Marcel Winatschek

Tales of Hearts

Every game store right now is the same dead inventory. Zelda ports I’ve already played three times over, whatever new releases they’re pushing that don’t grab me at all. The shelves look full but feel empty. I leave empty-handed every time.

Tales of Hearts has been out in Japan for months now. I’ve read enough about it to know it’s the exact game I need right now—that atmospheric, built-for-handheld RPG that made me want a DS in the first place. The kind you sink into and stop paying attention to the rest of the world.

There’s no Western release announced yet. I check for news periodically, which is stupid, but I do it anyway. I know it’ll probably come eventually. The waiting just eats at me more than it should. Right now there’s nothing else that even comes close.