Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World isn’t a sequel. It’s not a side-story like Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology, either. But what it really is, that’s hard to say, because there wasn’t much to see at last night’s Bandai Namco press event. We weren’t given a hands-on opportunity with Dawn of the New World - but we did get to see the new monster-catching gameplay feature and we've got some juicy details. We also found out that the control scheme is for the Wii Remote only and we can expect to see the Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World around September 2008.

The demo build was an early Japanese preview, lacking the obvious polish of a finished product - but the town, dungeon and world map we were shown definitely look like the Symphonia settings of old and the dungeon could be straight out of Tales of the Abyss. The party set-up and combat systems were also comfortingly familiar from both the Abyss and Symphonia - but we were sad to see that the world map is a straight forward click-here-go-here affair instead of a explorable field of adventure.

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