Tales of Phantasia (SNES)

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Description

In Tales of Phantasia the player controls a young boy named Cless, who lives together with his parents in a quiet village. It was a day like all the others when Cless decided to go hunting with his best friend Chester. Chasing a wild boar, Cless discovered a strange talking tree in the forest who was pleading him for help. But as soon as it stopped speaking, the two friends heard the sound of an alarm. They returned to the village and found it burnt down, and all its inhabitants murdered. Before Cless' mother died in his arms, she told him this terrible massacre had something to do with the pendant she and her husband gave Cless for his birthday... what connection could there be? Cless decides to visit his uncle who lives in another town, but he doesn't realize his journey will take him to much more remote places than that.

Tales of Phantasia is a Japanese-style role-playing game with an unusual combat system: the battles are action-based and are fought on separate side-scrolling screens. The player directly controls one character, while other party members are controlled by AI. It is possible to pause the game at any time and use magic, items, or choose an overall strategy for the allies.

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Alternate Titles

• "幻想传说" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)
• "Tale Phantasia" -- Working Title
• "Huanxiang Chuanshuo" -- Chinese title
• "テイルズ オブ ファンタジア" -- Japanese spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• Console Generation Exclusive: SNES
• Game feature: BGM / music player
• PlayStation the Best series
• Tales series

User Reviews

Very nice roleplaying adventure, but not without flaws.	Bregalad (969)
One great Import from Japan	Scott G (793)
One of the greatest SNES games of all time	Twilightseer (264)
Quite possibly better than CT.	Roo (5)

Critic Reviews

Jeuxvideo.com	Oct 01, 2010	18 out of 20	90
Legendra	Apr 23, 2003		90
Retro Archives	Dec 01, 2021	17.5 out of 20	88
GameFan Magazine	Mar, 1996	86 out of 100	86

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Trivia

Super Famicom version

The cartridge size of the game for the Super Famicom version is quite impressive (48 megabit), and the game even has some voice acting.

Related Web Sites

• OC ReMix Game Profile (Fan remixes of music from Tales of Phantasia, including the album "Summoning of Spirits".)
• Romhacking: Tales of Phantasia (English fan translation for the SNES version)
• tales-cless.org (English fan translation for the PlayStation version)
• Tales of Phantasia (Official game web site by Nintendo of America.)
• Wikipedia: Tales of Phantasia (Information about Tales of Phantasia at Wikipedia)