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Subscribe to our newsletter It's been back-to-back disappointments for Tales fans.

Bandai Namco, publisher of the long-running JRPG series, broke hearts last month when a teaser for an anime-style RPG turned out to be a Sword Art Online game, and now a hyped announcement for Tales' 30th anniversary has offered similarly disappointing results.This 30th anniversary Tales announcement was first teased back in February by anime studio Ufotable.

The fact that this teaser was coming from an anime company rather than Bandai Namco itself meant that it was always unlikely to be a new game announcement, but Ufotable has created cutscenes for numerous Tales games, and has even worked on a few smaller animated Tales projects.

Something like, say, a full anime adaptation of one of the Tales games wasn't out of the question.Instead, after more than a month of anticipation, Ufotable announced 188 anime-style Tales illustrations and a concert to be held in Japan in May.

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In isolation, those would both be nice enough announcements for series fans ## Editor's Note We'll have to wait and see how this plays out in the coming weeks. Source: [GamesRadar+](https://www.gamesradar.com/games/jrpg/jrpg-fans-crushed-again-as-latest-tales-announcement-turns-out-to-be-another-bust-the-way-they-hype-things-up-is-just-terrible/)