Bandai Namco is offering fans the chance to get some hands on time with next month's Tales of Arise as a free demo is now scheduled to hit the PlayStation Store next week. Available on both the PS5 and PS4 platforms, the series' Twitter account simply pitches it as a "free play demo", but we happen to know a few extra details.
You'll be able to experience everything Tales of Arise has to offer throughout the playable teaser, including battles, boss fights, camping, cooking, skits, and side quests. All characters will be playable too within the demo, which goes live on the PS Store starting 18th August 2021. The game itself then comes to PS5 and PS4 a few weeks later on 10th September 2021. While we expect the content offering to be different, you can read our first impressions from a recent Tales of Arise hands on session through the link.
Will you be playing this demo ahead of release? Let us know in the comments below.
[source twitter.com]
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Nice. I don't know if I'll pick it up at launch (got a stacked gaming schedule for September to begin with and I'm also getting Lost Judgment on the 24th), but I'll at least give the demo a go for sure.
And if it happens to be one of those where you get to transfer your progress, all the better.
One thing I'll hand to this publisher. They give us demoes frequently.
Very cool!
Bandai Namco sold me on Scarlet Nexus earlier this year thanks to the demo and so far that game is my favorite game of the year so far so I'll definitely give this a go.
I'm deffo going to give this a shot.
Cool, looking forward to the game, already have it pre-ordered. Will definitely give the demo a try.
Hello fellow gamers.
Well, now I know what I´ll be playing on my PS5 that day 😉
And if I can carry my progress to the full game, even better.
Keep it up with the free demos Bandai Namco.
We gamers and consumers apreciate it.
Cheers, stay safe everyone and happy gaming to us all
Hope it sells well globally since the Japanese pre-order numbers were very disappointing
Nice! This is my most expected game of the year, good that I'll be able to try it beforehand. Also kudos to Bamco for releasing a demo for their big releases, it feels like they're one of the only publishers still steadly doing that.
Do I need to play any other Tales games to understand the story? Looking forward to the demo.
@mrtennis1990 Nah, the story in this is totally standalone.
Most Tales games are the same, although a few of them have direct sequels. It's basically like Final Fantasy, where different games have completely different worlds and characters.
That's my birthday!
@mrtennis1990 If you're asking seriously, nop you don't. It's like Final Fantasy, they're seperate stories, apart form a sequel or another.
@ShogunRok @Athrum thanks for the info!
"Will you be playing this demo ahead of release?"
F YES!
Love Tales of games. Finished almost all of them, so definitely super hyped for this one.
A major upgrade this series needed for a while.
Is this one of those timed demoes?
Will do. Hope the gameplay will be good.
Awesome. I’ll definitely give it a download. I’ve had my eyes on this game for a while now!
Love that they're doing this. A solid demo and 8+ review scores and I'll be picking this up for my delaystation
Fantastic news, really tempted to grab this but never played a Tales game before so this is exactly what I needed.
This looks lush but it's live or die based on the combat.
@chicken_chaser Not a timed demo, once it's released you can play forever.
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