One of my favorite games of all time. The Geofront fan translation was phenomenal and it's great that they're able to officially release it in English.
I've never played a Trails game. Never knew where to start or if "Zero" in the name was a good indication, but thank you for clarifying that even a newcomer can join and not have a problem here. I certainly will be picking this up.
i still suggest to play Sky 1 and 2. there are quite more than few references or things that was happened in sky that is mentioned in this game either by some NPC, side quests, even some of the main stories part if you care about that
You CAN play this without prior knowledge of the others, but there'll be some particular moments that will be highly emotional if you're invested in some of the characters from Sky, and would just feel kinda weird and have you asking why said characters are getting so much attention if you haven't played Sky. Like, character arcs from Sky that won't resolve until partway into Zero, with characters that you'd only know superficially without the context of playing those games. As someone who started my Trails journey a few months back, I'd still say starting with the Sky trilogy is critical to having an investment in the long run. Especially since the mere existence of the returning Sky characters in the state they're in, spoils the events of the Sky trilogy and how they resolve. It also sort of glosses over some of the key plot elements that were introduced in the Sky games, that will be vastly important later, and you'll definitely want to play the Sky trilogy in the future anyway for full investment. Point being: you CAN start here, on paper, but I wouldn't recommend it. I'll always advocate for starting with Sky, they set up everything that has been going on in the plot for almost two decades, and they're some of the best RPGs I've ever played anyway.
You can technically start with any first game of any arc (Sky arc, Zero/Azure arc, Cold Steel arc) and you will enjoy it. Due to the connected narrative tho, it's a good idea to go in order. However don't let this scare you, just play the one that interests you. Some Trails fans are adamant on forcing new players to play this or that order, in this or that way (talkin to every single npc and doing every quest, even hidden ones) but I disagree with em. I just want people to try Trails
Finally, these games deserve a lot of attention. Finally coming to the west with their Kai versions including a lot of quality of life improvements and excellent translation from The Geofront and NISA. I played their version on PC but will definitely buy Zero and next year Azure for the 'Trails' collection!
Hell yes, Think we will ever get switch or ps4 versions of sky? I have the fantastic trilogy on steam but I would happily pay full price for each on switch. Would love to have them physically.
@@Terron29 For the sake of practicality? I don't think it would make much sense. You could play the Sky and Crossbell games on a potato probably - as long as someone has a PC at all, they can play Sky. In terms of collectability though, I'd love physical Sky releases.
I'm considering getting this on my ps5. I usually play PC for single player games, xbox to play with my husband and PS5 for my favorite RPGs. Due to work and life, I haven't played a lot of RPGs lately but I really want something to do in the evenings since my husband is doing a lot of traveling for work. Am I wrong but this gameplay seems A LOT like the Grandia games which is actually one of my favorite rpg gameplays of all time. If so I am buying this immediately.
We need trails kuro 1 and 2. Hopefully get both in 2024 and maybe kuro 3/next game then can be simultaneously lunch both in west and Japan at same time?
@@henrysmarthy286 Indeed. It's extremely heavy on the dialogue side of things. Some conversations can take 15-20 minutes to get through. So it can be a bit of a slog if you're not used to ready or saying attention to what the characters are saying.
I have already played the crossbell arc.. I have cold steel iv which is the infinity war of trails.. Cannot wait for reverie and the kuro series.. Amazing jrpg.. Great cast great battle system and world building of the highest level like one piece and ff xiv
You will not be disappointed with Kuro and Reverie. If you've played the Crossbell arc, you're already aware of Geofront. You can use geofront translations with Kuro and Reverie, which is what I did. Reverie is fantastic, but Kuro: my god, that was fantastic. Van is my new fav Trails MC.
Amazing games! The only thing I'm mad about is the the ps4 version is lesser than the switch one and doesn't get the updates. But it costs the same price. Some bs. Falcom is my favorite devs tho regardless. Plus their music is life
I'm glad people will get to play these games but it came at the cost of Reverie taking longer for us to get. Falcom really knows how to shit on dedicated fans.
If Reverie is indeed like Trails in the sky the 3rd, you Need to have played Zero and Azure before that since Reverie serves as the epiloge to not just Cold steel but Zero and Azure.
