There's a free Tales of Arise demo dropping on August 18

The graphics part shouldn't come off as a shocker. Tales of Arise marks the first time that Bandai Namco used Unreal Engine to make a Tales game. Thus, it's only reasonable that there is a huge jump in graphics quality with Tales of Arise, when compared to its predecessors. This is especially true on the PS5 and Xbox Series X, where the JRPG title can run at either 4K resolution or 60 frames per second (just not both at the same time).

Tales of Arise will also reportedly support the DualSense controller. Unfortunately, Bandai Namco did not specify up to what extent Tales of Arise will make use of Sony's newest controller.

Much like the Final Fantasy franchise, the Tales games tell self-contained stories so even newer players don't have to worry about not having any experience with the previous games, if any at all.

With that said, fans won't have to wait too long to sample Tales of Arise and check out the early goings of the adventures of Shionne and Alphen with the demo dropping on August 18.