Patrick Seitz voices Zephyr and a Renan on Daeq Faezol.
Breakthrough Hit: Arguably the first in the series since Tales of Symphonia, gaining the best reviews in the series from both critics and fans, and netting record sales for the entire series, selling 1 million units in less then a week (and breaking the 2 million barrier about six months in) and having a record 60,000 concurrent players on Steam on its opening weekend, beating all of the previous games released on Steam combined, and even outperforming Persona 4 Golden in this regard. It would eventually go on to win Best RPG at the 2021 Game Awards, further cementing its popularity.
Newbie Boom: Needless to say, the best-selling and best-reviewed game in the series since Symphonia is seeing a whole new wave of fans entering the fandom.
Permanent Placeholder: "Arise" began as the game's codename during development, representing the aim to reevaluate and evolve the Tales franchise formula, but ended up sticking as it also best exemplified the story's themes. This inadvertently caused it to share an abbreviation with Tales of the Abyss, a first for the Mothership titles, leading to Arise being abbreviated instead as ToArise.
Kisara is one of the rare instances of Haruna Ikezawa doing a mature lady with a contralto, when she's mostly known for very high pitched young girls, mostly as Athena Asamiya. Even when she lowered her pitch, the most she could get was more like a younger fierce girl like Aoi Hidaka or the psychopathic Proist, which is in-between.
Kyle McCarley usually plays heroic or younger characters. Ganabelt Valkyris is far from that. Ditto for Joe Zieja as Vholran.
Posthumous Credit: Brad Venable, the voice of Kelzalik, died before the game was released.
Promoted Fanboy: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka is known for being a fan of the Tales series since he was young and one of the reasons he decided to became a voice actor as well. He managed to become one of the game's main cast, and even express his excitement to play the game on the special broadcast livestream.
Release Date Change: Arise was originally going to be released on an unspecified date in 2020 to celebrate the series' 25th anniversary, but due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the game was delayed to September 9, 2021 instead. Word of Godalso stated that it was also due to a decision to support the ninth generation consoles with bespoke versions.
Sequel Gap: This game's release in September 2021 marks a little over 5 years after the previous game, Tales of Berseria, originally released in August 2016. This marks the longest gap the Tales franchise has ever had for mothership title releases.note The mobile games Tales Of The Rays and Tales of Crestoria were released in the interim in 2017 and 2020, respectively
, further cementing its popularity.