Tales of Hearts R Coming to Vita

[Andromeda]

In more Tales news, Namco Bandai announced last week that they would be bringing Tales of Hearts to the Vita as Tales of Hearts R. It is being remade for the Vita with the characters now 3D models and not sprites. The combat will also be fully 3D like traditional console based Tales games of recent years, Tales of Legendia did not have 3D combat. The original Tales of Hearts was released on the DS.

The remake and release on a new platform is likely part of the wish by the producer of the Tales series Hideo Baba to bring the Tales games to a new audience, as he stated in a previous interview. So this may be the first of many games to get re-releases or remakes along with potential releases in the NA and EU territories.

This week Namco showed off some screenshots from the upcoming game. They have said that the game is 50% completed with a Spring 2013 release window. Combat would have an additional feature allowing players to give chase to enemies into the air and juggle them.

Source: http://www.siliconera.com/2012/10/31...e-in-full-3d/; Tales Of Hearts R Is 50% Done And Has Full 3D Battles | Siliconera

[Zargabaath]

Would be nice for this to come to the US. Along w/ FF X (& possibly FF Type-0) would be reason enough to purchase a Vita. Was it this Tales game, on the DS, that was criticized for being way too short?

[Andromeda]

Without scouring reviews on the game to confirm or deny it, I don't know and a quick investigation did not reveal anything notable about the reviews of the game's length. It did have two version apparently, one with cutscenes done anime style and CG style. But being a Tales game it'd be hard to imagine it being short, even for being on a handheld.