a group of 14 people
We Love Katamari, a group of 14 people
Arc the Lad: End of Darkness, a group of 14 people