just the thought of the trails series coming to an end makes me so sad - that world and the characters that populate it have become a big part of my life
@@codernerd7076 One Piece should have ended years ago, the story is dragged and unfocussed at this point as Hideo Kojima games became overrated dung after MGS3.
While it will be sad when the Trails series comes to an end I'll also be happy that i was able to experience it. One of my friends wasnt so lucky in that regard unfortunately
I usually try to stay away from unlocalised trails games but your recent review of Kuro 2 just magnifies the revelation of how much Kai is going to contribute to the overall story. Probably gonna break my own rules and dive a bit into spoilers when it releases
Localization = bullshit that isnt whst they intended for. Ive played kuro 1 and ive alresdy seen the woke changes theyve made for the western release. Pure garbage. Go have beautys blade instead of sword maiden, its not what the guy who made all the story intended, some alphabet soup freak over here made it not him . Enjoy
Well in Hajimari and and the Kuro's they've hinted that "other worlds" outside of Zemuria exist and that Calvard president is apparently seeking a way to reach them.
FSN getting an official English translation is huge. I'm a little sad they didn't decide to include Hollow Ataraxia in the remaster as well -- that would be the dream -- but I'm crazy excited regardless. That's one where I'll probably be preordering as soon as I can. As ever, thanks for the video!
Came here to say this! And the fact that it's getting a remaster too is incredible. The entire reason I bought Witch on the Holy Night at launch was in the hopes it would encourage TYPE MOON to do exactly this
I'll be surprised if we get it in 2024, and even in to 2025. If we're going on release order, Crimson Sin comes next, and then Ys X. It depends on whether NISA have capacity to take on a second Falcom game in the same year (granted, it's script is smaller than a typical Trails title).
@@TheKisekiNut Ys should be simple enough to get in the same year as either Kuro 1 or 2 tbh as the script's generally closer to half the size of any Trails game and in the past Ys 9 (I think it was 9, could've been 8) released about 13 months after it's Japanese release whereas Trails at its shortest has a 2 year gap between Japanese and western release with the CS 1 thru 4 games or longer. Kuro has probably been in the works before Reverie released by half a year or more so it'll still likely be closer to 2 years localization time than 1 year...at minimum it'll take them 1 and a half years for the whole translation. Unless Falcom decided they want to release both Kuro games first to have them come out back to back Ys 10 will likely be sometime next year (spring to summer would be my guess)...hell they probably could've gotten Ys 10 out this year too if they wanted to (NISA has the resources to make it happen to as they've shown unlike Xseed) as it probably has less lines to work with than Ys 8 and 9 given you only get Adol (who unless they changed it for 10 is a mute protagonist so he doesn't really take outside of a few lines in the story I could count on 1 hand/battle lines...well scratch that he'll get more lines (voiced on top of that) in a Ys game if it's coming from his adventure log/diary...that's mostly when you see Ado's perspective actually written down/voiced in the series outside of a literal handful (less than 5) cutscenes in the last 2 games) so all the written lines needed will be from your 1 other party member and then npc lines or in game books/menu descriptions/something along these lines and I don't think the story's even as long as Ys 8 or 9 either (haven't played though but a good chunk of both games length came from focusing on other party members backstories, especially so for Ys 9 and that will not really be the case for 10 with there being only 2 playable characters). My guess is 2025 is Ys 10 though and 2026 Kuro 2 given they usually do only one game from either IP per year so unless they just want to get these games out as fast as possible to focus on upcoming games they're releasing in Japan in 2026 and beyond I don't see them changing that...especially as that guarantees at least 1 game each fiscal year no matter what (if they released both in 2025 and their next project isn't done soon enough to get localized in 2026 they may be waiting an entire year for worldwide sales so there's also the case of some games just being released in the west later than you'd think if it'd fit a better time to give them finances for the upcoming year(s). Falcom usually gets a game out in Japan yearly (though not all the time) so not getting a western release in a year isn't gonna be the end of the company but it could be something to keep in their back pocket as long as possible if it looks like they won't release a game in Japan in the upcoming fiscal year or two....granted right now they got Kuro world wide coming up (even again in Japan with Switch in 3 days) along with another Celceta port, TX EX+ Switch for the west this year, CS3 and 4 on PS5, and then finally Kai is also scheduled for Japan this year alone. Then there's Kuro 2 west, Ys X, and then Kai that are likely for the west for next year and the year after and maybe the year after that in Kai's case (2027) at the latest and then a bunch of other upcoming projects that have yet to be announced that will also be releasing in the same timeframe so it's not like they can't just say Kurio 2 and Ys 10 both for 2025 (even one for 2024, but given TX, Celceta, and CS 3 and 4 I don't see them doing another localizations this year).
With Tokyo Xanadu's recent announcement and last time having mentioned three old game ports being suspended by Falcom that a lot of people thought were meant to be Sky. I'm guessing Falcom started reaching out to not only Aksys but also XSEED to use their localizations for new ports but the deal with XSEED did not go as well as the one with Aksys, so a remake for Sky now needs to happen as a condition for Falcom to have NISA relocalize them.
That may be the case, but, I don't think they are going to release remakes of Sky. 3 games long would make them loose their momentum with the reveals of Kai. What I think is that they are going to release an introductory title (single game) that can act as a prequel to the series, and can, as well introduce new characters and events that are relevant to the plot. That same year they'll release ports of Sky to modern platforms as well. Then, they are probably releasing the next arc that will probably be the final one, and will at least be 2 games long. Kondo wants to fniish the Trails series before he retires. 3 games are already a long endeavor, specially when there are other franchises they release in-between as well. 3 games + the 3 remakes would be too much. Also Kato is probably giving them pressure as well to finish the story already. Xseed, unless they decide to change somehow their way of thinking, are just hurting the franchise as a whole.
@@Natreg44 see the problem here is that if Falcom really can't get XSEED to pass the localization then they can't port Sky to modern platforms on the west like what happened with Switch Cold steel 1 and 2. Which is why Remakes with an eventual NISA version would pretty much be the last resort option to get Sky into consoles.
@@DiabolicCrusher I'd like that but it would be kind of weird to start with Crossbell for any Trails related remakes. Especially since they already had ports pretty recently.
@@joaocbcneto The thing with Cold Steel 1 and 2 is a bit different here. CS1 & CS2 for the switch were ported by CLE, not by Falcom. This means they can't use that port to publish their translations (assumint they wanted to, which we don't really know). If Sky comes to switch, that will be a port done by Falcom, which xseed could use. What I wanted to say in my previous post is that Falcom is a very small company. And dedicanting their time to release 3 remakes instead of finishing the series is something I don't see happening, unless they are very underwhelming remakes. Ports, yes, I expect that, but not full-on remakes. Also, a game beloved in Japan could mean lot's of things. I'm actually thinking lately that they may refer to Gurumin instead, which is a remake I think Falcom could handle.
I take Kondos "90 percent" to be a marketing plot to get people to pay attention the coming arc(s). However, I think they will still need the promised two remaining arcs to close the gap on all sept-terrions. Rushing everything and the remaining continent into a single arc would amount to a 'dropping the ball' on Trails' trademark world building patience that would just be nonsensical for a conservatively planning, careful company like Falcom.
Yeah I don't know how 90% complete is possible considering nothing has happened in Kuro 1 or 2 that actually connects to the big plot. So even Kuro alone needs 1-2 more games to finish its confused storyline and tie it to the main series. 90% complete would mean the next game is the last and that would mean they are rushing the series for a early and unsatisfying conclusion.
I agree, 90% was a wild swing when I heard it. Reverie was the 60% mark, 3 games since that point can't amount to that level of story, especially when Crimson Sin did very little.
@@luminous3558 I mean Kai seems to be just Kuro 3 but renamed (more of a Zero to Azure instance than Reverie by the sounds of it, especially since I've heard some people complain that Kuro 2 didn't really resolve Kuro's plotlines so I doubt Kai's a sky 3/Reverie style game considering what I mention in the rest of this paragraph)). Kondo already said in an interview the focus is still on Van and it will still mainly take place in Calvard so they can wrap up whatever's they're doing with that arc in Kai (I haven't played Kuro yet so no spoiler's please). As for the rest of it...I can think of 1 way they can get everything else done in 1 arc: a 3 to 4 part game focused on church members (probably Gralsieters again, maybe even Kevin and Riese) who go around to parts of the the remaining countries to resolve issues that pop up due to Ouroboros doing something that involves whatever remaining Septerrions are left after Kai. Hell if they split it into 2 main church members parties they can do the whole Reverie changing PoV thing each chapter too so that you have one group focus on one country and the other focus on another for each game (could be the same countries for each of the games or they go to another of the remaining countries we never visited in each game until all countries we've never been to/didn't have a mobile game or anime about have been visited at least once. They can then tie it all up with either the last game of this arc being the last Trails game where everything comes to a head like CS4 did or they can throw one final game by itself where all the past Trails characters come back to take on whatever the final boss/threat is in either a new hidden land (maybe an island hidden by a barrier that was causing everything), wherever McBurn is from, some flying spaceship/observatory, hell knowing jrpg tropes the moon, or maybe even Gehenna given how big of a role demons play or Arteria/a location in Arteria itself (as with tropes the church/the deity they worship either ends up being the villain or winds up being the site where whatever's causing all of the issues is sealed and to resolve said issues you must enter the sealed area to finish things)...I'd be surprised if it wound up being none of these as generally this is how jrpgs ends lol. Only other option I guess would be heading towards part of the continent that's currently being made uninhabitable by god knows what and arriving at ground zero and finding whatever's causing the issues there while dealing with new types of monsters/villains coming from there (granted...given Kai wants to introduce spaceships as that's the first thing you see in the trailer's headlines/screenshots my guess is that the series is not gonna end on the Zemurian continent or on the planet itself...either some giant space station or the moon is the most likely imo). And yes while this may sound like a rushed way to treat the septerrions let me point out this is more or less how CS did things: 2 septerrions were used for for what's considered 1 arc of the game (CS3 and 4, techinically you could consider all of CS 2 disticnt arcs: School Rean which focuses on the rebellion/pre phantasmal blaze arc and then teach rain which focuses on noble uprising/during hijacked phatasmal blaze arc and the septerrions only really come into play in 3 and 4 while CS 1 and 2 are more setup of Erebonia and then finally linking Crossbell into the mix in CS2's intermission for said Phantasmal Blaze arc). At the same time wind and water septerrions may be in play for Kuro's arc from what I've seen in trailers (haven't played them but the Grendel thing kinda screams wind to me at least and i feel like Time will be the last arc so water is either tied with wind or it's own arc between wind and time). I guess you in theory could get this last arc done in 2 games using the church Merkbah traveling method and throwing one final all characters reappear for the end game as well so 90% wouldn't really be wrong for Kondo's estimate (would say 85% would be closer though). We'll see after Kai I guess.
Fug me every time I hear that Blue Reflection music I get a kick in the feels. Thanks for your updates mate, I'm a little out of my depth with most of it but thanks to you, I'm slowly getting up to speed. May even play Trails soon, ya never know. 👍🏼
It will be FAXanadu. Beloved by fans and staff alike. I've been waiting 37 years for this!!!!!!!! I just hope everyone keeps blinking all the time like in the original.
Sky is all I want from the remake side of things. All of the rest are easily accessible at this point. I'm not into Ys so I couldn't care less about anything on that side, but I understand people love it so I'll end up being happy for them if they get something they want. That being said, Sky seems inevitable at some point, so bring it on with the new ones in the West and I'll be a happy camper.
You know what I want? "Trails Through Reverie" made me wish there was a *dedicated Trails game that focuses on the "Swin/Nadia" backstory.* Yes, I know you can read that in-game novel series to learn more about their backstory, but I personally would prefer a full-on traditional turn-based Trails game to explore their backstory (even if it ends-up being on the shorter side, I would STILL pay full price to experience that game IMO).
Be careful what you wish for...they could just make it a mobile game instead like they did with Akatsuki's main cast and they're about to do with the Northern War characters (and who knows if we'll see them later in a main game now).
The biggest release here for me is Fate/stay night. I still need to get Mahoyo and will get Tsukihime too when it releases. I am also still waiting for Ys X on my end. And all the other Trails titles. In regards to the Trails series ending, I just hope they don't rush it. A half assed end would just be awful. And I wanted to get some gaming in today, but basically spent the whole day sleeping. I stayed up the whole night to watch my overseas friend play Ys 1. He's stuck at you know who. But yeah, very excited for some visual novels. I will never get through my pile of shame. I'm.almost done with Ys at least. I hope we get that mythical Ys 5 remake one day. Have a nice night TKN. Maybe enjoy some gaming. I just hope you're doing fine.
I hate to say it, but I think no matter how the Trails series ends, it'll end with a thud with many people disappointed. You're taking a franchise that'll likely get close to 20 entries if not more, and you have to conclude everything in a satisfying way. If they stick that landing, I'll be very impressed.
I do very much appreciate these videos, they're very well-made and well-researched. I don't know if I've missed some of the more recent ones or if this is a new thing, but I found the gaps of relative silence between just announcements a weaker part of the video. Rather than just names and dates, perhaps a one-liner synopsis of the game? Or fade into game audio of the scenes playing behind the music? While I really liked the rest of the video, this section just seemed off from the high bar of the rest of your content.
tbh I'm so far behind on Trails I can't get excited by any news of that series. It might become relevant to me in a few years. I am looking forward to Ys X, whenever that releases on PC in the west. That is one of my favorite franchises. The Square Enix news is a mixed bag. Glad they are updated the PC pixel remasters. I will buy those eventually. But its too bad they closed down Tokyo RPG Factory. None of their games were big hits, but at least a couple did decently well. I think they had potential.
hopefully they keep the sky remake in 2D and make the graphics like eiyuden chronicles, OT, etc rather than make it to 3D. i also really fond of the 2D portrait that they use for character dialogue up until azure. i think not using 2D portrait in dialogue from cold steel onwards is just a massive L tbh and i also think that's why persona dialogue is just a treat to listen and watch cause the 2D portrait really liven up the scene for its character expression.
As for the Remake I've seen people say Sky...I don't think it is, I think it's Ys 5 or a non Ys/Trails game IP as Sky doesn't need to be remade at this moment before the main series ends as it's available to anyone via PC and the Sky and Crossbell series is something anyone with a PC (90% of people nowadays likely has one) as it does not need a good PC to run (mine ran Sky 3 and Crossbell (fan subs before CS3 came out a couple years before official release, bought them officially on Switch) fine and it's a 10 year old PC with constant crashing issues when watching livestreams at anything higher than 480p and it's not even a dedicated gaming PC and one I bought more so for office work/watching videos at first and on top of that is an All in one PC which I learned the hard way are shit PCs). They should focus more on making new games and finishing up the series before trying to remake any Trails games...hell if any Trails games could use a remake it'd be the mobile games with the story being adapted to console format and removing the gacha aspect and reworking any story aspects that were affected by gacha as both Trails mobile games take place in 2 countries we haven't explored on consoles yet (the Northern War mobile game for example and if I'm right Akastuki also took place in a few other regions too that we never went to). Only real justification of a remake at all right now would be due to not being able to get Xseed to do a port to new consoles/Xseed refuses to allow anyone else to port their translation thus making a remake the only real viable option left but even then as I said PC version is around and anyone can run it with even a shit tier PC (especially if it was a gaming PC) if it was made in the last few years if my 10 year old piece of shit PC is fine with them...if they really want to remake it fine they can focus on that once the series is done though (I'd prefer finishing the series before I die thank you). Ys 5 seems the most likely though given it's the only Ys game not to be released in the west at this point and is definitely a game that needs to be made from the ground up, especially if you consider the Japanese audience apparently didn't like it much and a lot of people talk about how the combat was meh so they can revamp the combat to something like modern Ys games or Tokyo Xanadu (I think TX combat with Adol by himself would work best though...granted they can also do this for a Ys 1 and 2 remake as well which is also one that I could see getting a remake as the bump combat will not be for everyone and they could give all the characters quite a bit more development (which they could all use tbh, at least as much as was in Oath in Felghana)).
Honestly really worrying news as someone whose caught up to jp releases for trails. Kuro did not have a conclusion to its arc that was satisfying or makes sense. We are not much further mainstorywise than reverie was. The best way I can describe Kuro 1 and 2 is that they are coldsteel 1 and 2, meaning they are very incomplete as an arc and would need 2 more games to actually make progress. Reverie itself was largely plot irrelevant so it makes me think that Kai isn't gonna be much different and they won't suddenly pull 3 septerrions out of their sleeves saying that ouroboros just found them off screen. Kondo is clearly very ambitious with this statement and likely will have to go back on it, its just worrying that he is able to think he can complete the series in 1 game + 1 short arc after stalling for the last 7 games and progressing the series at a snails pace.
how can trails be about to end when kuro 2 did literally nothing for the plot? kinda hurts ngl. man i hope kai and what comes after are more of a return to form..i've never had trouble getting through a trails game. i usually can never put them down.
I find it somewhat strange that you and other people don't really seem to mind that the new like a dragon game has ng plus stuck behind a paywall. People buy the normal edition with the excuse that ng plus is not necessary for them. It's a small thing but things as micro transactions for example , started with fancy horse armor and we all know how that ended.
I'm not gonna put too much weight behind that 90% personally. We were apparently promised 2 more arcs a while back, so that already goes against the milestone given here.
@@TheKisekiNut It just seems like a weird announcement at this point. I figured the second half of the series would sort of "mirror" the first, with Calvard given as much weight as Erebonia (so maybe four games with Van) and then two smaller arcs in maybe Remiferia and Arteria before having the finale arc in the easternmost part of the continent where all the desertification is happpening.
@@TheKisekiNut That 2 arcs comment was made before Reveries if I'm right...so Kuro = 1 arc, one after 2 arcs and then if Im right the wording was 2 more arcs before the end which could be it's onw game/series of games on its own for all we know. He's probably highballing it and it's closer to 85% which would make more sense.
I mean Kai is part of the Kuro arc (Kondo said it's still following Van and centered on Calvard, it's probably another new name but same arc situation like Zero and Azure were for Crossbell rather than a Sky 3/Reverie situation) so one of the 3 (or even 2) septerrions can be resolved in this arc...hell 2 were done for the Cold Steel games (fire and earth and then I guess Steel as the two combined to make the Septerrion of Steel) so they can do the same with Kuro/Kai's arc (hell...the whole Grendel powers scream wind to me from what I've seen in trailers (saw a few JP/the first English one but never played the game so I'm not spoiling anything here and it's just speculation on my part/Kondo's own comment on Kai in a recent interview (may even be the same one he mentions saying after Kai 90% is done). And for the final arc they do have 1 easy option that can still do decent world/character building left to them: final arc focuses on MCs from the church (probably new gralsieters or Kevin and Riese again) who go to the remaining areas/places Ouroboros are sighted via the Merkbah airships. This would allow them to more or less travel to all remaining regions quickly (probably won't see all of each region though with this method and just specific towns/cities and nearby fields/dungeons unless for each game they have 2 main groups whose PoV change via a mechanic like Reverie's party switching or they just do dedicated chapters for each group and each group covers a different country in each arc of the game so you see maybe 2 to 4 towns and surrounding areas for each country per game (so maybe 4 countries for 2 more games which would be roughly the amount of countries left that haven't been seen/the focus of a game yet and since it's the church Arteria would probably be like Trista/Leeves and be your main base and maybe play a role in one of/both of the game's final chapters if it doesn't wind up being the final destination of the series as a whole (could be another the church is actually bad, or at least the deity it serves, or there's something sealed under the church that's causing all the BS in the game and we have to go in to beat it or it has some portal to the final dungeon/region/setting of the series (could even be Gehenna...honestly that'd be the most likely one if demons are what's causing Zemuria's problems...wouldn't be the first time a church was plopped down on top of the entrance to a fantasy' world's hell in order to keep demonic like shit sealed away from the world/stop people from letting demonic things out)). And even after this next arc it doesn't mean there won't be some final last game that's not counted as part of the arc that acts as the series' final climax/conclusion so with the Merkbah method you could get as few as 2 games, probably 3 games though for the last main story arc and then have the 1 final game (if it's not made into a series of games, granted that feels excessive unless they're heading to one whole new country where the main enemy (Ouroboros or something even they were fighting (with how much members of the organization join in as friends I wouldn't be surprised if they're trying to save the world in their own weird way) of the series is located) for the conclusion. Unless they reveal that Zemruia is part of the same world as Nayuta (which if it is then we know what's more or less going on with that game's world so we'd be having a good idea of what's happening to Zemruia due to that and maybe what is even the Grandmaster's plan if she's a character from Nayuta (I don't think she is even with the similarities) but from what I've seen while a lot of terminology is similar and there is an empire in Nayuta I don't think they're the same world due to a few key differences in snippets about the world outside Remnant island in that game) we really don't have much to work with in what Ouroboros's main goal is or what's going on in Zemuria. Also if I'm right at the end of CS2 he said the series was about 70 to 75% done so his % shouldn't be taken as a clear indicator...add or subtract about 5 to 10% for a more accurate # lol.
We are also missing 3 Septerrions and none of Kuro 1 or 2 has been plot relevant or internally complete. This literally makes 0 sense to put a "Hajimari" style game. Its like putting hajimari after cs2 and skipping cs3 and 4.
@@luminous3558 Kuro 1 and 2 are main games but don't advance the plot ? Zero and azure were a duology but had a noticeable impact so whit not Kuro ? It should knowing the huge gap between Japan and Western release.
@@loiskamiya9164 really I definitely don’t agree with that I thought it was good all the way to 4 reverie was alright a little weird with the ai deal. But I think it’s been good I heard the latest in Calvard dropped off a bit haven’t played it yet.
@@loiskamiya9164 CS is weaker than Sky and Crossbell yeah but nothing close to trash....trash would be FFXV/Tales of Zestiria style of storytelling or worse. Biggest issue the game had imo was the whole bodning events/romance choice aspect (which is also something I criticize Crossbell for too btw even with the story being better...Lloyd at least wasn't as crazy with 69 different options like Rean and just stuck with about 5 lol). As for why it ruins the chance to build character relationships between the other male and female members of Class 7...the males they kinda gave NPC options for at the very least but the females? They got Rean and no one else so once he chooses one the others are stuck alone with their cats i guess...only other option is Rean and the girls move to a country that allows polygamy I guess or when Alfin becomes queen she makes it legal if she decides to wait that long for Rean lol. I think the only potential non rean romance in Class 7 is Jusis and Millium (note, she'd be about 19 in the Kuro games and only has a 4 year difference between her and Jusis (same as my mom and dad) and were classmates even if there was an age gap so don't throw the 'ew that's pedo' bs at me for this, especially if you're fine with Fie, Juna, Musee) and that's about it...hell even the Crow and Towa potential relationship gets the Rean cuck lol.
Another great video TKN. Hoping once we get a bit more info on Kai we can get some form of a prediction video from you in regard ro where you think the series will end up at the finish line
I'll be keeping my thoughts on it to myself for now, I kind of just take the series as it comes. Crimson Sin sort of threw my expectations off a bit, so not really sure what to expect now.
90% complete would suggest 1 game left, which is disappointing considering they originally said the series was 50% complete with Trails into Reverie. I was expecting to see more of the other countries in Zemuria, maybe 2 more arcs after Daybreak and 1-2 games to finally wrap it up.
I really hope Falcom will start a new turn based RPG series, one that has a worldwide release. I don't think their current plan is sustainable. By the way, I don't think this was in January but I'm excited about Tokyo Xanadu coming to Switch.
Simultaneous worldwide releases will likely never happen as long as Kato remains in charge. Kondo may be the face but Kato still pulls the strings, and he prefers to stick with a smaller company structure such is his conservative approach to business.
@@TheKisekiNut Currently new releases aren't that exciting, instead of it being "it's out now", its more like "it's finally out now". And a good chunk of their own fans just play the fan translations and don't bother when it officially comes out.
Will they ever speed up the trails localization times in the west...? It is so frustrating to wait 3 years for each game without any improvement in sight. Especially, seeing CLE getting the scripts early and simultaniously releasing (or at least close to it) the games for the asian market. Makes me wonder why they have no appreciation for their western audience, even though the sales were good...
Probably not unless we catch up, CLE has the advantage of being caught up and having a closer relationship with Falcom. Letting them get the scripts early.
didnt they say that it was 50% complete just before kuro released. Seems to me like they are rushing to end it for whatever reason. pretty disappointing, ngl.
Im honestly sad to hear that trails is almost complete. But i am also excited to see what the big ending to the story that has spaned over 10+ games. And who knows we could get a sequel to nayuta? Maybe? Or some other spin off.
Look at the bright sad: if it ends soon it'll hopefully be ending before you die so you'll see the end...if they kept it going forever non of us would ever see the end of the series and that's about one of the few things in life I want to do: see the end to this series before I croak. Gonna be honest I hope they never attempt this with another series/next non Trails Legend of Heroes game (which is what I'll assume will happen after Trails's storyline is done)...just do one offs or at most a trilogy and no more...it never really needed this many games tbh.
@@RoanoraZoro123 I'm used to Kiseki fanboys insulting me because I'm not blind to obvious negative points about the series. Which I enjoy a lot, don't get me wrong, but how people defend Trails in the Sky 3rd, that glorified mess of random "world building" scenes and teaser for future plots, wrapped in a soulless dungeon crawler with 90% reused assets is beyond me. I felt disrespected as a player by that game, requiring 40 hours of my personal time to grind through this dungeon just for some cutscenes where most of them are not even necessary to enjoy the future games, opposed to what the fans claim to be. It made me almost stop playing the series, which would be a shame because the next games are actual games again and not cheap cash-grabs. It would've been much better if they would've gave the sky cast an extended epilogue in the second sky game, Kevin an actual good game (that guy deserves a whole arc tbh) and some of the door scenes spread over the next games.
@@RoanoraZoro123 ok no worries. But I don't understand how only western people would dislike if most of the appeals of a series are gone and replaced with a dungeon crawl and disconnected cut scenes
@@RoanoraZoro123 ah yes, absolutely agree with that. But I think you can do better fan service games than that. Honestly I would've prefered if they would've just released the door cut scenes as kinda bonus scenes for some deluxe edition of trails in the sky 1+2 and gave kevin a proper game. But I think we can agree that fan service cames are skippable in general. They don't add anything new and are just to give the fans more of the same.
It can happen! Square are still stuck in the 00's with their estimates, so if SO2 exceeded expectation for Square, in normal context that means it did very well.
Yaaaay a new turn based JRPG.... aaaaaaaaaand its only for japan. That letdown :( But I will definetly check out The Nameless: Slay Dragon. It has a unique look and the animations so far seem kinda fluid and smooth. We'll see. Thank you as always for your newsroundup! ♥
Here's hoping they bring back back endings like in Kuro 2 too then, most people shat on it but i did like how that game decided to go with darker tone so to speak. Regardless, looking forward to pirating it, because i'm not buying a version with no regional pricing and certainly not buying nor waiting for a nisa version. As for Tales of Innocence R, i'm a original voiceover purist but glad for people that prefer dubs, fandubs are rare nowadays, good fandubs even more so.
You got me super excited saying Witch Spring R is available on Switch already. It was announced but not yet available... Supposedly coming Spring 2024, I honestly can't wait for the physical version!!!
I'm very certain I read the news about infinite wealth new game plus last year so I surprised it's now people are talking about it. It waiting until the physical copy is £25 regardless.
I'm still hoping that this will all tie back to the Gagharv trilogy in some way. Maybe we'll come across the ruins of El Phildin and Tiraswheel somewhere in eastern Zemuria.
I've just got the platinum trophy on midnight suns today and beat the fires of raven ending in armoured core 6 this week and I am ready to start persona 3 reload tomorrow and hopefully beat it before rebirth is out
I would play that Hypergryph game that but I can't imagine trying to play an action game on mobile. I don't know how people can look at such small screens constantly.
More Falcom on Switch is a good thing. I'm really excited about Tokyo Xanadu ex being confirmed to come to the West in June. I just hope somehow we'll get more of the Ys games and Trails games on Switch. Some wizardry is going to have to happens. Everyone talks about the rights and yadda yadda yadda, but who knows really. I'm still confused how Dotemu were able to release Ys Origins on Switch. I thought XSEED owned the rights? How did they do that and can they do it again? Hmm...
The licencing is just a mess for many of these games, and Falcom basically have to find workarounds. XSeed holding the rights to Sky for example in the West has been a notable thorn for many years, as there's no plans for them to go beyond their PC ports.
I thought Falcom stated at their 40th anniversary something like they had 2/3 locations in Trails to visit after Calvard. And they wanted to finish the Trails series by Falcom's 50th anniversary, which is in 2031. I would think at the very least, they have 3 games left after Kai. Whatever they do, I really hope they have a well written ending for the series and all the main characters. Like in the final game, I would like to see Estelle and Joshua one last time in Rolent, and the SSS in Crossbell, and so on. One last tour around Zemuria to say goodbye...
I mean we got at least Remefiera and The Holy City of Arteria/Leman STate that I feel we have to go to no matter what (definitely the later), Ored State (none of the mobile games were here right? or at Remefiera?), The Principality of Elsaim, The Morgia Archipelago and Isca left so far so ya we got a lot of places left to go assuming they're not made into either mobile games or one season anime like what was done with North Ambria or are only talked about in the main games and never visited like Jurai. Of these I would say Arteria will probably be a definite stop given how important the church is to the storyline same with Isca given that's the far eastern part of the continent not even shown yet so at least part of it will probably be explorable sooner or late. Hell technically all of these regions could be explored if they do what Reverie did in the next arc and have 2 main point of view characters exploring 2 separate countries (preferably both groups being groups of new characters though and not returning casts)...would especially work if it's a bit longer than the longest game currently in the series (pretty sure that's CS3 right?)...would be easier to do that if one of said groups was from the church (hell they could use Arteria as the main base and fly to parts of other countries via the Merkbah airships). If any aren't though I'd Lesaim and Morgia would be the least likely...maybe even Remefiera (as the only real thing i see mentioned about that country is the medical technology...everything else makes the country sound peaceful tbh though that itself could be a red flag saying thing swill go down there sooner or later). Hell the church members traveling vial the Merkbah's is sounding more and more likely as an option for how to handle this last arc of the story more than anything else the more I think about it as they could have them go to a few different towns in different countries for 2 to 3 games in said arc pretty easily...may not see the entire country of course like past games but we'd probably see a good amount and either the series finalle will be in the last dungeon of that last game or in 1 completely new region/off world region after that arc and be it's entire game (could wind up being another Reverie/Sky 3/Ys Origin sort of setting like some giant spaceship/observatory/the moon that watches the world or an island outside Zemuria hidden by some barrier.
While it will be very sad to see Trails go, I'm happy Falcom will give the series a proper conclusion, instead of just stretching it forever just because it sells. Can't wait to see what they come up with next for the Legend of Heroes series after Trails is done too
It just seems a bit odd that we were at 60% with Reverie and now we're at 90% 3 games later. Kondo does throw out random numbers at points, but I don't think 3 games will equate to 10% each, especially when one of them was Crimson Sin.
Wait what? I thought trails was at 60% with Crimson Sin. Now its and 90% after Kai. Its ending really much faster than I expected. Also hope Kai wont be another Reverie, bc Reverie was waaay too much filler in my opinion. So fingers crossed this all ends well. Kind of hoped we would get two more arcs at least for two different countries. But hopefully it will end with a bang.
Both Kuro and Kuro 2 are filler when it comes to the overall narrative so it should still be 60% complete. They aren't even a coherent arc but more like cs1 and cs2 that just leave most problems unsolved.
@@luminous3558 so the goal would be to drain as much money as possible before ending like a wet fart ? If yes it isn't something i would have thought of Falcom.
Trails really could've ended with hajimari or CS4. A games series with a connected story shouldn't be going on this long lol. But hey, glad they seem to be ending it closer than what they've been saying these years.
Tell that to the Yakuza/like a dragon series who's had almost as many games yet the games are as good as they've ever been. You can make a series go a long time. As long as the games are good then that's all that matters
I would take the 90% with a grain of salt. Kondo is just like Oda with One Piece when comes to throwing out completion percentages. The Trails story is basically paced based on how many Sept-Terrion we have left and as of Reverie we have 4/7 which makes sense because they were planning three arcs after Cold Steel. Throughout Cold Steel, the number kept jumping back and forth from 60%-70% and unless Kai no Kiseki is extremely rushed or bloated (I hope not) I can't see how we're jumping from 70% to 90% so quick. Plus they probably want to keep their biggest franchise going for as long as they can from a business standpoint.
The issue is that he is even saying it. Trails after Kuro 2 is not much further progressed than Reverie. Both Kuro games are largely self contained stories with 0 influence on the septerrion plot and instead a focus on the characters. Kuro 2 isn't even a conclusion to its arc so I can't understand where Kai comes from when Kuro desperately needs kuro 3 and 4. Yeah they might not wanna make another coldsteel but then they maybe shouldve tried being concise when writing kuro so its 1 and 2 wasnt an effective repeat of what makes cs 1 and 2 feel incomplete as an arc.
@@luminous3558 Kai is just Kuro 3 with a different name. Kondo said Van's still the main character and the focus is still on Calvard...it seems more like it's just a random renaming like the Crossbeel games where they name Crossbell 1 Zero and Crossbelll 2 Azure rather than Zero 2. I haven't paid too much attention to any other news on Kai besides that as I haven't played Kuro 1 and 2 but from what little was said it doesn't even sound like a Reverie/Sky 3 intermission game situation either. If it does wind up being that than they can even get a Septerrion (maybe even 2 as CS did 2 with 1 arc as well...and I'm talking about 3 and 4 for that 1 arc, not all 4 CS games...the Septerrions weren't even a focus for CS1 and 2 tbh and only really became relevant in 3 and 4 so Kuro arc using 3 games (even if 1 isn't named Kuro) isn't impossible. Especialy since the Grendel aspect (saw it only in JP/first english trailers so not that sure on what it's relevance is so far) kinda screams related to the wind septerrion to me and I wouldn't be surprised if we see a blue one related to the water septerrion either when Kuro finally releases here or in Kai given Kai continues with Van and crew and we don't know how many games may have the Kai name yet (could just be the one, could be 2 for all we know)). And even with the final arc it's not impossible to cover all the remaining countries well if they're willing to make the games in said arcs about a size and a half to double CS3's size and have you play as Gralsiters (either Kevin and Riese or some other one or 2 different groups at the same time) who travel to the remaining countries to deal with some issue related to Gralsiter (I know the spellings wrong, I don't feel like looking it up right now) work/ouroboros on the Merkbah airships. If they dedicate 2 chapters to each country that around roughly the length of CS1 or 2's first 3 chapters along with a prologue, intermission, and epilogue chapter at Arteria for each game they could do solid worldbuilding while addressing all of the remaining countries that don't have a game/mobile game/anime dedicated to it (I don't see them doing a full on console game for Jurai, Ambria, any game that may get a mobile/anime tbh)....and in some cases they may not even need any game at all and just refer to said country only (Remefiera for example may not need one as outside of being referred due to its medical technology being the best i can't really think of any mention of stuff going wrong there so it may just wind up being a reference only country...granted the fact nothing seems to go wrong is suspicious in itself I guess so could lead to something too). After said 2 game (could even go to 3) arc they could do 1 final game where everyone comes back to take on the big bad (whether that's Ouroboros or something else) in some new location (my guess would be either a hidden island, somewhere deep in Isca (saw the current map and it's the most suspicious as that's ground zero for the disaster happening in Zemruia right now), a giant satellite which will be the main base for the enemy group (depending on how big an entire game could be needed and with the addition of the space rockets mentioned in Kai it seems to lend credence to the end of the series likely taking us off the planet), the moon (also for similar reason as the satellite), or Gehenna itself (if demons are involved in the disasters in Zemuria i can see that being the final location with maybe Arteria as the final game's main setting if they were to make Arteria located on top of the gates to Gehenna after having sealed it in the past (this is my own speculation btw, nothing official on anything to Gehenna possibly being sealed was released...well to my knowledge anyway...this is just a trope you see a lot in games/fantasy genre in general so it wouldn't surprise me). This idea may not be one many people may like but it would explain how there could only be 10% left (granted i think Kondo's highballing the number...probably closer to 80 to 85% is my guess). The thing is they also don't really need to do anything with every single country either, at most references that they exist is all they need, not games, and maybe a map to see the layout of the country/cities locations in it for those who'd like to see Zemuria as a whole...honestly since it's near or Arteria is in it all we really need is Leman State and maybe 1 country from far east Zemuria just to get a look at the region (granted they seemed to move most of the eastern like culture either to Calvard or Crossbell's eastern quarter due to the eastern half of Zemuria becoming more and more uninhabitable which may get boring really fast if they made a whole game in a deserted region without any towns, npcs, life in general...we'll probably explore parts of it for a chapter or so where wo go to a dungeon and field map located in such a region but that'd be about it). Hell trying to go after each country could just lead to worse writing tbh as it may come acrossed as forced more than anything else (ya I explained a way yo could in the previous paragraph but they don't really need to do that...just choosing 1 or 2 more countries would be enough (1 has to be Arteria no matter what...even if it's just the final game's location whether they pull the church is evil or going here leads to the final boss's region idea)...so I'd say 1 part of isca and Arteria (maybe Leman State as well since it surrounds Arteria) should be the last arc or two and that's it...the other countries can be footnotes at most and either of these could lead to the end of the series as I already mentioned how Arteria could be handled as the final game but as for Isca it too could work if a location there is what's causing the disaster in Zemuria's eastern half so we could more or less be traveling from wester to easter/center Isca to take on whatever is causing the issue while running into some random pockets of civilizations/refugees along the way who have their own plot points going on to resolve that may connect to the final conflict as well.
@@fuwafuwa271 Yeah he's a main character, not really sure what they were expecting with how the series's track record. Also more Sean Chiplock in a few years.
Why nothing about the changes and localization of Persona 3 Reload (adding the LGBTQ flag, the 'trap' scene censored), Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth with the terrible English dub, etc.?
The dub for infinite wealth is fine. People were giving Yong yea shit this entire time but he's decent as kiryu. Not sure where you're getting it's terrible
@@darknesswave100 I heard there were a few videos from earlier in the dub process that were of lower quality than the full game which got spread around.
just the thought of the trails series coming to an end makes me so sad - that world and the characters that populate it have become a big part of my life
The end is still far off, we still waiting for daybreak here, One Piece will end soon as well 😢
localization speed is so slow that it will probably take 10+ years anyway
@@codernerd7076 One Piece should have ended years ago, the story is dragged and unfocussed at this point as Hideo Kojima games became overrated dung after MGS3.
@@FelixS. nah I love One Piece
Agreed forsure but on the positive note it will go down as a masterpiece series ❤ and who knows what the future holds
Sky trilogy remade with cold steel 3+ gfx would be sweet
Would be so sweet only series I haven’t played
"Trails is 90% complete." ...well, I guess now's as good a time as any to make the jump. (Goodbye, freetime for the next few years).
Have fun! :)
While it will be sad when the Trails series comes to an end I'll also be happy that i was able to experience it. One of my friends wasnt so lucky in that regard unfortunately
I usually try to stay away from unlocalised trails games but your recent review of Kuro 2 just magnifies the revelation of how much Kai is going to contribute to the overall story. Probably gonna break my own rules and dive a bit into spoilers when it releases
Localization = bullshit that isnt whst they intended for. Ive played kuro 1 and ive alresdy seen the woke changes theyve made for the western release. Pure garbage. Go have beautys blade instead of sword maiden, its not what the guy who made all the story intended, some alphabet soup freak over here made it not him . Enjoy
Trails is one of my favourite JRPG series out there I wonder what there planning for it after Farewell, O Zemuria
Well in Hajimari and and the Kuro's they've hinted that "other worlds" outside of Zemuria exist and that Calvard president is apparently seeking a way to reach them.
While my entry into the series was cold steel I liked the new characters of Swin and Nadia in Reverie so I'm definitely buying the new one soon.
FSN getting an official English translation is huge. I'm a little sad they didn't decide to include Hollow Ataraxia in the remaster as well -- that would be the dream -- but I'm crazy excited regardless. That's one where I'll probably be preordering as soon as I can.
As ever, thanks for the video!
I can't believe it's taken this long for FSN to come West at all! It's massive in this day and age.
Came here to say this! And the fact that it's getting a remaster too is incredible. The entire reason I bought Witch on the Holy Night at launch was in the hopes it would encourage TYPE MOON to do exactly this
@@evanb4307 Oh, for sure. If this remaster is anywhere near as good as the Witch on the Holy Night port, I'll be thrilled.
Still no news on Ys X for western release. Maaaaaan :(
2025 most likely if we go by a similar translation time as Ys9
I honestly think we'll get it this year just around the end of the year like October or November
I'll be surprised if we get it in 2024, and even in to 2025. If we're going on release order, Crimson Sin comes next, and then Ys X. It depends on whether NISA have capacity to take on a second Falcom game in the same year (granted, it's script is smaller than a typical Trails title).
@@TheKisekiNut Ys should be simple enough to get in the same year as either Kuro 1 or 2 tbh as the script's generally closer to half the size of any Trails game and in the past Ys 9 (I think it was 9, could've been 8) released about 13 months after it's Japanese release whereas Trails at its shortest has a 2 year gap between Japanese and western release with the CS 1 thru 4 games or longer. Kuro has probably been in the works before Reverie released by half a year or more so it'll still likely be closer to 2 years localization time than 1 year...at minimum it'll take them 1 and a half years for the whole translation.
Unless Falcom decided they want to release both Kuro games first to have them come out back to back Ys 10 will likely be sometime next year (spring to summer would be my guess)...hell they probably could've gotten Ys 10 out this year too if they wanted to (NISA has the resources to make it happen to as they've shown unlike Xseed) as it probably has less lines to work with than Ys 8 and 9 given you only get Adol (who unless they changed it for 10 is a mute protagonist so he doesn't really take outside of a few lines in the story I could count on 1 hand/battle lines...well scratch that he'll get more lines (voiced on top of that) in a Ys game if it's coming from his adventure log/diary...that's mostly when you see Ado's perspective actually written down/voiced in the series outside of a literal handful (less than 5) cutscenes in the last 2 games) so all the written lines needed will be from your 1 other party member and then npc lines or in game books/menu descriptions/something along these lines and I don't think the story's even as long as Ys 8 or 9 either (haven't played though but a good chunk of both games length came from focusing on other party members backstories, especially so for Ys 9 and that will not really be the case for 10 with there being only 2 playable characters).
My guess is 2025 is Ys 10 though and 2026 Kuro 2 given they usually do only one game from either IP per year so unless they just want to get these games out as fast as possible to focus on upcoming games they're releasing in Japan in 2026 and beyond I don't see them changing that...especially as that guarantees at least 1 game each fiscal year no matter what (if they released both in 2025 and their next project isn't done soon enough to get localized in 2026 they may be waiting an entire year for worldwide sales so there's also the case of some games just being released in the west later than you'd think if it'd fit a better time to give them finances for the upcoming year(s). Falcom usually gets a game out in Japan yearly (though not all the time) so not getting a western release in a year isn't gonna be the end of the company but it could be something to keep in their back pocket as long as possible if it looks like they won't release a game in Japan in the upcoming fiscal year or two....granted right now they got Kuro world wide coming up (even again in Japan with Switch in 3 days) along with another Celceta port, TX EX+ Switch for the west this year, CS3 and 4 on PS5, and then finally Kai is also scheduled for Japan this year alone. Then there's Kuro 2 west, Ys X, and then Kai that are likely for the west for next year and the year after and maybe the year after that in Kai's case (2027) at the latest and then a bunch of other upcoming projects that have yet to be announced that will also be releasing in the same timeframe so it's not like they can't just say Kurio 2 and Ys 10 both for 2025 (even one for 2024, but given TX, Celceta, and CS 3 and 4 I don't see them doing another localizations this year).
With Tokyo Xanadu's recent announcement and last time having mentioned three old game ports being suspended by Falcom that a lot of people thought were meant to be Sky.
I'm guessing Falcom started reaching out to not only Aksys but also XSEED to use their localizations for new ports but the deal with XSEED did not go as well as the one with Aksys, so a remake for Sky now needs to happen as a condition for Falcom to have NISA relocalize them.
That may be the case, but, I don't think they are going to release remakes of Sky. 3 games long would make them loose their momentum with the reveals of Kai.
What I think is that they are going to release an introductory title (single game) that can act as a prequel to the series, and can, as well introduce new characters and events that are relevant to the plot. That same year they'll release ports of Sky to modern platforms as well.
Then, they are probably releasing the next arc that will probably be the final one, and will at least be 2 games long.
Kondo wants to fniish the Trails series before he retires. 3 games are already a long endeavor, specially when there are other franchises they release in-between as well. 3 games + the 3 remakes would be too much.
Also Kato is probably giving them pressure as well to finish the story already.
Xseed, unless they decide to change somehow their way of thinking, are just hurting the franchise as a whole.
@@Natreg44 see the problem here is that if Falcom really can't get XSEED to pass the localization then they can't port Sky to modern platforms on the west like what happened with Switch Cold steel 1 and 2.
Which is why Remakes with an eventual NISA version would pretty much be the last resort option to get Sky into consoles.
It could also be zero and ao too, since they are fan favorites too, who knows.
@@DiabolicCrusher I'd like that but it would be kind of weird to start with Crossbell for any Trails related remakes. Especially since they already had ports pretty recently.
@@joaocbcneto The thing with Cold Steel 1 and 2 is a bit different here. CS1 & CS2 for the switch were ported by CLE, not by Falcom. This means they can't use that port to publish their translations (assumint they wanted to, which we don't really know).
If Sky comes to switch, that will be a port done by Falcom, which xseed could use.
What I wanted to say in my previous post is that Falcom is a very small company. And dedicanting their time to release 3 remakes instead of finishing the series is something I don't see happening, unless they are very underwhelming remakes.
Ports, yes, I expect that, but not full-on remakes. Also, a game beloved in Japan could mean lot's of things. I'm actually thinking lately that they may refer to Gurumin instead, which is a remake I think Falcom could handle.
I take Kondos "90 percent" to be a marketing plot to get people to pay attention the coming arc(s). However, I think they will still need the promised two remaining arcs to close the gap on all sept-terrions. Rushing everything and the remaining continent into a single arc would amount to a 'dropping the ball' on Trails' trademark world building patience that would just be nonsensical for a conservatively planning, careful company like Falcom.
Yeah I don't know how 90% complete is possible considering nothing has happened in Kuro 1 or 2 that actually connects to the big plot. So even Kuro alone needs 1-2 more games to finish its confused storyline and tie it to the main series.
90% complete would mean the next game is the last and that would mean they are rushing the series for a early and unsatisfying conclusion.
I agree, 90% was a wild swing when I heard it. Reverie was the 60% mark, 3 games since that point can't amount to that level of story, especially when Crimson Sin did very little.
@@luminous3558 I mean Kai seems to be just Kuro 3 but renamed (more of a Zero to Azure instance than Reverie by the sounds of it, especially since I've heard some people complain that Kuro 2 didn't really resolve Kuro's plotlines so I doubt Kai's a sky 3/Reverie style game considering what I mention in the rest of this paragraph)). Kondo already said in an interview the focus is still on Van and it will still mainly take place in Calvard so they can wrap up whatever's they're doing with that arc in Kai (I haven't played Kuro yet so no spoiler's please).
As for the rest of it...I can think of 1 way they can get everything else done in 1 arc: a 3 to 4 part game focused on church members (probably Gralsieters again, maybe even Kevin and Riese) who go around to parts of the the remaining countries to resolve issues that pop up due to Ouroboros doing something that involves whatever remaining Septerrions are left after Kai. Hell if they split it into 2 main church members parties they can do the whole Reverie changing PoV thing each chapter too so that you have one group focus on one country and the other focus on another for each game (could be the same countries for each of the games or they go to another of the remaining countries we never visited in each game until all countries we've never been to/didn't have a mobile game or anime about have been visited at least once. They can then tie it all up with either the last game of this arc being the last Trails game where everything comes to a head like CS4 did or they can throw one final game by itself where all the past Trails characters come back to take on whatever the final boss/threat is in either a new hidden land (maybe an island hidden by a barrier that was causing everything), wherever McBurn is from, some flying spaceship/observatory, hell knowing jrpg tropes the moon, or maybe even Gehenna given how big of a role demons play or Arteria/a location in Arteria itself (as with tropes the church/the deity they worship either ends up being the villain or winds up being the site where whatever's causing all of the issues is sealed and to resolve said issues you must enter the sealed area to finish things)...I'd be surprised if it wound up being none of these as generally this is how jrpgs ends lol. Only other option I guess would be heading towards part of the continent that's currently being made uninhabitable by god knows what and arriving at ground zero and finding whatever's causing the issues there while dealing with new types of monsters/villains coming from there (granted...given Kai wants to introduce spaceships as that's the first thing you see in the trailer's headlines/screenshots my guess is that the series is not gonna end on the Zemurian continent or on the planet itself...either some giant space station or the moon is the most likely imo).
And yes while this may sound like a rushed way to treat the septerrions let me point out this is more or less how CS did things: 2 septerrions were used for for what's considered 1 arc of the game (CS3 and 4, techinically you could consider all of CS 2 disticnt arcs: School Rean which focuses on the rebellion/pre phantasmal blaze arc and then teach rain which focuses on noble uprising/during hijacked phatasmal blaze arc and the septerrions only really come into play in 3 and 4 while CS 1 and 2 are more setup of Erebonia and then finally linking Crossbell into the mix in CS2's intermission for said Phantasmal Blaze arc). At the same time wind and water septerrions may be in play for Kuro's arc from what I've seen in trailers (haven't played them but the Grendel thing kinda screams wind to me at least and i feel like Time will be the last arc so water is either tied with wind or it's own arc between wind and time).
I guess you in theory could get this last arc done in 2 games using the church Merkbah traveling method and throwing one final all characters reappear for the end game as well so 90% wouldn't really be wrong for Kondo's estimate (would say 85% would be closer though). We'll see after Kai I guess.
I think i love the Sky series too much, to the point that it would be a big surprise to me if i were to not be dissatisfied playing a remake of it.
Fug me every time I hear that Blue Reflection music I get a kick in the feels. Thanks for your updates mate, I'm a little out of my depth with most of it but thanks to you, I'm slowly getting up to speed. May even play Trails soon, ya never know. 👍🏼
Being a Squeenixfan is suffering.
It will be FAXanadu. Beloved by fans and staff alike. I've been waiting 37 years for this!!!!!!!! I just hope everyone keeps blinking all the time like in the original.
Sky is all I want from the remake side of things.
All of the rest are easily accessible at this point.
I'm not into Ys so I couldn't care less about anything on that side, but I understand people love it so I'll end up being happy for them if they get something they want.
That being said, Sky seems inevitable at some point, so bring it on with the new ones in the West and I'll be a happy camper.
You know what I want? "Trails Through Reverie" made me wish there was a *dedicated Trails game that focuses on the "Swin/Nadia" backstory.* Yes, I know you can read that in-game novel series to learn more about their backstory, but I personally would prefer a full-on traditional turn-based Trails game to explore their backstory (even if it ends-up being on the shorter side, I would STILL pay full price to experience that game IMO).
Be careful what you wish for...they could just make it a mobile game instead like they did with Akatsuki's main cast and they're about to do with the Northern War characters (and who knows if we'll see them later in a main game now).
The biggest release here for me is Fate/stay night. I still need to get Mahoyo and will get Tsukihime too when it releases. I am also still waiting for Ys X on my end. And all the other Trails titles. In regards to the Trails series ending, I just hope they don't rush it. A half assed end would just be awful. And I wanted to get some gaming in today, but basically spent the whole day sleeping. I stayed up the whole night to watch my overseas friend play Ys 1. He's stuck at you know who. But yeah, very excited for some visual novels. I will never get through my pile of shame. I'm.almost done with Ys at least. I hope we get that mythical Ys 5 remake one day. Have a nice night TKN. Maybe enjoy some gaming. I just hope you're doing fine.
I hate to say it, but I think no matter how the Trails series ends, it'll end with a thud with many people disappointed. You're taking a franchise that'll likely get close to 20 entries if not more, and you have to conclude everything in a satisfying way. If they stick that landing, I'll be very impressed.
Really hoping for a Gagharv game to be remade. I'm also really worried Falcom are rushing things.
As a big Trails fan I just can't fathom how they will resolve so many things with just 1 game + 1 more arc. It's gonna feel so rushed...
We'll just have to see what they come up with, I'm apprehensive about that 90% number.
Ooh 90% complete
I've heard Tokyo Xanadu EX will see a western release on switch.
There's a trailer on Aksys' youtube channel announcing a Switch release for summer 2024. It's pretty recent, one or two days ago.
It'll be in June confirmed
It is, but the announcement came this month. Hence it's not mentioned here, but for Febs video.
I do very much appreciate these videos, they're very well-made and well-researched.
I don't know if I've missed some of the more recent ones or if this is a new thing, but I found the gaps of relative silence between just announcements a weaker part of the video. Rather than just names and dates, perhaps a one-liner synopsis of the game? Or fade into game audio of the scenes playing behind the music? While I really liked the rest of the video, this section just seemed off from the high bar of the rest of your content.
I just hope them rushing doesn't cause the game's quality to dip.
tbh I'm so far behind on Trails I can't get excited by any news of that series. It might become relevant to me in a few years.
I am looking forward to Ys X, whenever that releases on PC in the west. That is one of my favorite franchises.
The Square Enix news is a mixed bag. Glad they are updated the PC pixel remasters. I will buy those eventually. But its too bad they closed down Tokyo RPG Factory. None of their games were big hits, but at least a couple did decently well. I think they had potential.
hopefully they keep the sky remake in 2D and make the graphics like eiyuden chronicles, OT, etc rather than make it to 3D. i also really fond of the 2D portrait that they use for character dialogue up until azure. i think not using 2D portrait in dialogue from cold steel onwards is just a massive L tbh and i also think that's why persona dialogue is just a treat to listen and watch cause the 2D portrait really liven up the scene for its character expression.
As for the Remake I've seen people say Sky...I don't think it is, I think it's Ys 5 or a non Ys/Trails game IP as Sky doesn't need to be remade at this moment before the main series ends as it's available to anyone via PC and the Sky and Crossbell series is something anyone with a PC (90% of people nowadays likely has one) as it does not need a good PC to run (mine ran Sky 3 and Crossbell (fan subs before CS3 came out a couple years before official release, bought them officially on Switch) fine and it's a 10 year old PC with constant crashing issues when watching livestreams at anything higher than 480p and it's not even a dedicated gaming PC and one I bought more so for office work/watching videos at first and on top of that is an All in one PC which I learned the hard way are shit PCs). They should focus more on making new games and finishing up the series before trying to remake any Trails games...hell if any Trails games could use a remake it'd be the mobile games with the story being adapted to console format and removing the gacha aspect and reworking any story aspects that were affected by gacha as both Trails mobile games take place in 2 countries we haven't explored on consoles yet (the Northern War mobile game for example and if I'm right Akastuki also took place in a few other regions too that we never went to). Only real justification of a remake at all right now would be due to not being able to get Xseed to do a port to new consoles/Xseed refuses to allow anyone else to port their translation thus making a remake the only real viable option left but even then as I said PC version is around and anyone can run it with even a shit tier PC (especially if it was a gaming PC) if it was made in the last few years if my 10 year old piece of shit PC is fine with them...if they really want to remake it fine they can focus on that once the series is done though (I'd prefer finishing the series before I die thank you).
Ys 5 seems the most likely though given it's the only Ys game not to be released in the west at this point and is definitely a game that needs to be made from the ground up, especially if you consider the Japanese audience apparently didn't like it much and a lot of people talk about how the combat was meh so they can revamp the combat to something like modern Ys games or Tokyo Xanadu (I think TX combat with Adol by himself would work best though...granted they can also do this for a Ys 1 and 2 remake as well which is also one that I could see getting a remake as the bump combat will not be for everyone and they could give all the characters quite a bit more development (which they could all use tbh, at least as much as was in Oath in Felghana)).
Trails peaked at end of Erebonia. Localisation in English needs to watch itself, getting worse.
I hope things improve.
Honestly really worrying news as someone whose caught up to jp releases for trails. Kuro did not have a conclusion to its arc that was satisfying or makes sense.
We are not much further mainstorywise than reverie was.
The best way I can describe Kuro 1 and 2 is that they are coldsteel 1 and 2, meaning they are very incomplete as an arc and would need 2 more games to actually make progress.
Reverie itself was largely plot irrelevant so it makes me think that Kai isn't gonna be much different and they won't suddenly pull 3 septerrions out of their sleeves saying that ouroboros just found them off screen.
Kondo is clearly very ambitious with this statement and likely will have to go back on it, its just worrying that he is able to think he can complete the series in 1 game + 1 short arc after stalling for the last 7 games and progressing the series at a snails pace.
Rushing the conclusion of the series would be the absolute worst thing Nihon Falcom could do
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Just how big is Kai No Kiseki going to be?
If only someone would kick out current localizers for falcom games...
how can trails be about to end when kuro 2 did literally nothing for the plot? kinda hurts ngl. man i hope kai and what comes after are more of a return to form..i've never had trouble getting through a trails game. i usually can never put them down.
Upcoming releases 👀 well what if I want to play all of these 😅 backlog doesn’t stop
Honestly having played Daybreak, I am shocked it got a T rating here rather than an M, I found the themes in Daybreak felt alot more mature.
I find it somewhat strange that you and other people don't really seem to mind that the new like a dragon game has ng plus stuck behind a paywall.
People buy the normal edition with the excuse that ng plus is not necessary for them. It's a small thing but things as micro transactions for example , started with fancy horse armor and we all know how that ended.
I did say that the news ended 'more positively' after I mentioned that article, so I think that'll give you an idea of what I think about it.
Fate Stay Night: WOW!
Remaster: Bruh
Is it too much to ask for cold steel 1&2 in switch?
Why did they suspended the ports of three titles??????????
Trails is 90% complete? Don't we still have three whole Sept-Terrion to deal with yet? I hope the finale's satisfying.
I'm not gonna put too much weight behind that 90% personally. We were apparently promised 2 more arcs a while back, so that already goes against the milestone given here.
@@TheKisekiNut It just seems like a weird announcement at this point. I figured the second half of the series would sort of "mirror" the first, with Calvard given as much weight as Erebonia (so maybe four games with Van) and then two smaller arcs in maybe Remiferia and Arteria before having the finale arc in the easternmost part of the continent where all the desertification is happpening.
@@TheKisekiNut That 2 arcs comment was made before Reveries if I'm right...so Kuro = 1 arc, one after 2 arcs and then if Im right the wording was 2 more arcs before the end which could be it's onw game/series of games on its own for all we know. He's probably highballing it and it's closer to 85% which would make more sense.
I mean Kai is part of the Kuro arc (Kondo said it's still following Van and centered on Calvard, it's probably another new name but same arc situation like Zero and Azure were for Crossbell rather than a Sky 3/Reverie situation) so one of the 3 (or even 2) septerrions can be resolved in this arc...hell 2 were done for the Cold Steel games (fire and earth and then I guess Steel as the two combined to make the Septerrion of Steel) so they can do the same with Kuro/Kai's arc (hell...the whole Grendel powers scream wind to me from what I've seen in trailers (saw a few JP/the first English one but never played the game so I'm not spoiling anything here and it's just speculation on my part/Kondo's own comment on Kai in a recent interview (may even be the same one he mentions saying after Kai 90% is done).
And for the final arc they do have 1 easy option that can still do decent world/character building left to them: final arc focuses on MCs from the church (probably new gralsieters or Kevin and Riese again) who go to the remaining areas/places Ouroboros are sighted via the Merkbah airships. This would allow them to more or less travel to all remaining regions quickly (probably won't see all of each region though with this method and just specific towns/cities and nearby fields/dungeons unless for each game they have 2 main groups whose PoV change via a mechanic like Reverie's party switching or they just do dedicated chapters for each group and each group covers a different country in each arc of the game so you see maybe 2 to 4 towns and surrounding areas for each country per game (so maybe 4 countries for 2 more games which would be roughly the amount of countries left that haven't been seen/the focus of a game yet and since it's the church Arteria would probably be like Trista/Leeves and be your main base and maybe play a role in one of/both of the game's final chapters if it doesn't wind up being the final destination of the series as a whole (could be another the church is actually bad, or at least the deity it serves, or there's something sealed under the church that's causing all the BS in the game and we have to go in to beat it or it has some portal to the final dungeon/region/setting of the series (could even be Gehenna...honestly that'd be the most likely one if demons are what's causing Zemuria's problems...wouldn't be the first time a church was plopped down on top of the entrance to a fantasy' world's hell in order to keep demonic like shit sealed away from the world/stop people from letting demonic things out)). And even after this next arc it doesn't mean there won't be some final last game that's not counted as part of the arc that acts as the series' final climax/conclusion so with the Merkbah method you could get as few as 2 games, probably 3 games though for the last main story arc and then have the 1 final game (if it's not made into a series of games, granted that feels excessive unless they're heading to one whole new country where the main enemy (Ouroboros or something even they were fighting (with how much members of the organization join in as friends I wouldn't be surprised if they're trying to save the world in their own weird way) of the series is located) for the conclusion.
