Blatant rip off!!!

Bandai Namco is really notorious for milking their famous franchise and the best example would be their Tales series. Let see how many Tales games appear on Nintendo DS? I could think of three which includes the upcoming Tales Of Hearts, Tales of Innocence and Tales of Tempest. It seems like every Tales fan is not tired with the so many Tales games bombarded to them, no wonder Bandai Namco just keeps churning out many Tales games on different platforms every year. My online friend, Swatwolf is really a big fan of this series and I could see that he is still having a blast with Tales Of Innocence. On the other hand, I have only the GBA version of Tales of Phantasia and I have yet to play it....

Ok then, lets get back to Tales of Hearts shall we? When the first scans of this game were released, we could see that this game is trying to go in a different direction, where we can clearly see that Bandai Namco tries to incorporate some CG cutscenes in the latest entry. Some fans may enjoy the radical change as if not mistaken, previous Tales have been using animated cutscenes, but personally i dont like those CG cutscenes and those characters in CD dont even match the same characters in 2d.

I guess Bandai Namco has expected that some fans might not like the whole new route they are taking and they are considerate enough to add in the animated cutscenes and this is where the problem arises. Instead of getting both animated cutscenes and CG cutscenes in one game, Bandai Namco decides to sell 2 versions which have different cutscenes. What a blatant rip off! I dont see any rationales behind this except that they are trying to get more money because they know that hardcore Tales fans will be unhesitated to get both versions. Very brilliant and tricky here. Is it that hard to compress all those cutscenes in one cart and charge higher price(like Tales of Innocence is cheap, this game is already more expensive than average NDS games in Japan)? I guess for those who are not willing to buy both versions, they sure will be cracking their heads figuring out which one is the better one.

Luckily I am not really into the series and the fact that this game is in Japanese doesnt help. If you are interested, which version do u plan to get or just get both? Swatwolf, what will you do?