I dunno, I'm a fan of making sure all the games can be played in chronological order without the use of piracy or weird region-hopping online purchases, for those that don't want to partake. 2023 will finally be the year that you can just tell somebody who wants to get into the Trails series, "just buy them all on Steam and you're good" and I couldn't be happier for it. None of that "you need to log onto the JP Steam store and then get an English patch mod" or "find the Geofront patched Zero/Azure on a torrent website" obfuscating stuff that only hurts and hinders potential newcomers. It's unacceptable that the Crossbell games have been kept behind such walls for so long despite being core to the story of a series with the selling point of each game building upon the previous, and that the only reason they're even doing it is because fans already did all the work.
Lol such a clown, You blame Falcom, not NISA. And how dump you are, want to jump ship to hajimari/reverie without even playing zero/azure, good luck getting so much spoiled something you dont know in hajimari/reverie
Uh falcom is fine at doing their business. The localization decisions are in need of work though. If they were truly bad at business then they'd have gone the way of the dodo, like so many developers that used to exist in the 80s and 90s have.
No message log and the textures & models in game are the same as the original Kai version that was in the Japanese version. The switch version is based off the enhanced PC version, so better textures and theessage log are included. Durante detailed the differences in a blog post he wrote on the games steam page
Siurprisingly, the Crossbell arc has the strongest storyline - probably because they were sticking to the basic set-up (Before Bonding Events and BP, I mean) - the only thing that stops me liking the Crossbell arc is that they had given PlayStation a lazy port
We've got Sky 1-3 on Steam and 1-2 on Vita in the US. They're working on Azure and Reverie translations right now, in addition to Kuro 2 for Japan. For all we know, they're working on Kuro translations as well. But it would be nice to see Sky 1-3 revamped on PS4/5 (:
The PC version have much crisper and cleaner world textures than the Ps4 version. The message log ALSO is t included in the PS4 version Durante detailed the differences in a blog post he wrote for this release on steam.
I played Sky then Cold Steel as I'm sure most did....so I've been spoiled to a lot of important aspects of the Crossbell arc. Can you honestly say these spoilers of major events and outcomes won't make a purchase of a full priced game feel kind of bad? I'm still drawn to this arc for the experience and to better understand these characters...but feeling as though I already know some of the major events feels odd for a franchise based so heavily on slow burns towards epic moments.
Depends on what you mean by grind. The game is very balanced in terms of not being able to overpower or over level yourself over the enemies, as if you're a couple of levels over the enemies' level, you may net yourself 1xp each instead of the 50xp you used to net. The game encourages progression in the story, but there are a lot of side content to complete that reward you with some pretty hefty rewards early game.
I really wonder about "superb localisation". When I just think about how NISA crippled names in the past, I'm curious to see what they have done this time.
for zero and azure, NISA actually use the fan translated script by geofront that already been out for years which making them shutting down kuro fans translation project a kind of dck move
Normally I'd agree, but Sky and the Crossbell games could be played on like a $25 laptop in the current day and age. Legit if you have a PC at all, specs don't matter, those games can be played. lol
@@holy9781 What I'm saying is, if you have a computer at ALL you can play them. I'd personally find it kinda hard to believe that anybody in the modern age would have a gaming console and not some kind of basic PC. I'm not even talking a gaming PC, some crappy laptop from 2005 that struggles to play youtube videos at 720p could legit run the Sky games just fine. At that point, if somebody doesn't even have some kind of computer for work, school or browsing, while having a gaming console... they've got bigger things to worry about in life. Like buying even the worst laptop in the world for like 10 bucks at a yard sale to keep up with the current century. lol
If you've played sky 3rd and know star door 15 it continues her story. I will give a description of her story for you if you want so spoilers ahead. One of the characters was taken by a cult when she was a child by a cult and experimented on at a place called "paradise" she was also sexually abused by people who went to "paradise" and some of the politicians in this game went there. Her backstory is in sky 3rd but we learn about the cult who did that and see some of the people who went there in this game. It also concludes her character arc in a really beautiful scene 3 games in the making.
It's got pretty decent tactical turn based combat, however if you don't enjoy narrative or a lot of dialogue I would skip this, all the trails games have a lot of talking. I mean it's fantastic story, but if it's not your thing I wouldn't spend your money on it
I'd say it's 30% combat and 70% story and dialogue. The side content is a nice change of pace though, like the Casino or Fishing. My only advice to people playing these games is to take your time with it.
Not supporting the north american release after the company has shut doewn all fan translation sites on their other games that are three years behind. Ironic, since this game was ported through the use of such sites. The trails series is sold on steam, but they will take actiin against you if you translate the games to english.
Which is perfectly legal and will very often happen for licensed japanese novels, manga, or games just the same. Fan translation isn't especially legal, it's just tolerated... until it isn't. There's literally nothing to say against what happened. If you were a bit more aware of the translation scene, you would know that had lots of chance of coming.
@@zefyrisd69 Hajimari no Kiseki was translated by fans 10 months before NISA even announced it was getting a western release (which will be 3 years after the fan translation). Kuro no Kiseki STILL has not been announced for release in the West so it has been translated by fans. IF it gets localized, we likely won't see it until late 2024 around the time Kuro 3 releases in Japan. While you might assume a new Kiseki game will get released in the West, I don't know how the handling of these localizations dating all the way back to SC would give you that kind of confidence. If NISA announced a roadmap for future releases in early 2020 so we knew for a fact we were getting these games then MAYBE I would agree with you regarding fan translations. Up until now, Kiseki fan translations have come out before the western release was announced, not after. If a studio can't afford to or does not want to release their media in the West, fans will translate it themselves and still have to buy the CLE copy on Steam or an imported console game from them anyway. They literally get paid to not put in the effort in the West so long as they don't announce who has the rights to the English localization. So no, Nihon Falcom don't care. Only NISA care about the fan translation of a game that we don't even know for certain is ever going to be officially localized.
@@BiggerMikey None of what you said change anything. I 've done fan translations for series, movies and manga from Japanese in the past so I know the scene. When you fan translate, you NEED to understand that what you're doing will be at best tolerated. That you've got no legal ground to keep it online available to everyone if the owners tell you to drop it. And mind you, there's not even a need for an english license for that to happen. Technically, Falcom here could ask all fan translations to be taken down without handling any license to the west. And this, EVEN if the peoples using it are buying the game. Only Falcom and the licensing companies got rights to publish that script on any form, and anything else is merely tolerated to exist. Throwing a tantrum because they asked to take a script down is not just bad, it's like throwing a tantrum because you've been asked to respect a law that you don't like. The harshest thing about fan translating is not the time it takes, but the fact that it can be asked to be taken down at any moment. While you're still in the middle of it, or the very day you finally finished, or.. never. Fan translators are supposed to understand this risk when they translate something.
@@zefyrisd69 Of course it could be requested to be taken down by a license holder. Just like with the Geofront translations, I don't expect them to remain available once there is an announcement for a western release because they've served their purpose. Same goes for Hajimari. But I'm not sure there is legal precedent for suing someone for an excel spreadsheet of a translated script. Should they take down the FAQs? Maybe fan subbed let's plays too. But that's obviously a fight a fan who's translating a niche game in their spare time is not willing to attempt. Beyond that, I don't think this is a matter of throwing tantrums because the law doesn't work in the fan's favor. NF and NISA created this problem and won't rectify it. If anyone has benefited more than the fans due to the fan translation scene, it's Nihon Falcon. And the way the Kuro and Kuro 2 translations were shut down by NISA with no explanation other than "Because we said so. End of discussion." I think that it's perfectly reasonable to be pissed about it.
@@IcanGOwithTHEflow Why pay 50$ for a game that already exists for free or on steam for 35$ today? No English Dub makes this release effectively worthless.
Trash game, 2022 but looks worse than ff 7 remake on ps4. Plus the developers have an anti playstation agenda, making this game run and look worse on ps4 just to make switch version look better
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Trails is the marvel cinematic universe of JRPG's.
i can't help but laugh at them being called "chest massages". someone was definitely thinking about rixia.
he also called Rean Ran, and Liberl Liberal
One of my favorite games of all time. The Geofront fan translation was phenomenal and it's great that they're able to officially release it in English.
Which hardware?
@@wedasantika6079 PC, Switch and PS4 (or 5 maybe ?)
meh. I can understand japanese. I'd prefer to play it in japanese.
@@christianmarionespenilla2690 no one cares, stop trying to flex on a RUclips comment
@@christianmarionespenilla2690 fucking cringe
Between Sky, Crossbell and Cold Steel, the Zero/Azure are my favorite games with the best flow of it all.
