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Posted August 24, 2021
Waiting for a chance to set off on an epic quest? That’s great because a batch of great games from NIS America is coming soon to GOG.COM:

The Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie enables you to witness three different legends that are about to unfold and determine the fates of three unique characters.

The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero features yet another exciting story set in the Trails universe where you can experience a rich world teeming with secrets and adventures.

The Legend of Heroes: Trails to Azure features adventures of The Special Support Section rag-tag group with more members and more cases to solve!

The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails gives you a chance to meet Nayuta and his friends on a path to explore beyond the borders of their island home in order to stop a dark plot.

Looking for more upcoming games? Celebrate GOG Games Festival with us and discover more fascinating titles that are coming soon to GOG.COM!
Posted August 24, 2021
Gimme! Gimme! I'll buy the shit out of them! ;)
Posted August 24, 2021
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GOG.com: a batch of great games from NIS America is coming soon to GOG.COM:
Yeah, about that...
Posted August 24, 2021
Instabuy over here.
Posted August 24, 2021
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Never played any of the Trails games and did some reading. Oh man, that's a lot of games.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the playing order for the Trails games is:
Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky 1, 2 and 3.
Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero and Trails to Azure.
Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie.

The first three sagas can be played more or less on their own but there's story elements that carry over, which makes it worth playing everything as it's a heavily story-based series. Cold Steel is more of a sequel to Zero and Azure, than Zero and Azure are to Sky. Reverie is the capstone and to fully understand it you'll need to have played all of the previous games. All of them are substantial RPGs in their own right, as well.

The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails is a spin-off.

Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero is set to be released in 2022. Legend of Heroes: Trails to Azure and Reverie are set to be released in 2023.
Post edited August 24, 2021 by Fortuk
Posted August 24, 2021
OK, my wishlist is seriously starting to get bloated lol.
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Posted August 24, 2021
Wishlisted. I have been playing through the Sky trilogy at a pretty fast pace(for me anyway) and don't know what to do when I finish third chapter. Zero in English is at least a year away.
Posted August 24, 2021
Are these the middle ones of the Legend of Heroes series that were previously missing? So I can finally feel confident in starting and being able to get all of them?

EDIT: Yes they are, and a new one at the end merging the arcs.
Post edited August 24, 2021 by mqstout
Posted August 24, 2021
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Fortuk: Never played any of the Trails games and did some reading. Oh man, that's a lot of games.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the playing order for the Trails games is:
Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky 1, 2 and 3.
Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero and Trails to Azure.
Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie.

The first three sagas can be played more or less on their own but there's story elements that carry over, which makes it worth playing everything as it's a heavily story-based series. Cold Steel is more of a sequel to Zero and Azure, than Zero and Azure are to Sky. Reverie is the capstone and to fully understand it you'll need to have played all of the previous games. All of them are substantial RPGs in their own right, as well.

The Legend of Nayuta: Boundless Trails is a spin-off.

Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero is set to be released in 2022. Legend of Heroes: Trails to Azure and Reverie are set to be released in 2023.
You should play them in that order. (though Cold Steel 1/2 can be played before 0/Azure and takes place at the same time. Have fun!
Posted August 24, 2021
Nice! It always bothered me that we had the Cold Steel games in English but not the Crossbell games.
Posted August 24, 2021
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Fortuk: Never played any of the Trails games and did some reading. Oh man, that's a lot of games.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the playing order for the Trails games is:
Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky 1, 2 and 3.
Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero and Trails to Azure.
Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Legend of Heroes: Trails into Reverie.

The first three sagas can be played more or less on their own but there's story elements that carry over, which makes it worth playing everything as it's a heavily story-based series. Cold Steel is more of a sequel to Zero and Azure, than Zero and Azure are to Sky. Reverie is the capstone and to fully understand it you'll need to have played all of the previous games. All of them are substantial RPGs in their own right, as well.
To go a bit more in depth on this, Zero and Azure have a few characters from the Sky series that show up in them, but for the most part do their own thing to enough of an extent that players don't miss too much if they haven't played the Sky games (with the exception of the world-building that's done in Sky, along with a particular character arc that has much more impact for those who have played Sky 2 and 3). CS 1 and 2 occur at the same time as Azure, and while having played Azure gives a bit more insight into certain events that feature briefly in the games there isn't much carry-over in terms of story and characters between the Sky and Crossbell arcs, so players can actually jump into CS1 without feeling like there are a bunch of things they're missing (although I will note that CS2 has an epilogue segment that features some of the major characters from the Crossbell arc, which will feel like an odd shift if someone hasn't played those games). CS3 and 4 really start drawing in story and characters from the previous arcs, especially CS4 which brings in most of the major characters from both the Sky and Crossbell arcs, and players can feel pretty lost if they haven't already played the other games in the series.

