Tales of Hearts gets two versions: CGI and anime

File this one under "Awesome Things that Japan Gets that We Won’t": Namco Bandai’s Tales of Hearts will get two separate releases, one featuring fully-rendered CGI cut scenes, the other with slick, 2D anime scenes. I’d be willing to bet that all of this could have fit on one card — Mistwalker crammed all sorts of CGI into ASH, after all — but the types of people who buy special edition Tales of Vesperia Xbox 360 bundles will also buy two copies of the same game.
Tales of Hearts will be the first of the Tales of… series to use CGI scenes, perhaps taking some of its cues from Tetsuya Nomura (those character models could’ve been plucked straight out of Final Fantasy III DS or Final Fantasy XII). The 3D modeling will be handled by Shirogumi, the same company responsible for the environments.
However, if you’re a Tales of… purist, […]

Original Post By Google News Joseph -Orcist- Leray