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Tales of the Abyss combat video for Guy Cecil. Brief profile on Guy, who doesn’t know how to talk to women:

“Guy is a servant in the Fabre household. He was first taken on as a babysitter, and ever since then, Guy has been like both a brother and a parent to the palace-bound Luke, [the protagonist of the game]. He is uncomfortable around women, so his kind words to them often lead to awkward situations.”

Namco Bandai also put out a combat clip for Anise Tatlin, and this combat system walkthrough.

Tales of the Abyss ships in Europe on November 25, while the North American release was pushed to early 2012 for some reason. So, the only 3DS JRPGs we’ll have to play this year in the U.S. are SMT: Devil Survivor The OC (if you can find a reasonably priced copy) and Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns 3D. Oh well, at least there’s Solatorobo: Red the Hunter on the DS…

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Tales of the Abyss 3D trailer. Though Namco kept completely quiet about the Tales series during E3, it took the opportunity to release media for this 3DS port during Comic-Con. The music is great! The voice acting isn’t bad! The abs are prominent!

If you want more media, you can find some screens at Siliconera. Not as much ab to be seen, though.

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Tales of the Abyss’ PS2 and 3DS loading times compared. The portable version doesn’t completely cut the load times for the animated portions, but this is still a vast improvement! Yay for cartridge-based media (which, you might notice, we have a particular fondness for).

The handheld RPG port released this week in Japan, and hits Europe on November 10 and the U.S. this fall.

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