Tales of Symphonia was a huge hit for the Gamecube some four years ago, and now Namco-Bandai Games is bringing a direct sequel to Wii gamers in the form of Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of A New World. Those who played through and are familiar with the original Tales game are sure to have a much more satisfying experience (in fact if you have your completed save game from the GC, you get a bonus item at the start of the game), but for the rest of us, Dawn of A New World may be one that gets put on the back burner indefinitely.

 When it comes to traditional RPGs, Microsoft still has their work cut out in winning over fans of one of the most popular genres in Japan. Sure, we’ve seen a good portion of action RPGs (Elder Scrolls series, Fable) and MMORPGS (Phantasy Star Online, Final Fantasy XI Online) on the Xbox and Xbox 360 but other than that, the number of traditional RPGs is few and far between. Now it seems that Microsoft has finally attempted to heighten their RPG appeal on the most recent Xbox 360 by providing a few more traditional RPGs to whet the appetites of American Xbox 360 owners and to force Japanese to buy them.