Game Music Showcase: Tales

Starting with Tales of Phantasia for the Super Famicom in 1995 and still going strong today, Bandai Namco's 'Tales' series is one of the most prolific, long-running JRPG series to date. Each game takes place in its own continuity, much like fellow JRPG series Final Fantasy, but shares certain recurring themes. What sets it apart from other JRPGs is it's now easily-recognizable action-combat battle systems, as well as stories that may turn many of the common themes in RPGs on their heads. The games were first developed by a subsidary, Namco Tales Studios, but has since been reabsorbed into the main company, which continues to develop games to this day.

Seeing as they share a common publisher, it wasn't hard to get songs from this prominent JRPG series into Taiko no Tatsujin, and as of the new HD version, new songs have been released fairly often.