I've never played a Trails game. Never knew where to start or if "Zero" in the name was a good indication, but thank you for clarifying that even a newcomer can join and not have a problem here.
I certainly will be picking this up.
i still suggest to play Sky 1 and 2. there are quite more than few references or things that was happened in sky that is mentioned in this game either by some NPC, side quests, even some of the main stories part if you care about that
@@WhiteRaito Sky the 3rd as well, it's crucial for Zero and Azure
You can start wherever you like and then go from there.
You CAN play this without prior knowledge of the others, but there'll be some particular moments that will be highly emotional if you're invested in some of the characters from Sky, and would just feel kinda weird and have you asking why said characters are getting so much attention if you haven't played Sky. Like, character arcs from Sky that won't resolve until partway into Zero, with characters that you'd only know superficially without the context of playing those games. As someone who started my Trails journey a few months back, I'd still say starting with the Sky trilogy is critical to having an investment in the long run.
Especially since the mere existence of the returning Sky characters in the state they're in, spoils the events of the Sky trilogy and how they resolve. It also sort of glosses over some of the key plot elements that were introduced in the Sky games, that will be vastly important later, and you'll definitely want to play the Sky trilogy in the future anyway for full investment.
Point being: you CAN start here, on paper, but I wouldn't recommend it. I'll always advocate for starting with Sky, they set up everything that has been going on in the plot for almost two decades, and they're some of the best RPGs I've ever played anyway.
You can technically start with any first game of any arc (Sky arc, Zero/Azure arc, Cold Steel arc) and you will enjoy it. Due to the connected narrative tho, it's a good idea to go in order. However don't let this scare you, just play the one that interests you. Some Trails fans are adamant on forcing new players to play this or that order, in this or that way (talkin to every single npc and doing every quest, even hidden ones) but I disagree with em. I just want people to try Trails
Finally, these games deserve a lot of attention. Finally coming to the west with their Kai versions including a lot of quality of life improvements and excellent translation from The Geofront and NISA. I played their version on PC but will definitely buy Zero and next year Azure for the 'Trails' collection!
Hell yes, Think we will ever get switch or ps4 versions of sky? I have the fantastic trilogy on steam but I would happily pay full price for each on switch. Would love to have them physically.
@@Terron29 For the sake of practicality? I don't think it would make much sense. You could play the Sky and Crossbell games on a potato probably - as long as someone has a PC at all, they can play Sky. In terms of collectability though, I'd love physical Sky releases.
@@Pompadourius yeah I have this psp collectors box with the 3 sky games but in Japanese since only the 1st game got physical English release
"...including one with a very large stick"
This is how you know you're dealing with a fan. Thanks for the chuckle. lol
I'm considering getting this on my ps5. I usually play PC for single player games, xbox to play with my husband and PS5 for my favorite RPGs. Due to work and life, I haven't played a lot of RPGs lately but I really want something to do in the evenings since my husband is doing a lot of traveling for work. Am I wrong but this gameplay seems A LOT like the Grandia games which is actually one of my favorite rpg gameplays of all time. If so I am buying this immediately.
I can’t wait to play this. Legend of Heroes Fans are gonna be eating good next week and next year.
We need trails kuro 1 and 2. Hopefully get both in 2024 and maybe kuro 3/next game then can be simultaneously lunch both in west and Japan at same time?
Hell yea we are! Got my LE for both crossbell games, cant wait!
@@tazatom unless they hire more people to translate probably 2026
next week is indeed a good time for kuro 2 :3
5 days until Kuro 2
After you guys gave Saints Row 2022 a good score, Im not sure how seriously I am supposed to take this now..
I played the fan translation and it was amazing. Though if you aren't a fan of JRPGs I would stay away.
if you like sky, you'll like zero, if you didn't play sky, don't play zero.
ahh hell naw saint row is trash
Look at before you buy
@@henrysmarthy286 Indeed. It's extremely heavy on the dialogue side of things. Some conversations can take 15-20 minutes to get through. So it can be a bit of a slog if you're not used to ready or saying attention to what the characters are saying.
I have already played the crossbell arc.. I have cold steel iv which is the infinity war of trails.. Cannot wait for reverie and the kuro series.. Amazing jrpg.. Great cast great battle system and world building of the highest level like one piece and ff xiv
You will not be disappointed with Kuro and Reverie. If you've played the Crossbell arc, you're already aware of Geofront. You can use geofront translations with Kuro and Reverie, which is what I did. Reverie is fantastic, but Kuro: my god, that was fantastic. Van is my new fav Trails MC.
Great OST too
Bruh... Adventures through "Liberal". With "Reyan Schwarzer". LMAO
It's probably because the narrator and the script writer aren't the same. The same way IGN fked up the characters name in XC.
Amazing games! The only thing I'm mad about is the the ps4 version is lesser than the switch one and doesn't get the updates. But it costs the same price. Some bs. Falcom is my favorite devs tho regardless. Plus their music is life
Great review! SO glad that crossbell is finally coming to the west!
I'm glad people will get to play these games but it came at the cost of Reverie taking longer for us to get. Falcom really knows how to shit on dedicated fans.
If Reverie is indeed like Trails in the sky the 3rd, you Need to have played Zero and Azure before that since Reverie serves as the epiloge to not just Cold steel but Zero and Azure.
I dunno, I'm a fan of making sure all the games can be played in chronological order without the use of piracy or weird region-hopping online purchases, for those that don't want to partake. 2023 will finally be the year that you can just tell somebody who wants to get into the Trails series, "just buy them all on Steam and you're good" and I couldn't be happier for it. None of that "you need to log onto the JP Steam store and then get an English patch mod" or "find the Geofront patched Zero/Azure on a torrent website" obfuscating stuff that only hurts and hinders potential newcomers.
It's unacceptable that the Crossbell games have been kept behind such walls for so long despite being core to the story of a series with the selling point of each game building upon the previous, and that the only reason they're even doing it is because fans already did all the work.
Lol such a clown, You blame Falcom, not NISA. And how dump you are, want to jump ship to hajimari/reverie without even playing zero/azure, good luck getting so much spoiled something you dont know in hajimari/reverie
falcom is great at making game, very bad at doing their business
Is it because they're slow to localize?
Uh falcom is fine at doing their business.
The localization decisions are in need of work though.
If they were truly bad at business then they'd have gone the way of the dodo, like so many developers that used to exist in the 80s and 90s have.
i was gonna buy them on PS4 until i find out its an inferior version to PC and switch, yes SWITCH.
Same. So disappointed!
How is it inferior? I'm trying to decide as well.
@@sle2470 Namely the lack of a message log (The way I see it, that should be a necessity in English Subbed games)
No message log and the textures & models in game are the same as the original Kai version that was in the Japanese version.
The switch version is based off the enhanced PC version, so better textures and theessage log are included.
Durante detailed the differences in a blog post he wrote on the games steam page
@@RaifSeverence Tell us something we don't know ¬_¬
omg. i loved Crosbell chapter so much
If this doesn't have Voice acting then I will still check it out some day
It only has Japanese voice acting
Siurprisingly, the Crossbell arc has the strongest storyline - probably because they were sticking to the basic set-up (Before Bonding Events and BP, I mean) - the only thing that stops me liking the Crossbell arc is that they had given PlayStation a lazy port
i don't know what to feel about Joshua's and Estelle's portraits. the just look off to me
joshua literally looks like a girl.. i was so disappointed!!
Wish they had updated it from the shitty 16 bit pixel graphics
On the fence on this one. Im picky with the games i choose to play.
can trails in the sky be next? I would love to see all three come to the PS4
We've got Sky 1-3 on Steam and 1-2 on Vita in the US. They're working on Azure and Reverie translations right now, in addition to Kuro 2 for Japan. For all we know, they're working on Kuro translations as well. But it would be nice to see Sky 1-3 revamped on PS4/5 (:
@@HellzAssassn lol you mean ps7
i think for these there's a licensing problem because i thinks xSeed holds the rights to those
*switch
I wouldn't buy it until irs sequel comes out in 2023. They are meant to be played together.
SO SO happy to see these come west. Thank you geofront :) Enjoy all!
Liberal and Reahn. Cool.
Thought the same thing
I download this game many year ago from Geofront, before NIS AMERICA take over this English Patch 😅
Gladly, i didn't delete the game yet 😇
I’m curious how much the Nintendo Switch and PC are different.