You're also correct in that every game is quite substantial on its own, with each one clocking in at anywhere from 50-100 hours for completion. It's quite a time investment to really get into the series, but it also has great character building and storytelling that's built upon in every game (with even minor character arcs continuing across multiple games).
Posted August 24, 2021
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Fortuk: The first three sagas can be played more or less on their own but there's story elements that carry over, which makes it worth playing everything as it's a heavily story-based series. Cold Steel is more of a sequel to Zero and Azure, than Zero and Azure are to Sky. Reverie is the capstone and to fully understand it you'll need to have played all of the previous games.
I don't agree that the first three sagas "can be played more or less on their own."

There are no clear-cut boundaries between one saga and the others.

But rather, all of the later "sagas" have legions of elements that spill over from the previous ones.

Many of the stories and character arcs in the later games directly continue from where they had left off in the earlier games.

And Cold Steel series frequently & repeatedly harps on things from the Sky games, and also from the Crossbell games too.

Therefore, playing the later games before the earlier ones will leave the player missing out on tons of crucial information.

By far the best thing to do is to play the games in their proper chronological order.

Granted, doing that is a bit difficult at the moment for people who didn't acquire the Geofront releases of the Crossbell games before Geofront removed those versions from their website.

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RPGFanboy: though Cold Steel 1/2 can be played before 0/Azure and takes place at the same time.
I don't agree with that. By the middle of CS2, that game starts spoiling the crap out of everything in the Crossbell games.

And by the end of CS2, two Crossbell characters show up as playable characters, one of whose identity is itself a massive spoiler, and which by way of CS2 revealing it, that instantly ruins a huge portion of the first Crossbell game for people who haven't already played it first.

In the first Crossbell game, the story is designed so that that character's identity is supposed to be revealed gradually, after a suspenseful build-up, as part of a mystery plot.

Yet all of that storytelling design becomes ruined for someone who already knows their identity beforehand, as someone who played CS2 before Trails from Zero certainly would.

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mqstout: So I can finally feel confident in starting and being able to get all of them?
Not quite, because despite GOG having advertised these games as "Coming Soon," in actual fact, none of them are coming soon. The Crossbell games aren't coming until 2022, and Reverie not until 2023.
Post edited August 24, 2021 by Ancient-Red-Dragon
Posted August 25, 2021
Jesus. They could at least bring Disgaea 4 here :/
Posted August 25, 2021
Yesss!!! Wishlisted!

Not I just have to finish up the rest of Cold Steel in the meanwhile.
Posted August 25, 2021
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mqstout: So I can finally feel confident in starting and being able to get all of them?
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: Not quite, because despite GOG having advertised these games as "Coming Soon," in actual fact, none of them are coming soon. The Crossbell games aren't coming until 2022, and Reverie not until 2023.
If only I could play games as dedicatedly and quickly as you attribute to me. :)

My gaming currently is 3/4 "high replay" games like builders (Rimworld currently the most...) and 1/4 "play once thoroughly through" games. It makes it take a loooooooong time to get through 3 not-short RPGs before hitting the catch.
Post edited August 25, 2021 by mqstout
Posted August 25, 2021
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thefallenalchemist: People in the Falcom group are literally masturbating over these fucking games. In particular the crossbell saga of Azure and Zero. So go ahead and boycott them all you like, fan anticipation is wild to the point where you gotta tell people to go outside and take a breather. You might as well give up voting with your wallet here, the fans are outlandish over Zero and Azure. They'll sell a stupid amount of copies. And not just those in the west, but those in middle eastern countries. Yes, you heard me right. Middle Eastern weebs love this stuff.
Given your use of "boycott" I must assume this is addressed to me, so I will just be blunt: I. Don't. Effing. Care.
I'm not "crusading to lower their sales, I'm stating I will save MY hard-earned money. A simple cost-benefit analysis shows there are games that will give me more fun for my buck so I'll just buy (somewhere else, if it gets to it for now) and play something else.

Of course, if you want to help them against my "boycott" you can just gift me their games. They get the money, I get to play these obscenely expensive games, you get the right to be smug for personally helping the "poor innocent publisher" against the "evil boycotting customer". Everyone will be happy.
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