Fresh off its Little Nightmares III release (and our recent Pac-Man review), Bandai Namco has announced that Tales of Xillia is getting a re-release — referred to as “Tales of Xillia Remastered”. The game will come out on October 31st, 2025, for Nintendo Switch (no word on Switch 2), PlayStation 5 (PS5), Xbox Series X/S, and Windows (through Steam), marking what will possibly be the last release for the tenth month of the year.
Originally, Tales of Xillia came out in September 2011, in Japan, exclusively for the PlayStation 3: a game of the action RPG genre, it takes place in the fictional land of Rieze Maxia, where lead characters Jude Mathis and Milla Maxwell sabotaged the Lance of Kresnik, a device created for mass destruction created by the government, and now both are on the run.
Unlike many other titles at the time, this game had different releases in the East and West markets, arriving in the US nearly two years after its launch on the other half of the globe (August, 2013). Despite the time gap, Tales of Xillia did garner some neutral-to-positive reviews over here, but was a huge hit in Japan, going well over half a million copies sold in its first week, and a little over a million sales worldwide.
The announcement came with a trailer from Bandai Namco:
What’s the new stuff on Tales of Xillia Remastered
The good thing about Tales of Xillia Remastered is that it will not only come with several quality-of-life upgrades, like a new autosave feature, earlier access to the game’s shop and visual and sound updates, but also all the DLC that the original game had.
And there were a lot of those: although most of them were cosmetic changes (new hairstyles, outfits for several characters and the like), most DLC came out on a weekly basis, in separate downloads, so the game was constantly adding new content. The re-releases will get all of that from the get go.
The game is already up for preorder on its official website. Check out a few screens below:
