Tales of Eternia Titles Guide and How to Earn Them

Titles in Tales of Eternia are collectible labels that sit under each character's name, not upgrades. The PlayStation-era documentation for this game states outright that they "don't do anything except maybe show what you have and haven't done," and nothing in Bandai Namco's remaster material describes a stat, arte or equipment effect for them either. What you are collecting is volume: the original title list defines 86 titles across the six permanent party members plus Rassius, and the remaster leans on those names hard, because four of the 50 Steam achievements borrow a title's name and several more are renamed versions of one. The one real change in this release is transfer, and it arrived after launch: v.2.0.0, the day-one patch, added titles to the second-playthrough carryover, reversing the line in the July change list that said titles were excluded.

• Title conditions below are original-release data from the 2000 PlayStation game and its 2005 PSP port, not values measured in the remaster.
• Nothing official describes titles affecting combat, so treat them as a collection checklist with two achievement hooks.
• Titles transfer into a second playthrough only on v.2.0.0 or later.

What Titles Actually Do

Each of the six permanent party members plus the temporarily playable Rassius carries a title, and the original list is explicit that showing them under a character's name is the whole point: many titles give no advantage in progress at all. The same framing turns up in the Japanese official guide book, which tells readers to collect them as one of the game's side pleasures rather than for power.

That makes accuracy about where titles come from more useful than speculation about what they do. Every title in the original list lands in one of four buckets:

The remaster does add one piece of help here. Its change list gives the hourglass destination icon to "events related to titles and items that have a limited acquisition period," so the map now warns you before a title-bearing event closes. That icon is the single most useful addition this release makes for title hunters, because it turns the original list's silent deadlines into something you can see.

Achievements That Reuse Title Names

The achievement list borrows from the title list so directly that the fastest way to understand an achievement is to look up the title behind it. The table below pairs what the Steam achievements page showed on October 17, 2026 with the original-release title of the same name and its original condition.

Official source: Tales of Eternia Remastered achievements (Steam Community)

Three things about that table. Four rows reuse a title name word for word, meaning King of Balloons, Master Coxswain, Curator and Choo-Choo Girl, and a fifth is the same event renamed, since Train Bombardier covers what the original list called Trolley Bomber. The rows marked likely match on condition rather than name, so treat those four as the best available mapping rather than a confirmed one. The rows marked none are achievements the remaster added on top of the old title list, and two of them confirm something the original list never states: the game counts titles per character, first for Reid and then for Meredy, at a threshold of ten. And the page only shows 27 of the 50 achievements without signing in, so that slice rotates between visits. The percentages are launch-week readings from October 17, 2026 and will drift; Master Coxswain read 1.5 percent on an earlier visit the same day, and the two lowest rows here come from that earlier pass rather than the one that produced the rest.

The Level Ladder and the Reach Goals

Level titles are the backbone of the list, and every character's ladder is written against a different set of milestones. Meredy and Max skip the level 10 step entirely, Chat starts at 20, and Rassius stops at 30 because he is only playable for part of the story.

The question marks are the original list's own punctuation, kept here so the names match what veterans remember. Beyond levelling, each character has one title for mastering everything in a system, and those are the ones a completion run actually has to plan for.

Keele's Craymel Master sits on the same ten-Greater-Craymel hunt that drives the Craymel Cage and Greater Craymels guide, and the recipe titles sit on top of the cooking system covered in the recipes and cooking guide. If you want those two titles, budget a full pass of both systems rather than a partial one.

Minigame and Side-Event Titles

Most of the interesting titles come from minigames and from events that close when you walk past them, which is exactly what the new hourglass icon is pointing at. Locations and conditions below are original-release data.

Disc numbers need translating. They are PS1 packaging, not story gates: the original shipped on three discs, as the conditions themselves show by referring to Discs 1, 2 and 3. So Disc 1 means "while you are still in the Inferia half" and Disc 3 means "late in the story", and the remaster ships as one download with no disc change to line them up against. The Katrine chain behind Cupid is the clearest example of why the hourglass icon matters, since the six Disc 1 meetings must all happen before the story moves on. Item and event routes of that kind are grouped in the sidequests and missables guide.

