Tales of Eternia

Tales of Eternia is a Japanese PlayStation role-playing video game released by Namco in 2000. It's a 2D anime-style RPG, whith an original real-time battle system, heritage from its predecessors, Tales of Phantasia and Tales of Destiny

Storyline

The action takes place in Eternia, a world where two planets, Inferia and Celestia, face one another, separated by the Orbus Barrier. It all begins with two of the main characters, Reid (or Rid) Herschel and Farah Oersted, noticing an strange change in the color of the Orbus Barrier and witnessing the falling of some kind of spaceship falling down from Celestia. When they go to see what happened, the meet a cute girl, Meredy (and her pet, Kuweeky or Quickie), who is dressed in a strange fashion and speaks an strange, foreign language.

Thus, Rid an Farah decide to go see their childhood friend, Keele (or Keel) Zeibel, in search for answers. There they learn Meredy speaks Melnics, an ancient civilisation's language. So, when they finally understand her words, whith the help of an speciar earring, she says she comes from Celestia because the two planets are going to collide and collapse, and so they must search for the Greater Craymels to stop the fall...

At the start they can't much believe what she says, as in Inferia, after thousnds of years of incommunication, Celestians are said to be man-eating ugly monsters... but little by little, as they travel through all of Eternia, requesting the help of the Greater Craymels and meeting new friens, such as Ras (Race), Max (Fog) and Chat, they'll finally find the secrets of Eternia and how to stop the Grand Fall.

Other Info

Its North American release was titled Tales of Destiny II. This was problematic, because there is now a PlayStation 2 game known as Tales of Destiny 2 which actually is a sequel to Tales of Destiny.

As for 2005, there have been released 13 different "Tales of" games, 16 in total, including the popular GC and PS2 "Tales of Symphonia"; the first "Tales of" in its GBA, SNES and PS versions, "Tales of Phantasia", and the recent "Tales of Eternia Online". You can find information about all these games at the Namco Tales Channel