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50 free Tales Series trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Since 1995, Bandai Namco's Tales series has been one of Japan's best-loved role-playing franchises, known for real-time combat, anime-style casts and stories about very different peoples learning to live side by side. Each main game stands alone, with its own world and its own hero, which makes the series a deep well for trivia. This quiz covers the Tales games from Tales of Phantasia to Tales of Arise: the protagonists and their companions, the worlds and villains, the recurring systems fans know by name, and the studios, artists and musicians behind them. It is written for fans who have played one or two entries as well as those who have followed every release. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will pick up a few stories about how the games were made along the way.
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Q 01Staff who left after Tales of Phantasia founded tri-Ace and created which sci-fi RPG series?
Star Ocean
Star Ocean came from tri-Ace, formed when most of the original developers walked out after creative disagreements with Namco during a troubled production.
Q 02Tales of Phantasia, the first Tales game, debuted in Japan in 1995 on which console?
Super Famicom
Super Famicom was the original's home, and Western players had to wait until 2006 to buy the game officially, as a Game Boy Advance port.
Q 03Which young swordsman from the world of Sylvarant is the main hero of Tales of Symphonia?
Lloyd Irving
Lloyd Irving sets out to protect a childhood friend on her pilgrimage, then learns that saving his own world would doom a parallel one.
Q 04Which former Imperial knight founds a guild of his own as the hero of Tales of Vesperia?
Yuri Lowell
Yuri Lowell is a darker lead than most: when the Empire fails to punish two corrupt officials, he kills them himself.
Q 05Tales of Berseria gave the series its first sole female lead, which prisoner bent on revenge?
Velvet
Velvet spends three years locked up before breaking out to hunt the brother-in-law who sacrificed her younger brother in a ritual.
Q 06What name does the Tales series give its signature style of combat, first used in Tales of Phantasia?
Linear Motion Battle System
Linear Motion Battle System fights play out in real time like a brawler, a bold break in 1995, when most role-playing games were turn-based.
Q 07What are the optional chats between Tales party members, shown as character portraits, called?
Skits
Skits debuted in Tales of Destiny, but most were cut from its English release, and English voices were left out of them for years because of time constraints.
Q 08Which Tales game reached North America in 2001 under the borrowed name Tales of Destiny 2?
Eternia
Tales of Eternia took the name to dodge a possible trademark clash and cash in on an earlier hit, though Japan soon got a true sequel with that title.
Q 09The makers of Tales of Phantasia pitched the game to which publisher before signing with Namco?
Enix
Enix turned the team down, so they signed with Namco instead, and the two sides went on to clash repeatedly over creative decisions.
Q 10Tales of Symphonia, the first Tales game released in Europe, launched in the West on which console?
GameCube
GameCube was its only Western home for years: the PlayStation 2 port never left Japan, and it was also the first Tales game with 3D characters.
Q 11What are special attacks called in the Tales series, including the powerful Mystic versions used during Over Limit?
Artes
Artes are the building blocks of every fight, and in Tales of Graces a Style Shift system lets fighters swap between two types of them.
Q 12Which composer, also known for the Dark Souls and Golden Sun soundtracks, wrote the music for most main Tales games?
Motoi Sakuraba
Motoi Sakuraba has worked on the series as a freelancer ever since Tales of Phantasia, and he once played keyboards in a progressive rock band.
Q 13Which manga artist, creator of Oh My Goddess!, designed the characters for Tales of Phantasia?
Kōsuke Fujishima
Q 21Tales of Xillia let players pick medical student Jude Mathis or which heroine, the main series' first female lead?
Milla
Milla Maxwell is heir to the great spirit who walled off part of the world behind a barrier, and she rescues her co-star from a military research lab.
Q 22In Tales of Xillia 2, which hero is plunged into debt by medical bills after a hijacked train crashes?
Ludger
Ludger works off what he owes by destroying parallel dimensions for a powerful company, an ability that runs in his family.
Q 23Which young man, granted powers by the spirit race called the Seraphim, is the hero of Tales of Zestiria?
Sorey
Sorey travels the land of Glenwood fighting hellions, creatures born from negative emotions, in the game that marked the series' 20th anniversary.
Kōsuke Fujishima returned for later entries including Tales of the Abyss and Tales of Xillia, and he also drew the casts of the first five Sakura Wars games.
Q 14Which swordsman travels through time to stop a sorcerer king as the hero of Tales of Phantasia?
Cress Albane
Cress Albane is sent a hundred years into the past after his village is razed, because nobody in his own time has the power to harm the villain.
Q 15Which country boy turned adventurer stows away on the flying ship Draconis as the hero of Tales of Destiny?
Stahn Aileron
Stahn Aileron is caught by the crew and forced to work as a deckhand, and only breaks free when a hostile force attacks the ship.
Q 16In Tales of Destiny, what name is given to Dymlos, Atwight and Chaltier, which choose their own masters?
Swordians
Swordians are sentient swords forged to win an ancient war; they then fell into a deep stasis sleep, waking only when a grave threat rose again.
Q 17Which pampered young noble, an amnesiac since his kidnapping, is the hero of Tales of the Abyss?
Luke fon Fabre
Luke fon Fabre was written to be unlikable at first, a risk the developers took on purpose, and he later learns he is a replica of the real heir.
Q 18In Tales of the Abyss, what name is given to the prophecy that has bound humanity's actions for thousands of years?
The Score
The Score bred such complacency that the destruction of an entire island and its people was allowed to happen simply because it had been foretold.
Q 19Tales of Vesperia's playable party member Repede, designed by art director Daigo Okumura, is what kind of animal?
Dog
Dog is right: Repede is the son of a knight captain's hound, and the hero takes him along when he walks away from the knights in the prequel film.
Q 20The title Tales of Vesperia comes from Vesper, a name for which planet seen in the evening sky?
Venus
Venus inspired the name because the heroes and their ship were meant to be a newborn star shining over the land, like the planet at dusk.
Q 24In Tales of Zestiria, what is the fusion of a human fighter with a Seraph partner into a hybrid form called?
Armatization
Armatization boosts the human fighter's stats and changes with the partner: one pairing grants a huge sword and fire magic, another a bow that shoots water arrows.
Q 25In Tales of Arise, which amnesiac slave nicknamed Iron Mask recalls his real name only once the mask breaks?
Alphen
Alphen gets his name back after a fight with a regional Lord, and he teams up with a woman whose curse hurts anyone who touches her.
Q 26Tales of Arise swapped the series' usual in-house tools for which widely licensed technology?
Unreal Engine 4
Unreal Engine 4 gave the game a sharp jump in graphical quality, and it went on to win the role-playing prize at The Game Awards 2021.
Q 27Which heir to the lordship of Lhant runs away to a knight academy as the main hero of Tales of Graces?
Asbel
Asbel befriends an amnesiac girl as a child, watches her sacrifice herself to save his friends from a monster, and meets her again seven years later.
Q 28The PlayStation 3 version of Tales of Graces added extra story content and a letter f that stands for what?
Future
Future is the word, a nod to the new story chapter, while the R on remakes such as Tales of Hearts R stands for remake or re-imagination.
Q 29Tales of Legendia's team, Project MelFes, included developers from Soulcalibur and which other fighting game series?
Tekken
Tekken veterans help explain the combat, which was deliberately designed to resemble a fighting game and stars a martial artist as its lead.
Q 30Which marine of the Holy Alliance is the hero of Tales of Legendia, set aboard a country-sized ship?
Senel Coolidge
Senel Coolidge sets out to rescue his surrogate sister from people who believe she is a prophesied savior, all aboard an ancient vessel called the Legacy.