2016's Tales of Berseria is getting remastered, leaving some JRPG fans puzzled as to why a mere 9-year-old game is getting this treatment before some much older entries

Another JRPG Tales is getting a remaster, but this one is a little more mysterious than the others. Bandai Namco announced that Tales of Berseria, which came out just nine years ago in 2016, will be getting a remaster for PS5, Xbox Series X, PC and Switch. That's right, Switch. Not switch 2.

Of course, in the days of Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered and The Last of Us Part 1, remaking games that aren't even ten years old isn't all that new. However, adding to the confusion in this case is the fact that there are many older games in the Tales series than Berseria. Nevertheless, Tales series producer Yusuke Tomizawa recently admitted that remastering older games can be tricky because tracking down the source code isn't always easy..

However, this doesn't even make sense in the context of publisher Bandai Namco's Tales Remaster Project, which aims to bring older Tales games to modern platforms. Berseria is already playable on PS5 and PC via their respective stores, and while Xbox and Switch are good additions, the remaster is ironically incompatible with Switch 2 due to “game development issues.” according to the Nintendo website. It appears that Xbox remains the only new platform supported.

Tales of Berseria Update – Announcement Trailer | PS5 Games – YouTube

“I feel like I just won this game,” said Zenimax Media quality control manager Eric Mabry. bluesky in response to an ad.

“For some consoles this makes sense, but you can literally play it on both PS5 and PC,” said another User Bluesky.

“So Fate and Eternity just don’t exist anymore, huh?” said good old Uncle Silver bluesky.

“Well, at least now we are absolutely sure that Namco will do everything BUT not a remaster/remake/port of Abyss like the fans want,” he said. MightyK.

“Phantasia, Destiny 1 and 2, Eternia, Rebirth, Legendia, Abyss, Innocence, Hearts, Xilllia 2 and Zestiria – all found dead in a ditch,” another sad person reads. answer.

This answer needs a visual presentation, so I'll just paste the message:

Xillia 2 fans will be like this

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You get the idea. My initial reaction was more of an existential realization that Tales of Berseria came out in 2016, not sometime between 2020-2022, and that 2016 was almost 10 years ago. Anyway, these are the facts and Bandai says remaster “levels up the memorable entry in TALES series for modern platforms, allowing players to relive an epic story with new gameplay and quality of life features.” It will be released on February 27th.

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