The PC version have much crisper and cleaner world textures than the Ps4 version.
The message log ALSO is t included in the PS4 version
Durante detailed the differences in a blog post he wrote for this release on steam.
Nintendo switch and PC are mostly the same, It's the ps4 version that's different/inferior
@@kentstopme
Which is strange that the PS4 cost the same as the Nintendo Switch.
I want this game I have all the other ones and they're all pretty good.
Cant wait
I fucking love this game. I just got into Trails series recently and I’m playing cold steel as well; but I love the Crossbell arc way more.
Basically zero is like trails fc and azure like trails sc
ReYAN Schwarzer????
I needed a good jrpg series to get Into for a while now, perhaps I found it
Lasseh-faire?
Laissez-faire is pronounced: less-eh-faihr.
I played Sky then Cold Steel as I'm sure most did....so I've been spoiled to a lot of important aspects of the Crossbell arc.
Can you honestly say these spoilers of major events and outcomes won't make a purchase of a full priced game feel kind of bad?
I'm still drawn to this arc for the experience and to better understand these characters...but feeling as though I already know some of the major events feels odd for a franchise based so heavily on slow burns towards epic moments.
I too feel that way, but only toward a specific character.
I played it after I finished CS3 and I really enjoyed it, most of the spoiled parts are from azure so most of the events from zero are brand new.
If you only finished up to cold steel 2, then don't worry it still won't affect your experience with crossbell games
I had to choose between this game and Disgaea 6.
This game lost.
How grindy is it? Do the enemies respawn?
Yes enemies respawn
@@aidankhaos7687 It is good to know. Thanks.
Depends on what you mean by grind. The game is very balanced in terms of not being able to overpower or over level yourself over the enemies, as if you're a couple of levels over the enemies' level, you may net yourself 1xp each instead of the 50xp you used to net. The game encourages progression in the story, but there are a lot of side content to complete that reward you with some pretty hefty rewards early game.
@@craig581 Sounds good. Thanks.
awesome game
I really wonder about "superb localisation". When I just think about how NISA crippled names in the past, I'm curious to see what they have done this time.
for zero and azure, NISA actually use the fan translated script by geofront that already been out for years
which making them shutting down kuro fans translation project a kind of dck move
These games are not really localizations, other people already did 90% of the work for NISA.
My least favorite trails team Rean alone is more interesting and Lloyd & his friends moves looks boring
Meanwhile trails in sky is only on steam...this series is horrible at accessibility
Normally I'd agree, but Sky and the Crossbell games could be played on like a $25 laptop in the current day and age. Legit if you have a PC at all, specs don't matter, those games can be played. lol
Nah any potato can run it. If you want innacesible, there's Tales games with many entries on a single platform
@@Pompadourius 3 games that are lore and story heavy should be stuck on pc
@@holy9781 What I'm saying is, if you have a computer at ALL you can play them. I'd personally find it kinda hard to believe that anybody in the modern age would have a gaming console and not some kind of basic PC.
I'm not even talking a gaming PC, some crappy laptop from 2005 that struggles to play youtube videos at 720p could legit run the Sky games just fine.
At that point, if somebody doesn't even have some kind of computer for work, school or browsing, while having a gaming console... they've got bigger things to worry about in life. Like buying even the worst laptop in the world for like 10 bucks at a yard sale to keep up with the current century. lol
The game sounds like an extrovert's game; I don't think my introvert ass would care to play, lol.
What's the dark subject matter you speak of?
I dunno people say this because it’s the new thing to be “inclusive”
SPOILERS
In the main story u fight a cult behind a toddler torture, child sex trafficking operation.
@@omensoffate Mmmm, no. There is one plot point involving an auction that is quite dark.
If you've played sky 3rd and know star door 15 it continues her story. I will give a description of her story for you if you want so spoilers ahead.
One of the characters was taken by a cult when she was a child by a cult and experimented on at a place called "paradise" she was also sexually abused by people who went to "paradise" and some of the politicians in this game went there. Her backstory is in sky 3rd but we learn about the cult who did that and see some of the people who went there in this game. It also concludes her character arc in a really beautiful scene 3 games in the making.
@@londinsilva5993 woah I didn't expect that thanks for the 411 man.
I give it a 10/10, especially when you get to play it with trails from ao.
