


The character designs were created by manga artist Kōsuke Fujishima. The game was written and programmed by Yoshiharu Gotanda, designed by Masaki Norimoto, and scored by Motoi Sakuraba, Shinji Tamura and Ryota Furuya. As a result, Cress must make use of time travel to gather allies who can help him put an end to Dhaos’s rampage once and for all. But after discovering his identity as being the descendant of one of the four warriors, he quickly becomes entangled in a conflict concerning the war-mongering Dhaos, the game’s main antagonist, after his release from imprisonment. The game takes place in a fantasy world of Aselia and follows Cress Albane, a highly-trained swordsman who is driven by vengeance after his hometown is destroyed. Initially released for the Super Famicom in December 1995, it was later ported to a number of other platforms, including a Japan-exclusive version for the PlayStation in December 1998 and a Game Boy Advance version published by Namco in Japan in August 2003 and later published by Nintendo in North America and Europe in March 2006, which marked the first time the game was officially available in English. It is the first title in Namco’s Tales series.

Tales of Phantasia is an action role-playing game originally developed by Wolf Team.
