The Ghost Ship (Stingray) to the World Aquanaut Security Patrol (WASP) in Marineville with orders to investigate. Captain Troy Tempest (voiced by Don Mason), Phones (voiced by Robert Easton) and Marina set off in "Stingray" accompanied by Commander Shore (voiced by Ray Barrett). "Stingray" arrives at the "Arcadia"s last known position and encounters the galleon, which does not respond to Troy's hails. Shore and Phones board the ship and find its upper decks deserted. However, they fail to notice a platform built into the floor of one of the cabins and are lowered into a watertight section in the vessel's depths. There, they are
Tales of the Tempest sizable amount of voice acting, "Tempest" restricted voice work to the execution of abilities and the completion of cooking. The characters were designed by Mutsumi Inomata and Daigo Okomura. "Tempest" was Inomata's fifth time designing for the series. As part of her design, she created the characters with the DS graphics in mind. Okomura, a minor designer for the series, was responsible for designing the characters Albert and Rommy. In contrast to previous titles, which had purely animated openings, the game's opening cutscene used a mixture of CGI sequences created using the in-game graphics and animated segments by Production I.G..