Final Fantasy's Biggest Competition Officially Returns In 2026

Turn-based combat and Y2K vibes? Yes please Bandai Namco's Tales RPG series marked its 30th anniversary last year, and a major cornerstone of that celebration was the announcement of the "Tales Remaster Project," which is... exactly what it sounds like. Since the reveal, we've gotten remasters of Tales of Graces f, Tales of Xillia, and Tales of Berseria. The fourth installment of that project is Tales of Eternia Remastered, a revival of a 2000 PlayStation game, which comes to consoles and Steam on Oct. 16. If that title doesn't ring a bell right away, there's a good reason. Tales of Eternia was released outside Japan in 2001 as Tales of Destiny 2, even though it wasn't a direct sequel. At that point, it was only the second Tales game released overseas, so Bandai decided to do a little sleight of hand with the title, in order to remind players it was part of an ongoing series. It's a little bit like how Squaresoft released Final Fantasy 6 as Final Fantasy 3 in North America, and the English dub of the Pokémon animated series tried to tell us all that onigiri were jelly donuts. The early 2000s were a simpler time, when Japanese pop culture was still extremely niche and whale tails we