Tales of Bataille for Wii, DS Tales Dungeon Crawler Coming?

Some rumours about Bandai Namco's Tales RPG series have emerged from Japan (translated by NeoGAF), and whilst a hefty pinch of salt must be taken, they are interesting nonetheless.

First up is that apparently the new Tales game for Wii will in fact be called Tales Of Bataille and the game's main hero is called Zona, a 19-year-old hitman who is sent on a dangerous mission that involves killing an infamous gang member called Mach. Things do not exactly go to plan, though, and he ends up kidnapping the guy's daughter since her dad was about to kill him. This leaves Zona trying to find any other way to once more seek revenge on Mach.

According to the rumourmill, Zona can talk to random people in towns and enter battles with them for money and items, which would seemingly tie in nicely with the supposed title as Bataille is obviously the French word for 'Battle'. Sakuraba-san is back once again doing the soundtrack and the game's artwork is being handled by Atsuro Yomino, the person behind the manga of Bandai Namco's Code Geass. Finally, no firm release date has been confirmed.

In other news, rather than the DS getting a fourth regular Tales entry, after Tales of Hearts is looking to fall well short of its projected 400,000 unit sales in Japan, barely scraping above Tales of the Tempest and Tales of Innocence at the moment, it looks like Bandai Namco is instead going to try its hand at a dungeon crawling game, similar to Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, Shiren the Wanderer and Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Dungeon. The game will supposedly be called Cheegle Fushigi no Dungeon and is to be based around the Cheegles from Tales of Abyss. Players must use different Cheegles to complete puzzles throughout the adventure, plus other animals from the series will join the Cheegles (such as Zappie). This game is due to be released around May time in Japan. Whether or not Chunsoft will be involved as with many other Mystery Dungeon games has yet to be confirmed.

Whether or not the above is true is currently unknown, but it has been said there is indeed proof in Japan in the form of a flyer, poster or magazine scan. So most likely this will be proved or dis-proved later in the day. For now, share your thoughts on the above by posting below...