Tales of Graces Recall Official

Namco Bandai comes clean on large list of bugs plaguing last year's big Wii RPG.

Posted Feb 23, 2010 at 15:21, By Anoop Gantayat

Namco Bandai at long last came clean today on the rather large set of bugs that players have encountered in Tales of Graces.

In a post at its corporate site, the company lists 10 bugs, many of which were discovered by fans following the Wii RPG's release in December.

As reported early today at the Sinobi retailer blog, players will be able to obtain replacement discs. The discs fix the 10 problems listed in the post.

Specifics on the replacement program will be announced in the future. However, the post notes that the replacement will not be done through retailers. Instead, Namco Bandai will use a service called "Hikitoribin," where a delivery person delivers the new disc to the player and takes the old disc in exchange.

In the post, Namco Bandai issued apology for the problems and promised to increase its quality control in the future.

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Reader Comments (showing 4 of 4)

yowvapa @ 2010.02.23, 16:49

It is quite surprising that Famitsu did not bring up the bug concern when it gave Graces a 37/40 score last year. This was the same magazine that gave The Last Remanant a 37/40 even though Western outlets gave it a low score because of major technical problems. Let us pray that Namco Bandai increase its quality control as further problems would not look good to the Japanese public.
lech @ 2010.02.24, 0:58

I've got to admit that my faith in Japanese QA has dwindled somewhat lately. And to have an important franchise like Tales recalled over sloppy debugging leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
cappox @ 2010.02.24, 11:21

maybe.. famitsu doesnt play the game longer and give it a score right away!
Cosign @ 2010.02.25, 7:58

Biggest mess up I've heard in a while. Just What the crap happened at Namco Bandai? This is Tales of Grace their mothership title for one of their best selling franchises. Why fail

And there really is no point criticising Famitsu any longer. They are beyond criticism because they happen to be so upfront about their scoring system. They said they assign scores based on 'amount of hype', and not just based on the game's merits. Completely transparent.