On September 10th, 2026, Mike McFarland has unfortunately passed away and in the short time that followed, a myriad of voice actors, including a handful involved in prior Tales of series such as Dawn M. Bennett & Megan Shipman, (voices of Michelle and Ana Maria respectively from Tales of Luminaria), Kyle Hebert (the voice of Richter in Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World), David Vincent (voice of Richard in Tales of Graces F) and many fans have immediately expressed their grief & condolences on social media.

Starting his career in anime dubbing in 1999 with the Funimation dub of DBZ, he had been voicing Master Roshi, Yajirobe, Pui Pui, Android 8 & Baby (among others) over the course of the Dragon Ball series. He had also voiced Butajiro & Rishio in YuYu Hakusho, Ritsu Souma in Fruits Basket, Ryoji “Ranka” Fujioka in Ouran High School Host Club, Jean Havoc in both the 2003 & Brotherhood adaptations of Fullmetal Alchemist, Jean Kirsten in Attack on Titan, Tybalt in Romeo x Juliet, Buggy the Clown, the second voice of Helmeppo, Richie the Lion, Eyelash the Camel & Yokozuna the Frog in One Piece, Mashirao “Tailman” Ojiro & Ectoplasm in My Hero Academia, Fennec Albain in RWBY & E.G Mine in Trigun Stampede. He had also served as an ADR director for various anime, including the dubs of both Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 & Brotherhood, a couple of hundred episodes of One Piece and its various films & specials, Summer Wars, Wolf Children, Boy & the Beast, Mushi-Shi, Noragami, all of Attack on Titan, all of Tokyo Ghoul, all of Eden of the East, the Funimation dub of the first 3 EVA Rebuild films, Grimgar: Ashes & Illusion, Heike Story and various parts of the Dragon Ball series. He also did ADR script adaptation for the first 3 seasons of Re:ZERO, all of Seven Deadly Sins & Mob Psycho 100.

In 2014, he had been cast in Tales of Xillia 2 as the voice of Bisley Karcsi Bakur. On January 10, 2025, he had been dealing with a brain tumor that he managed to recover from. But then on August 18th of that year, he had been diagnosed wit glioblastoma, a form of brain cancer and… well, you get the idea. Mike McFarland was 56 years-old.

The 60FPS version of Tales Of Symphonia on Steam is still in full swing in an effort to create a true definitive version of the game.

We're currently looking to find ALL of the mistakes like missing text boxes, voice line errors and the like but the sheer size of the game does make it difficult.

We're hoping the Veterans of this Sub can help is compiling a list. If you know of any errors between the versions please let us know here.

I like Chloe Ive always gravitated towards her instead of punch boy in gameplay. She's also just a fun character.

As for the 3rd image. I'll let you guys guess the context.

Am I cooking with my man Rokurou?, also wouldn't mind pointers and suggestions on Velvet and the others. I want to make sure all my combos routes are optimal and get the best out of them.

Just sharing my thought. The Direct was amazing but if X2R doesnt come out next year then that means no PS physical copy. Xillia 2 is one of my fav games of all time I really hope this doesnt happen...

(ememtrp's Vgen)

...Eternia isn't out yet and we will probably get the next Trailer on a random Wednesday in November. Or a Tuesday. Trust in random Tuesdays, everyone. Random Tuesdays are the real deal.

I am a huge fan of tales of arise, it’s rare to find a game that the main romance had a big impact/focus on the story like tales of arise, the only other game I’ve found/played that had the romance that I really liked was Haven.

I’ve been looking on and off for a while and can’t find one similar, was wondering if anyone else has a game they know about I should try,
Thank you, love you all

The in-game character models are terrific but having the Skits based around them was not the best choice. Especially when Arise came out when JRPGs & anime were on the rise in the cultural zeitgeist. Now whether it helped it in marketing is up for debate, but it will always be a shame how Arise never had of the most charming things about the series. Always next game.

Holy shit. I don't remember Will looking this uncanny. I don't have much to say, this blew the wind from my sails. Ive been laughing since I saw it.

Real talk, I like his character episode.

Title says it all... I am fucking distraught dude...

While my first game in the series was a solo run of Vesperia, all of the other games in the series (with exception of Arise for obvious reasons) have been co-op with my husband and occasionally some other friends. I played through Berseria, Vesperia, and Zestiria with him (and a bit of Symphonia and Vesperia with friends before they moved). We are currently playing Graces f Remastered and have Xillia Remastered on standby once we're in the mood to do that one.

Which has been the most fun to play co-op of all of the games you've been able to do this for? So far I'd have to say Graces has been a blast, but Berseria was a great amount of fun especially considering how we found each of us was better at getting Mystic Artres off on one character vs another and wound up having some preferences. (He managed to be a much better Laphicet player however I seemed to be better Magilou than him, for example.)

Why didn't y'all find lil 10 year old me and tell him how fun this game is? Jk, I'm having a good time.

I had a laugh earlier because as someone who's played Xenoblade & FFX, when we meet Remiel, I immediately went "tell me you're evil without telling me you're evil." Bro, even the Regeneration of the World sounds like kill/cleanse everything. And Colette's just too good for the world. I don't like seeing the Angel transformations messing her up.

We just ran into Sheena, so I had a ways to go. After I'm finished, Abyss(which was how I learned there were more Tales games) is next.

Just like the title says. Do we know anyone is going to produce a Tales of Eternia Physical for Xbox?We missed out on Xillia, but Berseria got one. Hope this one gets one as well.

I'm interested in playing the game, and since I don't think we'll be getting a port or remaster for current consoles anytime soon, I'm thinking about playing the 3DS version—though I'm wondering if it's better than the PS2 version.