Tales of Arise Receives Surprise DLC, But How Does it Affect the Ending?

In a transfer few might have predicted, the two-year-old RPG Tales of Arise simply obtained a teaser for a DLC titled Past the Daybreak throughout September’s State of Play.

Bandai Namco has been silent relating to an all-new Tales entry of late, however alas, it was an growth and never a sequel they’d within the pipes, to be launched on November 9, 2023.

The quick teaser reveals us some attention-grabbing implications relating to the story. Particularly, we all know when this DLC takes place in Tales of Arise’s core plot.

*Spoilers relating to the endgame, tread rigorously!*

Tales of Come up ends on a definitive cadence, establishing an entire new establishment for your complete galaxy of the setting. It’s considerably stunning, then, to see acquainted areas in Past the Daybreak’s trailer. The straggling capital of Mahaag Sar is likely one of the gathering factors for the protagonists as proven within the trailer.

Not solely are the buildings in the identical areas as within the core sport, however the geography across the subject zones stays largely unchanged. It is because Dahna and Rena have merged into one planet by a peaceable and clean transition, one way or the other. A lot of Dahna’s topography stays because it was earlier than as seen within the trailer’s Orbus Calaglia terrain across the acquainted city of Ulzebek.

However we do know this growth is about after the ending due to Alphen’s narration in the course of the trailer. He says, “One 12 months has handed for the reason that nice battle between Dahna and Rena; and so, our journey continues.”

The trailer is saying the battle between the 2 planets is completed and the merging between them has occurred a 12 months prior, which was the ending of Tales of Come up, previous tense.

So, whereas there are lots of acquainted areas and equivalent outfits for characters implying a static establishment, that is certainly set decisively after the ending.

Whether or not or not the considerable use of shared belongings signifies plot holes or weak writing is unknown right now, but it surely’s definitely not going to change the unique ending, so far as we are able to at the moment deduce.

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