Is this a novel or a video game ? Almost every clip is nothing but dialogue
It's got pretty decent tactical turn based combat, however if you don't enjoy narrative or a lot of dialogue I would skip this, all the trails games have a lot of talking. I mean it's fantastic story, but if it's not your thing I wouldn't spend your money on it
I'd say it's 30% combat and 70% story and dialogue. The side content is a nice change of pace though, like the Casino or Fishing. My only advice to people playing these games is to take your time with it.
Not supporting the north american release after the company has shut doewn all fan translation sites on their other games that are three years behind. Ironic, since this game was ported through the use of such sites. The trails series is sold on steam, but they will take actiin against you if you translate the games to english.
Which is perfectly legal and will very often happen for licensed japanese novels, manga, or games just the same. Fan translation isn't especially legal, it's just tolerated... until it isn't. There's literally nothing to say against what happened. If you were a bit more aware of the translation scene, you would know that had lots of chance of coming.
@@zefyrisd69 didnt say its not legal, its just hypocritical and a dick move
@@zefyrisd69 Hajimari no Kiseki was translated by fans 10 months before NISA even announced it was getting a western release (which will be 3 years after the fan translation). Kuro no Kiseki STILL has not been announced for release in the West so it has been translated by fans. IF it gets localized, we likely won't see it until late 2024 around the time Kuro 3 releases in Japan. While you might assume a new Kiseki game will get released in the West, I don't know how the handling of these localizations dating all the way back to SC would give you that kind of confidence. If NISA announced a roadmap for future releases in early 2020 so we knew for a fact we were getting these games then MAYBE I would agree with you regarding fan translations. Up until now, Kiseki fan translations have come out before the western release was announced, not after. If a studio can't afford to or does not want to release their media in the West, fans will translate it themselves and still have to buy the CLE copy on Steam or an imported console game from them anyway. They literally get paid to not put in the effort in the West so long as they don't announce who has the rights to the English localization. So no, Nihon Falcom don't care. Only NISA care about the fan translation of a game that we don't even know for certain is ever going to be officially localized.
@@BiggerMikey None of what you said change anything. I 've done fan translations for series, movies and manga from Japanese in the past so I know the scene. When you fan translate, you NEED to understand that what you're doing will be at best tolerated. That you've got no legal ground to keep it online available to everyone if the owners tell you to drop it. And mind you, there's not even a need for an english license for that to happen. Technically, Falcom here could ask all fan translations to be taken down without handling any license to the west. And this, EVEN if the peoples using it are buying the game.
Only Falcom and the licensing companies got rights to publish that script on any form, and anything else is merely tolerated to exist. Throwing a tantrum because they asked to take a script down is not just bad, it's like throwing a tantrum because you've been asked to respect a law that you don't like. The harshest thing about fan translating is not the time it takes, but the fact that it can be asked to be taken down at any moment. While you're still in the middle of it, or the very day you finally finished, or.. never. Fan translators are supposed to understand this risk when they translate something.
@@zefyrisd69 Of course it could be requested to be taken down by a license holder. Just like with the Geofront translations, I don't expect them to remain available once there is an announcement for a western release because they've served their purpose. Same goes for Hajimari. But I'm not sure there is legal precedent for suing someone for an excel spreadsheet of a translated script. Should they take down the FAQs? Maybe fan subbed let's plays too. But that's obviously a fight a fan who's translating a niche game in their spare time is not willing to attempt. Beyond that, I don't think this is a matter of throwing tantrums because the law doesn't work in the fan's favor. NF and NISA created this problem and won't rectify it. If anyone has benefited more than the fans due to the fan translation scene, it's Nihon Falcon. And the way the Kuro and Kuro 2 translations were shut down by NISA with no explanation other than "Because we said so. End of discussion." I think that it's perfectly reasonable to be pissed about it.
No English dub No buy its a shame, later
English dub is weird anyway in trails games one line is spoken then the next line isn't
@@IcanGOwithTHEflow Why pay 50$ for a game that already exists for free or on steam for 35$ today?
No English Dub makes this release effectively worthless.
Your loss mate , depriving yourself of an amazing game
If you're English talker it is easier would they have Dutch subs it would be another strory
Trash game, 2022 but looks worse than ff 7 remake on ps4. Plus the developers have an anti playstation agenda, making this game run and look worse on ps4 just to make switch version look better