After hinting at the announcement of a ’secret RPG’ for a month, Nintendo Power magazine has confirmed in its latest issue that Namco Bandai’s Tales of Symphonia: Knight of Ratatosk is being localised for the continent and will be renamed Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World.

Set two years after the events of the GameCube prequel. We’re promised that Knight of Ratatosk will use an enhanced version of Tales of the Abyss’ battle system, one that’ll support four players as they capture, breed and level up monsters.

Story outline

Together once more, the world is now entering a new era. However, its people are still faced with many problems. After the lands became one, maps were rendered useless and the climate went through many vast changes: desert towns became frozen wastelands and lakes dried up into valleys. All of this stems from an overlooked factor in the unification of the worlds: the spirit of the old Kharlan Tree, Ratatosk, still exists somewhere, and its slumber has sent the world into chaos.

There’s still no word on a European release, of course, but Dawn of the New World’s crossing to America must surely make an eventual release across the Atlantic that much more likely.

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[Source: NeoGAF]