Unless they reveal that Zemruia is part of the same world as Nayuta (which if it is then we know what's more or less going on with that game's world so we'd be having a good idea of what's happening to Zemruia due to that and maybe what is even the Grandmaster's plan if she's a character from Nayuta (I don't think she is even with the similarities) but from what I've seen while a lot of terminology is similar and there is an empire in Nayuta I don't think they're the same world due to a few key differences in snippets about the world outside Remnant island in that game) we really don't have much to work with in what Ouroboros's main goal is or what's going on in Zemuria.
Also if I'm right at the end of CS2 he said the series was about 70 to 75% done so his % shouldn't be taken as a clear indicator...add or subtract about 5 to 10% for a more accurate # lol.
Unicorn Overlord - March 8!
Trails must end with a Banger!!!!
We still know next to nothing about the main antagonist but we’re 90% complete?
We are also missing 3 Septerrions and none of Kuro 1 or 2 has been plot relevant or internally complete.
This literally makes 0 sense to put a "Hajimari" style game.
Its like putting hajimari after cs2 and skipping cs3 and 4.
@@luminous3558 Kuro 1 and 2 are main games but don't advance the plot ? Zero and azure were a duology but had a noticeable impact so whit not Kuro ? It should knowing the huge gap between Japan and Western release.
Falcom: We plan to release 20 games for the rest 10% story, till 2077, so that you can enjoy the series even in Heaven
I kinda wish only if they keep up the level though don’t want it to run to the next generation and have it ruined with bad storytelling
@@reanschwarzer2187the story telling is trash since Cold Steel 1
@@loiskamiya9164 really I definitely don’t agree with that I thought it was good all the way to 4 reverie was alright a little weird with the ai deal. But I think it’s been good I heard the latest in Calvard dropped off a bit haven’t played it yet.
@@loiskamiya9164 CS is weaker than Sky and Crossbell yeah but nothing close to trash....trash would be FFXV/Tales of Zestiria style of storytelling or worse. Biggest issue the game had imo was the whole bodning events/romance choice aspect (which is also something I criticize Crossbell for too btw even with the story being better...Lloyd at least wasn't as crazy with 69 different options like Rean and just stuck with about 5 lol). As for why it ruins the chance to build character relationships between the other male and female members of Class 7...the males they kinda gave NPC options for at the very least but the females? They got Rean and no one else so once he chooses one the others are stuck alone with their cats i guess...only other option is Rean and the girls move to a country that allows polygamy I guess or when Alfin becomes queen she makes it legal if she decides to wait that long for Rean lol. I think the only potential non rean romance in Class 7 is Jusis and Millium (note, she'd be about 19 in the Kuro games and only has a 4 year difference between her and Jusis (same as my mom and dad) and were classmates even if there was an age gap so don't throw the 'ew that's pedo' bs at me for this, especially if you're fine with Fie, Juna, Musee) and that's about it...hell even the Crow and Towa potential relationship gets the Rean cuck lol.
Another great video TKN. Hoping once we get a bit more info on Kai we can get some form of a prediction video from you in regard ro where you think the series will end up at the finish line
I'll be keeping my thoughts on it to myself for now, I kind of just take the series as it comes. Crimson Sin sort of threw my expectations off a bit, so not really sure what to expect now.
90% complete would suggest 1 game left, which is disappointing considering they originally said the series was 50% complete with Trails into Reverie. I was expecting to see more of the other countries in Zemuria, maybe 2 more arcs after Daybreak and 1-2 games to finally wrap it up.
They said they wanted to wrap things up before Nihon Falcom's "50th anniversary" though.
I really hope that the 13 trilogy gets a remaster.
I really hope Falcom will start a new turn based RPG series, one that has a worldwide release. I don't think their current plan is sustainable. By the way, I don't think this was in January but I'm excited about Tokyo Xanadu coming to Switch.
Simultaneous worldwide releases will likely never happen as long as Kato remains in charge. Kondo may be the face but Kato still pulls the strings, and he prefers to stick with a smaller company structure such is his conservative approach to business.
@@TheKisekiNut Currently new releases aren't that exciting, instead of it being "it's out now", its more like "it's finally out now". And a good chunk of their own fans just play the fan translations and don't bother when it officially comes out.
Will they ever speed up the trails localization times in the west...? It is so frustrating to wait 3 years for each game without any improvement in sight. Especially, seeing CLE getting the scripts early and simultaniously releasing (or at least close to it) the games for the asian market. Makes me wonder why they have no appreciation for their western audience, even though the sales were good...
Probably not unless we catch up, CLE has the advantage of being caught up and having a closer relationship with Falcom. Letting them get the scripts early.
Hopefully they will make use of AI translation like the manga industry is starting to do. Then we dont have to deal with NisA's trash anymore.
I liked FF13, that’s the best in the series
didnt they say that it was 50% complete just before kuro released. Seems to me like they are rushing to end it for whatever reason. pretty disappointing, ngl.
...Note at one point around CS2 and 3 they said around 70%...so these %s really don't mean shit tbh.
brandish 1 and 2 remake lets gooo
Im honestly sad to hear that trails is almost complete. But i am also excited to see what the big ending to the story that has spaned over 10+ games. And who knows we could get a sequel to nayuta? Maybe? Or some other spin off.
Look at the bright sad: if it ends soon it'll hopefully be ending before you die so you'll see the end...if they kept it going forever non of us would ever see the end of the series and that's about one of the few things in life I want to do: see the end to this series before I croak.
Gonna be honest I hope they never attempt this with another series/next non Trails Legend of Heroes game (which is what I'll assume will happen after Trails's storyline is done)...just do one offs or at most a trilogy and no more...it never really needed this many games tbh.
Is it master detective archives 2?
Sky remake? I just finished FC and SC last year and already bought 3rd so I'll skip if it happen lol
honestly 3rd is skippable anyway. You can watch the important cutscenes on YT, the game is mid to low tier.
@@RoanoraZoro123 I'm used to Kiseki fanboys insulting me because I'm not blind to obvious negative points about the series. Which I enjoy a lot, don't get me wrong, but how people defend Trails in the Sky 3rd, that glorified mess of random "world building" scenes and teaser for future plots, wrapped in a soulless dungeon crawler with 90% reused assets is beyond me. I felt disrespected as a player by that game, requiring 40 hours of my personal time to grind through this dungeon just for some cutscenes where most of them are not even necessary to enjoy the future games, opposed to what the fans claim to be. It made me almost stop playing the series, which would be a shame because the next games are actual games again and not cheap cash-grabs.
It would've been much better if they would've gave the sky cast an extended epilogue in the second sky game, Kevin an actual good game (that guy deserves a whole arc tbh) and some of the door scenes spread over the next games.
@@RoanoraZoro123 ok no worries. But I don't understand how only western people would dislike if most of the appeals of a series are gone and replaced with a dungeon crawl and disconnected cut scenes
@@RoanoraZoro123 ah yes, absolutely agree with that. But I think you can do better fan service games than that. Honestly I would've prefered if they would've just released the door cut scenes as kinda bonus scenes for some deluxe edition of trails in the sky 1+2 and gave kevin a proper game.
But I think we can agree that fan service cames are skippable in general. They don't add anything new and are just to give the fans more of the same.
4:11 I cant believe I'm hearing this, SE's expectations can be met
It can happen! Square are still stuck in the 00's with their estimates, so if SO2 exceeded expectation for Square, in normal context that means it did very well.
TIME FOR MORE TRAILS!!!!
Yaaaay a new turn based JRPG.... aaaaaaaaaand its only for japan. That letdown :(
But I will definetly check out The Nameless: Slay Dragon. It has a unique look and the animations so far seem kinda fluid and smooth. We'll see.
Thank you as always for your newsroundup! ♥
Here's hoping they bring back back endings like in Kuro 2 too then, most people shat on it but i did like how that game decided to go with darker tone so to speak. Regardless, looking forward to pirating it, because i'm not buying a version with no regional pricing and certainly not buying nor waiting for a nisa version.
As for Tales of Innocence R, i'm a original voiceover purist but glad for people that prefer dubs, fandubs are rare nowadays, good fandubs even more so.
You got me super excited saying Witch Spring R is available on Switch already. It was announced but not yet available... Supposedly coming Spring 2024, I honestly can't wait for the physical version!!!
I'm very certain I read the news about infinite wealth new game plus last year so I surprised it's now people are talking about it. It waiting until the physical copy is £25 regardless.
I'm still hoping that this will all tie back to the Gagharv trilogy in some way. Maybe we'll come across the ruins of El Phildin and Tiraswheel somewhere in eastern Zemuria.
5:14 Of course it does... 5:20 If it's another mobile game or just a silly colab I'm gonna flip a table...
Thank goodness Yoshi-P is stepping back on Final Fantasy. Hoping the next head will be bring us back to series roots.
I've just got the platinum trophy on midnight suns today and beat the fires of raven ending in armoured core 6 this week and I am ready to start persona 3 reload tomorrow and hopefully beat it before rebirth is out
I really expected Stellar Blade to have a collector’s edition. Guess I’ll save those dollars for somethin else.
I would play that Hypergryph game that but I can't imagine trying to play an action game on mobile. I don't know how people can look at such small screens constantly.
I'm waiting to add Trails remake games to my physical collection :)
Any mobile version of jrpg?🤔🤔
Mushoku Tensei for ps5 dammit i cant wait!
More Falcom on Switch is a good thing. I'm really excited about Tokyo Xanadu ex being confirmed to come to the West in June.
I just hope somehow we'll get more of the Ys games and Trails games on Switch. Some wizardry is going to have to happens. Everyone talks about the rights and yadda yadda yadda, but who knows really.
I'm still confused how Dotemu were able to release Ys Origins on Switch. I thought XSEED owned the rights? How did they do that and can they do it again? Hmm...
The licencing is just a mess for many of these games, and Falcom basically have to find workarounds. XSeed holding the rights to Sky for example in the West has been a notable thorn for many years, as there's no plans for them to go beyond their PC ports.
im happy for more tales but dammit give me a destiny remake
I thought Falcom stated at their 40th anniversary something like they had 2/3 locations in Trails to visit after Calvard. And they wanted to finish the Trails series by Falcom's 50th anniversary, which is in 2031. I would think at the very least, they have 3 games left after Kai.
Whatever they do, I really hope they have a well written ending for the series and all the main characters. Like in the final game, I would like to see Estelle and Joshua one last time in Rolent, and the SSS in Crossbell, and so on. One last tour around Zemuria to say goodbye...
