WARNING: There will be minor spoilers for both Xillia 1 and Xillia 2. One
year later, and now we finally have the sequel to 2013’s Tales of Xillia. This
particular entry brings back a lot of things from its prequel, right down to
the exact same environments, but it brings a lot of new things to the table
that make it vastly superior in my opinion.
Namco’s
Tales series is an Action RPG franchise that started with Tales of Phantasia,
released in Japan in 1995. Since then, the series has become one of the most
popular RPGs in Japan, just behind Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy. In America, the series is much more niche and obscure, with many titles being
skipped over completely and unreleased here. However, Namco seems to be
striving to change that fact, and we now have Tales of Xillia, released back in
August of 2013, and its sequel coming in the same month this year.