Today Namco Bandai released the Tales of the Abyss remake for Nintendo's 3DS in Europe, in a surprising twist that sees the game coming out there before U.S. gamers get their grubby mitts on it. To go along with that release, the publisher dropped a bunch of "new" screens. You may seen some of these bouncing around the Interwebs with Japanese text, but now they're full localized into English.

RPG fans who have Tales on their brains can look forward to Tales of the Abyss 3D releasing in the U.S. on February 14, 2011, which sees the return of the Tales franchise to American shores, after the last game released three years ago. This is the only reason I'm keeping my 3DS around. Honestly.