I mean we got at least Remefiera and The Holy City of Arteria/Leman STate that I feel we have to go to no matter what (definitely the later), Ored State (none of the mobile games were here right? or at Remefiera?), The Principality of Elsaim, The Morgia Archipelago and Isca left so far so ya we got a lot of places left to go assuming they're not made into either mobile games or one season anime like what was done with North Ambria or are only talked about in the main games and never visited like Jurai.
Of these I would say Arteria will probably be a definite stop given how important the church is to the storyline same with Isca given that's the far eastern part of the continent not even shown yet so at least part of it will probably be explorable sooner or late.
Hell technically all of these regions could be explored if they do what Reverie did in the next arc and have 2 main point of view characters exploring 2 separate countries (preferably both groups being groups of new characters though and not returning casts)...would especially work if it's a bit longer than the longest game currently in the series (pretty sure that's CS3 right?)...would be easier to do that if one of said groups was from the church (hell they could use Arteria as the main base and fly to parts of other countries via the Merkbah airships).
If any aren't though I'd Lesaim and Morgia would be the least likely...maybe even Remefiera (as the only real thing i see mentioned about that country is the medical technology...everything else makes the country sound peaceful tbh though that itself could be a red flag saying thing swill go down there sooner or later). Hell the church members traveling vial the Merkbah's is sounding more and more likely as an option for how to handle this last arc of the story more than anything else the more I think about it as they could have them go to a few different towns in different countries for 2 to 3 games in said arc pretty easily...may not see the entire country of course like past games but we'd probably see a good amount and either the series finalle will be in the last dungeon of that last game or in 1 completely new region/off world region after that arc and be it's entire game (could wind up being another Reverie/Sky 3/Ys Origin sort of setting like some giant spaceship/observatory/the moon that watches the world or an island outside Zemuria hidden by some barrier.
I already want this new president of square gone.
While it will be very sad to see Trails go, I'm happy Falcom will give the series a proper conclusion, instead of just stretching it forever just because it sells. Can't wait to see what they come up with next for the Legend of Heroes series after Trails is done too
It just seems a bit odd that we were at 60% with Reverie and now we're at 90% 3 games later. Kondo does throw out random numbers at points, but I don't think 3 games will equate to 10% each, especially when one of them was Crimson Sin.
90%... there's just no way. What about all the other continents and the thousand loose plot threads?
I think it's just a random number, we were at 60% with Reverie. That, or someone is trying to get Trails finished as soon as they can.
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Wait what? I thought trails was at 60% with Crimson Sin. Now its and 90% after Kai. Its ending really much faster than I expected. Also hope Kai wont be another Reverie, bc Reverie was waaay too much filler in my opinion. So fingers crossed this all ends well.
Kind of hoped we would get two more arcs at least for two different countries. But hopefully it will end with a bang.
Both Kuro and Kuro 2 are filler when it comes to the overall narrative so it should still be 60% complete. They aren't even a coherent arc but more like cs1 and cs2 that just leave most problems unsolved.
@@luminous3558 so the goal would be to drain as much money as possible before ending like a wet fart ? If yes it isn't something i would have thought of Falcom.
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Very comprehensive JRPG news
This aint it chief.
Trails really could've ended with hajimari or CS4. A games series with a connected story shouldn't be going on this long lol. But hey, glad they seem to be ending it closer than what they've been saying these years.
Tell that to the Yakuza/like a dragon series who's had almost as many games yet the games are as good as they've ever been. You can make a series go a long time. As long as the games are good then that's all that matters
They are rushing the game after stalling forever.
I would take the 90% with a grain of salt. Kondo is just like Oda with One Piece when comes to throwing out completion percentages. The Trails story is basically paced based on how many Sept-Terrion we have left and as of Reverie we have 4/7 which makes sense because they were planning three arcs after Cold Steel. Throughout Cold Steel, the number kept jumping back and forth from 60%-70% and unless Kai no Kiseki is extremely rushed or bloated (I hope not) I can't see how we're jumping from 70% to 90% so quick. Plus they probably want to keep their biggest franchise going for as long as they can from a business standpoint.
The issue is that he is even saying it.
Trails after Kuro 2 is not much further progressed than Reverie.
Both Kuro games are largely self contained stories with 0 influence on the septerrion plot and instead a focus on the characters. Kuro 2 isn't even a conclusion to its arc so I can't understand where Kai comes from when Kuro desperately needs kuro 3 and 4.
Yeah they might not wanna make another coldsteel but then they maybe shouldve tried being concise when writing kuro so its 1 and 2 wasnt an effective repeat of what makes cs 1 and 2 feel incomplete as an arc.
It does sound odd, especially considering Reverie was the 60% point not too long a go.
@@luminous3558 Kai is just Kuro 3 with a different name. Kondo said Van's still the main character and the focus is still on Calvard...it seems more like it's just a random renaming like the Crossbeel games where they name Crossbell 1 Zero and Crossbelll 2 Azure rather than Zero 2.
I haven't paid too much attention to any other news on Kai besides that as I haven't played Kuro 1 and 2 but from what little was said it doesn't even sound like a Reverie/Sky 3 intermission game situation either.
If it does wind up being that than they can even get a Septerrion (maybe even 2 as CS did 2 with 1 arc as well...and I'm talking about 3 and 4 for that 1 arc, not all 4 CS games...the Septerrions weren't even a focus for CS1 and 2 tbh and only really became relevant in 3 and 4 so Kuro arc using 3 games (even if 1 isn't named Kuro) isn't impossible. Especialy since the Grendel aspect (saw it only in JP/first english trailers so not that sure on what it's relevance is so far) kinda screams related to the wind septerrion to me and I wouldn't be surprised if we see a blue one related to the water septerrion either when Kuro finally releases here or in Kai given Kai continues with Van and crew and we don't know how many games may have the Kai name yet (could just be the one, could be 2 for all we know)).
And even with the final arc it's not impossible to cover all the remaining countries well if they're willing to make the games in said arcs about a size and a half to double CS3's size and have you play as Gralsiters (either Kevin and Riese or some other one or 2 different groups at the same time) who travel to the remaining countries to deal with some issue related to Gralsiter (I know the spellings wrong, I don't feel like looking it up right now) work/ouroboros on the Merkbah airships. If they dedicate 2 chapters to each country that around roughly the length of CS1 or 2's first 3 chapters along with a prologue, intermission, and epilogue chapter at Arteria for each game they could do solid worldbuilding while addressing all of the remaining countries that don't have a game/mobile game/anime dedicated to it (I don't see them doing a full on console game for Jurai, Ambria, any game that may get a mobile/anime tbh)....and in some cases they may not even need any game at all and just refer to said country only (Remefiera for example may not need one as outside of being referred due to its medical technology being the best i can't really think of any mention of stuff going wrong there so it may just wind up being a reference only country...granted the fact nothing seems to go wrong is suspicious in itself I guess so could lead to something too). After said 2 game (could even go to 3) arc they could do 1 final game where everyone comes back to take on the big bad (whether that's Ouroboros or something else) in some new location (my guess would be either a hidden island, somewhere deep in Isca (saw the current map and it's the most suspicious as that's ground zero for the disaster happening in Zemruia right now), a giant satellite which will be the main base for the enemy group (depending on how big an entire game could be needed and with the addition of the space rockets mentioned in Kai it seems to lend credence to the end of the series likely taking us off the planet), the moon (also for similar reason as the satellite), or Gehenna itself (if demons are involved in the disasters in Zemuria i can see that being the final location with maybe Arteria as the final game's main setting if they were to make Arteria located on top of the gates to Gehenna after having sealed it in the past (this is my own speculation btw, nothing official on anything to Gehenna possibly being sealed was released...well to my knowledge anyway...this is just a trope you see a lot in games/fantasy genre in general so it wouldn't surprise me).
This idea may not be one many people may like but it would explain how there could only be 10% left (granted i think Kondo's highballing the number...probably closer to 80 to 85% is my guess). The thing is they also don't really need to do anything with every single country either, at most references that they exist is all they need, not games, and maybe a map to see the layout of the country/cities locations in it for those who'd like to see Zemuria as a whole...honestly since it's near or Arteria is in it all we really need is Leman State and maybe 1 country from far east Zemuria just to get a look at the region (granted they seemed to move most of the eastern like culture either to Calvard or Crossbell's eastern quarter due to the eastern half of Zemuria becoming more and more uninhabitable which may get boring really fast if they made a whole game in a deserted region without any towns, npcs, life in general...we'll probably explore parts of it for a chapter or so where wo go to a dungeon and field map located in such a region but that'd be about it). Hell trying to go after each country could just lead to worse writing tbh as it may come acrossed as forced more than anything else (ya I explained a way yo could in the previous paragraph but they don't really need to do that...just choosing 1 or 2 more countries would be enough (1 has to be Arteria no matter what...even if it's just the final game's location whether they pull the church is evil or going here leads to the final boss's region idea)...so I'd say 1 part of isca and Arteria (maybe Leman State as well since it surrounds Arteria) should be the last arc or two and that's it...the other countries can be footnotes at most and either of these could lead to the end of the series as I already mentioned how Arteria could be handled as the final game but as for Isca it too could work if a location there is what's causing the disaster in Zemuria's eastern half so we could more or less be traveling from wester to easter/center Isca to take on whatever is causing the issue while running into some random pockets of civilizations/refugees along the way who have their own plot points going on to resolve that may connect to the final conflict as well.
So. Much. Stuff!!!
I really hope Rean doesn't show up.
He's pretty much guaranteed since the game is Reverie style and they made a big deal about Class VII characters in the game.
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Sad to hear. He is the worst character in Trails. A goody two shoes, overpowered chosen one, author self insert.
The most popular man in the series will definitely come back no matter how many westerners hate him.
@@fuwafuwa271 Yeah he's a main character, not really sure what they were expecting with how the series's track record. Also more Sean Chiplock in a few years.
@@joaocbcneto Just finished reverie and there was last daydream, Rean in Calvard. So no doubt he's will return in Calvard 3
CS4 and Reverie were garbage games but Kuro 1 was not bad but...
After Kuso 2 I don’t fucking care anymore
Falcom can go to hell with this shit
Not their fault you decided to keep playing after you clearly lost interest. You wasted your own money.
Why nothing about the changes and localization of Persona 3 Reload (adding the LGBTQ flag, the 'trap' scene censored), Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth with the terrible English dub, etc.?
The dub for infinite wealth is fine. People were giving Yong yea shit this entire time but he's decent as kiryu. Not sure where you're getting it's terrible
@@darknesswave100 I heard there were a few videos from earlier in the dub process that were of lower quality than the full game which got spread around.