Official source: Tales of Eternia Remastered mini-games (RPGClassics shrine, original release)

Feats, Time Limits and the Odd Ones

The remaining titles are records, story grants and a few joke entries. Conditions are original-release data, and every record-based title resets on a new playthrough unless titles are carried over.

Sonic Warrior is the one to set up deliberately: winning a battle in under a second needs a party that can open with a killing arte. Fastest Man and Speedster pull in opposite directions, since rushing the map and fighting slowly cannot both be true of one run.

Official source: Tales of Destiny II titles (RPGClassics shrine, original release)

The Day-One Patch That Made Titles Carry Over

At launch the transfer screen did not include titles, and the source list was explicit about it. The July change list published before release listed the carryover categories and then added the line "Titles are not transferred." The day-one patch reversed that.

Official source: Tales of Eternia Remastered - Regarding the Release of Update Data (Day 1 Patch)

The patch notes from Bandai Namco list three changes: a Font Style option that only works with the language set to Japanese, a fix for some text bugs, and "Added Titles to the carryover elements for the second playthrough and beyond." Every platform shipped this as v.2.0.0, with per-platform update sizes ranging from about 300 MB on the original Switch to about 7 GB and 8 GB on Switch 2 and Xbox Series X|S, where the quoted figure includes the game itself. The Japanese feature page marks the same entry as a v.2.0.0 addition and notes the title transfer requires updating, so a disc or cartridge copy played offline keeps the old behaviour.

The practical effect is narrower than it sounds, and that is the honest read. Titles are cosmetic, so carrying them over does not make a second run stronger. What it does is protect collection progress, which matters for two kinds of player: anyone chasing the two ten-title achievements, and anyone who earned a one-shot title such as Cupid or Chamballoon's King of Balloons and does not want a single missed event to wipe the record. The transfer screen toggles each category on or off individually, so you can take titles without taking learned techniques or items if you want a harder second run. The full nine-category list is broken down in the New Game Plus and carryover guide.

What the patch did not do is publish a title list for this release. There is still no official count of how many titles the remaster ships with, and no official remaster table of conditions. Every name and unlock condition on this page traces back to the original release's documentation and the official guide book, which is why the tables above are labelled the way they are. The original vs remastered comparison covers the rest of what this build changes, and if you want the level ladders in practice, the fastest route is still the one in the leveling and farming guide.

FAQ

Do titles do anything in Tales of Eternia Remastered? No documented effect. Titles show under a character's name, the original release's own documentation calls them a record of what you have done, and Bandai Namco has never described a stat, arte or gear bonus for them in this release. The only official mechanical statement about titles is the v.2.0.0 carryover addition.

Do titles carry over to a second playthrough? Yes, on v.2.0.0 or later. The pre-release change list said titles were not transferred, and the day-one patch added them to the transfer list as a per-category toggle. If you are playing an unpatched copy, or you started a run before updating, the title option will not be there.

How many titles are there in Tales of Eternia? The original-release list documents 86 across seven characters: 33 for Reid, 12 for Farah, 11 each for Keele and Meredy, 10 for Chat, 7 for Max and 2 for Rassius. The remaster has published no count of its own, so that 86 is an original-release figure and the remaster may differ at the margins.

Why does an achievement mention Tales of Phantasia? Because it maps to Reid's Gladiator title, earned by beating Cress, the Albane School swordsman. Cress Albane is the lead of Tales of Phantasia, and the achievement text points players there as a nod rather than as a requirement.

Which titles can I lose permanently? The ones attached to time-limited events. Cupid depends on six Katrine meetings in the Disc 1 stretch, and several minigame titles sit in towns you leave behind. The remaster's hourglass destination icon exists to mark exactly these events, so watch for it rather than trusting a list.

Related Guides

• Tales of Eternia Achievements and Trophy Guide - all 50 achievements, the confirmed names and a rarity-ordered route, including the ten-title milestones.
• Tales of Eternia New Game Plus and Carryover - the nine carryover categories in full, and what changed with the day-one patch.
• Tales of Eternia Minigames Guide (Remastered) - where each minigame is and which ones pay a title or an achievement.
• Tales of Eternia Sidequests and Missable Events - the event chains behind Cupid and the other titles that close on a deadline.