#tales of the abyss

[willofwinnie]

Tales of the Abyss has a lot of smaller details throughout the game. All over the world has fonic writing, and it does have meaning. Spoilers ahead!

There are signs:

Even the map and logo has fonic:

Funny thing about the logo is that East and West are switched despite dialog and the in-game compass matching our own world's. It also displays numbers one through ten, going counterclockwise. There is not an x in the language so six is "si." Pretty neat!

The fonstone has fonic as well (spoilers):

In Mt Zaleho, the fonstone that Ion reads has fonic writing on it. When translated, it is a repeating phrase of "but out of sight." The top most point was more difficult until I realized it was just upside down. This is funny in a meta way because the player doesn't have the ability to read the score, so the true meaning of the words is "out of sight." Kudos devs. Though it is understandable, I also wouldn't want to write that whole score on that stone. It was a lot of text!

Nam Cobanda has a lot of fonic examples along with the plentiful other references:

It is not the first time Abyss referenced Tales of Eternia (Destiny 2). Many of Anise' Dolls are references to the game, plus cameos can be seen in the Coliseum.

Dragon Buster has fonic copyright notices. The cowboy booth is labeled the cyclone/hurricane (most likely tornado because of common tornado picking up cows imagery). Finally, for now, there's boxes on the shelves with letters. Not sure what they would mean, but they're there!

Props to the game developers for putting so much work into this game. It is very fun to try to find and translate the little details! These were only a few examples I have found, but hopefully, it is interesting to others as well!

#tales of the abyss

[yellowtrinity]

hooked on fonics

#tales of the abyss #had sooo much fun replaying this w my sister #even after 80 hours i was very sad when we ran out of stuff to do </3 #tota #my art #still working out how i like to do lines & flats

[pictoparade]

batch of tales requests from my Twitter hehe

#tales of #lailah (toz) #leia rolando #colette brunel #fon master ion #jade curtiss #milla maxwell #tales of zestiria #tales of xillia #tales of symphonia #tales of the abyss #fan art #colored sketch

[malice-kingdom]

tales of 🌈

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74 characters later.... I thought it would be nice to have all of them in the same post :D

#tales of symphonia #tales of berseria #tales of vesperia #tales of the abyss #tales of xillia #tales of eternia #tales of zestiria #tales of arise #tales of graces #tales of series #fanart #I can’t possibly tag every character but I think I didn’t miss any game at least

[dyersimile]

a redraw of this scene cause i wanted an excuse to draw jade

#tales of #tales of the abyss #jade curtiss #tota

[b0tsbby]

Shoutout to people that play Jrpgs with fanbases of at most 10 people literally the realest taste

#tales of vesperia #tales of the abyss #another code #ai: the somnium files #bravely default #drakengard 3 #drakengard #gravity rush #jet set radio #bomb rush cyberfunk

[cherrhara]

mirrors

#ive been cooking this since april guys #kinda forgot about it so i finally finished it and uploaded it now lmao #my son egg and his brother cheese except i love them both #tales of the abyss #tales of #tota #luke fon fabre #luke #asch #asch the bloody #fanart #anime #cherrhara arts

[spiderthread]

some belated Abyss anniversary art, featuring Fon Master Anise <3

#anise tatlin #tales of the abyss #daath is pink now. all hail #edit because i forgot to mention in the tags before — she wears her hair like pamela now #the style of her robes with the center panel is inspired by pamela’s outfit too

[kasumikoujou]

#the sumi art #ion #mieu #tales of the abyss #tales of #tota

[honeybeethebat]

what is it about long-running JRPG series with multiple entries on Steam where you'll go to the community via subreddit or otherwise to see what they think the best game is and all of the comments are like "oh you want to play the best game in the series? well, you won't find it on Steam. the objectively best game in the series (which has the best story ever conceived for a video game) is actually Schlumbo Chronicles 3: The Schmingus, which was released for the PS3/PSP in 2007 and is the only mainline game to never get a rerelease or port despite being considered one of the best games in the series by hardcore fans. sorry about it."

#sometimes it was on the 3DS actually #i'm looking at you #disgaea 3 #tales of the abyss #smt iv #i'll get around to playing all of them someday

[bakurobingi]

#tales of the abyss #tales of series #guy cecil

[luminous-orb]

I beat tales of the abyss and I’m coping in the only way I know how

#tales of the abyss #tales of the abyss spoilers #peace sign dog pose luke is now my discord icon and tbh I’m this close to using it here too #how am I dealing with the ending you ask? well I’m doing fine :) #and do you know who else is doing fine that’s right it’s these guys. nothing bad happen in tales of the abyss :))))

[jaysosillyart]

it's her!

#my art #tales of the abyss #tear #tear grants #mystearica #loreleiday2024

[hungrydolphin91]

collection of Tales guidebooks!

a generous fan who'd prefer to remain anonymous has been uploading complete scans of guides/perfect guide books from across the series, including most mothership titles and even a few spinoffs!!

I can't read a lick of Japanese myself but I've been having fun putting the Graces perfect guide through Google Translate's OCR anyway, would highly recommend to any fan 👍

#tales series #tales of #official #tales of symphonia #tales of the abyss #tales of xillia #at the moment vesperia zesty berseria and arise are missing as mainline games #but given how the most recent upload was jan 25th they're probably still going #and either way this is a great resource for the series as a whole

[video-game-jams]

Tales of the Abyss - Meaning of Birth

#Tales of #Tales of the Abyss #Video Game Music #Video Game Songs

[teleport-teapot]

I really, really needed to get this out of my system

#I'm yelling crying clawing at the walls (metaphorically); this game- THIS GAME #I am very normal about it and about jade in particular 🙂 #tales of the abyss #TotA #TotA fanart #jade curtiss