The best bits from all the Tales games, mix it with turn-based strategy and you have TOTW:ND3!
This game takes the playable characters from Tales Of Destiny 1 and 2, Tales Of Phantasia, Tales Of Eternia, Tales Of Symphonia and the Narikiri kids (Frio and Kyaro) mixes them together to fight evil once more!
The idea of this is amazing, the game has 49 playable characters though Frio and Kyaro can have 89 costumes all together, and considering the battling lets you control the characters the game has so much ways to play it.
Story
The story is fairly simple Frio, Kyaro and Professor Brown find a time machine (the Dream) , then theifs steal it and try to mess with the legends (Tales of.. games). A Prof. Brown from the future comes in a new time machine (Dream II) and tells them that in 100 days the future will change the legends (for the worse).
10 of the Tales characters then come to help now, Frio and Kyaro, along with the heroes, will transcend time and travel wars to save the world. They must also find the other 39 characters and save them.
Gameplay
Amazing. Maybe the best bit. It is similar to most Tales games. Pick a character and fight manually as the other characters will be controlled by the computer. If your a physical fighter (Swords, Axes, Fists etc) you will run, attack and use your skills. Magic users and Healers use spells.
You have three characters in your party at a time and you can have four partys. You move the characters using an arrow and ending your turn lets them move. Your objective is to get somewhere (usually to a boss) and you fight monsters, pick up treasure chests and solve puzzles (which are easy) along the way.
The costume idea is really something as you get lots of original ones, the main characters and the bosses. This is a really good idea as players of the Tales games can play as their favourite bosses!
Graphics/Art
The map sprites are nothing to turn to but the battle sprites are amazing. The art on the skits are good too, as they always have been. All the talking is in skits though and unfortunately it dosn't have an anime intro.
Sound
The music is good, I personally like the battle music, most of it is from the original Tales games. The map music isn't as good though. In battle is even has voices! (In Japanese though)
Value
The game is pretty long, especially for side-quest lovers. 25+ for those who want to do everything 20+ for those just wanna complete it although, the game is a bit easy.
Overall
Import it! It's one of the best games ever. The language is a bit annoying but is that really enough to stop you buying one of the best games ever?